5 tips to improve your writing
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hi there my name is Emma and in today's video we are going to look at five ways
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to improve academic essay writing
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ok or TOEFL writing I'll trading this doesn't have to do with when you write a
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letter to your friends
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ok we're talking specifically about formal writing maybe business writing or
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academic writing
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ok so let's get started my first tip on how to improve writing is do not use
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contractions
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ok and again this is for academic writing so what is the contraction don't
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can't shouldn't couldn't wouldn't isn't haven't hasn't
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ok so it's the short form of for example don't is the contraction of do not
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ok so it's better to actually write out the word in full and academic and formal
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business writing
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so instead of don't use do not instead of can't use cannot
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and notice how would do not it's actually two words cannot is just one
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word shouldn't comes should not couldn't becomes could not wouldn't would not
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isn't is not haven't have not hasn't has not
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ok so don't use these use these
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ok so now let's look at tip number two
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so tip number two is avoid there is or there are ok so why do we avoid there is
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or there are well one of the reasons is when we write we want to write our ideas
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clear and concise meaning we don't want these long sentences
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we want our sentences to be to the point
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there are ads extra words that are not needed
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so let's look at some examples a there are many issues that students face at
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university so that's an ok sentence but if i wanted to make it a better sentence
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that is more appropriate for academic writing
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I would change it i get rid of there are and i would say instead students face
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many sorry the students as many issues at university so you don't need there is
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or there are a second example there are many development projects that the UN
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supports ok
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again we don't need there are we can just change it to the UN supports many
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development projects by getting rid of their is in there are your sentences
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become stronger and to the point
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so tip number three is avoid words so don't use words and academic writing
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such as really vary a lot i'm going to add another one
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so okay this weekend's you're writing your writing isn't as strong if you use
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these types of words
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so let's look at some examples
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many students think university is very hard is a now we have very
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how could I improve the sentence one set of using very hard
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just use a stronger word in the first place
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say
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many students think university is difficult okay
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there are many cars well there I just broke rule sorry
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many cars speed very fast you get rid of the very in that sentence
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come up with a stronger word for it