Writing Tips For Students Of All Ages
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Writing is a skill that's critical to your child's success in school and life, not just in english and language arts class. To help keep writing skills sharp, Sylvan is pleased to offer the following tips you can share with your child before his/her next writing assignment:
- Good writing takes time. Spend time organizing your ideas and thinking about what you really want to say in your essay.
- Use the Internet or library to research your topic.
- Prepare an outline before you begin to write.
- Use transition words - such as "after," "although," "before," "however" and "therefore" to help your ideas flow together.
- Be willing to revise. Change your sentences and paragraphs around, add material that lends to your writing and delete material that doesn't work.
- Avoid clichés and jargon.
- Always keep a dictionary handy to help with spelling. Don't rely on your computer's spell check tool.
- Use a thesaurus to help you think of a new way to say something.
- Ask someone else to edit your work.
- Proofread everything. Make sure grammar, spelling and punctuation are perfect before you declare anything "finished."
