A bad essay with a good start does not exist. But a good essay can become excellent with a good start. It will grab the attention of the reader to start with. There will be a natural incentive to continue reading. Evaluation of essays, which have been read fully, tends to be fairer. You are sure to get what you are due. Hence pay attention to starting an essay properly.

The term college essay itself is confusing. The academic fraternity and essay writing websites have innumerable and diverse interpretations of the term. Some people view it as admissions or entrance essays. Some think of college essays as essays written during college coursework. In the absence of internationally accepted standard nomenclature let us think of college essays as essays written during college coursework.

S.E.Hinton wrote the novel “The Outsiders” in 1967 when she was a seventeen year old girl. Some laud the book as an excellent example of “young adult literature”. Some call it yet another lame justification of perverted teenage reactions to all sorts of problems. The Tinseltown messiahs scented buck. They made a movie from the novel in 1971. Outside USA, not many readers of English fiction seem to know much about the book.

Search the internet for the phrase “graduate essay”. Millions of topics like “entrance essay”, “admission essay”, “term papers” and “dissertations” emerge. You find descriptions of all academic writing activities. There are advices on all sorts of writing. One cannot group this staggering medley of results easily.

Scientists, engineers and IT (Information Technology) professionals often document their design ideas in diagrams and standardized forms. IT uses this method in CASE (Computer Assisted Software Engineering) tools. An essay graphic organizer is comparable with a CASE tool. It is one of the essay helpers this blog has already discussed.

Essay helper is a vast array of resources including dictionaries and computers. It aids the various facets of the essay writing process. In common parlance it indicates special services and artifacts like essay writing services, graphic essay organizers, writing maps, spelling and grammar checkers and search engines.

An African American author Alice Walker wrote the novel “The Color Purple” in 1982. It won the Pulitzer price for fiction. It gained wide publicity after the famous movie director Stephen Spielberg made a period drama film based on it, starring  Whoopi  Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

Often students of language and literature are expected to write essays on literary classics. Merchant of Venice essays are of this genre.

Shakespeare’s play, Merchant of Venice is classified as “romantic comedy” by the pundits. Many believe that it was written during 1596-98 AD and staged for the first time in 1600. It is full of melodramatic twists and turns and sports a liberal dose of poetic clichés. The famous adage “All that glitters is not gold” owes its sheen to this play.

Traditional teachers labeled essays copied from other students, past or present, as “essay cheats” and ranked them very low. But Internet and World Wide Web have been spawning professional essay writing services for nearly a decade. Are such services “essay cheat” services as some people say?

The sponsors of scholarship are naturally eager to determine who deserves what they offer. They use scholarship essay contests as the ubiquitous tool.

There are many scholarship essay contests restricted to students of particular schools or colleges.  Corporate entities, trusts and other national or international bodies award scholarships for education anywhere, to students of any school or college.  The contestants span a wider geographic area including the whole world. Naturally such scholarships are very hotly contested.