The best advice I could give you is not to write an essay.

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Life gets too hard sometimes to, say, sit down and write an essay.

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In a gentle manner, he implored that current ball players should write an essay on Marvin Miller before they cash their first check.

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I've been reading a book a week and I have to write an essay on that and then a review of my essay.

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Fortune collects info from 277, 000 workers at 259 firms and gives respondents an opportunity to write an essay about their workplace, which contributes to the ranking.

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Two years ago I was asked to write an autobiographical essay for a screenwriting magazine, and midway through I realized I had led an intensely dull life.

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But their teachers have been successful in teaching them how to write an understandable essay and they speak pretty confidently on the phone and face to face.

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An essay is something you write to try to figure something out.

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The latest reports in The Times suggest that pupils would have to write a 5, 000-word extended essay, adding an element that is an important part of the International Baccalaureate (IB).

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Full disclosure: I am about to write about a book, TORN, in which I have written an essay.

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