How to Write an Essay |
How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay | A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author.
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Establish Your Topic | You have to think of the purpose of writing your essay; know who it is intended to and evaluate the potential topics to select the best one. | |
Organize Your Ideas |
You have to brainstorm your ideas and make notes of them so you can use them later and don´t miss any important information. | |
Write a First Draft | You write all the information you have, using all the ideas you got from the previous brainstorm. | |
Revise the First Draft |
You give your paper a check to add the missing information or omit the irrelevant one, and to check that you are using the correct structures and vocabulary.
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Proofread the Final Draft |
Revise your writing one last time to make sure you have done it exactly the way you wanted to. | |
How to Write Different Types of Essays |
Narrative Essays |
It is a type of writing that allows the writer express or talk about a specific experience. It tells a sequenced story. | |
Narrative Building Blocks | It has a structure. It contains plot, speakers, characters, setting, theme and point of view. | |
Descriptive Essays | It describes details in a story the reader wants to share. It can describe a person, a place, etc. |
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Descriptive Writing |
It describes a particular person, place, event, etc. in great detail. |
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Persuasive Essays |
Utilizes logic and reason to show that one idea is more legitimate than another idea
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Cause and Effect Essays | In this kind of essay, the aim is to explain the causes (reasons) or the effects (results) of an event or situation. |
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Comparison and Contrast Essays | A Comparison or Contrast essay is an essay in which you either compare something or contrast something. A comparison essay is an essay in which you emphasize the similarities, and a contrast essay is an essay in which you emphasize the differences. | |
Definition Passage or Essay | It is a part or a portion of a book, a speech, a paragraph, etc. |
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How to Write a Biography |
Writing a Biography |
It’s important to identify the most important life events and write them in a chronological order. |
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Personal Narratives |
Personal narratives are often one of the first types of writing that you do. You write about yourself and experiences that you have encountered, read, or heard about. |
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Book Report | plo It is to extract the main ideas of a book and possibly analyze it as well and then type it up into a presentable report.
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How to Write a Research Paper |
Overview |
It´s a general outline of a subject or situation
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Establish a Topic |
It needs to interest, challenge and be manageable, avoiding having only a very narrow range of source materials. |
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Look for Sources of Information | · Each paper needs at least three sources of information that can be found in an encyclopedia a dictionary, a textbook, or on the internet.
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Read Your Sources and Take Notes |
It needs to be taken notes efficiently in order to have more understanding and save time while writing the paper. | http://www.writing.utoronto.ca |
Organize Your Ideas |
To develop an outline to organize the ideas, showing them and the order in which it´s going to be written about. | http://www.teachervision.fen.com |
Write a First Draft |
To read all the relevant notes; summarize, paraphrase or quote directly for each idea you plan to use in the essay.
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Use Footnotes or Endnotes |
It is an excellent resource for keeping track of your sources during the course of a research paper. |
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Article Paper |
Article research paper is meant to check the understanding of a particular topic of the students. | http://www.masterpapers.com |
Research paper | It´s a paper written to reflect a search that will present information to support a point of view on a particular topic. |
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What Is Plagiarism? | To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source.
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How to Write a Bibliography |
Bibliography |
A list of source materials that are used or consulted in thepreparation of a work or that are referred to in the text. | http://dictionary.reference.com
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Citing | A source quoted in an essay, report, or book to clarify, illustrate, or substantiate a point. | http://grammar.about.com
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Giving Credit: Supporting your Thesis |
It´s the use of resources like books, newspapers, magazines and any kind of media or communication you can think of, to support your thesis, giving them the proper credit to avoid plagiarism.
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Document Style: | It is a computer language for specifying stylesheets for SGML documents. | http://en.wikipedia.org |
MLA Documentation | To place citations in parentheses within your text to point to sources in an alphabetized list of works cited that appears at the end of your paper. | http://writing.wisc.edu
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APA Documentation | APA style provides a standard system for giving credit to others for their contribution to your work. | http://writing.wisc.edu
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Scientific Paper |
It´s a publication of original research results where peers of the author can repeat the experiments and test the conclusions.
