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Note that this guide is still being developed. It's a start, but I know more needs to be done. I hope to spruce it up over time. For now, I ask for your patience.

This is a guide I put together primarily with my own students in mind, but I hope others find it useful.

My audience is primarily undergraduates in college English classes, though of course some advice will be appropriate for high schoolers and graduate students. The idea is to collect all my advice on writing good English papers in one place. There's no guarantee following this advice will earn you an A — there are few guarantees to be had anywhere — but I hope all of it will be useful in improving your papers.

First the bad news: there are no shortcuts. Writing good papers takes work, and that means reading, researching, writing, revising. But this guide should at least give you some insight into what professors are looking for. It's divided into five major sections:

Note that this guide is still being developed. It's a start, but I know more needs to be done. I hope to spruce it up over time. For now, I ask for your patience.

This is a guide I put together primarily with my own students in mind, but I hope others find it useful.

My audience is primarily undergraduates in college English classes, though of course some advice will be appropriate for high schoolers and graduate students. The idea is to collect all my advice on writing good English papers in one place. There's no guarantee following this advice will earn you an A — there are few guarantees to be had anywhere — but I hope all of it will be useful in improving your papers.

First the bad news: there are no shortcuts. Writing good papers