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WHAT MAKES A GOOD PIECE OF WRITING. Ideas for improving your English compositions . . Items to grade compositions. Good grammar and spelling. Good typography and presentation: organization of information in paragraphs and adequate indentation . Varied, rich vocabulary.
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD PIECE OF WRITING Ideas forimprovingyourEnglishcompositions.
Items to grade compositions • Good grammar and spelling. • Good typography and presentation:organizationof information in paragraphsand adequate indentation. • Varied, rich vocabulary. • Maturity and originality in ideas. • Comprehensibility. • To follow the instructions, if there were any.
Dictionary use • Try to see a word in its context. Don’t translate word by word. • http://www.wordreference.com/es/ • http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Good for idioms. • DON’T EVER USE E-TRANSLATORS. The result is incomprehensible, you don’t learn anything and I won’t bother to correct them.
Your first compostion: advantages and disadvantages of… • E-books / traditional books. • Being famous. • Meeting friends in person / socializing on the Internet. • Having a boyfriend or girlfriend living away from you. • Online shopping. • Using a bike instead of a car when you move around town.
Elaboration of a draft • The draft is the first step in the elaboration of a written composition. • You should write ideas, not full sentences. • The structure should always be according to the paragraphs: • Paragraph 1: Introduction (generalization) • Paragraph 2: Advantages • P. 3: Disadvantages. • P.4: Conclusion and personal opinion. • There should be a column dedicated to the list of vocabulary you are going to get familiarized with:
Intolerable mistakes for the writing: • Wrong Plural / singular differentiation in the verb tenses: School violence take place in the classroom. • Plural in adjectives: This has horribles consequences. • Demonstratives: This situations make many people unhappy. • Indefinite determiners in the plural: I brought a books. • There is/ are: There is some people who think. • Subject omission: In the evening get my clothes and dress up. • Some irregular verbs: yesterday I gone to my grandma’s house.
What should I do when I have my composition graded? • Should I only look at the mark? • What do the signs mean? • My holidays were very fantastic • Their names are Javi, Fran and Susan. • If we don’t going to the beach • And always see that remember because my father and brother emcampment ? the • In ^ first place • Should I repeat the composition incorporating all the corrected mistakes? were