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The principle is DRY.

I don't mean it literally. we call it so. It stands for Don't Repeat Yourself.

The DRY principle is stated as "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system" [1]

It basically teaches developers to reduce repetition of some basic patterns and to replace those with abstractions to avoid redundancy.

And of course I managed to apply it to writing because... why not? What I see in many people's essays is repetition of ideas without really explaining them.

So they'll basically write "there are several negative impacts that smarter computers may have on humans" as a topic sentence and proceed to paraphrase it a hundred times for an explanation.

You should NOT be doing this. As soon as you finish a sentence, read your entire paragraph and ensure everything is reasonable. Statements and explanations are two different things and they're not interchangeable in any circumstances.

[1] - wikipedia

#writing

From tomorrow I'll be posting #dailyvideo s by very well-known internet figures. You'll like it, trust me.

When you've finished your essay and find out you've written only 248 words:

https://youtu.be/wbVIBmoUdUs

Here's the first #dailyvideo . It appears very interesting to me, so you gotta check it out. The guy is 100% British so you might want to use subtitles, they're written down by the author and not auto-generated.

Guess I'm the only one without a MacBook.

#brokevibes

By the way, this is the task 1 table I got a flipped 9.0 for.

https://youtu.be/pTn6Ewhb27k

The next #dailyvideo . It's by Derek Muller, and it is indeed the most controversial one out of all his videos.

📝I'm considering starting a series called "2 a.m. essays." You'll provide me with task 2 questions, and I'll write and publish essays on them at night.

🌃Why the night, you might ask? It's simply because that's when I used to write essays during my own test preparations. I want to create the same atmosphere for you.

💭I will also share my thought process and the planning I undertake before writing. However, because of the considerable time commitment required, I can only produce 2-3 samples every week.

If this idea interests you, please let me know. All you need to do is submit task 2 questions and spread the word about the channel.

#series #2amessays

https://youtu.be/fRed0Xmc2Wg

Here's the 3rd and the most "learning related" #dailyvideo of all. Before watching I strongly recommend installing the game "Wordle" and playing it for some time to get familiar with the theory.

Okay, you can start sending task 2 questions in the comments section of THIS post. I'll write an essay and send it till tomorrow.

Have a quick look at this, you don't have to understand it, just give it a read-through.

I studied English for a year, then took a break for two years to focus on IT. During that time, I read a lot of technical material and watched a ton of English videos, which helped me get comfortable with the language. Because of that, I was able to get a Listening score of 9.0 within just 3-4 days and a Reading score of 8.5 after about 2 weeks of preparation.

I only practiced academic writing skills as my previous writing experience had been limited to technical writing, and of course, I practiced my speaking skills as well.

https://youtu.be/rWVAzS5duAs

Sheesh, I forgot about the #dailyvideo . Here's the one, there's so much to learn here 😄)

So I picked this one, not because I like it - quite the opposite. I hate history and all those abstract things. This question type is also a bit harder so it's gonna be sort of a challenge for me.

Here you go.

It was pretty hard to come up with ideas coz as I said - I hate history of anything and obviously I hate writing about it.

Below is the planning I've done before starting writing, it took me 6 minutes and the whole essay took about 35 minutes to write.

#2amessays

Intro
- paraphrase
- state reasons: curiosity, heritage
- and ways of research: online, archives

Body 1:
- topic sentence: many reasons such curiosity.
- explain 1: curiosity
- explain 2: heritage
- example: a person owning a house with cultural significance

Body 2:
- topic sentence: internet and archives are great
- explain 1: helpful websites, ancestry.com, househistories.org
- explain 2: local archives, property registers give valuable information
- example: all countries keep records of renovations/reconstructions

Conclusion:
- summarise main points
- "tarixni bilajak lozim"