Below are some benefits for writing the Traditional Essay:
- Helps you develop better writing skills
- Helps develop your process of analytical thinking
- Helps strengthen your skills as a reader and listener
In writing, there's a process which needs to be followed in an orderly manner, to come up with great essays.
- Prewriting - There as several techniques used in prewriting an essay, some of which are listed below:
- List making (Brainstorming)
- Questioning
- Scratch outline
- Clustering
- Free writing
2. Draft - Writing down all ideas listed in your prewriting, as a full essay, without focusing on errors
3. Revision - Re-writing an essay and building on what has already been done in your draft
4. Editing - This involves scanning through the revised essay for errors like missed punctuations, putting in paragraphs and re-phrasing.
What's the difference between a 'point' and 'support'?
To make a point is when you write down a single statement, without elaborating, giving evidence or explaining your point. Points are usually shorter. On the other hand, the support elaborates on the point, providing evidence and further listing examples to defend the point made earlier in the paragraph.
Why do you keep a journal, and why it's important to keep one?
A journal could be a notebook you keep, in order to practise writing essays, or in other cases, other things. It's important to keep one because writing is a skill, and requires a lot of practice to perfect this skill. That's where the journal comes in. It's helps you perfect your writing skills
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