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WRITING GUIDE

In this page you will find some guidelines about how to write effectively and how to improve your writing.

The writing process: presentation

Use this presentation each time you want to remember how to organize your ideas in the process of writing a text.

Writing techniques

Expresión escrita

Conjunctions

Prepositions

Spelling rules

Subject-verb agreement

Brainstorming:

Example of a brainstorming design:

This graph serves to explain an easy way to generate ideas. You write down the ideas that come up to your mind. One idea usually takes you to another idea until you get a map like the one above.

You then select the main idea around which is related to most of them. The main idea is connected to subtopics which are also related to other ideas. You can group similar ideas in subtopics. In this way, you get a map of ideas that can be very useful to organize your ideas and your paragraphs.

Remember to organize your ideas in an outline that is usually divided in three sections:

OUTLINE

1. INTRODUCTION

State your idea

2. BODY

	Develop ideas
	Support ideas with arguments

3. CONCLUSION

Reemphasize, summarize main idea

These are the things you ALWAYS have to check in your composition when revising it:

REWRITING TIPS

After you have written your first draft you need to revise your work. Here you have some suggestions:

Check subject-verb agreement in every sentence.

Check spelling rules, capital letters and punctuation.

Check word-order in the sentence; remember "every sentence MUST have a subject" and the adjective usually precedes the noun.

Check tense coherence: for instance if you are talking in the present check that verbs are formed correctly in their present form. Check adding -s, -ed, -ing, etc.

Check adjectives: Remember that adjectives have no plural in English.

Is your text well organised?

Do you have a clear introduction and conclusion?