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all the necessary details. You are Rishabh/Ridhima, Secretary, Arts Club, Sunrise Public School,
Gurugram, Haryana.
Q. No. 3- Write a letter to the editor of an English daily about the carelessness shown by your neighbours
regarding social distancing rules and negligence towards the guidelines given by government.
Q. No. 4- Hard work and punctuality are essential for a happy and successful life. They help in meeting
the desired targets of our life. You are Kavya/Kanha. Write an article in 150 - 200 words highlighting the
importance of hard work and punctuality in a student's life.
OR
In your locality a blood donation camp was organized by an NGO - 'For Your Health'. Many people
visited the camp and donated blood. Write a report in 150 -- 200 words for a local newspaper covering the
arrangements, doctors' team, refreshment served etc.
Q. No. 5- Answer any two of the following in 30-40 words each-
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But there is one thing I am sure of: Whether you are locked in your room with a computer or spaced apart in a school auditorium, you will be OK if you read and write. And read and write some more. And talk about your reading and writing.
We do not yet have a vaccine for the coronavirus. For now, think of these tips as your booster shot for literacy.
1. Writing is not magic. It’s a process. Learn the steps.
This advice came to me from writing coach Donald Murray, and he described the steps as he taught and practiced them: Find an idea. Collect more than you think you need. Look for a focus. Select your best material. Create a plan. Write a draft. Revise.
2. Don’t write a little about a big thing. Write something big about a little thing.
I once wrote a story about my wedding ring, a gold band given to me as a gift by my grandmother. “Sadie’s Ring.” I was Catholic, but she was Jewish. The story would grow into an 11-part series published in the Miami Herald. Through the circle of that little ring, I could see the big history of intolerance, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust.
3. Do the work. Do the reading. Gather more than you think you need.
Here is the main difference, in general, between high school journalists and the best professionals: Young journalists often use most of the material in their notebooks. Sometimes all of it. They will grow and grow in their craft until they reach a point where they are using a small percentage of what they have gathered. They will select not all their stuff, but their best stuff. That’s what makes a story great.
4. You may call it a theme or thesis. What you want to find is a focus, the most significant thing you have learned.
It does not matter what you are writing: term paper, book report, essay, poem, short story, news report. It has to be about something. The best word for that is “focus.” You need to be able to answer this question: “What is this writing you are working on about? What is it really about?” The clearer your answer, the better armed you will be to conquer any challenge you will face.
5. Before you write what you think, write down some interesting things that others think about your topic.
A good and popular book for college students is titled “They Say/I Say.” It argues that the right to have a useful opinion must be earned. Should children be required to wear medical masks on school buses? I am forming an opinion on this, but before I express it, I need to learn more from others and use that knowledge in my argument.
6. From what you have collected, select only the stuff that supports your main point.
You have selected lots of material in your notebook. You have done your reading. You’ve conducted interviews and have lots of quotes. What elements will you choose to include in your writing? If you can’t decide, you may have to go back a step and reconsider your focus. Think of your focus with two metaphors:
It is a door that lets in only the most pertinent stuff.
It is a knife that cuts out all the irrelevant stuff.
7. You don’t need an outline, but you do need a plan, five or so elements you will include in the work.
This is another trick I learned from Don Murray. A formal outline has elaborate parts that look like this: I. A. 1. 2. 3. a. b. c. II… and so forth. It is hard, if not impossible, to think of those minor elements embedded in the story in advance of drafting. But here is the trick: You can think of the Roman Numerals: I. II. III. IV. V. These are the big parts of the story. My plan is usually scribbled on a legal pad: five or seven or 10 points I know are going to be in the story somewhere. I can then play around with them to figure out the order, especially what will come first.
8. Make sure your work has a clear beginning, middle, and ending, according to the accepted style you’re working in.
Here are my favorite six words from Shakespeare: “The Queen, my lord, is dead.” Even that short sentence has a beginning, middle, and end. So does a haiku, the poetic form with three lines and 17 syllables. But so does a Shakespeare play. So does a scholarly book about Shakespeare. So does the movie “Shakespeare in Love.” Your writing may have five parts, or 17 parts, or 47 chapters. But it will help if you can see in advance which of those parts go in the beginning, the middle, or the end.
9. Write earlier than you think you can to discover what you know and what you still have to learn. Write quickly and lower your standards at the beginning.
I know many Ph.D. candidates who took years and years to get their degrees — or never got them — because they could not write a dissertation. Their excuse? “I haven’t finished my research yet.” That is the path to nowhere. Before the first draft, consider writing a “zero draft,” bursts of fast writing with lowered standards. Let your hands do the thinking. You will discover that you know more than you think. But your weak spots will be revealed, and now you can target that research.