What creativity is, really, is thinking unconventionally and generating unconventional—or, at least, novel—ideas.
Do not dump your writing on the busy desks of essay contest organizers or teachers without thorough editing, review, and plagiarism check. Your errors may be distasteful to them, and cause them to dump it somewhere else without a second glance.
Often times, upon encountering a topic – especially topics that appear impenetrable at a glance – writers who were once enthusiastic about entering for an essay contest become disillusioned and give up too soon.
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Following in the footsteps of Isaac Frederick Sunday, the president of UNEG, Samson Eze — a 100-level student of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus— has emerged as one of the winners of the 2020 Annual Essay competition organized by the National Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). The contest was […]
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MUST READ FOR EVERY ESSAYIST II
“I’ve read through over and over again, but I just don’t know what to cut out…the sentences don’t even sound right!” said many an exasperated writer to a friend.
“It’s not easy at all. It starts from my own mindset. While some writers write because of the passion or as a hobby, I do it as a duty. The way I map out time for my academics, my official tasks and so on, is the same way I map out time for Essay writing and follow it as a duty.” Find out how Evans-Ibe Savictor, S., a multiple award winning essayist, manages to combine essay writing with his academic pursuits and other extracurricular activities.
The University of Nigeria Essayists’ Group (UNEG) has added a dreadful stripe to their reign of terror in the essay contest realm. This she achieved by displacing other contestants to occupy the top five spots in the National round of the 2020 ARSO Continental Essay Competition. According to the statement from the office of the […]
In the essay contest space, if you win once, it could be considered accidental; if you win twice, it’s already becoming a habit. If you win fourteen times?…Yes, Mr. Ndubisi, Chibuzor Paul is rapidly becoming a veteran at essay writing; he was recently announced as the 2nd runner up of the RETINA Initiative World Sight […]
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MUST READ FOR EVERY ESSAYIST I
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE By William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (4th edition). For your sojourn in the Essaydom to be marked by progress, one of the many habits you must cultivate is reading books, especially books that can help you hone your writing skills. One such book every essayist, and indeed every writer, must […]
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