Posts Tagged ‘writing’
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A Few Useful English Writing Tips
Just came across a video on YouTube and thought of sharing it here on the blog. The video is about effective writing skills and provides six tips to make your writing better. It is about writing in the professional sphere and teaches you how to convey your message in a strong and focussed manner. I did find the tips quite nice though it might be difficult to follow all the rules at the same time. Apart from that, keeping a set of rules in mind while you sit down to write can be quite limiting and restrictive to the flow of thought. However,gradually incorporating a few of the tips in your writing through regular practice can definitely change the way you write for the better. Check out the video here.
Fast and Accurate:The Keywords of Typing
In this post, I would like to focus on a skill which i feel is somewhat neglected by trainers and trainees alike. When you talk of job training or improving employability, the first few things that come to your mind are communication, organization, writing etc. However, several positions in the industry require you to possess efficient and fast typing skills in addition to the obvious ones. It will definitely add to your credentials if you work on your typing speed and accuracy.
Practicing typing is largely similar to practicing writing, with the difference being you can choose not to be imaginative and just copy text from a book or article. While typing, keep a watch handy so that you can calculate how many words you are typing in a minute. Most companies which are keen on your typing speed would want to know your WPM (Words Per Minute) count. As you go along, pay attention to accuracy as well. It won’t do to have your fingers flying all over the keyboard at lightning speed only to create content which is full of typos. Try to stay away from the “delete” and “backspace” buttons as much as possible and hit each key only once to form words.
Start slow and with practice, you will surely pick up pace.
Be Different, Get Creative in Learning
In an earlier post i had emphasized upon the importance of originality in writing. We all have different approaches and ideas about various things and ideally, your writing should reflect your own ideas and not those of other people. In order to bring creativity and lend your writings a distinct touch, consider visualizing the incident you are writing about. If you are writing a travelogue, describe things as they appeared to you and not how they are commonly perceived. Describing the Taj Mahal as a magnificent piece of architecture puts nothing new on the plate. But maybe when you looked at it, you saw something unusual. A crack, a fissure, an oddity that struck you. Write about that. It’s your own work and you have the right to describe things as you see them.
If you have taken up the task of writing about something you haven’t seen then try to imagine yourself in that situation. Like our takes on things, our thoughts also run in different directions. Given the same scenario, your friends might imagine completely different things which may not even occur to you. These varied flights of fantasy will make your imaginative work stand out with fresh, new perspectives. Make sure you avoid the cliched descriptions of things and observe carefully to bring something different to the limelight. Look beyond the obvious and creativity is yours.
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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Training Blues
While everyone agrees upon the advantages of students equipping themselves with good communication skills, what is neglected is the prospect of professionals who can train the students. I am talking about the teachers in various Engineering colleges here. It goes without saying that to be successful as a teacher in this field, one needs to have a clear understanding of the needs of the industry and the kind of communication skills desired. By and large, the industry requires its workforce to be aware of domain-specific scientific and technical vocabulary, ability to speak politely and positively, reporting, clear and precise writing and making presentations. Now the question is how many teachers teaching English courses in our Engineering colleges possess these skills?
Many of the teachers recruited by engineering colleges are graduates or post-graduates in English where the emphasis is on English literature. As a result, they are largely unaware of the demands of the industry and most of the English course outline handed out is lost on them. They struggle to make sense of the technical vocabulary and other Industry-specific nuances. Upon asking, I was told by people in the Industry that during their college days, their English teachers often found themselves as baffled by the syllabus as them. Nowadays some reputed institutions like EFLU are offering courses on TEFL/TESL which are attempting to address such demands but good courses of this kind remain few and far between. With the growing demand for professionals with good communication skills, opportunities galore for teachers/trainers who can impart these skills as well. The sooner we realize this, the better.