{"id":3466,"date":"2010-02-18T04:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T09:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2010-02-18T04:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T09:33:47","slug":"reposthow-to-write-an-essay-chris-blattman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/reposthow-to-write-an-essay-chris-blattman\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::How to write an essay \u2013 Chris Blattman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With blogging, my poor essay writing skills have deteriorated to what can only possibly be called high school level.<br \/>\nIt can&#8217;t even be called prep school level but rather the average high school in an average community level.<br \/>\nLinked are some good advice to bolster your essay writing skills.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStudents (grad students too) should read this essay closely, then read it again. I give tips to my students on writing, but Farrell\u2019s are more and better (and better written).<br \/>\nBelow the fold, from my undergrad African development course, the 10 tips I give my students for writing an essay (in their case, a book review).<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisblattman.com\/2010\/02\/17\/how-to-write-an-essay\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chrisblattman+%28Chris+Blattman%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">How to write an essay \u2013 Chris Blattman<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With blogging, my poor essay writing skills have deteriorated to what can only possibly be called high school level. It can&#8217;t even be called prep school level but rather the average high school in an average community level. Linked are some good advice to bolster your essay writing skills. Students (grad students too) should read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/reposthow-to-write-an-essay-chris-blattman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::How to write an essay \u2013 Chris Blattman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-for-the-day","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}