Essay Writing (Week 2)

Hi everyone! how are things?

The topic of today is essay writing. Before discussing about the difficulties you can find when writing an essay here I provide you with a few links to writing labs online.

1º: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
2º: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
3º: https://owl.excelsior.edu
4º: https://writing.colostate.edu

From my experience, the major difficulties when writing an essay are the following ones. First of all, it is the organization of ideas. When I see the topic of the essay that I have to discuss, I do not know how to start organizing the ideas that I have in mind. Nevertheless, when this happens, I imagine an outline of the essay in my mind rather than writing it in order to save time. Secondly, the structure of sentences. Most of the times I write long sentences that don't go anywhere. So long are my sentences that sometimes they lose meaning. In these situations I try to organize them into shorter sentences so that the information I want to discuss sounds better. Thirdly and most challenging difficulty when writing an essay it is the time. I consider myself truly complicated when it comes to make a decision. The same happens when writing an essay. I normally change the way I want to say something constantly. Sometimes I overthink about anything and that is not a positive point to myself.

Nevertheless writing essays is a matter of constancy. You can improve your writing skills by writing essays from time to time. That way, you will surpass yourself. In my case, I feel proud of the positive progress I have achieved writing in English. Now I have a highest level in grammar and vocabulary and I am more fluent!

What about you? Have you notice any progress in your English writing in the last few years?
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I've been watching my fav TV show in English with English subtitles in order to improve my fluency in English!