Perhaps the hardest of all included academic areas in WSC, Collaborative Writing.

You may be bewildered, how exactly is collab writing the hardest when you have to study the whole syllabus for challenge and bowl and anxiously compete with other teams through debate?

Well all of those other areas can be practiced, improved in a matter of time even. Although it is the same with debate, it really is a challenge to improve your writing skills.

Even if you think you did good, your ranking would say otherwise. Even with the amount of practice you have done in writing, you just can't seem to get a gold medal. You're either good at it or be completely terrible; it's really really unpredictable.

Even though I may not have the highest ranking in Writing (though I still managed to rank in Individual Writing during ToC with the worst essay that I have ever written throughout my entire life), here are some tips that I have accumulated in order to be consistent in writing. -Rana

<aside> ⭐ To clarify, since there are three of you (hopefully) each person WILL NOT write a part of an essay. Teammate 1 will not write the introduction of the essay, teammate 2 will not write the body, and teammate 3 will not write the conclusion. You will be graded by the essay you all individually made.

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Write about which topic interests you the most, not the topic you studied the most.

Pick the topic that makes the gears in your head start working. Which area do you think would fit you the most, because in that way you get to write about things that make you inspired and not just information that you read through Google. Like how during the last Bahrain Regional Round (aka 3 yrs ago), I decided to pick the topic from Science instead of the subject area from which I studied for the most which was Special Area (the topic I chose was “Everyone should know how a toilet works” btw, it was really really fun to write.)

Find the writing style that you're most comfortable with.

During my first Regional Round I had NO idea how I was going to write my essay or in what direction I was going for, so I decided to just copy the format of which was shown to us during our trainings at that time (very bright of me to do, I know). But during our training for Globals however, it was when it dawned on me (by the help of the alumni scholars from our school who taught us everything, I still would like to thank them 'till this day) that you can literally write whatever you feel like writing. Well not really anything, but you know what I mean. I personally enjoy writing very creative essays (throwback to Globals 2018 when I acted like Trump for my essay), but take it into your own hands on which writing style works for you and that brain of yours.

Fix that handwriting of yours.

I heard from a few scholars and our delegation's past coach that if the staff finds your handwriting to be illegible, your essay goes straight to the bin. I'm not entirely sure if that is 100% true, but it isn't that hard to believe as well. It's really self explanatory, even if you wrote the best possible essay that has loomed Earth, if you can't read it; then what's the use?

Don't be afraid to show your creativity.

The WSC staff would be reading 1,000+ essays and it's really important to stand out from all of them. The Collab Writing topics that are given are honestly very vague, so it is in your own hands on how you decide to tackle them. Collab Writing is often described as a debate in written form, but if we all wrote our debates that way wouldn't it be boring? What makes a debate interesting is how it is presented and said to people, but you can't do that in writing (since, you know, you write it). During the Barcelona Globals, I wrote an essay about Trump being on social media and managed to get a high ranking. You never know what to expect so just think outside of the box! I don't really recommend using a PEEL essay (even though that goes against to what our coach has told us whoops) or a standard three paragraph essay because, well, they're boring.