THE WRITING PROCESS: How to Enhance your Writing

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"You are what you write," says Natalie Canavor. "Poor writing skills aren’t just upsetting you; they may be hampering your career.“ Practice does not always make perfect, a writer cannot work in isolation, this will not improve his/her writing skills. To level up, you must step outside of your comfort zone.


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"Fortunately, she says, most older workers already have a crucial skill necessary to crafting good business communications: Empathy. “I find younger people have a lot of trouble learning to look through somebody else’s eyes. Older people have an advantage in that. We’re more apt to learn there are other viewpoints,” says Canavor."
"For many employees, writing at work is nearly as worrisome as public speaking."
“‘Skilling up’ is for people of any age,” says Nicholas Wyman, author of Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need. “It’s a matter of learning by doing.”

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1.Wite what you know about

Read through the topics carefully.

  • Dismiss any topics you do not like, do not understand, or to which you cannot relate.
  • Be careful that you do not write off the topic - you will be penalized or this.
  • Avoid the topic if you are unsure of the formate e,g, dialogues, diary entri3es or reports.
  • Choose a text type and topic that suits your personality and ability.
  • Be original but avoid far-fetched, unrealistic situations. You may, however, be required to write an imaginative story for a particular audience.

Full Sentences


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2. Write full sentences

Every sentence should contain
a subject and finite verb

  • A participle is not a verb and cannot stand on its own.
    Walking across the road. X
    The girl was walking across the road.


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Maybe your proposals fall flat or you dread penning quarterly reports. Perhaps you sweat over emails, only to have the recipients demand clarifications. Or writing might just take you too long, making you exhausted once you’ve finally done that last spellcheck.

Sources: EBH Joubert English writing.
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it is hard to motivate my students to write something as they need to think and find new words to use, they usually prefer to speak :)

Writing is like reading, it takes you on a journey where you learn to think, find new words, improve your reading skills and most of all how to spell! Thank you for your reply.

South Africa scores last out of 50 countries for reading: SA children scored the lowest mark in the latest testing done for the 2016 report.

While the study was predominantly made up of high-income countries, other middle-income countries were included like Iran, Chile, Morocco, and Oman.

No real improvement since 2011: While the report shows that there was a significant improvement from 2006 to 2011, things stagnated after that. Over the last five years, there has been NO improvement in reading scores.

To make things even worse, the tiny percentage of SA kids reaching the high reading benchmark has also dropped. In 2011, 3% of Grade 4 students reached it. In 2016, it was just 2%.

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is implemented locally by the Centre for Evaluation and Assesment (CEA) at Pretoria University. On Tuesday, the latest report from 2016 was released, the results are incredibly worrying.

Before we look at the main findings of the report, it’s important to understand what exactly the report tests students on.

Students between Grade 1 – 3 were tested across the country in all 11 official languages. Each student or school was tested on their first language or the language the student was most familiar. So, whatever was the most common language at the particular school, was what those learners were tested on.

Now, let’s look at some of the biggest takeaways from the report.

8 of 10 SA children cannot read: Arguably the most worrying, the report found that 78% of South African Grade 4 students are unable to read for meaning. This means that they could not reach the lowest international PIRLS benchmark.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/eight-out-of-10-south-african-children-cant-read-pirls-report/

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When you write, it's important to have a goal to work towards. If you're writing a novel, you should have a vision of what it will look like when it's finished, and how you'll feel after finishing it. You need to know where your reader is going to be by the end of your story. Visit this https://masterbundles.com/how-to-create-wedding-invitation-in-adobe-illustrator/ site for best weddind adobe illustrators. If you're writing a blog post or an essay, then this is even more important because there's no clear ending. The goal is simply to write as much as possible about whatever topic you're interested in at the moment.

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