<p>A lot of people tend to believe that “thesaurusizing” will somehow improve the quality of their essays. This is a false presumption and an ideal that can serve detrimental to your essay score if you’re not careful. </p>
<p>By thesaurusizing, I mean don’t try and use fancy words in an attempt to awe your reader, because, nine out of ten times, it will not happen. Words like “metagrobolize”, believe it or not, typically look out of place and will utterly ruin the flow of a sentence if you’re not an experienced writer.</p>
<p>But don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad thing to use nice words because they’re definitely…nice. Just make sure that you know what you’re doing and your essay doesn’t sound awkward at the end of it all. </p>
<p>Awkward:
“Joey and I were close friends, but his insipidity and fatuity always discombobulated me at the worst times! It always happened when we were in close company.”</p>
<p>Good:
“Joey and I were close friends, but his lack of common sense made me embarrassed to be around him sometimes!”</p>
<p>There were no fancy words anywhere in the second sentence, but it clearly triumphs over the first example in terms of organization and structure. When people try to incorporate all of these different words that no one has ever heard of, sentences tend to fall apart and lose all rhyme and reason. </p>
<p>The best advice I can offer you is this: use long sentences and mix them up with short sentences to add variety to your essay. Short sentences alone will make your paper look choppy, whereas long sentences alone will make your essay feel incredibly long winded and boring.</p>
<p>Cheers.</p>