Have you ever thought why do we consider writing as one of the most important skills in today’s time? It is in demand as most of the people are searching for candidates and eligible employees that can provide fluent English writing. The demand has increased due to the increase in the incoming of overseas projects.
There are innumerable ways to improve your writing skills but this time we are back with some amazing techniques that will help you to fix mistakes in your writing. You will be able to learn the basics of self-editing, which would include editing of the content and different mechanics for grammar and misspellings.
The first and foremost question that we need to deal with is how will we fix the mistakes in the writing.
Suppose you are getting ready for an interview, what are the things that you will make sure before reaching the place? You will check that your hair is nice and neat, you have taken a proper shower, neat clothing – in short, you make sure that you are presentable in front of others.
Something similar we need to do while we are writing our content. Being a good writer you will always proofread your content and then edit it to make it look better. Moreover, your major concern would be that it should be readable to your audience.
In this blog, we will be dealing with all the things that are will include editing the content and fixing the common mistakes that a writer might do and it skips from the mind.
1. Edit Your Written Content
Editing of the written content is the first and foremost step. It will ensure that you have followed all the writing guidelines along with the proper direction. Editing of the content means you will have a deal with 3 specific tasks:
- You must ensure what you write is providing answers to all the questions that are asked to you through your writings. It does not matter how well or flowery content you have provided. The important thing is if the things do not fit into the parameters of the assignment then it is no good. You must ensure that all the questions asked to you are well answered.
- Being a good writer, it becomes your duty to provide main points that would align with the thesis of the content. Every point that you put forward via your content must have some concrete proof.
- Always ensure there is proper flow of your writing. This is the most essential point when you revise or edit your content. While writing your first draft you will just keep on working with the flow of the writing. But when you actually edit it, you will get to know where you are going wrong.
It is a universal mechanic of writing that before moving to the main point there has to be an introductory paragraph, the main points and body and at the last conclusion. Your written piece should be in the flow in order to make sure that your readers are comfortable while reading your content.This point will be most applicable when you are drafting academic writing.
We bring you some of the common points or writing errors, that will help you in knowing about those errors and then fixing it.
2. Find the Repetitive Words:
There are some words that we tend to overuse. Every writer has this habit. The words might differ from person to person, for instance, some people might use ‘really’ word more often and some might use ‘like’ more often. This is something that happens without a person knowing about it. So while you are editing your content you need to take care of the things and avoid or edit those parts.
3. Cut Out Unnecessary Words:
You must hunt down your content and find those filler words which are not necessary to use. These are words, even if you remove them it will make no difference to your content. This is an indicator that you must let that content go.
4. Dealing With Extra Prepositions:
Sometimes you might feel that your sentences are choppy, the count of the prepositions in your sentences and content has increased then you must make sure to cut it down to half.
We all are aware of the fact that prepositions are a weak part of the speech and must be cluttered up. If you don’t do it, it will dull out the creativity of your writings.
Conclusion:
In the concluding part of the blog post, we would like to say that you have been doing a great job as a writer. But at times you need to check out where you go wrong. So this blog will help you out in fixing those mistakes.