Developing Writing Skills

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This paper presents skills that all writers can develop to make writing easier. The author suggests that to overcome writer's block use these techniques: Free writing, taking a break from writing and using outside sources for information. The author proposes that difficulties with organizing and structuring material can be solved by creating an outline, brainstorming and using a specific format. The paper recommends that to polish a paper write a draft and then edit, re-edit and re-edit. An outline is included.

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"Writing has often been said to be some of the hardest work in the world that does not directly involve heavy lifting. While the tone of this comment is clearly humorous, it certainly helps to underscore the serious difficulty that writing poses to a wide variety of individuals. Writing can be a truly time-consuming, laborious and unpleasant experience for many people. As such, a large number of intelligent, accomplished and highly competent individuals have serious difficulties with producing a final draft, organization and writer's block. Writing does not come naturally to a great number of people, and they face an uphill challenge when trying to produce written materials."

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