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Posted by Tara Benwell on November 22, 2008

Do you want to improve your English writing skills?

I am here to help! My name is Tara and I am a writer and editor. I help create materials and lessons for EnglishClub.com and TEFL.net. In my spare time I love to play with my kids, read novels, and write stories.

The best way to improve your writing skills is to write. So, let's get started. Here's today's writing challenge:
Describe yourself in three sentences. (Use the comments section to write your introduction.)

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Another great way to practise your writing is with dictations. EnglishClub has a NEW listening section with three levels of dictations.

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huong February 23, 2009 10:09

hi, my name huong, i come from vietnam, i like reading novel,and tell joke on spare time. i expect everybody help my english. thanks you so much! have you a nice week
Ashish February 23, 2009 4:31

hi i am ashish pandey from india . i am a student .i like phone chat .love english too .
Erlinda valensia February 23, 2009 2:12

Hi I'm linda from Indonesia. I'm happy to find u here. Please help me. I do really want to improve my english writing coz my teacher told me that my writing is lack grammatical structure. Now, I'm about to follow ur instruction by writing three words 'bout me. Here they are...Simple, honest and a bit lazy. Well???
agus suganda February 19, 2009 10:41

Hi, my name's agus suganda. I am a teacher.I love English
Özgür Öztürk February 18, 2009 4:57

Hi I am Özgür from Turkey,i am also a student at university.My department is civil engineering,next year ı am going to study at State Universities of New York at Buffalo and ı need to do well on the TOEFL.Writing skills are making me harder and ı am afraid of it.I hope ı succeed with your sections.
hassan sabouri February 11, 2009 9:20

I'm H.sabouri. I work in a factory that make seat for cars. I'm an engineer and I work in engineer manufacturing department.
Tara Benwell February 10, 2009 15:18

Hi everyone! Thanks for all of your introductions. These are great. I noticed that many of you say writing is the most difficult thing about learning English. Let's practise some more. Please join me in Writing Challenge #2.
Jeany February 10, 2009 4:03

l' m from China and my name is Jeany. l fascinated to English language and l would like to improving my writing skill here and l am looking forward to make great strides in it.
Thank you very much.
Yamma Tsang February 9, 2009 13:28

Hi, my name is yamma, i come from hong kong.
I like listening music, shopping with my friend in the free time.
i want to improve my english skill, in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
It is not only for the IELTS test, but aslo for my future job.
Most i want to is speaking english as like as the english native speaker
Tara Benwell February 3, 2009 14:39

Hi Cisca,
Great to meet you! Thanks for taking the writing challenge. Your introduction is great. I'm a simple person too. Keeping life simple is one of my main goals in life. This is often difficult in a world where everyone feels the need to be busy.

Here are a few corrections:
"like to make friends" or "like making" -after "like" you need to use the infinitive (to make) or the gerund "ing" (making)
"like to search" (same rule as above)
"Please correct" (correction is the noun; correct is the verb)

You can find more practice for gerunds (ing) and infinitives (to +verb) here.