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Keep Territories in Mind While Writing English

The young, tech savvy generation might be doing well when it comes to being acquainted with cutting edge technology but when it comes to communication, especially writing, an adverse effect of technology is slowly but surely making its presence felt. Some social networking sites impose a word limit on the users and we all know that mobile messaging (one of the most popular ways of communication nowadays) comes with a character limit. This is leading to the development of a whole new lingo in cyberspace where correct spellings are given very little importance owing to the necessity to provide as much information as possible within the character limits.

While messages like “Tk cr” and “Nice to c u 2″ have come to be accepted in messages and scraps, the trouble starts when people start mixing business communication with personal exchanges. Alarmingly, we are observing more and more people using short forms and incorrect spellings while writing business proposals, letters and so on. They might not be doing it on purpose, but heavy messaging and frequent chatting is modifying their writing style in such a way that they are failing to spot the incongruities of messaging lingo in their official assignments.

Care should be taken to avoid this at all costs as such writing will not be tolerated outside personal exchanges. Messages should be written in proper and correct English to avoid this habit from creeping into the writing style or if that is not possible, a conscious effort to keep personal messages personal and official communication official has to be made. Since messaging and social networking are here to stay and influence almost everybody, educational institutions have a role to play in making young minds aware of this problem.

Tell Your Story as You Begin to Write

While writing, the first hurdle we face is choosing a topic. Many of us go for essay books that are available in the market and try to write on the same things. We even try to emulate the writing style as we tend to think that the essays in these books are examples of acceptable/desired writing styles. Actually when it comes to style, variety is the key. Each one of us have our own ways of playing with languages and are each distinguished by our own ways of dealing with topics. So it is very important to cultivate our own styles rather than adopt someone else’s.

I guess this is why i feel that writing about ourselves is a great way to start. Instead of choosing topics from books, we should just pick up the pen and write about ourselves, our lives so far, our experiences, likes and dislikes and so on. No one knows us better and each of us will have unique opinions on things going on around us. Every person will have his/her own story to tell. In addition to our writing skills getting better, this will also cultivate originality. There is no collection of essays in the market that can write about our lives. Only we can.

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