How can I improve my writing?
Last week our teacher returned us our English
exams. The grades were generally very high and the teacher was proud of our
improvement. However, she was surprised of the compositions we’d done on the
exams.
According to her, in all English compositions we’re continuously
repeating the same mistakes, which are often as absurd as creative our
imagination is. So, the teacher decided to dedicate a class to talking about it
because we can’t go on in this every day more competitive academic world committing
such an amount of faults. When that class was coming to an end, she proposed
us to write a composition about how to write a composition (sorry for the
redundancy. Do you see? We shouldn’t write like this on a composition). So, she suggested to us to make a composition about how we could improve it on an
exam or at any of our weekly wonderful compositions.
First of all,
I think the best way of improving how we write a composition is bettering our
basic skills like vocabulary or grammar. I really consider it to be necessary
to improve it because almost every word you write on a composition is related
to vocabulary or to grammar and, although we’ve been studying all this for a
long time now, we still lack of the quality required in the best writings.
Furthermore, we
need to focus on concrete aspects too. We should avoid adding sentences to a
paragraph if they are not related with its topic because it makes incoherent
the resulting text. So, we shouldn’t forget to expand our
topic on every sentence we write.
Otherwise, it’s
also very important to make a good introduction because it’s the first contact
the reader has with the writing, so it’s decisive to seduce her or him from the
beginning. I really think that the introduction serves as a general outline of
the essay but I don’t think we should introduce on it the aspects of every
paragraph. What I consider is that we should write about the global topic of
the composition starting with a topic sentence. I mean we should begin the
introduction (and, therefore, the composition) with an interesting situation
that’s happened to us and that has leaded us to write the essay. Well, at
least, it’s one of the tricks I use.
Finally, the
conclusion should be a very short synthesis of the writing which can include,
at the very end, a reflexive statement that makes you think about the essay’s
topic even when you’ve finished reading the composition. So, let’s try it.
To sum up, to
write a nice essay we need to enlarge our knowledge of vocabulary and to
improve our grammar skills, we should be coherent and we should be continuously
advancing with the topic, we should start the writing with an introduction that
begins with a topic sentence and finishes with an interesting global outline of
the composition, and, finally, we should finish our text with a synthetic
conclusion like this. At the end of the day, a composition is a chance of
expressing our ideas, our opinions or our worries. So, in my opinion, it’s very
important to be skilful when we want to express something because, otherwise,
we’ll be always silent at society’s eyes.
Genís Fibla i Costa
2nd BATX A
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