Let Us Learn: Christmas days Lesson 02 Dec,25, 2014 Sub: Improve your writing: Part 02. ♣♣Improve Your Writing Basics of Writing (Composition)♣♣ In this part of the series post on Improve your writing : Basic of Writing I would like to discuss about writing a Draft ♣♣ Writing a Draft♣♣ Now you are ready to start creating the parts and putting them together. It is easy to assume that it will be once and done. Unfortunately, with writing, it rarely works that way. You can not write the last draft first! You must begin with a preliminary draft. At this point, you need to concentrate on creating the parts, not on making it presentation-ready. There will be time for that later. Since we have word processors on our computers (Microsoft Word, for example), this is much easier to achieve that it used to be. We can have the security of knowing that we can go back and change what we are writing—that we do not have to copy everything from the start as in the past if we change our minds. Take advantage of this feature by concentrating on getting everything in your essay that you want in it, knowing that you can correct such things as spellings and typos later and that you can take out parts you decide you do not want and insert new ideas later. Let we focus on the following issues for the said discussion : ★A. How to Write an Introduction ★B. How to Write a Thesis ★C. Body of the Text ★D. How to Write a Conclusion ♠A. How to Write an Introduction ♠ The purpose of the introduction is to lead your reader into your discourse. There are many ways to do this. For example, you can lay the background for your topic. If you are writing about global warming, you could write the history of carbon-fuel engines beginning with the industrial revolution and ending with the present-day situation where a large percentage of the populace drive a car most days of the year. If you choose to do this, you will probably have to write it a couple of times to get it as concise as it needs to be to fit in your paper. Many books have been written about this topic, so you will need to carefully choose just which information you want in your introduction without making it too long. Another thing you can do in your introduction is to state what the setting of your topic is in order to write a story that will catch your readers’ interest and lead them into your topic. For example, the story of one of the tsunamis of recent years might introduce an essay on global warming. You may want to conclude your introduction with your thesis statement or you may want to start the first paragraph of the body with the thesis statement. It is best to alert your readers as to where you are taking them, so putting the thesis statement after the opening paragraph is one way to do this. ♠ B. How to Write a Thesis♠ By now you have a good grasp of your information and are ready to hone your thesis statement (see How to Write a Thesis Statement). Now you are ready to examine the thesis to make certain it is the point you want to make and to make changes to be sure it will provide an organizing guide for your development. If your thesis is not a simple declarative sentence, you may find that you have too many ideas in it to keep your development on track. A good example: “Climate warming is a hoax and does not endanger our future.” You will be going off in two directions with this thesis statement, so you need to decide which way you want to go before you waste time trying to prove two things. ♠. C. Body of the Text♠ The purpose of the body of the text is to prove your thesis statement or achieve acceptance that the point you are making is valid. You can do this in many ways. If you have written an outline as described in How to Write an Outline above, you should be well on your way. Using the subpoints you have identified, they may be proven or established in the same way as for the subpoints. Prove how or why this point must be accepted. Also, examples are very useful in establishing points in an interesting and readable way. See Sample 1, subpoint 1 above: Climate warming is melting the ice caps and eventually the seas will flood the earth. Cite statistics and give examples of ice caps melting for this portion of the body of your essay. ♠. D. How to Write a Conclusion ♠ The purpose of the conclusion is to lead your reader out of your discourse. Of course, you also intend that your reader will accept your thesis and will be convinced that you know what you are writing about. A good way to do that is to hark back to your introduction and pick up what you promised your reader you would do in this essay and show how you have done it. Also, summarizing the points of the paper is a good way to conclude. You can also write another story that makes your point, such as one about areas in the arctic where researchers have found evidence of glacier-melting. You can also make a prediction about the future here. Many of the scientists writing reports about global warming have made predictions. You could cite one of them here. ________________ (End of part 02. Series to be continued....) If you like and find this post helpful then please make a copy and store it for your further use and reference and never forget to share it. Abdur Rahman Avi,Ali Hossain, Bright Well Raksam,Riad Monsur, Sahed Khan, Sharif Hassan, Lily Islam,Tonu Islam,Rainy Eyes,Emi Kartika, M A Mannan Hamim, Osman Ali Mondol, Munisa Nazirova, Laima Riekstiņa, Judith Endrerud
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