This article is a collection of useful words specially meant for students or anyone who is indulged in writing stories or essays (or writing in general)

1) Mind

Vexed (vexations), perplexed, puzzled, worry about, absent-minded, upset, tense, depressed, distraught, blank mind, short-minded, broad-minded, quietened my mind, my mind tossed like a tempestuous sea, mentally disturbed, retarded, insane, a mad cap, unmindful of, nervous, irritated, irascible

2) Attitude

self-centered, egoistic, egocentric, respond, tyrranical attitude, usurper, vilainous, vilainy, debased person, baseless person, unscrupulous person, swindler, fraudulent person, upright

3) Behaviour

playful, mindful, indifferent, ironical, sarcastic, bitter, gloomy, aloof, attentive, obsequous, servile, dispassionate, moody, amiable

4) Abusive Language

barbaric, offensive, uncultured, unschooled, feel disrespect for, inconsiderate, paying heed to his brutal words, pierced you through your heart, lack of tact, in his face, swore at him squarely

Do you have your collection? Let us hear yours?

Suggested Reading:
=> Method Of Presentation Of Topics
=> Writing the GP Essay - Write to convince!
=> Secret to your success! Do you have a vision of who you are & who you want to be ?

When you plan to write about something (applicable to any other article writing or GP Essays) a methodological approach must always be adopted. It can also be applied to an oral presentation of any topic.

This approach consists of a number of steps which are followed in a logical order:

1) STEP 1 - Understanding

You should make yourself understand the topic first! What it really means, what are its full implications..etc

2) STEP 2 - Definition / Introduction

You should first give a brief description or definition of the topic in a clear, simple language.

3) STEP 3 - Classification

You should classify the facts and details of the topic in a logical, coherent form for your reference.
For example:
- Start with a brief background/history of the topic
- present most common facts first (any general opinions that are already known)
- Show the positive aspects then the negative ones if it is a controversial topic

4) STEP 4 - Presentation / Development

You may now present your topic by following the order of details in the classified references/notes you made in STEP 3
- Use clear language
- Avoid complicated expressions
- In case of an oral presentation, pronounce technical terms clearly and slowly to ensure everyone understands
- Use illustrations only when it is necessary to explain
- You may use references to arouse interests
- Entertain with a joke, but never do this if you are not sure
- You may add an emotional touch if you want, but never exaggerate

5) STEP 5 - Conclusion

You can now conclude by:
- giving your opinion
- summarizing the main points
- Add any last message (make it a striking and impressive one)

This approach is the hard work, knowledge and experience that I have gained personally while I was a college student some 4 years back. All of my articles on writing is based from my own experiences and insights and I have full trust on what I try to teach or show you and I sincerely hope it will be helpful to you. But I’m not in any means saying that I’m a perfect guy in writing.. but consider my “such type of” articles as a humble attempt of sharing the knowledge that I have gained freely from people whom I consider to have attained wisdom (I will surely and undoutedly dedicate this Post to my evergreen english Gury aka my english teacher who is by now aged 68yrs old. Sir, you are always in my heart, God Bless!). I hope you liked this article and I will also suggest you to read my previous articles listed below:
1) Writing the GP Essay - Write to convince!
2) How to write good english
3) Writing - The Why And The Essence

Feel free to share your point of view and your experiences  by using the comment form,
thanks!

In this article, I will try to stress how you should go about writing an essay, especially those taking a GP (HSC) Cambridge paper.

Before going further, I assume you have read my 2 previous articles:
1) Writing - The Why And The Essence
2) How to write good english
Note: If you haven’t done so yet, please go read them and then get back to this one. (You should at least read ‘article 2′ above)

That said, lets get to work..

Writing an essay, especially an english GP essay, is something which can be very very interesting and easy to do. Yes, I know what I’m talking about from my own personal experiences! I was very weak in writing essays, perhaps partly due to the fact that I was a science student (you should have heard about this line from your teacher )
But with a correct strategy and correct personal commitments, you can achieve what I was able to achieve (that is an A, A+, A++ in almost all my gp essays).

