Developing Writing Skills for School Examination and Successful Work and Social Life
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2018-06
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Institute Universitaire PanAfricaine, Porto-Novo and Linguistic Immersion Centre, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
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Writing is a skill that is essential to effective communication of facts, feelings, ideas, judgements, and so on, to one’s contemporaries as well as generations to com. Essay writing in various forms is thus taught in schools and examined in both internal and external examinations. As crucial to effective communication as essay writing skill is, students’ performance in essay writing examinations has been generally described as poor. The current discourse, therefore, aims at providing a comprehensive explanation of the various components of the different types of essays, how to master the writing of each, and how the marks for essay writing are distributed among four scoring parameters: Content, Organisation, Expression, and Mechanical Accuracy. It is hoped that the article will be found useful by all stakeholder in the business of ensuring significantly improved student performance in English essay writing and ultimately better quality of writing in the world of work.
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types of essays, content, TECHNOLOGY::Industrial engineering and economy::Industrial organisation, administration and economics, expression, mechanical accuracy, outlining
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7. Olatunji, S. O. (2018). Developing Writing Skills for School Examination and Successful Work and Social Life. Language and Literature for Communication in Human Societies, 325-342.