To Write Effectively: A View A good writer uses concrete and definite words frequently, and avoids vague or abstract

words. Concrete language gives the reader a specific picture rather than a general statement. It builds images that the reader can readily grasp. The idea can be explicitly explaining using the Indian literatures. For example, I consider R.K. Narayanans Swami and Friends and M.K.Gandhis The story of my experiments with truth. General: There is a rascal in this town who has robbed me. (Narayanan R.K.: 73) Specific: The swarming flies and the noise made by the shopkeepers and pilgrims were perfectly insufferable. (Gandhi M.K.: 222) To write an Effective sentences To write effective sentences, you must learn not only to avoid certain errors but also how to employ the tools of good writing. Often the tool to be used is simply on the other side of the coin from the error to be avoided. For example, to correct a wordily sentence, you take all unnecessary words out of the sentence; however, you should try to avoid wordiness by writing concisely, by writing no unnecessary words in the first place. Below you will find some constructive suggestions on how to write effective sentence. Note the word effective. It carries the implication that, in writing, we wish to do something our readers, to have an effect on them. If we fail to determine what this effect is to be, our sentence that we want to say- we will have found one path way towards effective writing. Below we have a fine example for concise sentence: The criminal negligence of the Municipality and the ignorance of the Indian settlers thus conspired to render the location thoroughly insanitary.(Gandhi M.K.: 265) Fine writing is a ruse to cover up absence of knowledge. It is the use of big, pretentious words for simple, direct words. It is word exhibitionism at its worst. Students often resort to fine writing to impress to make the reader think that they know what they are talking about. Fine Writing is a puerile, sophomoric device and it impresses nobody. Of course writer s often inject pretentious words into the speech of teenage delinquents race tract touts and hoodlums of diverse sorts. This they do for comic irony and results can be hilarious. But it is pathetic to hear

the same words uttered by high school and college students. There is nothing wrong with big words but they should normally be used only to express meanings and shades of meaning for which simpler words do not exist. The fourth friend was Samuel known as the Pea on account of his size. There was nothing outstanding about him. He was just ordinary, no outstanding virtue of muscle or intellect. He was as bad in Arthimetic as Swaminathan was. (Narayanan R.K.: 9) The weakest words in English language are the intensives- very, little, rather, and pretty. An intensive is a word that supposedly makes another word more forceful and emphatic. But the use of an adjective to intensify another adjective often has the opposite effect. This is especially true of adjectives that have been used so often with so little regard for these true meanings that they have lost all the force than once had. Take the words awful dreadful, fearful, and horrible. These are potent words when used to mean to inspire awe awful to inspire dread , to instill fear and to exit horror. However, when these words are loosely used as intensives they languish into impotence they are especially absurd when they intensify worse that contradict their own meanings. Expressions such as awfully nice and horribly sorry are not only feeble and placid but absurdly contradictory. They following are a list of words that should not be used as intensives. Unless you know the true meanings of these words do not use then at all: Amazing Awful Colossal devastating dreadful enormous fabulous Fearful frightful gorgeous grand horrible huge little magnificent marvelous pretty rather splendid stunning stupendous superb terrible terrific tremendous every wonderful

The few minutes we take will pay off in time saved and greater writing efficiency.

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M.K.Gandhi. (1927). An Autobiography or The story of my experiments with truth. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House. R.K.Narayan. (1935). Swami & Friends. New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, India: Indian Thought Publication. Trident. (2002). The New International Webster Poctet Dictionary of the English language. New York: Trident Press International.