Improving Your Writing Skill

“ Yes, YOU can !!!!! “

          This article is to persuade YOU to be able in writing an English text. According to my experience, most of the students of high school are not eager to write an English text because they are lack of vocabularies and knowledge, but most of them are afraid of the mistakes done during the writing process. It’s not a surprise for me because as we know, English is not their first or even the second language, English is their foreign language. Even it’s a little bit harder, trust me, YOU can write an English text well if YOU always try to do so.....

          Knowing this situation, let me share with YOU about some tips in writing an English text. Hope these tips can be more useful.

1.   READING in English

Start your reading habit by reading English books. Every book that you read will give you new words or even new phrase or sentence formulas. Unconciously, you are getting used in knowing how to use the language. Start yourself to read non-fiction books because they are easier to understand than fiction books.

2.   LISTENING to Native Speakers

Watching and listening the native speakers are useful things in practicing conversational writing. Through these activity, you will know not only how to use the language but also the topic content.

3.   THINKING in English

When you’re going to write, always bring your mind to English set. Why ? when you write and still think in your own language, then you try to translate it into English, it won’t work, because of the different grammar rules and idioms. If you force to do so, your writing seems to be clumsy and unnatural.

4.   Never stop WRITING

The best way to learn anything is by throwing yourself out there and practicing. When you are starting to write, you should write something every day to develop your writing routine and will become a writing habit.

5.   NOT being AFRAID of Mistakes

When someone corrects your writing, you have to be thankful to him/her because you are being guided to the right direction and never stop studying about English spelling and  grammar, because it will help you in making less mistakes.

Having fun in writing in English and share your thoughts to anyone !