How to Improve Your English Writing Skills

Pari from India asks: how can I improve my writing?

So, Pari, to improve your writing it's important just like I talked about when I answered the

question about improving speaking, to improve your overall English too because everything

that you do in English is going to help the different skills.

But to be more specific, and to specifically help your writing, then you need to write

more. Writing more is really going to make a big difference to your writing but don't

just write anything write things, again, that are relevant to you and interesting to you,

and take your time with it too. Don't feel like you have to rush it.

Now, the difference, or a big difference between writing and speaking, is that when you're

speaking you have to speak quickly, you're responding to people... and you're interacting

with people, but when you're writing this is done on your own time, so you can take

your time with it; look up the correct grammar and words and the phrases that you want to

use.

I also recommend getting feedback on your writing too, because getting this feedback

is going to help you improve; it's going to help you expand your writing and also, obviously,

it's going to help you make less mistakes, so getting feedback is really important as

well.

Now, there's something else you can do, and this is where you take writing that you like

and simply copy it. Just the act of writing has been proven to help writing. So, that's

something else you can do. Check out the show notes for a detailed description of this latest

method but, generally speaking, write more, get feedback, and you're going to improve