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8 tips to improve your writing skills

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: FuturaStd-Medium; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27.360000610351563px;"><b>Strong writing skills in English come from practice and determination. No one is born an excellent writer. Learning to be an excellent writer in English takes a lot of time and practice. Anyone can be a good writer if they are determined enough. </b></span></div>
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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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8 tips to improve your writing skills

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Knowing Your ‘Why’ for Learning English

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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: FuturaStd-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 27.360000610351563px;">Do you feel like you aren't making any progress in English?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: FuturaStd-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 27.360000610351563px;">Do you feel like you are studying a lot of English but you’re not improving?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: FuturaStd-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 27.360000610351563px;">Do you feel like you will never be fluent in English?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: FuturaStd-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 27.360000610351563px;">Do you feel pressured to learn more English but don’t know where to start?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: FuturaStd-Medium; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 27.360000610351563px;">Do you feel like you know every grammar rule but when you actually have to speak English you have nothing to say?</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">If you answered <b>‘yes’</b> to any of the following questions…. <b>KEEP READING</b>!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Maybe you are struggling with learning English because you do not have a set purpose. Maybe you do not know ‘WHY’ you are studying English. <b>You need to know WHY you are learning English before you answer ‘HOW’ you will learn it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">You need to know specifically ‘WHY’ you are learning English or you will never be successful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But how can you do this? Well, you need to ask yourself the following question.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Question: </span>Why I am learning English?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Some Possible Answers:</span><br />I need to learn English to go on a trip.<br />I need to learn English for work.<br />I need to learn English to get a better paying job.<br />I need to learn English for my business.<br />I need to learn English to pass the IELTS with a high score.<br />I need to learn English to take the TOEFL, so that I can get into a university in the United States.<br />I need to learn English to pass High School or University courses.<br />I need to learn English to better understand tourists or foreigners that I meet or work with.<br />I need to learn English because I immigrated to an English speaking country.<br />I need to learn English to speak to my friends, family or boyfriend.<br />I need to learn English so I can discuss research in my industry.<br />I need to learn English so I can understand the movies and TV that I watch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Your Turn:</span><b> </b>I need to learn English ______________________.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>After you have pinpointed your ‘WHY’; it will be easier to figure out ‘HOW’ to do it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Examples:</span><br /><b>My ‘Why’:</b> Learn English to speak to my cousins in the United States<br /><b>How:</b> Speaking and conversing about non-formal topics. Practice talking about favorite’s things, current events, music, etc.<br /><b>Don’t:</b> Study grammar rules.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>My ‘Why’</b>: Learning English to participate in an Economics Conference for my job.<br /><b>How:</b> Learn industry specific vocabulary that I will need. Read journals and research about topics in my industry. Watch speeches on <a href="http://tedxtalks.ted.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="TedEx Talks">TedEx</a> about Economics or Business.<br /><b>Don’t:</b> Memorize lists of random vocabulary or practice talking about things that will not help you talk about industry specific topics in English.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>My ‘Why’</b>: I need to learn English, because I am going on a trip to Florida to visit Disney Land with my friends.<br /><b>How:</b> Study travel specific vocabulary. Practice talking about the airport, hotels, or even Disney specific vocabulary. Practice asking and answering questions. Watch Disney movies in English.<br /><b>Don’t: </b>Go to an English class, once a week and learn information in English that will not help me on my trip.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">What’s your <b>‘WHY</b>’ and <b>‘HOW’</b>? Are you learning English the right way for your <b>‘WHY’</b>?</span></div>
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Knowing Your ‘Why’ for Learning English

Do you feel like you aren't making any progress in English? Do you feel like you are studying a lot of English but you’re not...