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How to write for a particular purpose

Introduction In presenting a work that is well written, you strive to communicate your point of view and, or other information effectively. Your readers and audience are made to be in no doubt as to your style, purpose or direction. Being logical and following a clear-cut structure and convention are fundamental to all writings: Meanings must be clarified by language and grammars expressed in simple terms, word usage must not be confusing and so should punctuation rules be properly and consistently followed. In addition to being constant in following a focal path with a governing theme that explains or advocate particular concern, create tension, if need be, to suck in your reader. Be yourself and give your readers room to play their role. The appropriateness of any writing depends on its objectives and among whom the writ up are to be primarily circulated. And, even though every writing address different needs and differ in volume, length, structure, focus, and style, they al...

WRITING TIPS AND THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY-PAPER DELIVERED AT A RETREAT.

I’ll like to begin with this quote by Reihard Bonnke, ‘More than thirty years ago, as a young missionary in Africa, I sometimes preached to five people. My opportunity to see the impact of the glorious Gospel presented in the ‘’proven’’ tradition of foreign mission had come!’ He was talking of mission in a continent of over a billion souls with about half yet to receive salvation and freedom in fulfillment of the biblical word in Mark 16:15. Putting this in the context of the Nigerian situation, by situation here, I mean, location, particularly in the North-region where antagonism dog all evangelists; where going to church is like walking among mines; where hope is all that is left by all Christians, felt forsaken by the authority, and can only hold on, in wait for when God, as surely, he would arose in battle and root all oppositions. Yet again, quoting from Bonnke’s book, ‘Evangelism by Fire,’ ‘Gospel is not good news to people who don’t hear it-that an unreached gospel is ...