This document summarizes techniques for improving writing skills. It recommends reading widely from newspapers, stories and articles to study different writing styles. Writers should observe principles of good writing and try using various techniques in their own writing repeatedly. Imitating sentences and passages from good writers can also help improve one's style. The document provides examples of well-written sentences that demonstrate different structures for analysis.

1. Writing Skills
A session Conducted
By
Dr. Nicholas Correa
Director, New Horizon Schools

3. Techniques to Improve Writing Skill
• Read news papers, stories, articles or
any other creative writing.
• Study writing principles and
techniques.
• Watch for their appearance in the
writing of others.
• Try them out in your own writing—
over and over and over again.
• Imitate sentences and passages of
good writing.

4. Read this article carefully.
Breast cancer strikes more than 212,000 American women
each year and kills more than 40,000, making it the most
common cancer and second leading cause of cancer death in
women, after lung cancer.
MRI tends to produce false positives at about twice the rate of
mammography, forcing more women to undergo repeated
tests and sometimes biopsies and subjecting them to
anxiety, distress and discomfort. But the panel concluded that
the benefits outweigh the downside for those at high risk.
The champion smiled, recalling the roar of the crowd.
His mother waited, tapping her foot on the hardwood floor.
Dicey looked out over the tall marsh grasses, blowing in the
wind.
The children stared down at the honeybees, careening from
flower to flower.

5. Novartis said it will stop phase II development of
NKS104, a treatment for elevated total
cholesterol, after data showed the drug wasn't
competitive enough to invest further resources.

6. Read the above article three to four times.
Observe the structure of
sentences, selection of vocabularies, etc.
Observe the beginning, middle and the end.
Now once again read the article, keeping in
mind the structure of sentences and
vocabulary.
In the same fashion, now write an article
about lung cancer