How to improve my writing skills?

How to improve your writing skills?

• im struggling with my writing skills in English. i want to improve it. can u guys give me any tips or websites, ideas etc to improve my writing skills? Thankyou.

• Answer:

  It depends on where your skill level is, and even if your skills are near top, what you lack in knowledge and practice. (practice does help, more so if someone can check your work.) I did not have much interest in my writing skills until very late. I could write a resume, a job app, a cover letter, a report. But when I started to write a short story, I found that my writing skills did not make it. Fortunately I have a friend who is a 7th grade English teacher. And she taught me to write. She had gone through the loss of a friend because her criticism was too rough, so she was gentle with me. If you are still in school, you can get your teacher to give you extra assignments. If not, there are story writing places on the web. And late night English As A Second Language (ESL) or just English courses. A surprising number of teachers are so happy when someone wants to be taught that they will give that person some extra time and attention. So ask for help from the people you know. Libraries have reading programs that will help teach you to write better English. And at a higher skill level, there are places that will evaluate your story or poem. Yahoo Answers is one such. Get a chapter on capitalization? You seem to not care to work that. I did not at a time, now I try. From the short sample of your writing, you need to drop texting shortcuts and learn how to type and use the apostrophe. Also Thank You is two words. Basically there are conventions to writing, and some of them old and foolish, but still used. Writing is encoding a thought into words. And the encoding scheme we use is old, but that provides the continuity needed to transmit that idea. Frex: For new folk, texting shortcuts can work. But for general usage, they do not. (And new words like 'frex' will make the text hard to read for anyone stuck in the old style and knowledge. ) Get a book on grammar, some of them are fun: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves is one. Stunk and White is famously recommended, and a bit hard to apply. It does not follow its own advice. You can generally take courses to help, at either the college or HS level. People say that reading will help. It will, but not directly. Reading and writing will overlap, but in many ways are separate skills. (frex, with my dyslexia I can read anything into sense. With my poor spelling and such, proofing is a tough thing.) Low level writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ http://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=English+writing+skills http://duckduckgo.com/?q=evaluating+writing&t=lm https://www.google.com/search?q=English+writing+skills http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/writing/ Writing at a high level: http://www.copyblogger.com/better-writer/ http://www.tomslatin.com/80-journal-writing-prompts/ https://www.google.com/search?q=novel+writing+skills http://donmilleris.com/2010/03/24/the-best-books-on-writing/ I am still looking for sites that evaluate your novel or poem or song. http://www.writing.com/ ? One of the better ways to practice is to keep a public journal or blog. Or even write in a social media like facebook. Giving people permission to criticize your writing can improve it. Even if most comments are going to be harsh.