Rss FeedsTips for writing better in English
Feb 29, 2008
If English is the primary language of your blog then it helps a lot if you attain a certain degree of efficiency in it. You don’t need to be a literary genius but if you can communicate in an interesting, engaging manner it can keep the communication vibrant on your blog and your writing flows with the mood of the moment. The strain definitely shows through in case you are not comfortable writing what you are writing.
Just read an excellent post by Jarkko at NorthxEast where he has explained how you can improve your English writing proficiency by doing certain things like listening to native English speakers, reading good books in English and thinking in English when you are writing in English. Although Jarkko has covered practically all the aspects of improving your written English (except for doing a PhD) 
would like to add that a good vocabulary also helps you a lot especially when you have to articulate comparatively tricky issues.
I would quickly like to add here that listening to native English speaking people doesn’t necessarily improve your English language because being able to speak the language facilely, they rarely learn it properly unless of course if speaking and writing is a professional or public necessity for them (but then blogging is mostly conversational doesn’t require you to learn the language properly). On the contrary, people in India follow a stricter regime when they are learning English as a foreign language. But I think this is natural.
Not only English, to learn any language you should interact with the native speakers and read plenty of books written in that language.
Reading is quite easy these days due to the Internet and you can offer no excuse, just as myself, if you don’t read enough. Even if you can spend 20 minutes every day reading literature (I mean literature in the real sense) present on various websites it is more than enough.
Posted by Amrit Hallan | Tags: Quick Writing Tips
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