Does Editing Drive You Crazy?

Some of my students make a lot mistakes when they write a paragraph. The mistakes are easy to correct, if you practice how to edit.

When you learn to edit mistakes, your writing will become better. And, the writing will become easier. But like all writing skills, you need to practice editing. You need to see what the mistakes look like.

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4 Ideas to Inspire Your Writing

When your feeling is bad and you don’t want to study, what do you do?

Here’s my trick. Before I walk into the classroom, I whistle.  Whistling changes my feeling. I don’t know why but whistling makes me feel good. When I feel good, I become a better teacher.

When writing becomes difficult for you, what do you do?

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Parallel Sentence Structure

Balance looks good. In the summer Olympics, athletes try to balance their body on a bar, or two parallel bars or on the floor mat. People who study yoga also try to balance their bodies.

Good writing needs balance in the sentences. Look at this sentence. Does it have balance?

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