WRITING SKILLS.

 

WRITING TIPS:

Prewriting: [Gathering information Continued].

III) Clustering:
Write your topic in the middle of a piece of paper and circle it. Then write all the ideas related to your main topic in circles, around the main topic.
Connect smaller circles with lines that shows how your ideas or sub-topics, emanates from your main topic.

IV)  Analyzing:
Divide your topic into separate parts.
Make notes about each part.
Then, study how the parts are related both to each other and to the main topic.

V) Questioning:
Outline a list of questions about the chosen topic.
Begin your question with words like; who, what, where, when, why and how.
Then answer the questions by doing research to find the information you need.

VI) Using external sources:
Use library resources, such as books, magazines, newspapers, documentary and informational videos and the internet.
Conduct formal interviews with people knowledgeable about your topic, such as teachers, professionals and specialists in your topic, members of Organizations and people from a pertinent culture or people who lived through an era important to your chosen topic.

e) Organizing your notes or material.

Tips for Organizing:

• Chronological or Time Order:
Organizing your notes in order of occurrence (from former to later, earliest to latest). For example, in writing a biography or historical events.

• Spatial order:
Organization by position in space (from left to right, near to far, low to high).
For example, in descriptive writing.

• Degree order:
Organization by amount, size or intensity(from coldest to warmest).
For example, in scientific report writing.

• Priority order:
Organization by value, usefulness, importance or familiarity (from worst to best).

After considering the best order, most suitable for your writing and selected topic, then make a simple list including headings and sub-headings, appropriately.

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