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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Arming Yourself With Better Essay Writing Skills

By Danny Ricks

The process of our education starts down a smooth road. We were basically taught by our parents from when we were born up until we started school, learning and observing the world as we went. Then the next step was to go to school, where we met teachers dedicated to teaching us the basics of colors and letters, of numbers and shapes. Prep school gave you a lot of time to play, because it was also a part of your learning experience, as a child. The lighter workload would not frighten the student from class, but encourage him or her to the joys of education. When these children grow up to be in high school, all bets were off. These were the times when you would really be thinking between hanging out with your friends and finishing that ten-page essay. For most students, essay writing is an uphill climb.

Writing is very essential in school. Without it, we can never spell out words on print, which if succeeded with word after word could turn into a sentence, then a paragraph and to a whole article itself. Writing in the sense of developing penmanship is very important because how else would the teacher and other people be able to understand what you are trying to say if all they see are almost close to doodles and scribbles? Meanwhile, writing in terms of using words, sentences and paragraphs to form thoughts is another thing, and it should be understandable in a sense that the ideas are seamlessly expressed, one point to the other. Write clearly in penmanship and express your thoughts with clarity, that's how the two will come off best.

In classes, the teachers rely more on essay writing to see how deep the students' understanding are with the topic discussed or the reading assigned before the day of discussion. It can be classified under the subjective approach where the taker of the exam can expound more on a given topic while being granted a whole article to do so. Meanwhile, its objective counterpart involves True and False statements, multiple choices and even matching types. The former can become quite a challenge, but it allows for better chances in exploring possibilities, citing examples and sounding off more opinions. But there really are people who are not meant for writing, thus if you have a kid undergoing the said disinterest, better hype them up on the advantageous fun it can bring.

Modules and sample lesson plans are surefire ways to improve the way students study. Learning can be halted and slowed down once a factor is blocking their interest, thus as a parent you have to take it out of the way. Introduce the lessons in a fun manner, or relate it to real life situations that you are pretty sure they are going through so that they will get the familiar feel of it and become more open to the concepts being taught. Also, the tips for every lesson will prove helpful as they are meant to be comprehensible in just a short span of time.

So for better essay writing skills, get your kid a module that will run down the basic concepts the easiest way so that they will erase their prejudices on its difficulty.

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