Thread 24655890

I'm studying for the GAMSAT postgrad medical school entry test (MCAT for you Americans) and a huge part of the test (1/3rd) is an essay-writing section where you have to write 2 essays in 1 hour based on quotes you get given on the day.

I haven't read a fiction book since early childhood, and the only thing I read is shit like clinical trials or non fiction history. My essay-writing is complete shit and I have the vocabulary of a 12 year old because I never have to use flowery language or even write basic shit like argumentative essays.

Does anyone know any good free online courses or youtube channels I can watch which are like a crash course on writing so I can start from the ground up and learn how to write essays in a nice structured form? And then how I can learn like 1000 new flowery words to make me sound smart?

Fiction writers aren’t usually essayists. Unironically reading more nonfiction history would probably work out for you: all non-fiction is these days is history-based storytelling, aka a form of argumentation.

>>24655890 (OP)
The essay portion is just to make sure you have bad enough handwriting to be a doctor. Don’t sweat it

This >>24655904
Read what you're supposed to be writing. Reading fiction will teach you to write fiction.

Regardless, you seem like you could use some fiction anyway.

Read one short fiction classic a week and keep a dictionary sitting next to you. Just buy them secondhand. Go to the sticky and pluck books out of either of the Top 100 images. You don't need to cram some sort of course on writing, you just need to diversify your intake. I'm going to assume that you spend all of your free time masturbating and playing an online competitive videogame. Reading some fiction would be good for you. I would suggest "The Old Man and the Sea" as your first book.

If you have a hard time getting into classics mix in a popular science fiction novel like something from Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, or Orson Scott Card. They're usually easier and more captivating reads.

>>24655912
The 'classics' are something I will actually have to read. Unfortunately most of them sound excrutiating

>Jane Austen
>early 19th century novels about early 19th century women bitching about who they're going to marry
It sounds like a literal Kardashians-tier "current thing" drama book only it was written 200 years ago
>The Bronte Sisters
>Jane Eyre
more women bitching
>Charles Dickins
oh no le heckin poor boy oliver twist
>Moby Dick
>aaaaah a big whale
sounds retarded
>The Great Gatsby
>le heckin wall st crasherino noooo not my bankerinos
>George Orwell
nooo communism bad big government bad
>Aldous Huxley
nooo drugs and eugenics bad
>To Kill a Mockingbird
le poor niggers aaaaa omg
>Frankenstein
le zombie but it's written a long time ago

Dostoyevsky at least looks mildly interesting, the dude in Letters from the Underground sounds like a literal chud

Basically all of these 'classics' are uninspired gay infantile bullshit which gets endlessly fellated for all eternity solely because it's old

I'd rather read Edmund Hillary's book on climbing Mt Everest than Jules Verne inventing some gay shit about going 20,000 leagues under teh sea

>>24656019
Please keep in mind that the vast majority of posters here are over the age of 25, many are nearly or old than 30. We've aged out of 4chan anti-intellectualism and appreciate simple pleasures.

>>24655890 (OP)
The only way I really got good at technical writing was
1: Writing a lot
2: Being criticized by people who are very good at technical writing a lot (i.e. professional writers, people with multiple research grants and tons of papers, etc)

Idk if there's any way to get the latter without a college course. Maybe chatgpt could fill that role, although it's probably too sycophantic to be useful.

>>24656019
>Unfortunately most of them sound excrutiating
Lmao

>>24655890 (OP)
internet search - technical writing for beginners
lots of stuff
quick and easy way to learn
how to type a few paragraphics
>which
is all you need
forget the eloquence homo