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Strategies To Write In English

Strategies to Write In English
The writing process is an important part in academic writing. Pursuing a career or profession in any field requires someone to have a certain level of proficiency in writing. For most people it is evidently easier for them to produce a quality writing in their own language as it is always harder to write in a second language. For me, I speak three different languages, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, which is my mother tongue and English. Writing in English is not really a problem for me as I have learnt a few important strategies that can help me improve my writing. While there are various writing strategies, I am going to focus on the brainstorming process and how effective it can be. Also, there are two other research's related to writing strategies which is the Wolfersberger and the Saskatchewan Education research.
Have you ever faced what is known as writers block when you are writing? Does it occur frequently? If it does, it may be the result of a lack of proper organization in preparing your paper. In incidents like this is where doing a brainstorming can prove to be very helpful. Firstly, let me define brainstorming. Many of us would not know his name but Alex. F. Osborne is known as the father of brainstorming. In 1939, Alex Osborne an advertising executive coined the term "brainstorm". According to him, "[b]rainstorm means using the brain to storm a creative problem and to do so "in commando fashion", each stormer audaciously attacking the same objective." He says that the ideas generated are not to be discussed until you feel you could not come up with anymore new ideas.
In other words, brainstorm simply means thinking up solutions, ideas, new concepts or thoughts for something be it an academic paper or creative writing or even something formal. I think the best way to start writing is by brainstorming. There are various ways to do brainstorming. Before you begin writing you either decide on a topic or work on a given...