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Old 18-Oct-2005, 16:58
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Hi,

I'm originally from Mexico.

When I lived in Mexico I did not get to go to school much and missed out on the grammar lessons in school. When I came to the USA I was enrolled in 9th grade. I felt that I also missed out on the grammar lessons in America.
For the past 16years I have been able to get by with my writing skills, but I'm always feeling insecure and second questioning my writing ability. Sometimes people e.g. my boss will point out that I need to improve my grammar.

I acquired a BA in Business five years ago. My writing was not great but again I got buy.

One day I hope to go to law school but I feel that I have a lot of work to do before I apply to law school, mainly on my writing.

Where should I start, every time I pickup a grammar book I get over whelmed with all of the different elements of grammar.

I did stop by my local community college and they said that I did not belong in one of their writing classes; that I was to advance for that, that I should take more of technical writing classes. When I was in college I managed to get an A- in writing but that still did not make me feel confident about my writing.

While acquiring my BA, one of my last writing assignments was a term paper for a project management class and I totally bombed it.

I really… really…. want to go to law school but will not even try applying until I improve my writing. Then there is the LSAT’s and that’s a whole different ball of wax.

Please advice.

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This is a good question for the English teachers. The person wants to improve his writing skills. I presumed he already knows the basic grammar and also the mechanics. So what advice can you give him?
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reading , reading and reading can solve the problem with the long.
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This is a good question for the English teachers. The person wants to improve his writing skills. I presumed he already knows the basic grammar and also the mechanics. So what advice can you give him?
Do one of the Cambridge courses: FCE, CAE or CPE . You usually start on the sentence level before moving to the text level. There are a lot of excercises in books which help you with the preparation. Leo Jones books might be of help. You need the teachers book to check your answers. writing requires signposting your texts correctly as far as academic papers are concerned.
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I never thought someone who lives in an English-speaking country would also find it so hard to solve his writing problem. I find it even harder to solve my writing problem.
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