Now, friends, you may be wondering, why is it even important to improve your writing skills? 

You only need to be able to speak in English…. but did you know that developing your writing skills will help you improve your speaking skills.

When you speak in English, you can make some grammatical mistakes and use the wrong word in a sentence, and you can get away with it.

But when you write in English it is a different story….

….you cannot be using wrong grammatical structures or overusing the same words, as (unfortunately) your potential employer, your boss or even your University professor will perceive you in the wrong way

Why is writing in English critical for your success you ask?

Friends, writing is a skill that all good communicators should be developing on a daily basis.  This not only applies to English learners like yourself but also native English speakers like me!

To help you better understand the importance of writing in English, I have included a section from an article from the Huffington Post, demonstrating the importance of why writing remains a critical skill for success.

Below you will find an extract from the text.  Click here for the full text

Reasons Why Writing Remains a Critical Skill for Success

Effective communication Keeping your writing short and to the point is important – but there is no point if it’s not effective writing. As such, being able to express yourself in both an easy to understand and interesting way is the key to achieving success through writing. This is an experience which likely falls on many professionals across many fields. If there is one “golden rule” of effective writing it is this: write for the reader. When someone gets into the habit of writing, it’s often their first instinct to go for the flowery prose and drawn-out metaphors. However, if you turn around and read your own writing in this fashion, you’ll likely soon realize you’re better off keeping things simple. With that, always read your writing before clicking send or submit. Opt for getting to the point rather than going on a tangent – readers will be forever grateful.   Self-improvement Ultimately, writing helps us think better, and perhaps even be smarter. Similar to dreams, writing allows us a way to collect our otherwise scattered thoughts and ideas, and channel them into a single beam of information. It opens up a new dimension for the mind to move into and, consequently, creates a space for unparalleled expression and imagination. It sounds like the rambling, inflated poetry previously warned about, but there’s some science to the idea that writing makes us smarter. The caveat is that studies show old fashioned pen to paper writing is what leads to improved cognitive ability, whereas typing didn’t have the same results. However, it’d be hard to argue against the idea that writing of any kind is sure to enhance the way you perceive the world around you. The ability to write well is not reserved for authors, poets, journalists, and screenwriters alone. In fact, strong writing skills are crucial for countless careers and callings. They’re also important even for an email to a friend or a text message to a family member. Perhaps most critical of all – writing can help us become better people. Source:  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tomas-laurinavicius/reasons-why-writing-remai_b_12701380.html

Are you too busy to write in English?

One common reason I hear many English learners (and also native English speaker) use to justify the reason that they are not writing is that they are simply too busy to write in English.  This week on my Instagram Profile, I shared a post how to set goals to stay consistent and motivated to improve your writing skills.

Are you too busy to write in English?
.
You have a dream and a goal to improve your writing skills, but you’re simply sitting there reading this thinking that you’re too busy 🤔
.
Friends, life gets hectic, work gets in the way, you may have family problems and some days you probably can’t be bothered doing anything… this is only normal and part of being human 💆… but there are 24 hours in a day, and there are NO EXCUSES for not dedicating yourself for at least 30 minutes a day to achieve your goals 👍
.
Today I got asked an interesting question by @englishlearnerkumi during our Instagram live chat. She asked me ‘How do I manage to be so active and get so much done everyday?’
.
Friends, it’s pretty simple. I set really small and simple tasks every single day to complete.
.
If you are struggling to achieve your goals I suggest that you do the following.
.
🔸Create a 3-month vision where you want to be
🔸Write down what is important to you in your life
🔸Break down your 3-month goal into small daily actions
🔸Create a small daily to-do-list that will help you reach your end goal in the next 3 months
🔸REWARD yourself on a daily basis.

Use these tips to not only improve your writing skills, but completing any tasks in English

Below you will find 4 tips to improve your writing skills in English….

1. Start writing a diary in English!

As you can see, my first tip is to write a diary in English.

This can be very helpful because it will give you a chance to work on your everyday use of English language.

Think of what happened to you each day and then write it down in a notebook.

That way you will practice using English while describing everyday situations.

Pick out a cute notebook and use it do write in English every day. Just start with writing a few sentences, write down the most important of the most interesting part of your day. It is important to have fun while doing it. Don’t think of writing your diary as a chore, but as a fun way of practicing your English. Write whatever comes to your mind. In time, you will notice that you are writing more and more, and that it becomes much more easier!

2. Write a story in your native language and then try to re-write it in English.

Be creative! Activate your imagination, think of a short story and try to write it in English. By this, I don’t mean that you need to translate everything that you wrote in your native language. Just try to think of many different ways how to tell in English what you wrote in your native language. You don’t need to translate every single word, that is quite a difficult task, but try to translate it into English in a way that the still captures the main idea of the story. It is okay if the story is shorter in English, just try to write and translate anything.

This is a great exercise because it gives you a chance to practice thinking in English and also writing at the same time.

Read an article and try to write a summary of it.

This is a great exercise because it helps you with both your writing and reading skills.

Find an article that you like and then read it. Don’t pick out something that seems “smart” to you, pick something you are genuinely interested in. In that way, you will put more effort into trying to understand the article. While reading it, try to focus on the most important things mentioned in the article.

After finishing reading the article, write down the most important things. Just put down on a piece of paper a few sentences that seems like the gist of the text. Now that you have done that, write a short summary of the article.

This means that you need to write in your own words the most important things the author of the article said. Do not just rewrite the sentences from the article, it is important that you use your own words. In that way, you will combine both your reading and writing skills, while also thinking in English!

Try to practice this often and soon you will see that your writing skills are successfully improving!

Find a partner who will read your writings and correct your mistakes.

As mentioned above, mistakes are a part of the learning process. However, you often cannot correct your own mistakes, because you simply don’t notice them as mistakes. If you are not aware of the mistakes that you do, you won’t be able to improve your writing skills.

Therefore, find someone who knows English very well and then practice with them. Kindly ask the person to check your work and to provide feedback. When the person corrects your texts, pay attention to the mistakes and to the correct form.

Pick one of my tips and write something, and then give it to someone who can tell you if you made a mistake and how to correct it. This is a great way of improving your English. When you make a mistake and someone corrects it, you are likely to remember it, and the next time you encounter the same word, you won’t have problems with it anymore!

It is always great to have a feedback on your writing!

How often do you write in English?

 Let me know in the comments below