Life With English

Writing Exercises

 

What are the three basic steps in writing process?

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What are the five things that you need to consider when writing an essay?

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Identify the thesis statement.

1) Music can be considered as a global language. With music, you don't really need words to express your emotions. Music also plays an important role in our daily lives, whether we realized it or not.  Recently, research has shown that music influences our mind, body and even personality. In simple words, music has the power to influence our lives.

 

2) Love can be a subjective subject. Love can be a mutual feeling. Love can be a one-sided feeling. Love can be considered as feeling that inspires others. Love can also mean sacrifice. All in all, everyone have their own interpretation of the meaning of love.

 

Writing prompts are used to generate ideas for an essay. They can either be in the form of a question, statement or a situation. Try out some of these prompts. 

 

Exercise 1 : Begin a story with "She remembered that day when Sam left".

 

Exercise 2 : Write a story about your first time the zoo.

 

Exercise 3 : Honesty is the best policy. Write about what this mean to you.

 

Exercise 4 : You get three wishes. What will you wish for?

(try using the brainstorming technique, idea mapping technique and listing technique.)