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My best advice for a budding author is "Write.", Write!" and "Keep writing." Write in English regularly, improve your writing skills, for formal and informal letter writing, stories, resumes, essays, business plans and emails.

Great, but where does one start?

For elegant and effective writing, choose your powerful words carefully, weave them together into phrases, clauses and great sentences.  [ Read more...]

By combining sentences on the same topic together you get a paragraph. Here's how to write a good academic style paragraph

Vital ingredients for the craft of writing

One of the most important components is the image as a writing device to convey the magic from your imagination. One does this by using the figures of speech through one's unique style, also called 'the author's voice' sometimes.

Another very important component of your writing is syntax. This part of grammar deals with the connection of all the words you need in your sentences (neither more, nor less) and their correct order in your sentences.

A few examples of writing pieces

For now, we shall concern ourselves with the practice of writing as part of our studying of English as a foreign language. We did have an interesting assignment in January 2015 for which, little by little, my students had to build sufficient information for a private blog. You can peruse excerpts from Ghada's, and Ahad's blog here.

I was impressed recently, when I visited Razane's blog, to realise that she took our practice on board seriously and continued with her writing. That's awesome, Razane! Please let us know of other examples, if you have any.

Here is my writing as another example. This was an exercise of mine during my life in China, between 2012-2014.

Your turn to hand in your own pieces

And here is your writing - start with "Your Success Story".

You can use this form to write to us, giving details about your level of English and why you are interested in learning it. I look forward to hearing from you.

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