Hello All! I'm Rahul from India.

[RahulR]

Hello All,

This is Rahul from India. i really want to improve my writing skills. can you please suggest some tips for improving skills. i am really facing difficulties in writing.

Thanks,
Rahul

[Torsten]

Dear Rahul,

Thanks a lot for joining our forum. Could you please tell us more about your situation? Why do you want to improve your writing skills and what type of texts do you want to write? Also, how much time do you spend reading articles, books and other things in English every day?

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
PS: You can improve your writing skills immediately if you start capitalizing the first word of a sentence.
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[RahulR]

Hello Torston,

Thanks for you replay.currently i am working in some private organization where i need to write lot of mails and Documents.i am facing difficulties in preparind Documents and dearfting mails.

i takes lot of time for drafting a small email also.finding lot of difficulties in writing paragraphs,espcially writing compound setentces.this is releally creating problems for me.i finish my day with lot of dissatisfaction.

i am verymuch confuses while writing small paragraphs even.

could you please suggest me some ways to improve my writing skills.

Thanks
Rahul

[Boke]

RahulR, I've got a question, what percentage of Indians can speak english very well? Are there many people studying english?Lots of kids?

[Torsten]

Hi Rahul,

What kind of documents and emails do you create at work? Whom do you send your emails to? Do you get any emails in response to your emails? If so, are those emails written by native speakers of English? I'm asking because it's probably best if you read a lot of emails that are similar in contents and structure to the ones you have to write. Why re-invent the wheel when you can learn from others? Also, I recommend you use a spell checker when you compose your documents. What about punctuation? I'm sure you know that the basics of English punctuation?
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[RahulR]

Hello Torstel,

Thanks for you quick replay.i know basics of English and i can very well communicate with my superios.only propblem is i am facing difficulties in writing.

as I said my nature of work is to prepare some documents.generally we have meetings with in our team and at the end of the meeting we need to prepare a document which contains summary of the meeting.i am fecinf difficulties in such situations.

one more thing is i use spell checker before sending a document.so there is no problem with spelling.

can u suggest me some ways to imrpove my writing skills.

With Regards,
Rahul

[Torsten]

Hi Rahul,

There is a number of things you might considering doing. For example, when you write a text, pay attention to such details like spelling and punctuation. Don't develop the habit of using words that don't exist in English such as "i", "u" etc. Also, start each sentence with a capital letter and leave a space after the full stop. Another important thing for you to do is find examples of the type of documents you have to create. Why make life harder by trying to re-invent the wheel when you can learn from other people? Use Google and brainstorm keywords like "taking the minutes", "sample meeting summary", "how to write a summary of a meeting", etc.

Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Torsten
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[RahulR]

Hello Torstel,

Thanks for your suggestion.
I tried lot of times to follow others docuemts,each time one thing i have observed.when i follow those documents,i feel it is very easy to prepare such a document.but when i close the document,i won't find the proper words while preparing documents.I tried lot of times,but i failed each time.

I found this site is very useful for exchanging ideas and right place for correcting my english.

Tortel i feel like to post information about any topic.People like you can correct the mistakes.
what do you feel about this idea?

Thanks & Regards,
Rahul

[Torsten]

Hi Rahul,

What do you think about capitalizing the personal pronoun "I"? Why not start a sentence with a capital letter too? Finally, you might want to consider putting a space after a comma and a full stop.

Also have you googled the phrase "How to take the minutes of a metting"? What were the results?
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