Name: How to Improve Your English Writing - English Writing Lesson
Uploaded: 2021-06-11T09:33:26.000Z
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In this lesson, you can learn about how to improve your English writing.

Learning to write well is often the most difficult skill for English learners.

Writing well requires great control of language and extreme attention to detail.

Even then, it's not easy, even for native speakers.

In this video, you can see some advice that will help you to improve your English writing,

Before you start writing, you need to answer two questions.

Are you writing for your friend, your colleague, your teacher, your manager, an examiner, who?

Secondly, what are you trying to achieve?

Are you trying to give someone information?

Are you trying to convince somebody of your point of view?

Are you trying to entertain somebody and make them laugh?

Are you just trying to pass an exam, or are you trying to achieve several different things?

Thinking about your purpose in writing can really help you to organize your ideas.

Now these questions: who are you writing for, and what do you want to achieve, they are

But there's an even more important question: what does your reader want?

Remember, when you write, you're normally writing for someone else, unless you're writing

a diary or a journal for yourself, in which case you can write however you want.

Normally, however, you're writing for another person.

Whoever reads your writing will give their time and their attention to read what you've

Why will someone give their time to read what you've written?

Okay, so for example, if you're writing an essay at school or at university for your

teacher, your teacher will spend time reading your essay to see if you've understood the

If you're writing an email or a letter to a friend, your friend will probably want to

hear some news about your life and maybe hear some funny stories.

If you're writing in an exam, the examiner will be looking for some specific things which

you do or don't do in your writing in order to decide your score.

Understanding your reader, or your readers, and understanding what they want from your

You need to think about this from the beginning to the end of the writing process.

If you don't plan your writing, there's a good chance you will miss out some important

ideas, you won't include them in your writing, or you might include some unnecessary ideas

that will confuse your reader and make your purpose unclear.

Have you ever written something and got stuck in the middle?

You start a paragraph, or you start a sentence, and in the middle you stop and you think,

Often it happens because you haven't planned enough.

Imagine that you're in a new city and you're trying to find your way somewhere.

You don't have a map, you don't have a smartphone, there's nobody you can ask.

You'll go down streets without knowing where they go.

If you do find the place you were looking for, it will just be because you were lucky.

Writing without planning is very similar.

You'll start sentences or paragraphs without knowing where they're going.

You'll waste lots of time writing things, deleting them, rewriting them, deleting them,

If you do achieve your goal, it will only be because you were lucky.

Remember, you're writing for someone else, and you're writing for a reason.

That means you have a goal, even if it's a simple goal.

You need to have a plan of how you're going to reach that goal.

That means you need to think about these questions: what are you going to include?

And, how are you going to organize your ideas?

If you're writing something simple, you might just think for a minute or two about what

If you're writing something longer and more complex like a long essay, you might need

So what points should you include and what points should you leave out?

If you're not sure, think about your goal and your reader's needs.

Ask yourself, "Does my reader need to know this?

Does including this point, or including this idea, help me to reach my goal?"

Thinking about these questions will help you to decide what to include in your writing

What about the third question: how are you going to organize your ideas?

You need to organize your ideas into clear paragraphs.

Organizing your ideas into paragraphs is important for many reasons.

It helps your reader understand what your main points are.

It helps your reader see where you're going and why, and it helps you to stay focused

So what does it mean in practice to organize your ideas into clear paragraphs?

Firstly, each paragraph should have one main idea.

If you're writing an essay and you have a list of points to include, put one point in

Even if you're writing something shorter or simpler, you still need to organize your ideas

Your writing will be much clearer and much easier to read if each paragraph is only trying

An extra point: there's no minimum or maximum length for a paragraph.

Sometimes when I teach students writing, they try to make paragraphs longer because they

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