- The word ‘Writing Skills’ adds the word ‘Skills’ in writing, which means competence, expertise, and artistry. Writing is an art to express views and thoughts through words, but skill is a competence which enables to understand the words exactly in the same sense as the writer has written.
- Clarity and Focus, Grammatically Strong, Well Structured, Efficient Vocabulary, Stimulation for Readers, Having Mental Notes, Well Editing and Re-evaluating are the essential characteristics which makes good writing.
- Mainly four types of writing are seen: Expository Writing, Descriptive writing, Persuasive writing and Narrative writing. Also, some other sub-styles are used in writing like Objective writing, Subjective writing, Creative writing, Review writing, etc.
- Skill is the most essential element for any type of task. It enables a writer to communicate the message successfully with accuracy and correctness to the wider audience. It makes him dependable, assigned with more responsibility and makes him the right candidate for recruitment as well as promotion. Also, helps in maintaining the Records
- The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences is called sentence formation.” An effective sentence has to involve the clear meaning, rules of grammar, correct punctuation etc. all these elements in his writing. We use a different type of sentence in writing like Simple and Declarative sentence, Compound sentence, Complex sentence, Compound- complex sentence, Command and imperative sentence, Question and Interrogative sentence, Exclamatory sentence.
- Diction is an accent, inflexion, intonation, and speech sound quality manifested by an individual speaker or writer. It separates good from bad writing. Diction is of many types: Formal Diction, Informal Diction, Neutral/ standard Diction, Colloquial Diction, Abstract Diction, Concrete Diction, Poetic Diction. Diction conveys the author’s attitude, a tone, which can influence the reader’s response to the writing towards the topic. It shows the strength of writing and the author’s credibility by ensuring the full range of meaning of the words that the writer uses.
- A paragraph has a sequential series of sentences. This is because the reader could know the organization of thoughts in an essay or any literature (writing) and subdivided to define begins and end. For structuring a paragraph, a writer has to follow four component topic sentences, supporting ideas, adding detail, concluding sentence step by step. A paragraph contains unity, order, content length and coherence.
- The word ‘essay’ is derived from Latin word “exagium” which means ‘presenting a case’ and in French, word ‘essayer’ which means “to try” or “to attempt”. A famous English essayist, Aldous Huxley defines essays as, ‘a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything” An essay must be well disciplined, unambiguous, argumentative, anecdotal and well organized. It is written in many different forms like definition Essay, compare and contrast essay, cause and effect essay, process essay, critical essay, expository essay, persuasive essay, narrative essay, and many more. When essayist starts to write an essay, he should follow some steps keeping in mind the word limit and give an appropriate and interesting title so that readers can create interest to read it. Language should be simple and crisp, free from grammatical errors and sequentially organized.
- The main difference between a paragraph and an essay is that a paragraph is composed of three-four sentences ending with a concluding sentence while essay has multiple paragraphs and ends with a conclusion paragraph.
- Traditionally, two types of writing are seen: technical writing and literary writing. Technical writing is done for the purpose of educating, informing or directing someone on how to do something. A computer is used to write this type of writing; it is straight forward and clear. Technical writing is written in a concise and well-structured manner.
- Proposal, document, business letter, etc use this technical writing. A specific skill is needed in technical writing.
- Literary writing is creative writing and used in fiction. It is an art and a depiction of thoughts and views as poem, story, novel and any form of literature. Literature is a word derived from the Latin word meaning “writing formed with letters. Literature is a form of human expression which is organized and written down in an expressive manner. It serves society in terms of knowledge sharing, entertainment, shaping the aesthetic sense, self- development and transformation of society.
- Sometimes, a writer gets stuck in his writing due to occurrence of some errors. Incompleteness of Sentence, errors related to use of comma, dangling modifier, wrong word usage, lounge Sentence, colon mistakes, errors in using infinitive, errors in using apostrophes, incorrect word, and capitalization are some common errors that must be acknowledged by an author. Error correction is very important to keep the audience engaged to your piece of writing.