Writing Techniques

CONTENTS Month Abbreviaton What is the proper way to abbreviate the word "month"? Unfortunately, there is no only proper way. It all depends on context: mth (plural mths) is most popular. m'th m-th mo. (plural mos.). MM and M are usually used in date formats like MM/DD/YY. In some documents it is common to see just “m”. Please note: Abbreviations...

Cursive writing is a form of penmanship where the writer connects every letter in a word together using an italicized or looped handwriting style. If you would like to practice your cursive handwriting skills, you can practice using any number of worksheets found online. The key is to learn how to best connect letters in a manner that flows neatly and is...

How to Write in Third Person Without Mistakes? Writing in the third person is writing using the third person point of view. This involves using pronoun such as him, her, it or them. This is quite different from the first-person point of view which predominantly uses pronouns such as I and me and the second person point of view in which the...

The rhetorical situation is a concept first used by Lloyd Bitzer in 1968. A fundamental and practical part of developing as a writer, it refers to the setting in which writers or speakers create rhetorical discourse. The fundamental parts the rhetorical situation are: The sender (or the rhetor) The receiver (or the audience) The message (or the delivered language) The...

A Short Guide to the Genres of Writing There are as many types of genres in writing as there are books, movies, and other publications. For example, in the literary world, writing might either be fiction or non-fiction and it is likely to fall into one of the major literary genres, such as: Comedy Drama Horror Realism Romance Satire Tragedy...

The article below provides a comprehensive overview of the stasis theory and how you might be able to use it in order to carry out your research, create documents, and also to work better in teams. In conventional stasis rhetoric, stasis refers to the process of, initially, discovering the main issues in an argument, and secondly, identifying the stasis arguments that most...

Wikipedia defines definition as “the meaning of a word, phrase or other term” Definitions can be categorized into to specific classifications: Intensional definitions and extensional definitions. Intensional definitions refer to those that attempt to give essence to a term, whereas extensional definitions are those that proceed by listing the objects described by the term. Another form of definition that you might...

Regardless of the language you speak, you have grown up knowing the importance of using formal language in the situations that best warrant it. Those situations being the ones that either circle around a serious subject or event, or involve people that we do not know well. Informal language, on the other hand, is more commonly utilized in the situations...

Many experiments explored a writing style that scaffolds cognitive processing in a better way. Writers suggest that every writing genre does not only have a different impact but also require different cognitive resources to accomplish certain comprehension level. The structure of writing, in this regard, plays a very important role in decoding information, regardless of the fact of how much...

Understanding what is Paragraph Paragraphs serve as a holder for different ideas in an essay. To differentiate the points being described in your work, paragraphs become useful as you will need to place every idea in its paragraph. Having every point put in its paragraphs make your work easy to read and understandable. The flow of your work majorly depends...