E.L ACADEMY: 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

Strong writing skills in English come from practice and determination. No one is born an excellent writer. Learning to be an excellent ...