Name: 私のTOP5ライティング・ヒント（全レベル向け (My TOP 5 Writing Tips (for all levels))
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My name is Emma, and in today's video I am
going to teach you some great writing tips.

These tips are for both academic
writing and non-academic writing.

Now, this video is going to be in two parts,
because I have so many tips, so I'm going

to give five tips in this video
and five tips in the next video.

Or so many different types of writing we do in
our lives; we write emails, we write essays

if we're a student, we might write a Facebook post,
or we might write a resume or a cover letter.

So it's very important to develop your writing
skills because you will be writing throughout

My first tip is: It's very important to think
about the genre of what you're writing.

"Genre" is a very fancy word
that pretty much means type.

So, a genre of writing might be an essay,
or it might be a cover letter, or an email,

These are all different genres, and each one
of these has a different expectation on what

you should include and
how you should write it.

So it's very important, first step is: Know
the genre or know the type, and know what

Also important in this is knowing your
audience, or thinking about your audience.

So, for example, if you write an email, the
language you're going to use and the way you're

going to write will be different if you write
an email to your friend versus an email to

So it's important to think about: "Who are
you writing to?" because this is going to

help you decide what to
write and how to write it.

Same with, you know, if you are on Twitter and
you write a tweet, or on Facebook a Facebook

post, you know, it's important
to think about your audience.

You know, are you writing this post for friends
to see, or is this a post your boss might

So it's important to think about, especially
with this and on other social media, too:

Who will see this and what will they think
about it, and what are their expectations?

You know, some people work for companies where
they're responsible for social media, so it's

important, too, the type of wording they
use when they're writing on Facebook.

If you work at a company and you're writing
for your company, it's going to be different

An essay has a certain structure, you know,
it's supposed to be a certain amount of pages,

it has a certain organization to it, and so
knowing what's expected of you when you write

an essay will help you because it's going
to be very different than, for example, a

Understanding the format of a business report
is important if this is something you're going

to be writing, and thinking
about your audience.

Same with executive summaries, which is
a type of thing businesspeople write.

If you're not in business you might not ever
write one of these, but if you are in business

you need to realize that audience is important
because professionals are going to be reading

this, and these people are busy, so, you know,
knowing your audience and knowing what is

expected of you is the very
first step to good writing.

Okay, so we've talked about genre or the type
of writing you're doing, and part of this

is knowing the expectations for how
long what you write should be.

So you want to know a bit about length
expectations before you start writing.

This is really important, especially in university
where you often have a number of pages you're

It's important, you know, in the workplace because
sometimes, you know, you can't write a lot.

And it's important, you know, on Twitter because
you have a certain number of characters you

So length is very important because that's
going to help you decide what to include in

When I was younger I used to think long, meaning
a lot of writing, was always better, but this

You know, the more you write, maybe you can
include more detail, but a lot of the times

the person or your audience who's reading
what you write does not have a lot of time,

and so they don't want to
read long pieces of work.

So, for example, I have here the word "short"
and "long", and so this is kind of like the

If you write a tweet it's going to be something
short; a Facebook post might be a little bit

longer; a paragraph, you might write something
like five sentences if in school you have

to write a paragraph on something; an email
might be a little bit longer than this; a

cover letter you might use a full page; a resume
maybe you might use two pages but nothing

more; and then you might write an essay which
might be 5 pages, 10 pages, depending; and

then maybe a report which might be 50 pages-who
knows?-depending on what's expected.

So my main point here is that different types
of writing have different expectations with

length, and it's really important
to follow those expectations.

For students who are writing the TOEFL or the
IELTS, you only can use a certain number

of words, so this is very important for
you to know and to really think about.

How are you going to get your message
across using the right amount of words?

This is a key word we often talk about
in good writing, and that's "concise".

So when you are concise, it means you say
something with as few words as possible, but

So you are communicating your idea, but you're
doing it in a short way, as short as you can

So, in different cultures you
have different rules about this.

In English-speaking cultures usually we really want
to get to the point, so we want something to be...

We want to communicate our idea, but we want
it to be in a concise way, so using our words

very carefully so we don't
use too many words.

So main point here: Know how long something
you're writing should be, and paying attention

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