I'm gonna apply a principle that has always been being floating in the air, but I -and I think we amateur writers- almost never use: organize the ideas on the mind before translate them to letters, in fact when I was looking for more information to amplify my knowledge about the topic I found this document by the European Commission and the first chapter is precisely called Think before you write and the easiest way of doing it is starting with simple questions.
In the document they expose the ones they think more important when writing European Commission documents and by extension any document seemed, anyway I rescue three that can be applied for anything you want to write and the fact that they're not many makes it even easier, these questions are:
- What?: in this part you clarify what is exactly the message that you want to transmit, although it looks really stupid because is an obvious question, you gotta focus on the elaboration of a little scheme that allow you to have a direction and remember all the subtopics or complementary things that you want to add.
- Why?: motivation is a fundamental part at anything. Another thing that will help you to organize your ideas is think about what you want to get with your text, there are many reasons that will be given in accordance with the kind of text that you're writing. This question this question will direct you inherently to the third one:
- Who?: This will define your target, I always say that the best way to do something is when you feel pleasure when you do it, but you have to think about the rest too. When writing this is quite important, because it is not the same when writing a scientific essay as when writing a newspaper article, this will also define you the kind of vocabulary and literary resources that you should use.
Another key to write better is reading, this is other thing that has always been being floating but we -and now I can assure it for the most of the people-, but not "reading the Equestrian Gazette" if not doing real reading exercises. This will help you to get more vocabulary and will offer you good examples of how to write. I'm not a very assiduous reader, I mean, I'm not the kind of person that has read many complete books but I've read the following if you want to start with something more digestible:
- Si Tú Me Miras by Laura Antillano.
- 7 Habits of the Highly Effective Teenagers by Sean Covey
- El Príncipe by Nicolás Maquiavelo
besides I'm always reading articles that go well beyond "the Equestrian Gazette" and I'm pretty sure that I will be reading a lot, in fact I already has got two books in my wish list:
- ... by ... Oppenheimer
- La Picardía del Venezolano by Axel Capriles
To finish the article, I leave you these links in order to get further information:
Happy first day to los Computistas and all the new students!!!
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