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Writing and Composition
Includes questions related to the study and use of various written works.
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How would you use the words agree and disagree and convince in a story?
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Write sentences the way you speak - just pretend you are telling this to a friend, and write down what you would say. What would you tell them about this topic? Look up what each word means. How would you use these words in a sentence? How would you talk to your friend using these words?
If you just start writing, you will be through with your assignment before you know it!
Example of selective perception as a barrier to effective communication?
If you are only looking at things a certain way, you are going to miss out. You may think that you understand but you will only get part of the story.
The introduction is the beginning of your writing, where you state what you are going to be writing about. The summary is the end of your writing, where you "wrap up" what you wrote about.
In both paragraphs (or sentences), you basically say the same thing. However, they come at opposite ends of the writing!
External and Internal conflicts in the story The Smallest Dragonboy?
An external conflict is when beterli fought with keevan and broke his skull and leg.
An internal conflict is when keevan fears that he wont be at the impression to impress a dragon.
Education only teaches us to be competitive not cooperative?
Education only teachers us to work against or "out-do" each other rather than working together for a common goal.
formal education teaches competitive attitude informal education teaches cooperative attitude.
Write in brief about writing skills-strokes and curves?
It is essential to keep strokes swift, in a hooklike or slightly curved manner. Each letter should be proportional and evenly spaced with the next. Lower case letters should be level. If you try to make straight lines, they will curve visibly in either direction, but if you always curve just slightly in a decided direction, your writing will appear controlled.
What are the main rules for writing a Clerihew?
A Clerihew, as Willard Espy puts it, is the ideal put-down -- gentle, compassionate, unanswerable. It is a short, comic verse of four lines, rhymed aabb, containing a famous person's name in the first line ( generally as the rhyming word). eg Bennett Hammond Feels in command When editing the answers Of the other romancers
What is the meaning for 'refer to'?
'refer to' means to make a reference to something.
For example:
The cook told his apprentice to refer to the cookbook for directions.
In this sentence, 'refer to' is stating to use the cookbook as a reference.
What does one good turn deserves another mean?
A favor should be repaid. If you're nice to me, I should be nice to you.
Do you italicize or underline a drama?
Italicizing and underlining accomplish the same thing; either is technically correct. However, if the drama name is typed, it is best to italicize it. When written out by hand (making it nearly impossible to italicize), underlining is acceptable instead.
What other word can you use to replace pleasant in a sentence?
nice, amusing, delightful, refreshing, charming, friendly
Present progressive tense end in?
The present progressive tense ends in ING.
For example, I am walking, I am talking etc. answer
What is the best description of a community?
a group of people who live close to one another and often work toward common goals.
What is the difference between present perfect tense and past tense?
The present perfect tense is used when there is a connection with the past and the present. It's used to denote experience, change and a continuing situation.
The past tense, on the other hand, is simple in that it only talks about actions that have happened in the past (and it MUST be used whenever you specify WHEN a certain action took place).
Why is it a good idea to avoid shifting verb tenses?
However it is common to change tenses in writing because tenses not only convey past or present etc but the also tell us if something is happening now or around now or if something is a habit.
Example: We usually go to the mountains for our holidays but this year we stayed home.
In this sentence the verb has shifted from present (go) to past (stayed).
The sentence "we usually go to the mountains" tells about something that is a habit so a present simple sentence is used.
The sentence "This year we stayed home" talks about something that happened in the past (maybe in the summer holidays) and is now finished.
These sentences each convey different ideas. They are joined by the conjunction 'but'.
What is A form of news writing which offers support and gives reasons for a personal opinion?
Use other reference...
How do you ask your address in English?
If you want to know your own address, you ask "What is my address?"
If you want to know the address of the person to whom you are speaking, you ask "What is your address?"
