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Alisha Chhabra

The Five Features of Effective Writing' by Kathleen Cali and Kim Bowen, is replete with pearls of wisdom for any aspiring writer. I will walk you through this dense forest of sapience. First, we will talk about Focus and the question-'So What?'. We will see how focus is significant in driving all the other four features. We will endeavour to learn about finding one's focus. We will end the discussion about Focus, with a few guiding questions. Now, we will come to the second feature, i.e., Organisation. We will talk about Formulaic Writing and the scaffolding it renders. We will analyse the the two most important aspects of Organisation: Structure and Cohesion. Having spelled out these, we'll cap off this feature too with few guiding questions. In this way, we commence the third feature: Support and Elaboration(Underpinning and Unfoldment) and dwell upon Sufficiency and Relatedness. We will talk more about it, specifically in the context of narrative and expository writings. And here we are, at the fourth feature- Style. After interpreting what style is, we will talk about the three elements of style: Word Choice, Sentence Fluency and Voice. We'll essay learning how to learn style. Afterwards, we'll discuss about few style "crimes": Wordiness and Verb Trouble, blow-by-blow. We'll try to get around 'Ostentatious Erudition' too. And with this, we'll be all set to revamp our styles! Having reached so far, we begin with the fifth feature- Conventions; playing up Mechanics, Usage and Sentence Formation primarily. And we end this with a few guiding questions. And now, we may sing carols and revel in our newfound insights! Bravo!

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The Five Features of Effective Writing

Transformation of Sentences

Writing Skills & Grammar

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'The Five Features of Effective Writing' advanced by Kathleen Cali and Kim Bowen, have been introduced. The first feature- Focus, has been simplified.

Introducing 'The Five Features of Effective Writing' - Focus

Focus: Import, Finding Focus, Guiding Questions; Organisation: Formulaic Writing (Scaffolding)

Focus and Organisation for Effective Writing

The second feature of Effective writing- Organisation, has been further explained. Its two main areas- Structure and Cohesion, have been spotlighted.

Organisation for Effective Writing

The concept of Structure with a focus on well-structured paragraphs has been delineated.

Organisation: Structure

The notions of Text Structures; Beginnings; The Middle (Sequence, Description) have been elaborated.

Text Structure: Beginning and Middle

Organisational Text Structures-The Middle: Cause and Effect, Comparison and Contrast, Problem and Solution; Endings

Text Structure: Middle and Ending

Cohesion: Reference; Linking (Adding/Listing, Giving examples, Cause/Result)

Cohesion

Cohesion: Drawing Contrasts; Transition Words

Cohesion: Transition Words

Six categories of Transition Words:  Spatial, Time, Numerical, Cause/Effect, Comparison/Contrast, General/Specific; Guiding Questions for Organisation

Transition Words: 6 categories

'Underpinning/Support and Unfoldment/Elaboration': Overview,  Sufficiency, Relatedness

Underpinning and Unfoldment

Support and Elaboration: Inability to take your readers' perspective; 'Show, don't tell' for narrative writing illustrated!

Show, Don't tell -(Narrative Writing)

Support and Elaboration (Expository Writing): Finding the Right (Sufficient,Relevant) Information; Guiding Questions

Concluding Support and Elaboration

The fourth feature of effective writing, Style has been introduced. Basics explained and elements of style brought up for discussion in further lessons.

Style: An Overview

The first element of writing contributing to an author's Style, Word Choice, has been spelled out.

Word Choice

The remaining two elements of style: Sentence Fluency and Voice, have been explicated. Various ways to learn style have been enumerated and spelled out.

Sentence Fluency, Voice, Learning 'Style'

Problems with 'Style', Style "Crimes": Wordiness

Style "Crimes": Wordiness

Each of the three problems related to wordy constructions, namely cliches, qualifiers and redundant pairs have been deconstructed and addressed using appropriate examples.

Tackling Wordiness

The problems pertaining to wordiness and usage of overused expressions have been put across and addressed simplistically.

Overused Phrases

Stock Phrases: Overview, Supersession, Examples

Stock Phrases

Few more examples of the commonly used stock phrases have been given along with their acceptable equivalents.

Stock Phrases: More cases in Point

Another Style "Crime"-Verb Trouble has been examined and illustrated with respect to the usages of Passive Verbs and Nominalisation.

Style "Crimes": Verb Trouble

The problem with regards to Weak Verbs affecting the Style has been interpreted and addressed. The concept of Ostentatious Erudition has been sketched. Finally, this fourth feature of Effective Writing has been summed up.
Source- The Writing Centre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wrapping up 'Style'

Fifth and last feature of Effective Writing- Conventions, has been delineated focussing on Mechanics, Usage, Sentence Formation, Automaticity and Guiding Questions. In this way, we have covered all the 5 features of Effective Writing, as propounded by Kathleen and Kim.

Conventions

Suyash Goyal

This course will take you through all types of sentences and how they are transformed from one form to another. Also the course will take you through all the rules required for transformation of sentences. You will also be taken through enough exercises based on Transformation of Sentences.

Transformation of Sentences: Class XI CBSE

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Saraswati Rajwar

Saraswati Rajwar will teach Active and Passive Voice in this course.

(Hindi) Active and Passive Voice

This course will take you through the general steps and rules which one should follow while re-ordering the sentences. It will also take you through extensive exercises of re-ordering of sentences with proper explanations so that you can develop a great command over it and reorder all the sentences with great ease.

Class XI -Re-ordering of Sentences

This course will walk you through the areas you need to keep in mind, while writing (besides Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation). It will encourage you to ask questions like- "Who I am writing this for?", "What will my medium be?" and "Which writing style should I follow?". You will be apprised of the import of proper structuring. Phraseology and its various aspects including Attitude, Perspective, Conciseness, Brevity, Language of Gender and Disabilities will be taken care of. We will be dealing in detail with the concepts of Cliches and Redundancy, moving forward. We will culminate by foregrounding the necessity of Proofreading and Revision. And thus, by the time we reach here, we would have become much more refined in terms of designing our pieces.

IV: Writing : Structure and Phraseology

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That group of words is called a sentence, through which there is an expression or expression of a full sense. The sentence is a systematic form of meaningful words. The syntax of educated is disciplined by the rules of grammar. Sentence can be one or more words.

(Hindi) Basic Point of Sentences : Class 11th

The course begins with introducing the topic and streamlining the road ahead. Over 100 such rhetorical devices have been analysed and demystified. Anyone aspiring to construe the world of Figures of speech will find this course becoming their haunt! Special care has been taken to not let any 'new word' pass without proper explanation. The course proceeds in a fashion wherein the terms occurring in any definition have already been elucidated previously. This is a sincere endeavour to develop a course capable of providing its learners with a firm footing in the concerned topic. You are advised to move sequentially. In any case, the lesson descriptions carry the names of the terms talked about in the respective lessons. Happy Learning!

Lessons

23 lessons • 4h 55m

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Introducing 'The Five Features of Effective Writing' - Focus

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Focus and Organisation for Effective Writing

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Organisation for Effective Writing

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Organisation: Structure

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Text Structure: Beginning and Middle

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Text Structure: Middle and Ending

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Cohesion

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Cohesion: Transition Words

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Transition Words: 6 categories

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Underpinning and Unfoldment

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