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How to Write a Term Paper |
Term paper | It is primarily a record of intelligent reading in several sources on a particular subject. | http://www.ucc.vt.edu
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How to Write a Letter |
Personal Letters | They are letters that one individual sends to another individual that deal with personal matters. | http://www.writinghelp-central.com
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Thank you notes and Social Notes |
Thank you letters are effective means to show appreciation. A thank you letter should sound sincere, honest and polite. | http://www.writeawriting.com
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Complaint Letter |
A letter of complaint, or complaint letter, is normally written to deal with a problem situation when other attempts (i.e. phone contacts, e-mails, etc.) have failed to rectify the situation. | http://www.writinghelp-central.com
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Letters of Opinion |
Letters of opinion state your opinions clearly and provide reasons to support them. | http://www.infoplease.com |
How to Write a Speech |
Speeches |
A speech is a way of expressing or describing your feelings, thoughts, opinions and ideas. | |
Speeches That Inform |
The purpose of this kind of speech is to deliver the information clearly to the audience. It is divided in three parts: introduction, body and conclusion. | |
Speeches That Persuade |
This speech is used to argue a point of view; it tries to convince the readers that your opinion is the correct one by providing supportive information. | |
Speeches That Entertain | This speech’s purpose is to catch the audience’s attention, to entertain them. It can inform or persuade and it can even be humorous. | |
Oral Report |
It is a way to inform about the results of a work that has been done. It consists in an introduction, main body and conclusion. Audio-visual aids may be used and there might be a question-answer session at the end to clarify or give further information. | |
Spelling & Grammar |
Using Transition Words and Phrases | Helps papers read more smoothly, and at the same time allows the reader to flow more smoothly from one point to the next
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Punctuation |
Punctuation marks are symbols that indicate the structure and organization of written language, as well as intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud. |
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Capitalization |
It´s writing a word with its first letter as a majuscule and the remaining letters in minuscules . This of course only applies to those writing systems which have a case distinction. |
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Easily Confused Words |
Some words sound so similar, It´s easy to confuse or misuse them when writting. Some examples are affect effect, allusion and illusion. | |
Foreign Words | Some examples of foreign words are: Vox populi and absurdum. | |
Frequently Misspelled Words |
There are a lot of tricky spelling rules in the English language some examples are: absence, knowledge, believe etc. | |
Spelling Plural Nouns |
We add an S to most singular nouns to make the words plural. When the last sound of a word is a s,sh,ch, or x we add es to make them plural | |
Sentence Structure |
Sentence Agreement | means that sentence parts match. Subjects must agree with verbs and pronouns must agree with antecedents. Otherwise, your sentences will sound awkward and jarring, like yellow teeth with a red tie. | |
Subjects and Verb Agreement |
The subject and verb must agree in number: both must be singular, or both must be plural. Problems occur in the present tense because one must add an -s or -es at the end of the verb. | |
Collective Nouns | Collective nouns, a special class, name groups things composed of numbers useally people. | |
Indefinite Pronouns |
An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun that refers to one or more unspecified beings, objects, or places. | |
Checking Subjects and Verb Agreement | Having singular nouns with singular verbs, and plural nouns with plural verbs. | |
Pronouns and Antecedents Agreement |
Pronoun-antecedent agreement is when the both the pronoun and the antecedent are written in the same person. | |
Sentences | A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought. |
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Subject and Predicate |
Every complete sentence contains two parts a subject and a predicate.The subject is what or whom the sentence is about, while the predicate tells something about the subject. | |
Types of Sentences | There are four tipes of sentences: statements, questions, orders and exclamations. | |
Sentence Errors: Fragments and Run-ons | It´s a sentence error caused by running one senence into another, without putting any punctuation in between. | www.lincoln.edu/mhs/.../avoiding%20runons.ppt |
Sentence Usage Rules |
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Dangling Modifiers | A dandling modifier is a word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence. A modifier describes,clarifies, or gives more details about aconcept. | |
Misplaced Modifiers |
A misplaced modifier is simply a word or phrase describing something but not placed near enough the word it is supposed to modify. | |
Mixed Metaphors |
It´s a succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons.When two or more metaphors or cliches are jumbled together, often illogically, we say that these comparisons are mixed. | |
Split Infinitives | It´s an English -language grammatical construction in which a word or phrase,usually an adverb or adverbial phrase,comes between the marker to add the bare infinitive form of a verb. | |
