Awccmfan answered Monday July 5 2004, 11:19 pm: if you are getting actual 0's (as opposed to B's and C's etc), you are probably not fully answering the the questions you've been asked. In general, here are some suggestions to getting good grades on papers:
Make sure you spell check and grammar check your work. If possible, have someone else read your work - other people often catch mistakes that you don't see.
Make sure you read the entire question or writing prompt before you start writing. Often times a prompt or assignment will be made up of several parts and more than one question. If a teacher finds that you didn't answer all parts of the question, you won't get a good grade on your paper.
accolade answered Monday July 5 2004, 3:33 pm: well, it could be a lot of things. writer's block, or maybe you're just not paying enough attention to what you're writing.
go over your work really carefully, and ask someone else to go over it too... [ accolade's advice column | Ask accolade A Question ]
GC_rox_my_sox answered Monday July 5 2004, 9:13 am: Actually, a similar thing happened to me in my english class. I used to get 100's on my papers, and then I started getting 50's. I talked to my english teacher about it, and he said that I wasn't putting enough supporting details in my writing, and that my sentences didn't flow well. He also said that the quality of my writing had gone down since the beginning of the year. He let me re write my papers, and I got 80's and 90's on them. So, don't forget to add lots of detail, and have good sentence structure. A strong thesis sentence is important too. [ GC_rox_my_sox's advice column | Ask GC_rox_my_sox A Question ]
MissJ1414 answered Sunday July 4 2004, 11:52 pm: just get together a bunch of time and start writing about nothing and don't stop and all off a sudden you'd be amazed at what you've got. Don't try too hard because that kind of writing is boring and bad!
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