Improving your writing skills

Of course you can improve your writing skills. The keys are patience and efficiency.

Here are some tips:

Read! If you read a lot of different text, you will get a feeling of good writing. You also learn useful expressions for certain texts (scientific texts use a different language than magazine articles for example).

Keeping a note book helps improving your writing skills.
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Try! Try and write something short every day. If you want to improve your novel writing skills, it helps you not only to keep you going, but also to keep you in practice.

Use! When you read or experiment with your writing, it is good to apply what you have learned before. The best thing is to use phrases or text models straight away, so you will keep them in mind.

Research! If you need to prepare a report or essay, you do have to research for a specific topic. While researching, you will find expressions and also connotations for certain words. This will help when you need to write your essay.

Collect! If you want to be really serious about improving your skills, it is best to keep a note book in which you write helpful expressions. While writing them down you might be able to memorise them, too.

If you want to improve your text, then I have some more helpful tips here:

• Start each paragraph with the main idea of the paragraph. This introduces the topic of the paragraph as well as structures your text.
• If you vary the lengths of your sentences, you will create different emphasises. Use short sentences to emphasis a point or idea. Then use long sentences to explain or define that point or idea.
• You should use active voice while writing. This will help to keep sentences short. It will also help not to confuse the reader.
• Use key words. They will help the reader to focus on your text.
• Try to use various types of sentences. This will keep the attention of the reader and also be more constructive.
• Use the specific language. If you write a scientific text, use scientific language. This shows the reader that you know what you are writing about.