How to improve our writing skills (Week 1)

By way of introduction, writing is a way to escape from the pressures of everyday life, to express our  feelings and thoughts. Many years ago, the human beings have found the necessity of writing, simply to send a statement to someone, in an era where technology had not apperead yet or just writing a love story or poem in their spare time.  Therefore, improving their writing skills has always been an important issue for them, since they wanted their writings were understood by everyone.

Nowadays we are still improving our writing skills, but why? If we want to communicate our ideas and opinions with coherency, we should gradually improve our writing skills. Furthermore, having perfect writing skills is an ability that allows us to defend our arguments with clarity. Apart from that, writing reflects our way of being, thus, it shows if we are organized and if we know how to transmit our ideas in writing. 

On the other hand, there are many websites, videos, applications and blogs which can help us write properly. However, the first issue that we have to bear in mind is which type of texts we are going to write and to who is concerned. As far as I am  concerned, reading and writing are the best ways to improve writing skills. By reading, we learn a huge number of expressions and vocabulary, and by writing, we improve the organization of contents and the correct use of punctuation marks.

As I said before, on the Internet we can find many helpful resources, I personally use some of them, for example, HiNative, which is an application where you can ask questions about grammar and expressions, and English native speakers answer you. Although you have to be careful with it due to the fact that sometimes they can make mistakes. Thesaurus is a website where you can find a lot of synonyms and antonyms of words. I highly recommend it. As for spelling and pronunciation, I use online dictionaries such as “Cambridge” and “Wordreference” .

To sum up, currently if someone wants to improve his writing skills, he only needs to press a button and make an effort to practice and read daily. 

By Nassira Dahmani