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WRITING

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TIPS TO WRITE IN ENGLISH

(Consejos para escribir en inglés)

 

    •   BEFORE WRITING you must brainstorm ideas for your essay and then select the best ones.

 

    •   THEME ORGANIZATION : 
      1.  Introduction: what you are going to write about.

      2.  Development: exposition of ideas.

      3.  Conclusion: little summary of your ideas or personal opinion.

    •   HOW TO WRITE:

  

      • Write  paragraphs  with  clear  ideas. These  paragraphs  must  be easy to  understand  and  completely  developed.  Keep  your sentences  short  and  well-punctuated, not  long  and complex. Omit unnecessary words.

 

      • Place the main idea in the first sentence of each paragraph. Develop this main idea with  with supporting material. 

 

      • Give coherence  to  your  writing  by  maintaining  a  consistent  point of view. Unnecessary, sudden and illogical shifts in  subject, person,  number,  tense, voice  and  mood, affect sentence and paragraph relationships, thus obscuring meaning. Make the verb agree with the subject.

 

 

      • Use transitional words to lead the  reader to the content of a paragraph. For example, if you include moreover, you indicate that you will offer additional supporting evidence for your viewpoint. 

  

      • TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND SENTENCES: 
        • To indicate ADDITION: and, also,  besides,  again, equally   important,  first,  in  the   second place, secondly, furthermore, in addition, moreover, finally...

        • To indicate COMPARISON: in the same way, likewise, similarly…

        • To indicate CONCESSION:  although  this  way, at   the  same  time, after  all,  certainly, doubtless, surely, I admit… 

        • To indicate CONDITION: if, as if,  as though, even if …  

        • To indicate CONSEQUENCES or RESULT: and  so, after all, at last, as a result, as  a consequence, consequently, finally, in conclusion, so, therefore, thus…  

        • To indicate CONTRAST:  although  true,  but,  yet   for  all  that,  however,  nevertheless, on the one hand, on the other hand, whereas…  

        • To indicate EXAMPLESespecially,  for  example, for  instance, in  general, in  particular,  in this way, namely…  

        • To indicate OPINION: I believe that, I think that, in my opinion…  

        • To indicate REASON: because, since, for… 

        • To indicate REPETITION:and so again, as has been said, in other words, to repeat…  

        • To indicate REPHRASINGin other words, that is to say… 

        • To indicate SEQUENCEfirstly, to begin with, secondly, next ,after that, finally, in the end, at last...  
        • To indicate SUMMARY: in  brief, in  short, to  sum  up, to  summarize, in  conclusion, to  conclude…

    •   ESSAY TYPES:

 

      • Biography. Key language: sequence linking words to put the ideas in chronological order, adjectives, relative clauses…

 

      • DescriptionKey language: adjectives, adverbs of degree, relative clauses…

 

      • Dialogue. Key language: short  questions  and  answers,  expressions  to  show reactions (Really?...)

 

      • For and against essay. Key language: linking words and phrases to indicate consequence, addition and example, contrast, modal verbs for hypothesis, second conditionals… 

 

      • Letter:. Key language: greetings, endings, linking words to indicate reason for writing... 

 

      • Opinion. Key  language: expressions  to  give opinion, linking words to ndicate result, cause or purpose...

 

      • Short story. Key language: linking words to sequence events, narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous…)

 

   

 

 

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