How to Improve Your English Writing Skills

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Pari from India asks: how can I improve my writing?
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So, Pari, to improve your writing it's important just like I talked about when I answered the
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question about improving speaking, to improve your overall English too because everything
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that you do in English is going to help the different skills.
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But to be more specific, and to specifically help your writing, then you need to write
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more. Writing more is really going to make a big difference to your writing but don't
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just write anything write things, again, that are relevant to you and interesting to you,
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and take your time with it too. Don't feel like you have to rush it.
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Now, the difference, or a big difference between writing and speaking, is that when you're
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speaking you have to speak quickly, you're responding to people... and you're interacting
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with people, but when you're writing this is done on your own time, so you can take
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your time with it; look up the correct grammar and words and the phrases that you want to
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use.
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I also recommend getting feedback on your writing too, because getting this feedback
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is going to help you improve; it's going to help you expand your writing and also, obviously,
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it's going to help you make less mistakes, so getting feedback is really important as
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well.
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Now, there's something else you can do, and this is where you take writing that you like
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and simply copy it. Just the act of writing has been proven to help writing. So, that's
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something else you can do. Check out the show notes for a detailed description of this latest
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method but, generally speaking, write more, get feedback, and you're going to improve
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