E.L ACADEMY: Writing

Top 5 Ways to Improve Your English Writing

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<b>1. Improve your vocabulary</b><br />
                                            In order to express yourself successfully through writing you need words - Lots of words. Learning new words is fantastic; Using them appropriately is even better.<br />
Tip: When you learn a new word, try to also find one synonym and one antonym of that word. <br />
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<b> 2. Improve your spelling</b><br />
                                      You must know how to spell those words correctly. Incorrect spelling changes the meaning of your sentence. For example: "bare" and "bear" are pronounced the same but "bare" means naked and "bear" is a large animal. Additionally, incorrect spelling makes it difficult for the reader to understand what you’ve written. <br />
Tip: Practice your spelling! <br />
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<b> 3. Improve your reading</b><br />
                                        Reading more English is always useful. It is also a way to help you get an idea of the different styles of writing and see how to use words appropriately. Always choose books or articles with topics that interest you. Learning shouldn’t be boring. <br />
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<b> 4. Improve your grammar</b><br />
                                         Grammar is very important because it improves the quality of your writing. Always use the appropriate tense and remember to use punctuation. Punctuation is a great way to make your writing clear and fluent. <br />
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<b> 5. Write</b><br />
             Writing can be daunting. However, the best way to improve is get a pen and paper or sit in front of your computer and ACTUALLY WRITE. Remember, "Practice makes perfect". <br />
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Happy Writing! <br />
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Top 5 Ways to Improve Your English Writing

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Summary Writing

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Remember to <b>summarize</b> the text you've read. Use the following tips:<br />
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<li><b>Shorten the text</b> in such a way that all facts are in the summary. Leave out examples, evaluations and interpretations.</li>
<li><b>Skim</b> the text. You should know what is the <b>main content</b> of it. Read the headline carefully. It is important.</li>
<li>Read the text again to understand more <b>details</b>. You must have understood the whole text.</li>
<li>Make <b>notes</b> (use keywords). Underline important words in the text.</li>
<li><b>Form</b> sentences with the help of your <b>keywords</b>. These sentences should reflect the main content of the text.</li>
<li><b>Connect the sentences</b> using suitable conjunctions. The first sentence should describe the main content of the text.</li>
<li>Use <b>Simple Present</b> or <b>Simple Past</b>. Write sentences in Reported speech.</li>
<li>Sometimes you have to <b>change the persons</b>.</li>
<li><b>Check</b> your summary. Watch out for spelling mistakes.</li>
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What did you do today? Or what did you do yesterday?

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<span style="background-color: white;">Take time to write out what you did. Think about every part of the day from the time you woke up until you went to sleep.</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;">Sentence starters:</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I went to…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I ate…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I called…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I talked to…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I worked…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I studied…</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; text-decoration: underline;">Example 1:</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today I woke up at 5:30am. For breakfast I ate an apple and yogurt. I woke my kids up at 6am and got them ready to leave. I brought my kids to daycare at 6:30am. I worked from 7am-3pm. After work, I picked my kids up from daycare and we went home. At home, I cooked spaghetti for dinner. After that, I cleaned the kitchen. Before going to bed, I watched TV for an hour and did some work online on my computer. I went to bed at 9pm.</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; text-decoration: underline;">Example 2:</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Today I woke up at 7am. I went to the gym and worked out for about an hour. I ate eggs and drank coffee for breakfast. I went to class at the university until 1pm. I ate a sandwich for lunch. After class, I played soccer with my friends Pablo and Sam. In the late afternoon, I studied for my final exams. In the evening, three of my friends came over to my house. We made pizza for dinner and listened to music. I went to bed at 11pm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">After reading the examples; use the sentence starters to help you write. Write at least 8 sentences.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Beginner:</span></strong><strong> Make a list of everything at the beach. </strong>Try to think of at least 20 different things.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Intermediate:</span></strong><strong> Think of 10 questions that you have about the beach. </strong>Are there sharks?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Advanced:</span></strong><strong> Visualize or pretend that you are at the beach.</strong> Free write for 5 to 10 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">What do you see? What do you feel? What do you taste? What do you hear? What do you smell? What are you doing? Are there a lot of people? Who are you with? What are you wearing? Are you happy? Why?</span></div>
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8 tips to improve your writing skills

