Published September 5, 2017
Writing is an essential learning tool and the most sort after skill in the business world. Ironically, it is one of the most undervalued skills among students as many don’t realize that it’s simply another important means of communication. Good writing skills help students express their thoughts and ideas more clearly. This is of great benefit in academics and can prove to be useful later when job seeking.
Below are some great points on how to improve your writing skills:
1. Pace Yourself
Setting a pace for your writing enables you to have an ample time to plan, research, write and go through your work. It enables you to write your best with less stress and struggle. You can pace your writing into organized and achievable blocks of time in which you will be able to complete your work and get to proofread and revise it. Ensure that you plan your writing in blocks that you are able to easily pick up from and go on working.
2. Plan your Writing
Develop a writing plan by listing down major points, an outline, or a statement of purpose for the piece of writing that you’re going to do. Having a plan enables you to develop an organized mind map that will enable you to write in a systematic and flowing manner. A plan is like a map that enables you to effectively accomplish your writing by making sure you cover your outlined topics as fully as possible. It helps you measure your progress as you write, and acts as a prompt for when you get stuck. With a good plan, you will be able to jump back and forth on your points, attacking them as you think or research on them. A plan helps keep your focus on your goals, leading to better writing.
3. Use Learning Aids
Learning aids such as organizers, recorders, grammar and spell checker tools can be handy for struggling students and can help them improve their writing. With the help of a graphic organizer, a student can put his or her ideas in form of a story map, in an organized manner and help motivate one’s writing. Organizers come in handy, especially to visual learners. A student can also use an audio recorder to capture ideas as they emerge and later transcribe the audio files to writing. You can use grammar and spelling tools to correct grammar and spelling errors and in turn improve your writing.
4. Write a Rough Draft
A rough draft will help you put your ideas into complete thoughts such as sentences, steps, and paragraphs. Don’t mind about rules of grammar and format. You can fix them when you’re proofreading. With a draft, you will be able to have an overview of how your final work will appear and be able to fine tune it in order to achieve that.
Writing a draft first allows you to capture the free flow of ideas as they come to you, with no exceptions. Any corrections or edits should be left for a later stage. Here, just write all that comes to mind!
5. Focus on Communicating Your Purpose
Ensure that your writing meets the requirements spelled out. It is important to keep your audience in mind and ensure that they clearly understand your message. Make sure your writing has a nice conversational tone directed to your audience and ask yourself if it’s working. Use active instead of passive voice and reread your work at least once to ensure that each line directs your readers towards understanding what you’ve set to instill in them.
6. Edit and Proofread
Edit your work once you’ve finished your draft. Editing ensures that your written message matches your intentions and it also helps condense and improve your writing. It also ensures that you are able to achieve a high quality and optimum readability.
Proofreading your writing helps you correct your grammar and spelling mistakes. It ensures that your sentences are in a logical manner and that they agree with each other. You can use correction tools to help you out with editing and proofreading or any paper writing service. Read through your piece once more to ensure your article is perfect and drives your message home.
7. Find a Writing Partner
You can join a writing club or have a friend whom you can share writing ideas with. This will give you a good opportunity to talk about your writing and in turn be able to generate ideas and improve your skills. Your partner can help you spot mistakes that you have overlooked and also give you tips on how you can improve your writing.
Conclusion
The best way to improve your writing skills is through actual writing, the more you write the better you get at it! Write as much as you can and also read widely to gain more skills that will help you improve your writing. The above tips will help guide you as a student, learn on how you can easily improve your writing skills.
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Hey there RichardNolan553 and welcome to YWS. It's just Lizzy dropping by real quick, so without a further ado, let the reviewing begin.
I don't see that many articles in the green room and decided to jump over to yours. As a first impression, there's two main things bothering me: the title and the picture. The title takes almost as long to read through as the work itself and doesn't add any snap to make people want to read it. I think most would just pass this over as yet another advice guide for writing. It's sort of like the unsolicited advice you would get from your aunt's friend's dog walker.
Pictures at the beginning of works are something I do not think highly of just because they distract. You don't want anything that is going to distract from the main point and make the reader lose focus.
"How to Improve Your Writing Drastically"
Everything that you've said here in this little article/essay, have been said before and most people I come across, already use them. If you want to touch this up a bit, I would recommend using some new strategy or adding in personal experience exercises. Does something work for you? Have you found that something else rarely works out? Currently you've just got walls and walls of text with little filler in between. There's no emotion, meaning or care to it. It's like you're just ordering every writer to follow this plan.
The conclusion and introduction are rather loose and never loop back together at any point. You shift from relying on a sort of humor to restating the same thing three times and in three barely different ways. I think you should take your own advice and write a second draft of this.
That's all I have for now. If you want to talk about this or know my more specifics on sections, drop me a line via PM.
~Liz
Hi there!
So, as far as prepared articles go, you've done an outstanding job here of laying out your ideas with proper flow. There's cohesion, there's a central thread that runs through each of your ideas, and nothing seems disjointed. However, I agree with @ajruby12 in that your conclusion is flimsy and needs work--lots of work.
I would also never advocate essay writing sites in any form or fashion, as that is academic fraud, and horrendous advice; but that does not count for or against the paper itself. In fact, I agree that peer editing is a very helpful tool, as you can see (since I volunteer for a peer review site.)
Best wishes,
Lumi
Hey, AJ here!
Welcome to the forum! These tips are super helpful. I hope a lot of the authors, both new and experienced, have a chance to read these.
The only thing I would say is that you might consider adding to your conclusion. Maybe using it to back up your intro more.
I don't really have much else to say, so... Fluffy unicorns and all that jazz. Hope to see more of your writings in the future!
Keep on writing!
-AJ