Monday, June 24, 2013

How to Improve Your Term Paper Writing Skills

Term paper writing is not an easy task. Writing is the essence of “term paper writing” and you need to polish them. Keep in mind that without effective writing you can never express your ideas.

So there are some guidelines in order to improve your “term paper writing” skills.

Don’t repeat, it will kill your writing


Avoid repetition: It's an essay killer

Writing is not an easy thing to do especially when you are writing a 4-5 page term paper based on a single idea, eradicating repetition is essential to improving your writing skills. Remember the usage of same words will make the reader lazy and irritating he can easily lose interest.  So keep these three points in your mind while writing in order to avoid repetition.



• The easiest approach of making your writing skills better is to get rid of the repetitive words.

• If you want to keep the same idea throughout the paper, doesn’t use the same word again and again instead replace it with a pronoun or look for its synonyms or thesaurus

• The third one is the most difficult but at the same time the most effective. Step1: Start it off by crossing out the offending repetition. Step2: circle the key words. step3: And now establish a new sentence that retains the circled words but reject the repeat ones. This may require you to insert more ideas and thoughts, and in this way your new sentence can be formed and the result is the abolition of repetitive words.



Use Active voice to bring life into your essay writing



Try to write in the active voice rather than in passive voice. As it will not drag your writing and will make it more reader friendly.  Example Jenny tossed the coin (active) and the coin was tossed by Jenny (passive). Move the object or subject in front of the verb and make the grammatical changes.



Stale phrases:

Remember if you want to improve your writing skills then delete all the idioms. The reader is looking for Original thoughts not the canned sentiments. Replace the routine words with your own sensible words. But don’t show extra creativity in the phrases as the experienced reader won’t be impressed by your creativity as you are. So be logical and sensible in your phrases.



Literary present you need to just do it



Always understand the style of writing it differs from subject to subject. When you are writing about literature write in that language (literary) .The most important thing you should remember while you are writing is that write in the present tense.



Technicalities: Sweating the small and unimportant stuff is important when improving your writing skills


Always check your spelling. It only takes a few moments but it is worth doing it. As it will save you from embarrassment and need to proofread the paper with your wide open eyes. Find all the possible errors and grammatical errors and try to make it a flawless term paper.

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