Writing skills - how to learn to write texts correctly - free course from 4brain, training 30 days, date November 28, 2023.

Probably everyone who had to write compositions, summaries, abstracts and essays at school has tried to become a writer. But are you now ready to try to write an interesting article, a long letter with a business proposal, not to mention an entire book? If you have come to this page, then you would probably like to improve your writing skills: the ability to easily create competent, beautiful texts.

Most people find it difficult to write even small text. These difficulties can be of different nature. For example, one person lacks the banal desire and willpower to just sit down and start writing something. Another would like to, but it’s difficult to decide on a topic or find the right words. The third one can write a lot, but then notices that there are a large number of errors in his text.

All these problems are associated not so much with our innate abilities, but with the knowledge and skills that our parents, teachers and lecturers instilled in us. Unfortunately, schools and universities rarely offer subjects or lessons that even to some extent teach how to learn to write correctly.

This course of online lessons contains useful tips to help beginning writers. In this training you will learn what the art of writing is, or as it is now fashionably called, copywriting, and you will be able to master basic writing skills. This course is focused primarily on practical knowledge that will help you show your talent and your creativity.

What is this writing skill?

Writing skills (writing, writing, copywriting, literary activity) is the human activity of creating verbal works intended for reading by other people.

A writer, writer, author or writer is a person who is engaged in writing.

All people who can write with a pen or type on a computer have writing abilities to varying degrees. Naturally, each person develops these abilities to varying degrees. But still, not everyone is a writer. A real writer is a person who can write a good text that is interesting to readers.
In addition, the process of popularizing graphomania is provoked by the readers (users) themselves. Remember when you read an article from cover to cover. Most likely, in most cases you simply view (scan) texts on website pages “diagonally”, trying to quickly find the information you need. And if there is no demand for good texts, then there is no supply of them.

In our course we will talk about a different type of writing, the fruits of which are interesting and useful to readers.

Applying the Skill of Writing

The ability to write beautifully, logically and competently is a skill useful to almost every modern person. Every day we write letters, communicate with colleagues and friends through mail and social networks. In our messages, we express thoughts, address the addressee with a request, or describe some events. In this case, competent written speech can serve as an excellent assistant in career growth and business relationships.

But writing is not only useful for work, career, business and communication with people, it is necessary for those who want to share their thoughts with society through the creation of literary works. For a real author, writing, to some extent, is the path to the immortality of the human name, a way to avoid oblivion. The skills and talent of the writer determine how long his works will live and how long he can remain in the memory of readers. A well-known proverb states: “What is written with a pen cannot be cut down with an ax.” And although today they very rarely write with a pen, moreover, they no longer write as much as they print, still the best works of writing become the property of society for a long time.

And even if you don't plan to become famous through your works, writing can be useful to you personally. For example, you can keep a diary and reflect your interesting thoughts in it; this will help you put things in order in your head, structure important ideas, plans and upcoming tasks.

How to learn to write?

Writing is a complex skill consisting of various knowledge and skills.

Secondly, you cannot do without motivation and a strong desire to create a new work, because writing requires a lot of effort and time. Are you ready for this? Thirdly, you must know the norms of language, or in other words, the rules of writing, which will allow you to convey your ideas to readers as clearly as possible.
Some of the most essential attributes that will help you become a good writer include the following:

• Well-read and educated, good upbringing.
• Motivation, a strong desire to write, hard work and perseverance.
• Extensive active vocabulary.
• Literacy, knowledge of the rules of the Russian language.
• Harmoniously developed logical and creative types of thinking.
• Knowledge of genre, style and structural features of written speech.

In addition, writers often say that something elusive helps a work to come into being, associated with morality, life ideals, creative inspiration, or perhaps the divine for nothing.

For example, Richard Bach claims that his most famous story, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, was literally “dictated from above” to him. And those who have also read Bach's other works will have noticed the striking contrast between his traditional stories and the deeply metaphorical Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

In this regard, the question arises:

Is it even possible to learn the art of writing?

If you have creative abilities, everyone can develop their writing talent gradually and purposefully, based on the lessons of this training.

How to take classes

In our training lessons you will find background information, as well as useful tips and exercises for mastering all the important writing skills that you can learn. The speed and efficiency of development of each of the skills presented varies from person to person. Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly how long each lesson or the entire course will take you.

However, we can give general recommendations regarding the mode and duration of classes:

• To make sure you don't miss anything, try to read all the lessons.
• Try to identify your main problems and solve them, understanding them in more detail in the relevant lessons, doing exercises, following the necessary recommendations.
• Practice is an important element of each lesson, so be sure to try to apply the knowledge gained in your writing activities.
• Test your work with experienced, objective readers who won't be shy about saying what they really think about the fruits of your creativity.
• Try to write constantly and don’t give up on it, otherwise both the muse and a good style will come to you as rarely and irregularly as you do to them.