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Writing

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What is writing skill ?

• Writing skills are an important part of communication.

• It is one of the rarest and most undervalued skills among students, and few professors have the time, resources, or skills to teach writing skills effectively.

• Good writing skills allow you to communicate your message with clarity and ease to a far larger audience than through face-to-face or telephone conversations.

• Writing well is easily one of the most sought-after and useful skills in the business world

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What is bad writing skill ?

• Poor writing skills means not good in writing skills

• Bad writing skills word come in mind when we make 10 to15 mistakes in a paragraph

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Reasons for poor writing skills

When we talk about any problem then we first think about the reasons of problem. There are a lot of reasons for bad writing skills

1. Message language2. Grammar mistakes3. Bad handwriting4. Bad explanation5. Bad starting of text6. Poor listening7. Poor English speaking

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Grammar mistakes

• The main reason for poor writing skills is grammar mistakes

• Some time we never give importance to grammar in letter or any document

• Grammar mistake like use “then” in the place of “than”.

• Grammar mistakes are not ignorable

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Bad hand writing

• Bad hand writing is the biggest reason for poor writing skills

• In student life ,bad hand writing is became the biggest reason for the failure in exams.

• Most of us use different kind of pens while writing in the class room

• Example ofBad hand writing:- 29/9/2014

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Do not know how to start writing

• Sometime we know all the things related to the topic but we can’t give a proper meaning to it. The reason behind this is ‘they don't know how to start the topic.

• We always start with person name or words

like “there” “once” “a few” and “I” etc.

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Message language

• Nowadays we all are busy on mobile or on social networking sites like facebook and Whatsapp etc.

For example:- “whats up budy” or “r u fine 2dy” etc

We use different word in message chat that are:- “R”, “U”, “2DY”, “2nite”, “c”, “wot”, “gud”, “ ” etc

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• Poor listening and speaking• “What we speak and listen that we write” it’s mean

that our speaking skills are effect our writing skills.• In our life, In which way we speak in language, in that

way we write these words.• If our listening and speaking skills are poor then our

writing skills are also poor.• For example we want to write the word “writing” then

speak it and then write some of us write the spelling of writing is “writting”

• Don't know how to explain• Explain any thing in writing style is a art of speaking• Explanation of any word or topic is the main part of

writing skills• Some of us know every thing about the topic but can’t

explain them in writing style.• Some of student write their topic very well in the

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How to improve poor writing skills

• Writing skills are the very important part of business world

• in this life we have to write different kind of documents, letter, email etc

• We can improve our writing skills by using these points

1. Plan, then write2. Use directions wisely3. focus on your communication4. Conclude some thing5. Don’t plagiarize

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Plan, then write• An outline can be a mind map, a list of points to cover,

a statement of purpose, a mental image of your finished paper — even, if you’re good, the first paragraph you write.

• It provides a ruler to measure your progress against as you’re writing.

• It acts as a reminder to make sure you cover your topic as fully as possible.

• A good outline allows you to jump back and forth, attacking topics as your thinking or your research allows.

• Finally, having a plan at hand helps keep you focused on the goals you’ve set for the paper, leading to better writing than the “making it up as you go along” school of writing to which most students seem to subscribe.

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• Focus on communication• Revise your paper at least once, focusing

on how well each line directs your readers towards the understanding you’ve set out to install in them.

• Every sentence should direct your reader towards your conclusion.

• Revising your paper is where the magic happens — when you’re done with your first draft, your understanding of your subject will be much greater than it was when you started writing; use that deeper knowledge to clarify and enrich your writing. 

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Conclude something

• Explain the findings of your research, • propose an explanation for the data presented, • point out avenues for future research,• point out the significance of the facts you’ve laid

out in your paper. • The conclusion should be a strong resolution to the

paper, not a weak recapitulation tacked on to pad out the page count

Don’t plagiarize

• Plagiarism is much more than lifting papers off the Internet

• it’s copying phrases from Wikipedia or another site without including a reference and enclosing the statement in quotes,

• it’s summarizing someone else’s argument or using their data without noting the source,

• it’s including anything in your paper that is not your own original thought and not including a pointer to where it comes from. 

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conclusion

i. While writing any paragraph, letter, email, document many persons don’t think before writing.

ii. Firstly prepare your topic then make some points in your mind then start writing

iii. If you are poor in grammar then always carry a grammar book with you

iv. If your writing is not good then every day try to write some thing on a note book in different ways of writing

v. While writing any document try to write in a business writing style.

vi. try to write in a such a way that you clear what you want to say and explain

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Thanks for cooperating with me

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