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How to Improve Your English Writing Skills

How to Improve Your English Writing Skills

We all realize that in today’s world, it is very important to have good command of the English language. While we all focus on speaking well, we often neglect the writing bit, and that many a times hampers our work and even day to day correspondence.

Creativity cannot be infused into someone, but we can always acquaint ourselves with some important tips that can help improve the way we write. Here are some quick but effective pointers for those who wish to be able to write better -

1. Read – Get into the habit of reading. Do not restrict yourself to history, politics, fiction or science. Read a variety of subjects by various writers. That will help you in improving your sentence structure and style of writing.
2.  Art & Vocabulary – Reading always makes you richer by many words. While reading a book, keep a dictionary handy. As soon as you come across a word/phrase you do not understand, look it up. Use similes, metaphors and interesting phrases.
3. Tenses – Focus on these basics. Get your tenses in order. Make a tense chart and practice.
4.  Grammar - Understand the sentence structure and parts of speech like noun, pronoun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions. Make a chart with parts of speech and example words in front of them. Try and use them in your day to day conversation. Then get into a habit of using them in your writing.
5.  Sentence – A sentence has two components – Subject and Predicate. The subject is the Noun/Pronoun and predicate is the verb and the parts of the sentence that modify it. Always keep in mind that the subject and the verb should always “agree”. They should either be singular or plural.
6. Write in active form.
7.  Always write in complete sentences.
8.  Take care of spelling, capitalization, punctuation.
9.  While writing, try to choose different topics and different styles of writing like essays, passages, stories, poems.
10.  It would be a good idea to maintain a journal of sorts, wherein entries are in different forms. Sometimes in a report sort of way, sometimes in a story format.

Try these tips and like I said earlier, read a lot. A voracious reader is seldom out of ideas and words!

Count On Me - June 11, 2001

When the rain is falling heavy on your rooftop,

And it seems like the endless flow of tears none could stop,

When the touch of the sun pierces you deep inside,

And you feel so scared but there’s no place to hide

In all of these situations and many more, you can count on me

With my eyes you can see, you can count on me.

When you want to speak your mind and are just short of words,

When you need to shout aloud and yearn to be heard,

When you think of the promises that were made to be broken,

And you miss all that was said and things never spoken

In all of these situations and many more, you can count on me

With my eyes you can see, you can count on me.

Beyond The Horizon - April 1, 1999

Desires unlimited and hopes so high,

My aspirations want to scale the skies.

In dreams the stars belong to me,

My fears turn false and seem to flee.

There’s no end to my world of imagination,

Perfection is the name of my destination.

I keep on going and strive for my goals,

Put in my efforts and let destiny play its role.

Beyond the horizon I have to go,

Then forever in wisdom I will flow.

The Ocean Of Life - October 5, 1999

I sat on the shore, had a time of mirth

I looked at the coming waves, as if it was my birth.

Slowly I entered, with hope and enthusiasm

The sea was in full swing, like a flower in blossom.

The deeper I went, the nearer was the treasure

But the depth of the sea was hard to measure.

The treasure was rich and the mysteries unknown,

Not much was different, but the shrubs had grown.

Wave by wave I went by, touching the sun of the noon

All the birds flew off, when came the midnight moon.

Then the tide met the sunset, stroked with rocks to and fro

It was its final destination, it was the ultimate rendezvous.

A College Going Girl - August 31, 1998

For a college going girl life’s a colorful mystery,

She has a choice to study psychology or opt for history.

She is not restricted to attend the classes,

But if her lectures fall short, the authority harasses.

She is free to move here and there,

In the canteen, corridor and stairs.

She’s got the freedom to wear whatever she likes,

Jeans, skirts, trousers or tights!

She can grow her nails and wear all shades of enamel,

She can loosen her hair or tie ‘em up like the tail of a big camel.

Putting bright lipsticks and carrying the latest of bags,

No time for books, she’s happier reading mags.

For the whole day she’s found dancing in the campus,

Wearing a new cloth everyday is the symbol of her status.

The life of a college going girl is full of entertainment

But is this the way it should be lead, I ask your comment!

Teenage - August 23, 1998

I am a little kid of five,

My dreams are real and no disguise.

I wonder what it is all about,

But there’s no one to clear by doubts.

I often dream of a marshy land,

Where I go deep none holds my hand.

The voices around go vague and low,

I don’t know where am I to go!

Buried in the deep from head to toe,

Got no friend around, not even a foe.

My mind is baffled as the place is not acquainted,

I get a bit scared as it seems to be haunted.

Lonely I wonder here and there,

Crying aloud in the hope, that a word I may hear.

I try my best to reveal the concealed,

Alas! Everything around seems permanently sealed.

Suddenly all the things start to tremble,

And it looks like time’s great gamble.

And yes I know where I have reached,

Here all are self consumed and mouths stitched.

This scene of my life’s drama, is set on a different stage,

Here I am, in my Teenage!

Rain - April 1998

Rain O Rain!

It reminds me of something, passing through the narrow memory lane.

It takes me back to my school,

Where, I and my friends jumped in the small water pools.

Those were the moments of real joy and mirth,

When, we could have the smell of the fresh wet earth.

Getting wet in the real showers

Faces happy and cheerful, like blooming flowers.

But now all the friends are far apart,

They have given their lives a new start.

I alike have no leisure,

So I look at the falling drops and miss those moments of pleasure.

I wish I could be a kid again,
Then no would take me away from my dear rain!

You Are My Love - October 1997

The tender love I hold for you

Words could never describe,

The way I care for you

I can never make you realize.

How much I long for you,

You can never know,

My love for you seems to

Always grow and grow.

You are in the moonlit night

And in the rising sun,

I am yearning for the day

We would be one.

You are in my thoughts and dreams

And always in my heart,

With your name I go to bed

With the same the new day starts.

You are the one I love so much

You are the one I care for,

You can make my life worthwhile

You are my destiny’s star.

Inspiration - August 1997

All my hopes were shattered
I was feeling so bad,
I was worried about my life
That how it would be lead.

I was badly disappointed
My heart was broken in two,
Then suddenly I heard a voice
Asking why so unhappy are you!

I looked here and there
Trying to find from where the voice had come,
Who was trying to awaken my soul
Like the rising sun.

The voice was echoing to catch my dreams
And to create a new vision in the mind,
Then no one would dare to rise against me
Whether the inner tempest or the outer wind.

I thought over the words
And I was inspired by them,
A new hope sprang in my heart
The words acted as a gem.

I now found the secret behind
My real inspiration,
It was the voice of the God inside me
That had helped in my creation!