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Check-list for essay writing – 2

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Jan   2012
Posted Under - Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Let's Talk
We saw the first three points in the instant check-list for essay writing. Let’s find out the rest. (4) Have you checked the tense of the verbs used? Throughout the essay, is your analysis done in the literary-present tense? Ex: The author prepares his setting with facts from history and places his characters in suitable spots. (5) Does the essay sound like a string of quotations with nothing of your thinking? [T
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Check-list for essay writing – 1

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Jan   2012
Posted Under - Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Words
A request came for a checklist for the final drafting of an essay. “What should I be looking for in the essay to get good grades?” was the question. Here is the answer. It is in no way complete, but how many can you remember for a quick check-up? Before you run through the check-list, there are two things you need to do: [1] Revise. Never be lazy about this. I complete my stories at night, and revise them in th
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How to engage your readers – 1

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Jan   2012
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Let's Talk, Words
Last week I was invited to speak to a group of people who had paid to learn about the basics of writing well. I faced a heterogeneous group aged 10 to 60 so my advice had to be very general. Some were journalism students, others were bloggers, a couple of them were students who wanted better grades, some others were home-makers who wanted to write better letters…, well, it was a mixed group. These are the tips th
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Class test – Irish style

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Quiz Time, Which one is right?
My dear friend R Gemini sent me this test paper. It is for the A-Levels. I would have thought that someone setting a test paper at that level would have superior spelling ability – but the paper says, “Ministery (sic) of Education, Ireland / Department for Learning / Exam Sheet for A-Levels.” Sigh. The test appears simple. There are just 4 questions. My guess is that they are meant to test your IQ
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Tips for writing exam essays – 5

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Let's Talk
We’ve reached the last leg. [1] Finally, don’t pad your essay. Write concisely. Write what is relevant to the topic, germane to the issue at hand. And as I said before, avoid the temptation to write the same thing in different ways. Treat every point as a stand-alone one, with its own importance. Check. Does it read well? [2] Above all, don’t panic. I am familiar with that odd feeling rising from the
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Tips – at the examination hall – 4

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Let's Talk
[1] Set up a time schedule: Find out: How much time do you have for writing the essay? Break it up to set up a schedule to finish the essay writing. If you have an hour, use the first 5-7 minutes for thinking. (a) What will be my topic sentence? (b) What will be the roadmap? (c) What will be my approach to the argument? (d) What will be the counter points? Spend the next 40-45 minutes writing. The last 14 minutes a
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Tips – for the examination hall 3

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Happenings, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates
[1] The first is the obvious one. Read the instructions carefully. I have always told my students: Losing out because you didn’t read the instructions is nothing short of tragic. Take time off, read instructions carefully, re-check to see if you’ve got them right, and then proceed. Why don’t you do this? For standardized tests like SAT or ACT, visit their websites well before the day of the test and read all
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Top tips for writing essays in exams 2

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Let's Talk
When I say “Essay Writing” I’m thinking of the essays you need to write whatever subject you are pursuing at the moment. Don’t you have to write essays in History? Biology? Geography? Business? Engineering? Right. You also have to write decent essays to clear SAT, ACT, GRE, and when applying for college admission… The point is, “Writing a Good Essay” is a skill we all need to acquire. The point also i
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Top Tips for Taking Essay Exams 1

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Let's Talk
My class was asked to write an essay on judicial activism. They were given time to prepare and in the class they had to write as the teacher watched. I was struck by these thoughts as I went through the essays. [1] The students had not done enough research. Surprising, since doing research is so much easier now. I had to spend hours in the library scanning books or lug them home and study through the night. Now kid
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The grammar of quotation marks 2

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - For Parents, For Teachers, General, Good Writing, Home-work Help for School, Home-work Help for Under-graduates / Graduates, Words
Now for quotes. When you are quoting someone famous, (as against some fictional character) you have no business to take liberties with punctuation marks. You just quote verbatim, period. If the quote is: Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! you reproduce it with the punctuation marks. Your sentence would be: Rousseau said, “Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but
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