IT is natural if we say that whatever we cannot do will be difficult for us at all. But in language practice, most learners often believe that the writing skill of the language is the most difficult among the four language skills, for the potential reason that the written matter is not always an easy task to correct very quickly if we make a mistake about it. Rarely is a learner’s writing with fluency and accuracy on some matter his inherited ability, except for some persons like U Ponnya, a great poet laureate in the Konbaung era of Myanmar. In schools, students must take exercises for essays, letters and emails as the language writing skill before reading the very works of literature in the future. Of course, anything that we have written should work. Additionally, everything that we have composed should do any good, functioning effectively and efficiently. So, before this writing, there are still several useful tasks which we are able to follow quite easily. Sometimes, very little but important things make a big deal. Hence, language learners can conduct the following until their willingly targeted writing.
Previous to great writing, we can just start reading a short article. Instead of scrolling on our phones, we should read a short English article, especially during our commute or break time. Many people tend to waste their precious time commuting from one place to another or having a break between periods of time for nothing. In the space of that length, we will be able to read a kind of short article on a trip at one sitting or exactly for fifteen minutes. Certainly, short articles may never seem boring for whoever is an elementary or advanced learner of the language, since they usually save so much time that the learners can absorb detailed information in clusters in a moment with their eyes shut. Furthermore, a good choice of words, that is, short-tothe-point words, is often selected by most writers of a short article.
No matter what kind of subject matter is read, we had better set a reading goal, for example, to sit the entrance examination, to go abroad for regional knowledge, or to communicate with overseas friends and teachers by email or letter and so on. And we have to aim to read in English at least three times a week. On those days, we must read English only as much as possible, not the others. Sayama Khin Khin Htoo once stated that her husband, writer Saya Nay Win Myint, likes to read only English on Sundays, not in Myanmar at all. Also, it is best if we are able to read English every day without fail, for instance, at a rate of about thirty minutes each day. Such a reading routine would be better than one where we read one day but not another day. As we are all aware, little and often makes a big difference. The more reading, the better writing.
Following enough study of reading, we ought to keep an English journal, where the term journal means a written record of the things we know, see and do day by day. Writing in a journal helps us practise new words, grammar, and express ourselves simply, as we all can’t know English usages and expressions which will describe whatever we want, like the back of our hand. Thus, while writing a journal, we may try using some of our never-before-seen words or vocabulary to the extent that we would like to show. Subsequently, we can write the three things we did one day. Here, I want to mean that we can note down three things we did each day. To be candid, it is absolutely simple and great for fluency because this enables us to decide whether or not we can tell any theme effectively and efficiently, rather than normally. Then, we can even write about our future; that will involve our dreams, ideas and plans. It makes us practise and reflect on any matter to see if we have subject mastery and language proficiency as well. After all, someone’s writing may mark an important milestone in his life, I strongly hope.