How can I improve my writing skills?

[April]

Gabriella, in my opinion it's absolutely fine, just check your spelling. "Let us know..."
I'm not a teacher and I need a lot of help too.

[Gabbriela]

[April]

[Stefanie]

[Gabbriela]

Stefanie, Alan, thank you for the suggestions.

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[Farheen]

Hello,

Oh that is great to see this post and this post really pushed me to register on this forum. I have to give IELTS test for which I have to improve my English writing and speaking skills. My listening is quite bad as well. I would like to get real listening sample for IELTS test, if anyone can help me in this. I will be really grateful to you.

The below is my First essay for writing task 2 of IELTS. Could you people please evaluates it with respect to IELTS.

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"Prevention is better than cure."
Out of a country's health budget, a large proportion should be diverted from treatment to
spending on health education and preventative measures.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

“Prevention is better than cure”. It is completely true saying and i am fully agree with the concept of spending the money to prevent the disease. Prevention in my opinion somewhat avoids the disease. Health is very important factor in one's life. If one is healthy, he can fulfills all the duties and responsibilities towards him. One has to be properly aware of the issues of the health and seriously learn about the preventative measures that can be taken to avoid illness. It is better for his prosperity and happiness and for his family too. The government has to take step to guide the people of the country about their health and help them towards a healthy lifestyle and foods. It is very good to have a conference, seminars, street shows on health issues so that people aware of the facts about major diseases and may prevent themselves by avoiding the causes of the illness. The government can arrange classes about the health in the schools, institutions and work places.

One step has also taken in this regard is that volunteers and doctors arrange camps with the support of government to asked people about the basic problems they may have, finds the solutions of their problems and try to implement them as well so that issues regarding health of people can be solved in a more better way.

With the help of that steps and preventative measures, the chances of having disease is minimized and hence the health budget for treatment need not to be high as compared to prevention and health education.

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I am looking forward for your comments
Thanks alot and Best Regards
Farheen Abid

[Alan]

Hi Farheen Abid,

I have made some changes in CAPITAL letters:

[Farheen]

Hello All,

Thank you very much Alan, I will try to avoid above mentioned mistakes next time. Yes, I am really confused about the concept that what I have to use when talking generally. It would be a great help.

Farheen

[TomWelling]

Posting in forums that use mainly English will improve your ability in writing English. I myself am trying this!

[EnglishSpeaker]

[Torsten]

Hi EnglishSpeaker, could you please tell me how often you look 'for the right way to write'? How do you know you make mistakes if you write as much as you can and there is nobody to amend your texts? How exactly does your technique work?
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[EnglishSpeaker]

When I say look for the right way, I mean that if you have trouble writing something, don't hesitate in writing it. After that, pick up your English grammar or go to google.com and start collecting information about how to make that structure the correct way. How do I find the correct way? I say that the internet has tons of information, ESL websites, online grammar, the newspapers websites that are written in a correct English, etc. If you come up saying that there's no way to find what you are looking for on the internet, then you've got serious problems. There's no need to have someone else beside you to amend your texts, in my point of view you don't need to rely on anyone. You are the one who have to find the right way to write that. If you write something and you think that that isn't completly correct, as long as you are really interested in writing that the right way, believe me, you are going to find what you are looking for, just the same way I've been doing studying English by myself for over six years.

[Madona]

hi,

i really like the idea.

Here is my writing, i will be very happy to see my mistakes(i just write what ever come into my mind )

I believe that human being are really complex, and hard to deal with especially becacuse there are my types of people, so you have to study the personaliy of them and then you will come to know how to deal with them, some are very sensitive ( like me), those type need a very special treatment. on the other hand we there are a hot tempered who are defficult and will never accept a second of delay( some times i do convert into that type), in addition to that there are some kind of mean and dangrous people, who thinks always in a negative way. Al so there are a people who have a sense of humor those people you never know when they have a problem, and they are really loved.

[Englishuser]

Hi Alan,

You wrote:

[Alan]

Hi,

I would advise/recommend the use of 'you' in place of 'one' since the latter sounds cold, impersonal, remote and generally very formal and stilted especially when it is repeated several times.

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