Did you procrastinate a bit too hard and are left with just one day to finish that essay?



This book was written with you in mind. I’ve been there. Almost all students have been there, or will be. Even your professors were there. It’s an academic rite of passage.



There really is no reason to get stressed. Some people take days or even weeks to write an essay that others could easily write in a day. All else equal, what makes some people able to do good work fast is working efficiently. That is what “Write an Essay in a Day” will teach you to do.



The tips and shortcuts it contains will help you make the most out of the time you have left to write. They will teach you how to gain the mental and physical energy you will need to work, and how to preserve every last drop of it. They will help you identify useless work, and teach you how to eliminate it from your day.



All the tips and shortcuts were discovered first-hand during the author’s 6 years-long experience with writing essays as a university student, both at Bachelor and Master level. After reading this book, these are just some of the highly effective essay-writing tips and shortcuts you’ll be in possession of:



•How to use your social capital to have that essay in by the deadline

•How to boost your essay mark by taking advantage of professors’ biases

•How to research your essay topic by only reading what you absolutely have to

•How to get what you need from academic articles and books as fast as possible

•How to write your citations faster than the people who actually know how to format them

•How to not get screwed over by a printer



This is not one of those long boring books that lecture you about the structure of an essay and how to construct an argument. “Write an Essay in a Day” is a quick and dirty guide to starting and finishing that essay in the one day you have left. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but essays were frantically written.

