Over the course of this class we have talked about various styles of writing and strategies to help our writing. In every style of writing you have different strategies that help you along the way. Writing essays has always been hard for me and I love getting any little piece of information to help me as I can. I am going to explain the five strategies that are most important in writing any type of effective essay. Before you even start writing you need to start with brainstorming first, then transitions, grammar, eliminating wordiness, and finally proofreading. Brainstorming is one of the most important things to do, because it is the first thing you do with an essay. With using brainstorming you do not have to write out a whole essay.
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If you do not use this strategy your reader could have no clue what you are talking about. For example you may have a fragment sentence thrown in the middle of your paper like “He caught the fly ball”, you need to tell more like “He caught the fly ball, in the bottom of the seventh inning, with two outs, and bases loaded.” That tells the reader exactly what happened. With using the grammar strategy you can find punctuation mistakes, comma splices, run-ons, and spelling errors also. Eliminating wordiness is also a great strategy to tie in with grammar because you may need to take some words out of those run-ons or comma splices. When people have an overflow of random words thrown in to a paper just to get the word count up, does not help the reader. Every sentence you have in an essay should be straight to the point as you can make it. This will also help the reader stay on topic about what you are writing about. If you have just a bunch of words thrown in to a sentence they are going to spend more time trying to figure out what your talking about than understanding your paper. Proofreading is a great final strategy to help clean up your paper. In proofreading you are going to read back through your easy and try to find any mistakes you did not catch while
If you do not use this strategy your reader could have no clue what you are talking about. For example you may have a fragment sentence thrown in the middle of your paper like “He caught the fly ball”, you need to tell more like “He caught the fly ball, in the bottom of the seventh inning, with two outs, and bases loaded.” That tells the reader exactly what happened. With using the grammar strategy you can find punctuation mistakes, comma splices, run-ons, and spelling errors also. Eliminating wordiness is also a great strategy to tie in with grammar because you may need to take some words out of those run-ons or comma splices. When people have an overflow of random words thrown in to a paper just to get the word count up, does not help the reader. Every sentence you have in an essay should be straight to the point as you can make it. This will also help the reader stay on topic about what you are writing about. If you have just a bunch of words thrown in to a sentence they are going to spend more time trying to figure out what your talking about than understanding your paper. Proofreading is a great final strategy to help clean up your paper. In proofreading you are going to read back through your easy and try to find any mistakes you did not catch while