Monday, August 23, 2010

A Few Writing Tips to Consider

Dear Friends,

I hope you had a great weekend and are now ready to start up another busy week. I’m 100% sure that the majority of you will have to come up with some kind of a writing assignment sometime this week, so I have gathered a number of useful writing tips for you to make your writing experience helpful and beneficial.

All of you do understand that essay writing is a challenging and time consuming process, which calls for a lot of attention, knowledge and effort. The success of each and every writing piece depends of a variety of factors from validity of the used sources to compliance with the paper formatting requirements and paper literacy. The last can be considered among the top important components, as the literacy of the paper is a compulsory and unspeakable attribute of the academic writing performance.

When composing essays, research papers, dissertation as well as other types of written assignments, it is advisable to make the literacy check at the end of the writing process. By that time, all the thoughts and conclusions are already put together, which makes the content of the paper valid and coherent. Consequently, you do not have to worry about missing some of the key argumentation points or leaving out certain supporting counterarguments and are ready to devote all attention and possessed knowledge to the grammar and punctuation check. There are a few tips you may consider following in the process of the paper literacy check:

- Review the grammar of the composed writing piece first. Make sure the spelling and word formation are correct as well as all of the grammatical rules are kept up to;

- As soon as grammar is taken care of, move on to the punctuation check. Read carefully through the sentences one more time to make sure that all of the punctuation signs are in the right places.

- Take a break. Make yourself a cup of coffee or take a dog for a walk. Either way, get away from the writing place and from the paper itself. Think of something completely different to give your brain a break from all the writing.

- As soon as you feel relaxed and ready to roll, get back down to the paper. Read it through once again, making sure that it is as literate as possible. You will be actually amazed with all of the new corrections now that you’ve given your paper a fresh look.

Well, this is it for now. I hope it will help make your writing pieces literate and sound.