Ace the GRE Writing Assessment: Top Strategies

The Analytical Writing Assessment in GRE is one crucial segment that determines your admission into a Grad School. We have already spoken about this segment at length in one of our blogs.

http://learnwordlist.com/blog/join-your-dream-grad-school-give-yourself-the-analytical-writing-awa-edge-in-gre/

We will now recapitulate what we learned from that blog.

Writer’s Grammar

• There comes a time in every writer’s life when grammar and mechanics become important.
• Concerns such as correct sentence structure, spelling, and mechanics reveal the seriousness with which you took your writing and the creditability with which you wrote.

Logically Organized

• You need to make sure that your paper is logically organized, correctly formatted, clearly on topic, grammatically correct, stylistically sound, and mechanically error free.

Purpose of Communication

• Essay Writing
• Taking a systematic approach to essay writing ensures that you thoroughly develop the necessary skills for a meaningful and well-balanced piece of writing. Practise the following steps outlined here. Examples are provided for better comprehension.
• Preparing:
• What is the general subject?
• What is the specific purpose of the essay?
• Formulate a preliminary thesis statement

Brainstorming

• Write down all the ideas related to your topic, including seemingly bizarre or outlandish ones.
• Allow your thoughts free range – you can include sketches, diagrams, and tables if necessary.

Organizing and Adapting

• Choose the elements relevant to the specific purpose of your essay and arrange them in thematic groups and these in turn in logical steps. Discard those ideas which do not relate to your purpose.
• Adapt the subject to your own sphere of interest and knowledge.

Gather Material

• Information on your subject.
• Quotes, examples that illustrate certain points, references.

Make a logical outline

• Plan the structure of your essay, keeping in mind the main purpose. Your outline will serve as a kind of check-list to consult while you are writing.
• Note the sub-elements under each particular section heading.
• Modify the outline so that it indicates thesis statement, topic sentences and supporting points

Check outline

• Check topic sentences against thesis statement.
• Topic Sentence is the first sentence of a paragraph.
• It is normally a compound and complex sentence.
• It contains more than two ideas.

Topic Sentence

• Topic sentence contains the central idea.
• The central idea of the topic sentence is expanded further in the paragraph.
• Choose the aspect you would like to discuss. Education -
• For example – Sentence on ‘education’
• The present day education scenario offers various branches of study leading to an age of specialization.

Content and Organization

· Paragraph One: Introduces the subject, uses a thesis sentence that mentions the subject and three points that will be developed in the body paragraphs.

· Paragraph Two: Begins with some kind of transition, states the first supporting point, discusses and explains the point with at least two developed examples.

· Paragraph Three: Begins with some kind of transition, states the second supporting point, discusses and explains the point with at least two developed examples.

· Paragraph Four: Begins with some kind of transition, states the third supporting point, discusses and explains the point with at least two developed examples.

· Paragraph Five: Begins with some kind of transition, then rounds out and concludes the essay with some summarizing statements.

Major Errors

· Check for sentence fragments.

· Check for comma splices.

· Check for fused or run-on sentences.

· Check for subject-verb disagreements.

· Check for consistency of point of view; use the same point of view throughout the essay.

That is all about effective writing. Read this blog more than once to thoroughly comprehend all the aspects.

I am now sure that you will do very well in the Analytical Writing Segment. For further queries on the topic kindly communicate with us. You can make all your comments here itself or post some valuable information pertaining to the topic in the forum. I am eagerly awaiting your responses.

Wishing you Success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

 

7 Responses to “Ace the GRE Writing Assessment: Top Strategies”

1. kakon on March 29th, 2010 5:52 am

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2. AnuVeluri on March 29th, 2010 6:04 am

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4. biruk on April 25th, 2010 10:45 am

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5. Alagiavanan on July 21st, 2010 1:49 am

   Mam,
   Should we use all or most of the words learnt in the word list in AWA section? In brief should AWA section contain more of GRE words??

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