Analyzing Your Audience – the First Rule of Effective Writing
The first step to effective communication? Understanding your audience – including TEACHERS. Specific help for writing for the teacher audience.
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WIN From the Start: Write an EVOCATIVE Title
One of the fastest strategies to use as a writer? Use a clever title. Read through some examples and avoid calling your work “English Paper.”
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Establish Your CREDIBLITY
Any writer needs to establish her credibility. Why read someone who you don’t believe or trust? Practice these skills to get it done quickly.
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Write a More ORIGINAL Thesis
One of the largest challenges to moving from middle-school and early high school writing to more advanced work is the challenge to write something original. This doesn’t mean you have to invent some whole new theory of life, the universe, and everything. Rather, it means you have to make your reader think.
Read More Write a More SPECIFIC thesis
You will probably receive, or have received, the following feedback at some point: “Try to narrow your thesis.”
This may seem odd; a thesis isn’t something you can squeeze and shape. Can a thesis be ‘fat’?
The comment is an attempt to explain that you have bitten off more than you can chew.”