TIPS FOR WRITING
Ingredients:
- A lot of ideas to be expressed in writing
- Relevant vocabulary items
- A great amount of motivation
- Some connectors
- Linguistic proficiency (syntax, grammar, etc.)
- Knowledge of Rhetoric (organization, stylistic devices, coherence, etc.)
- A stimulating topic
- Purpose of writing
- Awareness of the audience
Utensils
- Two or three blank sheets of paper
- A pen/pencil/micro-processor
- A dictionary\/ thesaurus (for voc. Error-prone)
Something to write on
A PC (original)
Procedure
- Leaven your ideas until they rise
- Shape them
- Mix them on a sheet of paper without worrying about taste
- Taste your mixture for meaning first and then for accuracy
- Then chop some of your mixture into clear and expressive small pieces
- Then add the required pinch of connectors where/if necessary
- After that slice the mixture into paragraphs; don’t worry if some slices are bigger than others
- And then sprinkle some punctuation symbols where needed (according to taste)
- Finally, if the piece is tasty enough, put it down on a clean sheet of paper and serve it to be appreciated
- Don’t forget to decorate it by leaving a margin and writing on every other line.
-Courtesy – Abdul Majid BOUZIANE, editor to ELTECS Africa and the Middle East Published in English Teaching Forum, Vol.32(2),1994:13
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