Aim Of A Cambridge General Paper Essay

Let us consider some few points:

Why do we have to write an essay ? (ask yourself first and then look down.. )

1) To show (to the examiner) that we can comfortably express our thoughts and opinion in a clear, simple, effective and persuasive manner.

2) To show that we can fluently and maturely use the chosen language. (Read How to write good english)

3) To show that we can analyse, argue and discuss a given topic very intelligently and creatively

Very often, students fail to choose a correct topic to write their essay, ending up in a waste of time and effort. This gives rise to a stressful mind, especially in exams where your time is limited. Consequently, they fail to deliver a good essay and perhaps without finishing it on time. So, next we have:

Choosing The Correct A-Level GP Essay Title

- As a GP (general Paper) student, and hence for your gp essay writing, you are expected to have a general knowledge on almost any topic, coupled with a fluency and maturity in your langauge.

A) How to display fluency in our langauge? Read How to write good english

B) How to have a general knowledge on topics?

1) Participate actively in ALL your GP classes.

I never attended a class passively, I always participate, discuss, challenge and argue (sensible discussions) with my teacher. (I finally ended up as leading the class , ssshhh, keep it for yourself )
Don’t be shy, you will do mistakes, but most importantly you will learn from these mistakes to become better! So now on, don’t sleep in your classes, go rock that GP class!

2) Write down new, useful and prominent words or ideas that your teacher or any other student might have said.

Once at home, re-read them and make additional notes (make sure you read the trick I taught you in my article How to write good english) use the internet or any other related informative materials to enrich your knowledge. These early months of your HSC classes are the most determining part. If you have not given enough time, you will not be able to absorb much information in your head.

3) Get to know topics beforehand

Your teacher will probably point out what he will be doing for the next class. So, go and get as much information as you can about that topic.. read them several times, structure them in order of “introductory info“, “benefits/advantages“, “consequences/disadvantages” and/or “any conclusive parts“.

4) Get a love and enthusiasm in your reading and collection of information.

Things should be to such a point that ideas start flowing in your head in a logical manner. Just a thought - If I ask you about Pamela Anderson, you will say more than you are being asked. Why? Because you have surely read, heard or seen things about her and most importantly this is an area of interest to you! (except if you a girl of course )

Writing The General Paper Essay - Structure of your Essay

1) Introductory Part (this should be 1 paragraph) - Give a small clear definition or explanation of what you will be talking about.
2) Body of your Essay - (This should normally span to 8 paragraphs, but not too lengthy) Elaborate on 4 advantages and 4 disavantages of the defined topic in paragraph 1. Give examples as and when needed!
3) Conclusion - (this should be 1 paragraph) - Give a small conclusion on your own and if possible suggest a solution or any recommendation. This really makes for a good conclusion.

So, in all we have around 10 well balanced paragraphs. This surely makes for a fully-fledged essay within the expected number of words (as per the exam essay rules)

IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:
=> You are NOT supposed to prove the subject title of your essay! You should discuss and analyse it!

=> Give at least one example in each discussion or whenever you are elaborating an advantage or disadvantage. NEVER EVER write a GP Essay without an example! You will lose much points and credibility (in the eyes of your examiner)

=> Each paragraph should talk about ONLY 1 specific idea.

=> Make your paragraph fluent, make it flow. Do not just change paragraph abruptly.

=> Make your gp essay lively and convincing! You can write the most foolish essay, but if you write it in a convincing manner and with maturity, you will score the required marks! I know what I’m saying, trust me on that!

Well guys, these were only some hints and some advice from me, based on my personal experience. The biggest work is to be done by you. You have to write a lot of essays to get good at it. It’s just like playing football, the more you train, the better you perform. Heed your teacher’s advice carefully. Go ask him and discuss with him any problem or confusion you might have. I wish you all the very best for your GP Essay Writing preparations and go rock those exams! Cheers!

