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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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Jump into 2012 with a quiz!

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Jan   2012
Posted Under - Good Writing, Grammar 101, Quiz Time, Words
I am thrilled to start off the New Year with a quiz, that too on usage. 2011 was a great year for new words, new phrases, new expressions. Remember “We are the 99 percent”? “1 percent”? The 9-9-9 theory? Didn’t “occupy” acquire a whole new meaning? So here is a usage quiz. Find out that one word in each of these sentences that is way off the mark for the context. The sentences are from the New York Ti
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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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Translations of the hilarious kind

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Dec   2011
Posted Under - General, Good Writing, Words
I have been reading at McSweeny’s blog and look what I found! Cirocco Dunlap (that’s a real name?) has taken a simple sentence involving a sandwich – something you might have said off-hand and often – and gives it a number of absolutely delicious twists. Here is the original text: “I ate a sandwich and looked out the window.” And this is what people writing in different genre would have made of it to wr
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Is it “past” or “passed”? Clarification

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Sep   2011
Posted Under - Good Writing, Grammar 101, Quiz Time, Which one is right?, Words
“The afternoon past as we waited anxiously for the results,” wrote a student in the essay. You see the confusion here? You need a verb in the first part of the sentence, “The afternoon ____” and “past” is not a verb. Let’s take a closer look at this word. ”Past” refers to a certain time gone by. It can also refer to a certain space. But it cannot describe an action. Unless, of course, a techie fin
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OMG! Abbreviations in the Oxford dictionary!

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Apr   2011
Posted Under - Good Writing, Words
Ok, they are official. In a surprising move, the Oxford English Dictionary has added popular abbreviations in electronic communication to its official lexicon. FYI, they include IMHO (‘in my humble opinion’), TMI (‘too much information’) BFF (‘best friends forever’), and OMG! LOL. They are of course, listed as slang words. “The initialisms are quicker to type than the full forms, and in the case
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How many words should you know?

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Mar   2011
Posted Under - Good Writing, Grammar 101, Words
Of course, if you were like someone I have to deal with every day, you’ll manage with five – “NO”, ‘yes’, “Never”, “No way” and “Hummpf” of which the last one is not a word at all. In a more familiar world, England’s Italian football manager Fabio Capello has claimed that he can manage his players with just 100 English words. Great, another of those “Hummpf” types.
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World Cup Cricket hyperbole and how!

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Mar   2011
Posted Under - Good Writing, Grammar 101, Happenings, Words
Any encounter between India and Pakisthan anywhere makes world news. If it happens on the cricket field, the descriptions get out of hand. There is a verbal frenzy, disproportionate to the action on the ground. Yesterday’s semi-final match between India and Pakistan at Mohali sparkled only in places. Compare that to the uniformly high-pitched phrases in the press and on TV, Facebook, websites and twitter. Th
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Which one would you choose? Quiz

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Mar   2011
Posted Under - Quiz Time, Which one is right?, Words
[1] Consequently or Subsequently “Reading is not a duty, and has _____ no business to be made disagreeable.” (Augustine Birrell) [2] Elicit or Illicit “The effect of the media is not to _____ belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.” (Christopher Lasch) 3] Evoke or Invoke“Good writing is supposed to _____ sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but th
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