Thank you for helping me. I know my writing is terrible and not thoughtful. Im trying to write better but i cant write well even in vietnamese. Could you tell me any website to improve writing?
Thank for your proposal !
Jane! Look! Look up ^^^^
Do you see what you wrote to me?
It was FINE! It was GOOD! I was INTERESTED IN reading it!!
If you work VERY HARD to let your writing sound like talking, you will do 1000 times better.
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But that is hard work, I promise you.
1)) You have to listen to your own voice inside your head as you imagine yourself speaking to someone else.
2) And it has to be authentic and unself-conscious. You have to forget that you're listening to yourself, and forget that your imaginary conversation is for a purpose.
3) And then you have to "memorize" your natural words for the time it takes to write them down
4) And then you have to forget that you are "
Writing a Composition." You have to trick your brain into becoming just a tape recorder for the natural language you are going to capture on paper.
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Something weird happens to people when they start to write. Suddenly the way they talk disappears and some other kind of thing takes control of their minds.
Consider this story: A policeman is investigating the discovery of dead bodies drained of all their blood. In the middle of the night he trails a suspect to a deserted house. He has to go inside all by himself.
An American student writes like this:
"I ambled up the dark pathway to the abandoned abode. I proceeded to open the entry portal. Once I gained admittance to the interior of the domicile, I started to observe that something was amiss."
A Vietnamese student writes like this:
"I was going up the sidewalk. It was dark outside because it was night and the sun had gone down. I walked up three steps, first the bottom step, then I put my foot on the next step, and then finally I was standing on the top step."
This is what is SHOULD say:
"I went down that creepy path with my heartbeat surging in my throat. The minute I got inside I smelled vampires."
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- Writing is not a miserable experience to be suffered through, like going to the dentist.
- It isn't like the write-up of a science "experiment:"
1) First I added 2g of starch to a test tube
2) Then I added 10 cc of saliva to the starch in the test tube
3) Then I mixed them together
4) Then I put the test tube containing the starch-saliva mixture aside for 10 minutes
For your purposes, if you will dedicate yourself to writing down WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE SAID ALOUD in natural speech to a friend, your writing will be somewhere between "good" and "excellent."
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My dear old English language student, somehow I doubt that if you were chatting with your friends, you would ever really REALLY say out loud, "
You have to protect yourself from the bad effects of mobiles if you choose to have one."
What would you really say? For me, I would really REALLY say, "Yeah but look out too because they can hurt you."
- Since that is what I would really really say, that is what I write down.
- Then when I edit it, I change it just enough to allow for the difference between spoken speech and the conventions of writing:
"Yeah but look out too because they can hurt you" becomes
"Sure, mobiles are fun, but look out -- they can be bad for you too." (or something similar)
On the first edit I did for this passage, this idea came out like this:
But be careful -- mobile phones might also be bad for you!
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Why not practice with this:
Please write down the EXACT WORDS you would actually use if you were chatting with your friends in this conversation:
Your friend says, "Look, everyone! I got a new cellie! It's sooo fab! I ADORE it!"
Your other friend says to you: "Hey Jane -- ever wonder why people love their mobile phones so much?"
What do you say ( -- SAY -- in SPOKEN WORDS -- to your FRIENDS -- ) to transmit the following ideas:
The most advantage of having a mobile phone is you can communicate to your family and your friends no matter what where you are. For instance, you can contact easily to your friends by calling or sending messages everywhere without electricity. It is maybe the main reason why almost all people today choose to own a mobile phone.
Mobiles are a great invention but they still have many issues. You have to protect yourself from the bad effects of mobiles if you choose to have one.
For some reason, writing down what you would actually say is not easy to do, even though we all open our mouths and speak thousands of times a day without the slightest effort.
It's not easy (especially at first), but it's not impossible, and doing this is the difference between good writing and knocking everyone into a coma.