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<span style="background-color: white;">Everyone has a <a href="http://elschool.blogspot.com/2014/04/knowing-your-why-for-learning-english.html" target="_blank">different reason why</a> they need to improve their writing. Maybe you need to improve your writing for work or for your English class at university. Or maybe you want to start a blog about learning English or you need to respond to emails in English for your business.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Below are 8 Tips to Improve Your English Writing Skills:</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>1. Keep All of your Writing in One Place</strong><br />Buy a notebook or journal or start an electronic journal. By keeping your writing all in the same place, you will be able to see how much you are improving and keep it organized.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>2. Practice Writing in English Daily</strong><br />The importance of writing daily is that you start to create a new <a href="http://elschool.blogspot.com/2014/04/talking-about-bad-habits-in-english.html" target="_blank">habit</a>. Writing every day in English will soon become natural and something you look forward to. You will not see a significant improvement if you are not dedicated to becoming a better writer in English. You cannot create awesome stories and papers if you never try.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>3. Pick a Topic and WRITE!</strong><br />Don’t get stuck on figuring out what to write about. You can write about anything. You can write about what you do, things you hear or see, news, or make up a story. If you do get stuck, use some of <i><span style="color: orange;">English Learning School's writing prompts</span></i> to help you get started.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>4. Write More than One Draft</strong><br />Draft means a preliminary version of piece of writing. Sometimes, your best writing becomes better after you take a break and work on a second or third draft. When you revise (or rewrite) your work you are often able to get your message across more clearly. You make think of things that you did not think to write in the first draft and you can add it in a later draft.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>5. Use Online Resources to Correct your Grammar</strong><br />Yes, grammar is a pain. You don’t need to know everything about English grammar. Use online resources, such as <a href="http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Grammarly">Grammarly</a>, <a href="http://www.grammarcheck.net/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Grammar Check">GrammarCheck</a> or <a href="http://www.grammarbook.com/english_rules.asp" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="GrammarBook.com">GrammarBook.com</a> to help you answer a grammar question when it comes up. You could also switch the spell and grammar check on MS Word, your iPad or Google Doc to check your spelling and grammar in English.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>6. Think Outside the Box (or Lines)</strong><br />Don’t write about the same thing every day or you will get bored. Try writing the same story from different perspectives or different tenses. If you are writing a story about a baby that won’t stop crying; first, it could be the mother telling the story; then from the perspective of the baby. Or you could write it in present moment…. ‘My baby hasn’t stopped crying in five days…’ and then write in the perspective of a pregnant woman that is thinking about having a baby that won’t stop crying. Don’t write about topics in the obvious way. Be creative!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>7. Have a Friend Edit Your Writing</strong><br />Have a friend that knows English correct or edit your work. Having another person read your work helps generate more ideas to better your writing. You could have them edit everything or just a part that you are stuck on. Often having another set of eyes look at your writing helps find mistakes that you have overlooked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>8. Find the Best Place for You to Write</strong><br />You should try writing in different places or at different times of the day. Maybe you have writer’s block at night; try getting up 15 minutes earlier and writing in the morning. Maybe you have trouble writing where there is a lot of noise; try writing in a quiet and comfortable place. Experiment in finding the right (or write?) environment for you to write.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">Writing is a process; the more you work on your writing the better it (and you) will get.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Thank you for reading this post on English Tonight. If you liked this article; try reading: <a href="http://elschool.blogspot.com/2014/04/6-tips-to-help-you-revise-your-writing.html" target="_blank">6 Tips to Help You Revise Your English Writing</a>. </span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">You finally finished your first draft (or rough draft) of writing. Yay! Now it’s time for the revision process to begin. Though revising, editing and proof reading your writing can be an intimidating task… you can do it.</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Below you will find some tips to help you <a href="http://english-tonight.com/8-tips-to-improve-english-writing-skills/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">make your writing even better</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>1. Keep it Simple </strong><br />Try to keep your messages simple. When learning a language, it is always your tendency to write the same way in your new language as in your native language. Unfortunately, it takes a long time to develop advanced writing skills.<br />Since English is not your native language, it is best to work with simple sentences. By keeping your writing simple you will ensure that it is written correctly and is easily understood.<br />If you try to use complex academic language or structures in your writing, you are bound to make some mistakes. That means you may have to cut down a long run-on sentence into two or three short sentence. That is perfectly fine. Try to keep it simple.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>2. Hook Readers from the First Line</strong><br />Does your first line or paragraph grab your reader’s attention? Does it make them want to keep reading? Try to make the beginning of your story or essay interesting.<br />Some possible ways to begin your writing are with: a definition, a quote, a statistic, an anecdote, or describing/setting a scene.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>3. Spice your Words Up</strong><br />Do you use vague, plain words? Or do you use descriptive words that really make your writing stand out. Don’t use words like said, good or bad. Add more descriptive words to your writing that makes it stand out.<br />Instead of said; you could use: declared, uttered, cried or replied.<br />Instead of good; you could use: enjoyable, pleasant, wonderful or lovely.<br />Instead of bad; you could use: horrible, awful, appalling or dire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>4. Move or Remove Parts that Don’t Make Sense</strong><br />If after rereading your writing something does not seem right; change it! Try moving sentences or even paragraphs around to make your writing more consistent. If you just can’t find the right place for something, remove it! If you don’t want to completely delete it, move it to another document (or page) where you can easily copy and paste it later and add it in; if you find a new place to put it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>5. Read Your Writing Out Loud and Backwards</strong><br />How many times have you thought your final draft of writing was done, only to find more errors? It happens to me all the time.<br />Start at the last line of your paper or story. Read the last sentence out loud. Are its mechanics correct? Does it have a capital and punctuation? Is everything spelled correctly? Does it make sense? Now, move on to the sentence before it.<br />By starting at the end of your paper and working up to the top you are forced to look at each sentence in isolation and make sure it is correct. This is a helpful way to check your mechanics and sentence structure and find any errors that you may have overlooked.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong>6. Ask Someone for Help</strong><br />Find someone that is willing to read your paper and give you feedback and/or look for errors. Tough it may be difficult to share, the more people that read your writing and give you ideas and feedback; the more refined your writing will become. Don’t be embarrassed to show your work to others… remember your goal is to have an awesome final draft. Getting some help along the way will make you a better writer. All published authors have editors that go through each draft and find errors, pose questions and give feedback.<br />Remember, you don’t have to take all of the advice someone gives you about your writing. You can pick and choose which of their ideas is best for your work.</span></div>
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6 Tips to Help You Revise Your Writing in English

You finally finished your first draft (or rough draft) of writing. Yay! Now it’s time for the revision process to begin. Though revising,...