so today i want to begin by sharing some different helpful ways to self-study writing
okay so let's talk about three ways to self-study writing first keep a journal and we'll talk about
each of these in detail so keep a journal use english writing prompts talk about what that
is and write a summary so let's go through these three self-study skills or self-study methods so
first is to keep a journal so unfortunately oh no journal around me so a journal is like a notebook
that we write our thoughts in so in a journal you can write about the events of your day
you can write about your thoughts and feelings this will help you express yourself
so it might not be something that you have normally done or that you have done before
but if you keep a journal in english this is an excellent way to practice writing about your life
right and all of our study skills are connected so if you practice writing about your day and writing
about your thoughts your feelings your opinions in english every day or very often then it will
help your speaking too right so you become more skilled at talking about whatever it is you want
to write about so for me if i try to keep a journal in another language it i write about
uh what i am comfortable writing about but try to challenge myself a little so
let's say i want to write about where's my mouse there we go the events of my day so let's say i
am studying english and i know how to talk about simple things like i woke up i brushed my teeth
i ate breakfast some simple things there so i can also challenge myself what does this mean
well maybe i did something and i don't know how to say it in english keeping a journal is the perfect
time to look up new words use them to talk about your day and expand your vocabulary
improve your writing and improve your speaking and confidence okay so
keeping a journal excellent excellent way to practice your writing and something
you can see over time your skill will improve right so also make sure to try and write
as long as you can as much detail as you can so not just two sentences right it is hard to talk
about our day in just two sentences so maybe try 10 sentences or more okay so keep a journal
our next self-study writing method is use english writing prompts so what is a writing prompt
a writing prompt is a sentence or a question that we read and then write about that thing
so for example a writing prompt might say something like um tell me what music you like and
there you go okay that's the topic i will write about so english writing topics
okay you can use google or any search engine
to look up english writing prompts there are so many and just choose one a day
this will help you to learn to write about many different topics and again make sure to uh
use your phone or your computer to translate use a dictionary use tools to help you learn the words
and phrases you need to write about these many different topics so here's an
example i just searched english writing prompts so let's take a look at some that would be easy
or at least good starting questions to write about maybe could be difficult could be easy
so your favorite childhood vacation wow so that one topic you could write so much about right
you could write about your favorite teacher right describe them what they are like
in writing so many things you could talk about write about your first job right
so there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these kinds of questions out there
so all you have to do is search for them and then write about them each day okay
okay so the next way we can self-study writing is to write a summary so a summary
let's talk about what that means first a summary is like let's say i have a
long long long story or a long movie or something long and i want to tell you just the most
important information about that thing let's say i watched a great movie and my friend asks
me what was the movie about well i'm not going to tell them the whole story right maybe just
the most important information so if someone asked me what happened in the avengers end game movie
i could say something like oh um they all came together to fight thanos in the end well i don't
want to ruin it for you if you haven't seen it but i would just give some simple information right
this is a great way to learn how to talk about big ideas in a short way sometimes when we are trying
to express ourselves in another language maybe there are so many things we're thinking about
and so many things we want to say it can be hard to uh just say what we need to say right
so practicing writing again helps our speaking too you can write summaries about anything you
like okay so this is always important write about what you like right anytime you self study
you should enjoy it so you can write summaries about movies books tv shows things happening in
the news and so on anything that you like okay so remember writing a summary keeping a journal and
using english writing prompts are all excellent ways to self-study writing