hi everyone it is tough to practice your essay-writing skills on your own without a teacher's feedback.. so i thought to start discussion where we can share our essay.Senior please help and let us know where we went wrong.
Know 10 important don't for easy writing
1. Grammar, spelling, punctuation mistakes-
These three are the foundation to your essay writing. Any mistake in their usage will not only change the meaning of your sentence but also have disastrous effect - look at the following sentences-
i) My wife, who lives in New York, has just written me a letter. (I have one devoted wife who has sent me a letter) ii) My wife who lives in New York has just written me a letter. (The one lives in New York, what about others).
It is suggested to build strong fundamentals before writing any long piece of say, 200-300 words. Errors in use of articles, nouns, verbs, modifiers, conditionals make the paragraph clumsy while wrong use of vocabulary words, especially in confusing/similar sounding words like imminent in place of eminent, birth instead of berth etc. make your piece of writing a laughing stock. So be careful about it.
2. Irrelevant use of vocabulary-
Vocabulary which is not required must not be used. It might unnecessarily stretch your message, may reflect wrong impression on the reader who incidentally is your examiner. This, instead of elevating your ranking may affect otherwise.
3. Repetition of ideas and sentences-
How would you react if someone goes on saying or repeating the same idea in different sentences or in similar ones? A feeling of boredom and lack of interest would occur. Similarly, your reader will also not like such repetition. So avoid it since it conveys the message that you know very less on the given/chosen topic.
4. Writing beside the point (Not focusing the crux of the idea) -
This typical problem and happens when you have not practiced well. You have understood the topic and also have the ideas but don't know how to start with? Please do not beat about the bush and give a few seconds to outline the thoughts prevailing in the vast arena of your mind. Organize them and then begin to write. Questions may have words like -Discuss, Describe, Analyze and Critically Examine - so take a directional tip - all these aspects are to be taken care of, while writing your essay.
5. Ambiguity of thought-
All the paragraphs must have distinct and clear ideas. No confusion in your thought process as depicted in the essay should be present. One paragraph -one idea- must be the strategy, although all the paragraphs are supposed to be interlinked with continuity of thought.
6. Poor formation of sentences and paragraphs-
To avoid this, practice more, emphasize on more and more writing. Sentences must be presentable so that your reader is tempted to go through the entire essay in one go. You might remember reading a very interesting novel, story; article etc. the reading of which you didn't give-up despite the call of nature. Why? The writer was able to create that much of interest in you, with his/her writing skills. So take note of that.
7. Work with all the ideas together, better to take up each point one by one-
Don't mingle your ideas ending up with a poorly written essay. Get a flow of them as a string goes through the pearls. However, you can add humor; give relevant quotes with acknowledgements to emphasize your idea.
8. Explain too much-
This is a big problem. Sometimes we go on explaining an idea, a point etc. to more than desired length. This happens in cases when the reader is not sure of his writing skills or ability to explain. So avoid this practice.
9. Make the essay too lengthy or verbose. Be simple-
You do not need to write fat vocabulary words, insert irrelevant figures of speech, proverbs. On the contrary, simple, well worded and concise sentences will have better effect on your reader. You could go for figurative language, use of idioms and use of quotations, if you can use them skillfully otherwise they may do more harm than good to the evaluation process.
10. Poor hand writing with cutting and cancellations-
This is one of the most important aspects. You may be skilled in writing, you have good vocabulary and know how to use figurative, idiomatic language with quotations but if the handwriting is poor please note that your reader may not attentively read the essay or may not follow the message which you wish to convey in its true sense. Practice more. Purchase a note book of fairly large size; write down the essays on it - at least -one a day. Read it. Try to find out the mistakes like - punctuation; grammar; spelling errors in it. Find out how many cuttings and cancellations are there in one paragraph. Next time when you write - minimize them. Gradually you will be equipped with fine writing skills with fewer mistakes or no mistakes.
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Do We Have Business Environment For Start-Ups?
In his independence speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Start up India, Stand up India". He gave due importance to entrepreneurship in India. Start-ups are the key to making a country economically strong. India needs a boom in this sphere.
But people are wary of starting their own businesses. Why is it so? There are so many formalities to go through. It takes a lot of time to finally get the business rolling. A lot of time is wasted in red tapes. So people prefer working for someone who has already crossed a major hurdle in this regard. This situation needs to be changed. Let us have a look at Denmark which is among the world's best location for doing business. It takes little amount of time for anybody to start a business. Because there is no red tape and bureaucracy.
Start-up involves high risk. A person after graduation lands up a good job. Where will he go? What will he do? Keeping in mind, of his personal and family expenses, he is most likely to go for a paycheck every month rather than putting all his energy into a start-up.
There are other constraints involved in start-ups like funding, initial losses, finding the right people for the job and whether the business will actually reap dividends after a few years. In this competitive environment, even people with good business ideas never act because of the above mentioned reasons.
All this needs to be looked at when thinking of promoting entrepreneurship in India. The Government is taking some steps towards this. The India Inclusive Innovation Fund is designed to solve the problems which entrepreneurs face. PRISM (Promoting Innovation in Individuals, Start-ups and MSMEs) has been undertaken by the ministry of science and technology. So a conducive environment is being created for new businesses to flourish in India.
Brain drain is brain gain
When India's Prime Minister went to USA in 2015, he said that the Indians leaving India is actually a gain for the nation. In other words, brain drain is brain gain. This helps in building the brand "India". Foreigners will look up to India as a nation.India gains prominence in the world if leaders in various industries emerge from India. There are many Indian-origin Ceos in the top MNCs around the world like Sundar Pichai in Google, Satya Nadella in Microsoft, Indra Nooyi in PepsiCo, Ajaypal Singh Banga in MasterCard, etc.
The brand "India" will get more investments in the form of FDIs and FIIs. The world will see India as a strong developing country and will try to forge good relations. People going to foreign lands will also take with them the culture of India. Thus, the world will get acquainted with the rich Indian culture. For example, yoga. The International Day of Yoga was celebrated around the world. This is helping India to develop its soft power successfully. When people think of yoga, they will know it's an Indian thing.
The Indians becoming successful outside India also helps young Indians look up to someone as their role models. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a structural biologist, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry. These kinds of achievements make Indians proud and the youngsters willing to do something similar and make their country proud.
There are lots of learning opportunities if one ventures into foreign lands. The Institutes outside India provide a world class learning experience. This holistic learning helps the individuals become leaders of tomorrow. Thus, the brain drain is actually a gain for India if we look at it from a holistic point of view.