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“How do I improve my English writing?” is an incredibly easy question to answer. The answer, of course, is practice. It is almost impossible to improve your writing skills without doing lots of writing.
Instead of writing something new from scratch, one easy way to get you started is to rewrite some existing text. There are two basic kinds of rewriting, which are structural and sentence level. Sentence level changes may involve fixing errors, making grammatical changes or substituting, deleting and switching words around. Structural rewrites, on the other hand, may involve changing the genre of the text entirely.
Rewriting is not something scientific. It is about achieving the purposes you want to achieve. You may want to change the tone of a writing. You may want to make it shorter and more concise. Or you may want to make it sound more formal. There is almost always an effort to find synonyms for any of the basic terms in the original sentences (sometimes it may be better off to simply rephrase using a different form for a verb). And there can be many alternatives for expressing a similar idea. In any case, along the process you will be practicing your English writing skills, hopefully in a not-so-boring way 🙂
Find out which book is right for you based on your skill level:
At the Beginner level, you can read and write simple information. You can use individual words or learned phrases in familiar situations. You can understand the main idea of basic topics. However, you may need some repetition and rewording in order to gain understanding of a text passage. Note that this level is intended primarily for school students. The English passages and stories included in the exercises differ in content, length, purpose and type.
At the Intermediate level, you can give general meanings on familiar topics for basic needs. You can write simple and accurate text passages. Your basic grammar is accurate and you have a minimal level of skills writing in complex language and going into detail. Note that this level is more suitable for working adults. The English passages included are mostly workplace oriented.
At the Advanced level you can confidently converse at paragraph length in a variety of situations. You can demonstrate proper control of simple grammar and syntax, and can demonstrate a good use of vocabulary. At this level the focus is on helping learners become skilled writers. It helps you write and rewrite for a variety of purposes, such as argumentative, analytical, persuasive …etc.
