How can I improve my writing skills?

[Torsten]

Hi Hery,

Welcome to english-test.net -- thanks a lot for joining us. Could you please tell us what topics you would like to write about? Also, how do you think you can improve your writing skills?

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
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[BelajarEnglish]

Dear Torsten,

Thank you responded my post. I really appreciate it.
At this moment I want to improve my writing skill in general. Write without any obvious grammatical errors, in the right tense. In addition, write with the right words and in a good arrangement.

As I started my first post with a very little introduction of myself, please allow me to introduce myself a bit further more.

Most my friends and my relatives call me Herry. Originally, I came from Indonesia
I believed that writing skill can be improved as I write more. Nevertheless, I will need someone to read my reading. So should the errors occur, he/she can suggest me the right way. I also agreed that reading can improve the writing skill, everyday I spend about 1 hour for reading.


Again, thank you very much for your time for reading my writing.

Herry.

[Hussein78]

Dear friends
I had been searching the net for something that might help me improving my writing skills.Accidentally I found your site,and let me told you that I love the suggestion of Abecedarian.
First,let me introduce myself ,I am Hussein , originally I am from Iraq but I am living in Jordan now.

I think the way to the perfect writing is to write as much about anything as possible and have some experienced people comment on what you 've written.

So,I 'd like to ask the administrators of this site to comment on the
essay I 've just written above;and my signature

[Torsten]

Hi Huessein,

Thanks a lot for introducing yourself, it's a pleasure meeting you. Yes, I also think that reading can improve your writing skills if you pay attention to detail and ask questions about certain phrases. For example, you could ask somebody about the difference between "pay attention to detail" and "pay attention to details".

Your written English is already very good so you obviously have been using English for quite some time. When and how did you start to learn English? As for your signature, where did you find this phrase? It seems you have created it yourself. The word "dont" doesn't exist -- it should read "don't" and the proverb you might be referring to is "no use crying over spilled milk".

Talk to you soon,
Torsten
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[BelajarEnglish]

Most of the time, I read CNN news through its website. However I encounter several problems.
As I read the difficult words or phases, I will search its mean in dictionary and attempt to memorize it. But I tend to forget it in next 3-4 days. Perhaps I have a bad memorize skill.

Another problem is that, I can’t really learn how they arranged the clear yet short sentences.

Besides that, I also attempted to find some topic to write, but it always end up with nothing, I mean, I can finish my writing as I have a difficulty to express my idea into a paper.

Thank you,

Herry Chandra

[Torsten]

Hi Herry,

In order to memorize "difficult words and phrases" you need to hear, read, write and use them a certain number of times. You can't expect to learn several new words and phrases by reading them just once. Even looking them up in the dictionary is often not enough. By the way, since English is a "non-phonetic" language, you need to listen to as much English as possible. Do you have access to authentic spoken English?
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[BelajarEnglish]

Hi Torsten,

Thank you very much for you advice. I will remember it.

At this moment I stayed with Indonesians, which is not really beneficial for me in term of practice English. In addition, I socialized less with native English speaker, since I was struggling to pass all my academic subjects. (I am a transfer credit student, which means I jump to 3rd year in my first year of study here). Nevertheless, I will try to be more flexible in coming semester. The sources for me to access English verbally is radio and TV.

Herry Chandra

[BelajarEnglish]

What will the world look be in next fifty years? This is tough questions. Some of us predict the future is in better condition, nevertheless, some of us may predict it in worst condition. In my opinion, it really depends on human actions in next fifty years.

The better place to live, with stable condition in social, without chaos, advance in technologies can be reality in next fifty years. But it demands our actions, the manner of all human in the world. The leaders of the country must learn to achieve an agreement without a war. The rich guys must financially support to those unable in generating enough income, especially in their education. The scientists do the researches for the common good, like research on how to stop global warning. In addition, the government of all countries must prevent the extinction possibility of endanger animals.

However, the world will be worse place to live as the unstable social environmental. Obviously the global warning will make worse the condition if we keep doing what we have been doing (pollution est). The leaders of the country attack another country in order to achieve their goal. The scientists do the researches that only bring benefit to them.

So what will next fifty year be, there is no absolute answer yet. But we can work it out to achieve the better world.

Hi all

Above paragraphs are the answer that prepared by me for the following IELST sample question:

Do you think the world will be a better or worse place in fifty years time?

However, I am really not happy as how is look. I have tried to improve it by any means. But it still look as worst as it is.

From my own observation,
It has dummy ending paragraph
It does not have interesting start, in fact I just rewrite the question.
There are no phases that connect inter the paragraphs.

Or perhaps it has more error, anybody please make any suggestion on it.

I hope to hear from yours kind respond.

Thank you

Herry Chandra

[Linghong]

Hi,I am a Malaysian Chinese. My name is linghong. As English language is not my mother tougue, so I need your help here to correct my writing error. I am so happy after finding out this forum by using Yahoo Search. Therefore, I discover that many of you are trying your best to improve and to help. That makes me think of the advantage of the Internet. However, I've found out that this topic had been first created in the year of 2005. This really surprised me! That means this forum is not so active. However, luckily there is an administrator, Mr. Torsten who is willing to help those who are helpless. I feel so much released after getting know the existence of this forum. The purpose for me to come here is to improve my writing skills and speaking skills too if possible. It is because I need it for my academic purposes. However, I am not quite sure with my command of English. Sometimes I can do it quite well but I can do it badly too especially writing. Is it because I didn't practise my writing regularly? Someone can please post comments based on my words here regarding my language or even grammar?Thank you very much. I really appreciate it!^^

[Linghong]

[Alan]

Hi,

'Detail' 'details'? I would say the main difference is that the singular 'detail' joins happily with 'pay attention to' to suggest being thorough/meticulous/precise. Once you have made 'detail' plural, you are being specific about a task that has been accomplished - very well as in: Attention paid to details in this project has been excellent or badly as in: You should have paid more attention to details.

Alan
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[Linghong]

Thanks Alan. Thanks for your explanation.^^So happy to have you to explain the difference between detail and details.

[Jignesh]

Dear Alan & Torsten and Other members,

I just joined this group, in a hape that I can also improve my writting skills. I have been struggling from last three years to get my English the edge, which it needs to gain a responsible position at work. But after every few weeks the my internal spirit just dies off with no significant improvement. I feel my biggest limitation is, lack of vocabuallry, spelling mistakes and lack of flow as well connectivity.

I aspire to become a Chartered Chemical Engineer by the end of this year. The application for this membership requires me to write a lot about myself, my job and my accomplishments. Having confidence and ability to write impressive English will certainly help me achieve this goal.

I will be very grateful to all of you for your time and kind support. Please do correct my mistakes in this post and allow me to post more messages in future. I wish to participate on daily basis.

Thanks a lot,
With best regards,
Jignesh

[Lxguy]

Do more reading and get the habit of making diaries.That's what I'm doing to improve my writing skills.