在写作中，写作机制是控制写作技术方面的惯例，包括拼写、标点符号、大写和缩写。把你的主要观点放在一起可能是一个挑战，一个解决办法是在写作之前把主要观点的草稿放在一起。一些写作教科书也在力学的大标题下包含了与使用和组织有关的问题。以下是学生和作家写作技巧的基础知识。

写作技巧

"Teachers using a traditional, product-oriented approach tend to focus on the formal mechanical and technical aspects of writing while paying little attention to the individual writer's communicative purposes. Thus with this approach there is a danger that, for many children, writing will become an exercise in formal mechanics divorced from personal content and intentions." Joan Brooks McLane and Gillian Dowley McNamee, Early Literacy. Harvard University Press, 1990

拼写

在书面语言中，拼写是构成单词的字母的正确排列。为了提高拼写技能，你可以使用一种叫做助记符的记忆设备。这个令人难忘的短语、首字母缩略词或模式可以方便地用于记忆单词的拼写。你还可以提高你的阅读技巧，列出你经常拼错的常用词，或者在字典中标出那些似乎会反复给你带来麻烦的词。

标点符号

标点符号是用来规范文本并阐明其含义的一组标记，主要通过分隔或连接单词、短语和从句来实现。

"[R]evision involves critical thinking about content, with secondary consideration to mechanics and neatness. This does not mean that technical aspects of writing can be ignored but that introductions to a revision that seems to privilege rote application of rules and neatness over critical interaction with text (however brief it may be for beginners) conveys entirely the wrong message to young authors. As children learn the cognitive processes involved in revision, they acquire the inclination to monitor and revise their work in all areas." Terry Salinger, "Critical Thinking and Young Literacy Learners."Teaching Thinking: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Cathy Collins and John N. Mangieri. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992)

资本化

大写是书写或印刷时使用大写字母的做法。专有名词、标题中的关键词和句子的开头通常大写。在任何情况下，您还需要大写字母“I”。

"Capitalization and punctuation are the mechanics of writing. They are not simply rules that we must memorize and follow; they are specific signals to the reader. These mechanics are used to determine the meaning and to clarify intent. It is possible to change the connotation of a sentence by altering punctuation and/or capitalization." ​ Maureen Lindner, English Language and Composition. Career Press, 2005

缩写

缩写是一个单词或短语的缩写形式，例如“哥伦比亚特区”代表“哥伦比亚特区”

"Mechanics, in theory, includes matters such as usage and spelling, as well as hyphenation and the use of italics. Essentially, mechanics refers to a set of conventions—how to abbreviate and when to capitalize, for example." Robert DiYanni and Pat C. Hoy II, The Scribner Handbook for Writers, 3rd ed. Allyn and Bacon, 2001