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Have you ever searched over your paper/essay/article looking for mistakes, typos, and misspellings? Do you find yourself spending a lot of time referencing a dictionary? With a little work (and some time), you can improve your accuracy. There will always be that 'one that got away', but you will save a lot of time in the long run.
Steps
Buy yourself a word search magazine, do a search to find online, or maybe, borrow some word searches from friends.
Use the list that comes with each word search to know what words to look for.
Using the list is helpful, but once you have gained enough experience, you will find the list almost unnecessary. Give yourself an extra challenge by not using the list.
Look for words in the puzzles, and then start looking for words without using the list...perhaps pitting yourself against the puzzle by seeing if you can find all the words without the list.
Notice that you will start to recognize patterns, as well as, knowing what order the letters are likely to be in.
Read a lot- preferably books, but anything that is written well, at least as far as spelling, will work. Developing an instinct for what words should look like is indescribably helpful.
Play word games such as Scrabble. This will help you increase your word building skills.
Use the Internet. There are sites that will give you ideas on what to look for. A couple of sites are these two Online Writing Labs (OWLs).[1]Advertisement
Expert Q&A
Tips
- You will need, more than anything, the desire to improve these skills and an interest in word search puzzles.Thanks
- Always remember that in word search puzzles, words can read frontwards, backwards, and even diagonally.Thanks
- Most brains learn best in spurts- 15 or 30 minutes at a time are better then 2 or 3 hours at a time.Thanks
Warnings
- Doing puzzles can create the desire to do more puzzles and more types of puzzles. You are much better off finding online sources of free puzzles, because you will probably save money that way.Thanks
References
- ↑ http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/561/01/
- http://www.allstarpuzzles.com This site is free and has a VERY wide variety of puzzles to choose from, and note: this site is in part the basis of this article.
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