An additional suggested reading:
=> Secret to your success! Do you have a vision of who you are & who you want to be ?

=> Method Of Presentation Of Topics 

 Before reading, make sure your read my previous one on: Writing - The Why And The Essence 

What Is Meant By “Writing Good English” ?

The meaning of ‘good english‘, and hence writing good english, may vary from people to people around the world since we come from different backgrounds and due to the nature of our education. Despite the fact that there is no governing bodies of linguists to gauge its exact meaning, we do have a standard set by the authorities indulged in linguistics. Hence, sensible authors, careful writers and educated people using english language as their medium of writing, try to conform to these standards as closely as they can. These standards may be grammatical rules, language structure, and universally accepted words, idioms or metaphors.

English Language, IMHO The Best

There are so many languages nowadays which can be used, but the english language is the most widely used world-wide. In my humble opinion, english language includes and transcends all subjects. It is for english writers and lovers a whole means of expression, the attainment of which makes them articulate and intelligible human beings, able to inherit the past, to possess the present and to confront the future. The ability to write good english is simply an art for them.

My Own Experience With Writing - Good English A Myth?

I was not so fluent or good at writing english in my early days of school. I was always favoring French, the second official language of my country - Mauritius. There were some personal reasons which I will not elaborate right now to keep on the subject title. But one main reason was that I was always scoring an ‘A’ in all my french classes despite the fact that I was never doing any french essays or practicing it. This fact was initially a mystery to me because I was always trying my best to write good english and was never successful in getting good results. Then, I finally remembered that I was frequently reading some 1 or 2 pages of french books every day. Yeah I mean it, I loved the famous french book - ‘Les Six Compagnons de la Croix Rousse, by Jean Jacques Bonzo’ and this made reading french more than a hobby. I was reading in my free periods, sometimes during recess, in the bus and at night just to finish all its series. Like this, my hunger for french adventure books became a craze. But in this process, I was unaware that while reading so much, french words seemed to have become hackneyed phrases. That is why my friends used to tell me: “man, where do you fetch all these nice french wordings?”. In other words, what I want to emphasize here is that if you keep reading and looking at english/french words or a small sentence everyday for at least some 30 minutes per day, you will end up with these words embedded in your mind without knowing. And when you will start to write english, you will be amazed to see your mind popping out nice words; that’s how you will progress to write good english!

The Secret Of Writing Good English

While reading you should build up a personal ‘database‘ of special words or phrases. Get a small copy book and list down all striking and unknown words to you. Therefore, be regular in breeding a medley of nice words in your special ‘note-book‘. Those precious words are your key to write good english.

Now, does this mean that you should read everyday? Not really, but you should definetly read your smorgasbord of words in your note-book everyday! I strongly believe that there are 2 kinds of people - one who read very very often, if not everyday, to master the language (as i did unknowingly for the french language) and the second person who read little, but nurturing a high mastery of the basics and techniques of the english language (this one was my conscious experience with english).
But here, the key tricks are:
1) Each time and every single time you read, you should keep growing your ‘database’ of words. Keep looking for new prominent words.
2) Make the english dictionary be your bosom english friend - never keep a word in your book without finding and writing down it’s meaning. Else, do not bother about even writing it down - trust me!
3) You should pinpoint good critical articles/books, think about what you are reading and in this process be generous to yourself by taking notes conscientiously of new golden words. This is because you are reading rarely and hence you should make those rare readings worth 10 times the ones that you would read everyday. So you have to be very selective and analytical in what you will read.
4) Now that you have a copy-book full of defined words, don’t just sit around and smile at it. Go and put them into practice. Start by writing good sentences with these words and write some essays. Writing here is pivotal. Just like a car cannot run without a battery, you cannot expect to have a fluent english if you do not write english. (the battery being your skill in writing and your car the knowledge of the language and wordings)

