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The craft of writing.

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:32:17 +0100

As a writer, i just want to point-out some basics for future in-tenders, i mean those who would like to do the same (that is writing). Writing any thing has not been easy any where in the word as a whole, but with the guides am about to give writing will go a long way eased. This article, by name, THE CRAFT OF WRITING, will reveal the principles and also expose the basics of writing good and credible article for reading.
As a reader, how do you picture really experienced writers setting about the job of writing? Do you imaging them setting down with a blank sheet of paper, or a blank word-processor screen and just spilling out words? Do you picture them being visited by inspiration and immediately starting to pour out beautiful and compelling sentences, which are readily to be sent off for publication? It is almost never like that-certainly not with the kind of expository writing you did as a student, where you where trying to develop a carefully constructed argument. Putting well-informed sentence on to paper ready for sending to your tutor is only the last of a series of stage of the process of putting together an essay. Before that a great deal of thinking and preparatory work has to be undertaken.
It is helpful to think of writing as a craft. Picture, for example, the furniture makers setting out to make a table. First he or she has to conceive of a design for the table, then choose the wood, prepare it, measure it, mark it, cut it, shape it, make the joints, and finally put it together. And even then it still has to be smoothed, waxed and polished. Writing essay may not be quite as elaborate a process (or you may not have time to let it be, but it does have some of that quality-requiring you to work methodically through a whole series of closely linked activities. If you simply sit down when you have finished reading this article and try a whole essay in a single sweep, you will get nowhere. The job is too big. You have to break it down into stages. Then you can take it stage by stage and work you way to a finished product.
Of course, you can't expect to master every aspect of writing straight away. At first you just have to get on and do some without worrying too much. However, you will find it very useful to be able to think about the separate stages whenever your writing is not going as well as you would like. The main stages of essay writing are:
1. thinking about the essay title
2. gathering together material for the essay
3. getting some ideal on to paper
4. organizing the material
5. writing a first draft
6. reviewing your work in the light of the essay title
7. writing a final draft.
Writing can be 'expository' which explains, describes objectively, analyses and argues-in contrast with 'expressive' writing (e.g. poetry) which attempts to express feelings and emotions, and 'narrative' writing which tells stories. Another term used is 'discursive' writing. This means much the same thing as expository writing.

WHAT IS THE BEST INVESTMENT?

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:21:45 +0100

Investing and investment are the words used to show where and how one had managed his earned money. As i would like to point-out, money is earned and not created. Looking into the word investment, as many, may think that they know much about investment and it's related matters. And if they are being interviewed, they will be talking things like investing in real estate, investing in the industrial sector, and investing in the liquid market, etc. Yes, as good as it sounds, but the good reason am writing this article is to let everybody know the best way and place to invest.
In the same vein, i would like to define the word investment to enable me bring out the real meaning in it. Investment means the art of acquiring something with your money, that is, the process of using some part of your money to set-up something like a market or a trade. And before you such, you believed that the market or trade will bring more profit to you, because the main purpose of investment is to maximize your money. The later is what people think all the time, except me, because i have a different understanding of the word investment.
Having known what an investment is all about, now the question comes, where is the best place to invest? From this article angle, the best place to invest is in YOURSELF.Yes, i mean investing in yourself, i did not say in him but in you. People may say am crazy, but i know too well that am not.
However, anybody would want to invest in real estate, am not against that, you may want to invest in Forex, also am not against it, too. But lets take a look at these examples, that you invested in buying cars, i mean because of the too much money you have, you decide to buy cars and save you money there, and one day an accident happened and the cars got burnt, your money is gone without yielding any profit. You should know. Or you invested in land acquisition in Kenya and suddenly there was an earth-quark there, which affected your portion of your land, also your money is gone.
But, if you invest in yourself, you have nothing to loose. Everybody takes care of himself not to have ill-health, and when you do that, you are taking care of your investment. If you nurture yourself everyday, you are nurturing your investment. No one would like to die just for no reason, and we do things to protect our-self, and as you do that, you are protecting your investment.
Now, this is how you can invest in yourself. You should know the area you are much interested in, this life gives us different areas of interest. I mean the things you do best, the things that makes you unique, the things that only you knows how to do best. Look out for it, when you found it, develop it, spend your money to improve on it. May be you just need a professional knowledge, go ahead and have it. Even when the knowledge needs you attending university, save the money and have it. Because you will be investing in yourself by the end of the day. If it is a trade, go, find where to learn it and learn it well.
All that done, now wait for the money back, one day your service will be needed and if you render it, you will be paid anything you charged will be given to you, that's it.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEALTH, RICHES, AND MONEY.

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:23:00 +0100

Yes, i was thinking if actually people know the difference in the words they alter always. I mean Words like am wealthy, am rich and i have money, and do they know which among them is the best to wish for. Well, illuminating our minds on these words will reveal the best in them. Looking at these words from the grammatical aspect of it as a definition, but i would like to define them in the general way as it will have a meaning to the content of this write-up. Which goes this way-MONEY is defined as what you earn by working or selling things, and you will use it to buy things. Lets take a look at the other, RICHES is defined as a large amount of money which may include valuable and beautiful possessions. Then WEALTH-a large amount of money, property, etc. that a person owns. From all the above definitions of these words money is mentioned and that's what makes it the center of all i mean the center of attraction. No wonder the holy book mentioned money also that it answers all things and in the other way says since it is the central part it will be the root of all evil.
But, for the purpose of this article, i would like to define these words the way it should be. Being rich is that you have a lot of money that you can spent, and you keep working to have the money. Because, if you do not work your money will reduce and you lack it and as such bringing you back to poor, and that is what i called working for money. But being wealthy is that you have money, and you have investments that will bring the money to you and as such you will workless, have time enjoy the money, have all the time to do what you want to do-that is what is called money working for you so you are different from a rich person in many ways.
In recent time, people love to be rich when compared to being wealthy, they will work day and nigt to make these notes, and they do not have time to enjoy it. From year to years one keep working just to make money, and one thing that surprises me is that even when they have got the money, they won't know how to use it. Although, the later has come to money management and i would not go into it now, i just want to pass information across about these words wealth, riches and money.
This is just the beginning of the year, and this article came at the right time. We all should try to create wealth through the money we earn, wealth is created and not earned unlike money, but i cannot deny the fact that money leads the way when we are about to create wealth, and we should just know it as a concert but have the goal of creating wealth and not just make or earn money.