Bricnic
Lookatmy Member
During your studying, you will probably have read your texts, learnt quotes, practiced essays and read critics' ideas on the texts. All of this is good, and most certainly helpful to your ability to produce decent and relevant writing on the day, but it may sadly leave you lacking polish. The much sought after intangibles such as flair and insightfulness can be overshadowed by glaring little errors, such as spelling mistakes, failure to include paragraphs and incorrect use of punctuation.
For example, it really is quite disturbing just how many people think "definitely" is spelt "definately". I was actually one of those up until about term 1 this year when we had a spelling test. Sure, this is the internet, and people willingly and knowingly misspell many words all the time- but don't do it in your essays! It gives markers a bad impression, and although it isn't mentioned in the marking guidelines, markers are human beings, and due to the holistic nature of the marking process, errors like this will detract from the overall impression you leave upon the examiner.
If you clean up the little things, you can leave a much better impression on your examiner, and your work will be seen as quality material. Try to avoid repeating common words like "shows" or "similarly", instead attempt to inject variety into your writing- "shows" can be replaced with "communicates", "displays", "conveys", "portrays", "exemplifies" and many other such verbs.
That's my little rant for today
For example, it really is quite disturbing just how many people think "definitely" is spelt "definately". I was actually one of those up until about term 1 this year when we had a spelling test. Sure, this is the internet, and people willingly and knowingly misspell many words all the time- but don't do it in your essays! It gives markers a bad impression, and although it isn't mentioned in the marking guidelines, markers are human beings, and due to the holistic nature of the marking process, errors like this will detract from the overall impression you leave upon the examiner.
If you clean up the little things, you can leave a much better impression on your examiner, and your work will be seen as quality material. Try to avoid repeating common words like "shows" or "similarly", instead attempt to inject variety into your writing- "shows" can be replaced with "communicates", "displays", "conveys", "portrays", "exemplifies" and many other such verbs.
That's my little rant for today