Support Your Effort To Write Good English With Observation

Going further in our approach, while reading decent articles, you should see how Mr X is using his words in his articles and how he constructs his sentences. Then, with your analytical and critical reading, coupled with your observation and some personal insights, you should try to emulate the fresh expressiveness of Mr X. How to do this, you say? Go and try to write a good english sentence where you can use those words better than Mr X. You will once again be amazed at yourself at how well you performed and you will even be seeing yourself gaining momentum and hence writing good english paragraphs. Go reward yourself after your hard work, you deserve it!

=> I sincerely hope this article on ‘how to write good english‘ and my effort to explain it to you, has been fruitful for you. If you do like I explain, there is no excuse in not being able to produce good quality english writings. And I wish you all the best

What’s Next Concerning Writing Good?

As I said in my ‘About section’, my aim is to make you say ‘Wondeful‘ by bringing decent piece of work written by me. So, keep supporting Wakish Wonderz and keep being around. My next article is on ‘GP Essays - how to write General Paper essays‘. This is particular targeted to students taking part in HSC Cambridge students as an addition to this article on ‘How to write good english’. But no wonder, all these articles on Writing - The Why And The Essence is a must and worth-while reading for everyone, since learning is an ever on-going process.

Before ending, I will sincerely advise you to buy or get a copy of this book below. This book was prescribed to me by my English/GP Guru and I should say that I salutes my Guru for this book, it’s a treasure to me!(You will indeed come back and thank me for having shown you this book!)

The Essence Of Writing

Writing forms part of the evolution of a human being as from the small age or more precisely in the first stages of primary education. Why is this so? To answer this question we should perhaps first of all ask ourselves what is the aim of education; the purpose of all education should be (is?) to teach students to think and to write well so that they can express their thoughts effectively. Students should also be taught how to read critically, thinking about what they read - because reading supported by personal observation and conversation is the key to knowledge and knowledge is the key to virtue and acquiring wisdom!

What Is Writing - Is Like ‘Growing It’

That element of writing forms part of the pillars of a successful man. At an early stage, when children are introduced to this new tool which is writing, some of them think it’s so boring. I remember my first essays at primary school. Those were my headaches, as so many of my friends. But we were still so young and immature, so what about the mature (only physically or mentally) and grown-up people? Still nowadays many adults find themselves in a deep confusion when the ‘boss’ asks them to draft or to write a report or still some become utterly perplexed when the little ‘Mr junior’ comes and say “daddy/mummy teach me how to write a good essay..“. This sad outcome is the result that those people either failed to grasp the importance and true meaning of writing or they have perhaps not been able to nourish and maintain the faculty of writing efficiently and hence effectively in the long run.

Why Should You Write - Writing Is A Catalyst To Success

Why should we write conveniently? Is it just because for the sake of education, for the sake of x, y or z? NO to a large extent! The ability to express yourself clearly is (and will be) an essential basis for success as a student, when applying for employment and still in any career. In any subject (even in any career), if two students (or 2 job applicants) are otherwise equal in ability and intelligence, the one who is the better able to convey thoughts effectively in writing will score the higher marks and earn the higher respect and due consideration.

My Famous And Loved Quote - Purpose Of Education

To end here, let me quote a very lovely, thoughtful and valuable sentence from a famous writer, Dorothy L. Sayers - in her book ‘The Lost Tools of Learning‘, she wrote: “Modern education concentrates on teaching students subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing and expressing one’s conclusions.. [Teachers] are doing for their pupils the work that the pupils themselves ought to do. For the sole true end of education is simply this; to teach men how to learn for themselves and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”

I hoped I have instilled in you the importance of writing and that you have appreciated this first piece of work/contribution of mine. I wish you all the best and may you enjoy the benefits of writing and hence the success of a professional man.

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