The Power of Literature

According to education historian Diane Ravitch and education policy analyst Chester Finn Jr.:

"The best of literature has the power to touch lives of whoever reads it, to make them understand themselves better of what they have read, to make them sensitive to the joys and sufferings of others, to awaken them to knowledge and emotions that are both particular and universal."

May all who reads this love and appreciate any form of literature.

In Writing Sentences

Here's a thought of the moment guide in writing sentences. These are questions you can ask while trying to write a "tight" piece. Here are the questions:

1. VOCABULARY - Are you using appropriate and meaningful words?
2. PART OF SPEECH - Are you using words that are fitted according to its function?
3. PUNCTUATION - Are you using the correct punctuation marks?
4. SENTENCE KIND - What kind of sentence is it?
5. PATTERN- Does it have agreement among its subject, verb and object? What about the peripherals (adjectives, adverbs, and verbals)?
6. THOUGHT - Does it have a logical sense?

On Being a Good Communicator...

As I was teaching my English Sophomore class a thought came to my mind with regards to three things that will form you to be a good communicator, they are:

• Healthy self-confidence
• Good command of the grammatical rules
• Wide readership