First Lesson

The purpose of this blog is to help you to think of yourself as a writer, and to understand the ways in which you may need to adopt what you already know and do in writing.

Tips regarding write up improvement

1.  Reading

• One good way of increasing your own command of standard English is to read articles in the broadsheet newspapers. Articles about issues are more useful in this respect than reading the reported stories. 

•  In general, reading is a very good way of broadening your own knowledge of different forms of writing as well as being essential for writing your university assignments.

     2.  Working with others

• We should also emphasize the value of working with others on your writing. When you are working with other, there are many parts of the writing process where it is enormously useful to get ideas and feedback form others.

• Many professional academic writers make use of 'critical friend' to read drafts or talk though ideas.

• We are not suggesting that you co-write an assignment, just that you find a critical reader to explore and perhaps provide feedback on what you may be doing. 

     3. You as a writer 

• How do you think of yourself as a writer? You may feel more or less confident about writing, whatever your background, you will have already experienced many different forms of writing. 

• Whenever puzzling over the assignment title in front of you, gathering your thoughts and ideas together, and incorporating what you have read about the subject into your work.

For incorporate above mentioned technique, you should practice this first activity.

  Activity One: Writing your own linguistic history 

Think, and write down as much as you can, about your own personal linguistic history,the ways in which you have written, read and spoken in your life. 

you must think these three important things before writing...

• The purpose ----- why you are writing?
• The audience ----- who are you writing? 
• The types of writing----how would you describe the writing?