INTRODUCTIONS

First impressions matter, whether you are meeting someone new or opening an essay. Your introduction must:

• ·         Capture your reader’s attention.
• ·         State your purpose for writing, that is, your focus statement.

To capture your readers’ attention you can begin with:

• ·       Anecdote: anecdotes are great openings for writing biographies, informative essays, personal narratives, speeches and term papers.
• ·         Humour: this works best in “lighter” writings.
• ·         Quotations
• ·         Question: you can start an essay by turning your assignment into a question. For example, Students, they insist, should be able to speak, read, and write a second language. State your opinion for or against this proposal. You can begin this essay with the question, “Should students be required to learn to speak, read, and write a second language?”
• ·         A surprising statistic.
• ·         Descriptions (describe the environment, person)

Source: Laurie  Rozakis, PHD  

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LET’S WRITE: EFFECTIVE WRITING

Effective writing... is a piece of written communication that conveys its message in the simplest, clearest, and most concise and most readable way possible. 

It is also a piece of writing in which the manner of expression dovetails perfectly with the subject matter; one in which...there is close fit between what and how.

Simplicity, clarity, readability and conciseness are thus the hallmarks of effective writing.

-Festus Adesanoye. 

To write effectively always remember that your writing should be divided into three parts:

You should always Start, Explain and End

You start with an introduction: This is the beginning! If you want to capture your readers’ attention, start well!

Explain in the middle: The body of your work should provide your main points and details.

End with a conclusion: Bring your writing to a thoughtful close.

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GOOD BUSINESS PROPOSALS SHOULD

- Identify with the problems of the client

- Contain convincing information

- Contain good details and credible explanations

- Be thorough and clear

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NATURE OF BUSINESS PROPOSALS

Generally, proposals provide answers to three basic questions:

- What is there is to be gained from the product, service or project?

- Why is it worth acquiring?

- How can the validity of the results be assured?

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LISTENING FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

The International Listening Association, cited by Hybels and Weaver (2001:64), defines listening as “the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or non-verbal messages”. Listening goes beyond being an important communication skill, it is a way of life. Most of our conscious and unconscious communication efforts are geared toward listening. A research reveals that listening takes 53% of our communication activities, reading 17%, while speaking and writing constitute 16% and 14% respectively (Hybels and Weaver, 2001:70).

However, this statistics notwithstanding, it is rather pathetic that most people have a poor listening habit. They listen without really listening. Lamenting on this anomaly, Benson (1977:155) says:

"The art of listening is an essential but oft overlooked element of good communication. Genuine listening has become one of the endangered species. God gave each of us two ears and one mouth – perhaps he intended that we use them proportionally."

The tendency common to most people is to ‘egospeak’, a term which communication experts coined to describe people’s desire to listen to themselves more than anyone else:

"Egospeak is thinking of what you’re going to say next while another person is trying to talk to you. Jumping in before, or on, the other person’s last word. Constantly trying to top the other person’s story" (Benson, 1977:155).

In similar vein, Beck et al (2002:12) distinguish between hearing (which is what most people really do) and listening. They note that:

"It is useful to make a distinction between hearing and listening. Most people can hear, in that they can receive and distinguish sound within a specific frequency range. Hearing, however, is a passive activity. It is something that happens to us, rather than something that we do. On the other hand, listening is active… ‘People hear but do not listen’. In a class or lecture, it is very likely you will hear the words being spoken. You may not necessarily listen to them."

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