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Essay writing-Check List

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Essay writing

1. Read the topic and brainstorm the ideas.


2. Plan the order

Structure

Have an Introduction, body and conclusion.

Checklist:

See that there are no errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Grammar:

Subject Verb agreement. If the subject is singular, the verb should be singular.

Use proper tenses

1. Countries developing: Before present continuous use, the be form, It should be countries are
developing.
2. May writes: May write

After will-would, can- could, shall-should, may -might and after do, does and did, do not

use -s,

May comes, can speaks, will runs, shall reads are wrong.

Say may come, can speak and so on without the -s.

3. He done.. the government given … is wrong.

He has done, the government has given.

Do not use V 3 in the sentence as a main verb.

4. Can be able to is wrong.


Use can or able to

Use of Prepositions

Use correct articles.

Noun Form

• One of my friend – One of my friends


• Succeed – success
• Use of apostrophe
• To form plural , add -s. boys, students Not boy’s , student’s
• Boy’s means belonging to the boy like boy’s boos
Pronoun
Pronoun should agree with the noun : boy-he: girl-she, boys-they

Contractions

Do not use contractions in the essay – like won’t. didn’t etc


Use the full form, Will not, did not

Apply the rules of grammar

Spelling

1. Be consistent with spelling. It can be British or American. Do not use color at one place
and colour at the other.
2. Do not use Indian names like Bhimavaram, Pune etc. for places and person’s names.
3. Check confusables
eg.
• there-their,
• hear-here,
• lose –loose,
• principal-principle,
• affect-effect,
• where-were
• then-than
• weather-whether
• right-write
• its - it’s
it’s means it is as in “It’s nice. It is nice “
its cost is.. no apostrophe

4. Single words

Moreover, furthermore, nowadays throughout

5. Separate words:

In spite of, in front, hard work

Punctuation:

1. Capital letters
i. Use capital letters
a. Beginning of a sentence
b. Beginning a sentence after a full stop
c. Proper nouns, the first letter of names of peoples, places etc.
d. Acronyms eg. GST
e. Pronoun I
f. First letter of God

ii. Do not use capital letters unnecessarily in the middle of a sentence


The Development of should be The development of

Full stop
Place a full stop at the end of a sentence.
Space
• No space before a full stop.
• Use space after a full stop. –Very important
• No space before a comma.
• Use a space after a comma.

Comma
• With if clauses:
o When sentences start with an if clause, place a comma after the if clause.
o If you work hard, you will succeed.

• Punctuation with coordinating conjunctions

o Place a comma before the words “and” and “but” when they are connecting
two clauses.
o He may neglect to work, and may start thinking.
o It had been raining very hard, but we decided to continue our journey.

Coordinating Conjunctions
Do not start a sentence with coordinating conjunctions like for, and, nor, but,or, yet, so.
In place of and use In addition, in place of but use however,
And there are many advantages as well.

In addition, there are many advantages as well .


But, he did not listen.
However, he did not listen
I liked my lunch. But, it was too expensive.
I liked my lunch. However, it was too expensive.
After however, In addition, furthermore place a comma,

Very important:
Proof read your document before you submit it. Last five-minute are for proof reading and
checking your mistakes.

• Word limit ( for example if it is 200 word Limit)


• Not less than 150
• Better not more than 200
• Avoid repetition of
• words and sentences
• sentence starts: Do not start three consecutive sentences with the same word. Like the or
this
• Do not use backspace : When you get an error while typing, select the word and delete,
do not use backspace. This rule was there earlier, but not sure now)

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