General+writing+tips

Here you will be able to down load some work sheets. They will help you with some general areas of writing.

Punctuation

1. Commas - This worksheet will help you to understand where and when to use commas.

2. Apostrophes - This work sheep will take you through how to use them.

Sentence structure

3. Run on sentences - Sometimes sentences run on and they never finish they just keep going and going and where does it end? This work sheet will help you to make your sentences run smoother.



Clean up

4. Capital letters are always important in English. They tell the reader when a word is important or needs to stand out. It also makes reading something much easier. Watch the short video below to get some ideas.

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Writing

Topic sentence: The first thing you have to do when writing a paragraph is to decide on a topic sentence. This gives the reader a general idea about what your essay is about.

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Supporting sentences: Now you have your topic sentence, it is time to write some supporting sentences. These are important as they support what you have said in the topic sentence.

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Concluding sentence: After the topic sentence and supporting sentences it is time to finish up your paragraph with a concluding sentence.

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Cause and effect essay plan If you click on the link below you will be able to download the plan for the final essay.