I think
translation is a good way of learning how to write perfectly.
Where can we find good English passages and texts? Many sources are around! Personally I recommend newspapers and magazines. Most articles there are perfect in English writing.
First you choose an interesting article, then translate it into your language. Second, make a translation back into English and compare! This will take time but I guess what you obtain is not just better writing
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Especially to ms-a.z:
You can speak well about a lot of things, but you are still not pleased with your writing, why? Because you were not really writing! You were simply typing out your thinking! I think you are a bit easy to yourself in writing, and that's why you often miss following some certain writing rules:
1- You don't start your sentences with
Capital
Letters.
2- You often end your sentences with "
...".
3- Many of your posts here are not very well-organized. You write many things but you didn't devide them into passages, so the readers might jump or skip your writing.
4- You forgot to check your writing after you had finished, so I still see mistakes of spelling in your posts.
Overall, writing is not like speaking when you can spontaneously learn by practising. In writing you need to learn by looking back at your practice and promise to yourself that you won't make these mistakes again. Teachers will surely help you point out the mistakes in your writing!
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In this LEARNING ENGLISH forum, you can find a topic about writing IELTS topics (drowning somewhere below though), you can search for the topics, then post there for everyone to know and you yourself write one!
And my last word now is that if you have good tips, please post up and discuss to help others learn actually.
Best wishes,
Pirate
