Writing in the language of English is one activity that seriously takes a considerable toll on the students. First of all, writing anything, a poem, prose, social article, letter etc. is something which everybody way not be well versed with. Many believe that writing skills developed with utter practice. No other substitute is available. Students are those who have to come across writing the most in the form of articles in their examinations. Many students don’t even like to read articles in general or at times in their exam, let alone penning them down.
The major reason why students avoid writing is because of the mistakes they have been making over a period of time and are unable to amend them. According to the experts, these are generally minor grammatical errors that cost. A few of them are:
- Loose v Lose
- Me, Myself and I (suitability)
- Different than v Different from
- Improper use of the Apostrophe
- Parallelism
- Could of, Would of, Should of
Students only need to pay a bit of attention when their teacher is instructing them on developing the knack of writing. Students must realize that by paying just minimal attention and grasping such minute concepts they can actually deal with the haunt of writing. So, the next time you even read articles and are attempting to interpret them, always keep in mind the above points.
We have just talked about reading the articles. In examinations, students are generally asked to pen down an article on certain topics. These topics may be an ongoing social trend, a case study, an imaginative write up, fictional topic and others. When students, as mentioned above, are not well versed with the complete idea and structure of writing of an article they will lose the plot completely.
But that doesn’t mean that if you are not aware of it today, you can never be aware of it tomorrow? Going through the next few tips you will realize that writing was so easy:
- Writer’s 5 W’s always to be remembered: When, Where, What, Why, Who should never ever be neglected, in fact, they are the base for many kinds of writing.
- Nouns: always make sure that you make the proper usage of nouns. Noun clauses like if, whether, how and others are very crucial.
- Research: Whenever you are assigned to submit articles as an assignment always begin by doing thorough research of the topic. All the associated aspects must be given due credit and mention.
- Structure: The structure here refers to the compiling and sequencing of the facts and other info of your write up. For e.g., intro to begin and suitable conclusion to sum up the whole write up.
- Grammar: This is the soul of any writing piece. If proper grammatical aspects are not respected you are bound to blow it up big time.
Hence, after reading all this writing will be a merry time. Whether to read or submit articles for projects, nothing will upset you!