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发表于 2009-1-17 08:47:51
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Efficiently writing, to some degree, is the most effective way to communicate, and oftentimes the only way to get your message across. Since writing materials are more concrete than verbal information, it is nessesary to keep in mind that any error and mistake should be excluded as possible as you can. Herein I share some tips for efficiently writing with all my friends in Readfree BBS.
Tip 1. Adopt specific writing style according to writing materials
When witing, be mindful of the fact that different writing materials (e.g. scientific paper, peom and assay, news, and magzine etc.) have their own specific styles. So it is essential that you select a topic or an idea that you want to develop further. For example, If you’re writing for your dissertation, you obviously would take a theme or an idea that you need to build on for your chapter. Likely, when preparing the research articles, you should present introduction, materials and methods, results or/and discussion, and conclusion as reqested by journals. Moreover, business letters require different sentence structure and even wording. Therefore, adopting proper style when preparing writing materials is half success.
Some of the most basic tips to remember when writing include (Quoted from Internet with a little bit alternation):
• Choose written words other than verbal ones, and avoid the use of slang words
• Try not to use abbreviations unless appropriately defined
• Steer away from the use of symbols (such as ampersands [&])
• Dashes are generally used for emphasis
• Great care should ALWAYS be taken to spell the names of people and companies correctly
• Numbers should be expressed as words when the number is less than 10 or is used to start a sentence (example: Ten years ago, my brother and I…). The number 10, or anything greater than 10, should be expressed as a figure (example: My brother has 13 Matchbox cars.)
• Quotation marks should be placed around any directly quoted speech or text and around titles of publications.
• Keep sentences consice, avoiding to use long and vague sentences.
Tip 2. Practice makes perfect
not all the so-called tips could make your writing understood or effective unless persistant practice is done. There are many resources available to assist with practising your writing skills, including specific books and web sites. Another efficient way is to collect propriate words or expressions from what you read, particularly written by native speakers. The point is that you must digest the powerful or profound words by yourself and try to incorporated them into your writing materials.
Tip 3. The Importance of Careful Proofing
Perhaps the most important thing to remember when writing is to check it thoroughly when it is completed. Is your written communication well organized? Does each idea proceed logically to the next? Even when you think it is exactly what you want, read it one more time. This “unwritten” rule holds true for everything you write – memos, letters, proposals, and so on.
I strongly recommend to make good use of the “search engines” available in the internet, such as Google. If you are not sure the proper usage of a specific word or phase, you could check it through the search engines by selecting the uncertain expression as key word.
No pains, no gains. I hope the goal of writing efficiently as a native speaker does can fulfilled by persistent practice, and proper skills.
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