Rules for Writing

Rules for making a piece of writing

1. Know Your Audience. Make sure you know who your writing to; whether it's a teacher, a student, a parent, or a friend. Knowing who your writing to allows you to know if you can write in a formal or informal style.

2. Use Parallelism. Your writing has to flow smoothly so if one were to read it out loud, you wouldn't stumble over words or phrases.

3. Use Obvious Topic Sentences. Using obvious topic sentences will allow the reader to know when you're switching ideas and lets the reader know what they're about to read next.

4. Have a Solid Structure in Writing. Make sure you don't switch ideas randomly throughout a piece of writing, basically have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

5. Be Clear and Simple. Don't try to make your writing too complicated by using fancy words or phrases to the point where your reader has to look up every other word or phrase, ultimately make your writing easy and understandable for anyone who reads it.

Following these five simple rules will allow anyone to write well.