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Technical Writing - English test Insights
There is more than a 90% chance that articles companies will request you to write for them will be in English. It comes as no surprise then that the technical writing test I did some weeks back included a test for my knowledge of some parts of the English language.
The English test was made up of two parts:
Writing
Listening
The Writing part covered about 75% of the English test. It mainly involved fill-in questions and objectives. This part tested my knowledge of tenses, grammar, and spelling mainly.
The listening part took the remaining 25% of the test involved playing and listening to prepared audio such as a story narration and such.
With the audio, there would be somewhere where they say two words closely that have similar or almost indistinguishable pronunciations. For example, they would say Nineteen fifteen (1915) or Nineteen fifty (1950), and then they would request you to choose, among the choices given, which word or year the narrator said.
The listening part of the test tested my listening skills and how comprehensively I understand things after listening to them.
Here are the main takings from the English test:
As English is an internationally widely used language, do your best to learn how to write, speak, listen, and understand as much as you can. It is more probable that an article you will have to write is in English.
English articles have a very large audience as compared to other languages and so most companies will want the articles you write for them to be in English or if the article is in a different language, a translated version of it in English will be made available.
As you listen to people, music, or anything you usually listen to, try as much as you can to understand the meaning of it and connect the dots, one by one if possible. This will help you to get a comprehensive understanding of what you are listening to.
Tailwind - Resources for free-to-use components, helpful plugins, and more
I have collected for you 3 GitHub repositories where you can find components to learn and practice Tailwind CSS, plugins that will be quite helpful when using Tailwind in your projects, and other resources.
Check them out below:
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~ Mbaziira