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An effective piece of writing is not just restricted to accurate grammar and spelling. This web-chart suggests the most important characteristics of effective writing..

This is also called mapping. Place your general subject in a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and begin to draw other lines and circles that radiate from it. Fill in words associated with the subject. Cluster those ideas that seem to fall together. At the end of five minutes see if ..

Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13 th in 1879 in Hyderabad. She was a political activist and played an active role in the freedom struggle of India. She was the first Indian woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress. In 1947, she became the governor of the United Provin..

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), Nobel Literature for literature (1913), was one of modern India's greatest poets and the composer of independent India's National Anthem. Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali, but translated many of his works into English himself. Tagore's writing is hi..

You are Inspector Uday Singh. You are on a trail of a notorious criminal. To aid you in catching him you put out a 'Wanted' poster all over the state. The picture of the criminal has been provided to you. Now complete the poster with a suitable description in about 50 words. ..

Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, in 1934, and grew up in Jam Nagar (Gujarat), Dehradun and Shimla. For over forty five years, Bond has been writing stories, novels, essays, poems and children's books. Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English Writing..

Shall is a form of will , used mostly in the first person. Its use, however, is decreasing, and in any case in spoken English it would be contracted to "-ll" and be indistinguishable from will. The only time you do need to use it is in questions, wh..

An article is an essay that attempts to convince the reader about a point of view. It uses formal English languag..

You are on your way to Japan for a ten-day trip after the Board Exams. Before boarding the flight you realise you have not posted a letter containing applications for admissions to Prasiddhi College. The letter is lying on top of the T.V. Write a postcard to your mother asking her to post the lett..

Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. He left India to study at Oxford where he earned degrees in philosophy, economics, and politics, and went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry in China at Nanjing University. His first novel, The Golden Gate, is written ..