Improve your writing!

Normally, people use the writing strategies to comunicate with other people. In my case I do it too. But you can write to commnicate with other people or for your own personal use.

If you would like to communicate to other people you would use:

-Letters
-Memos
-Messages
-Reports
-Instructions
-Forms
-Fórums
-Etc.


But if you wanna write for your personal use you would use:

-Study notes
-A personal diary
-Lists
-Adress books
-Probably a blog, like mine.
-Etc.



Now, we use a lot of technolgy to communicate ourselves with other people but years ago they use papers and their hands.

Characteristics of written texts:

Good characteristics:

You have time to think, you can rewrite what you want, it can be more elavorated, you can look up what you don't know.

Bad characteristics:

It will be permanent!!!!


I said before that now we use the modern technology to communicate our selves with each others, we use:

-The mobil phone
-E-mails
-Some forums like facebook, twitter...

And using this new technologies we write very different than we use to, and that's why we don't write like we should, we write like we talk.
For example:

How are you? would be: How are u?
Today I love you more than yesterday. would be: 2day I love u + than yesteday.

Or if you want to say that you are laghting you would say: jajaja or hahaha!

Some characteristics of this modern technology would be to write a lot of question marks, a lots of exclamation marks. Or to write it (if you can) with a lot of colours!



Now if you want to write a perfect text you should:

Look at the layout: It is important to write a text in the formal way it should be written. For example if you were doing a discursive composition you'll have to write using paragraphs and if you were writing a letter you would leave space to say who you are,where are you from...(at the head of the page) and you would have to leave some space at the end to say goodbye.

Look at the style: Differents types of writing have different types of style. If you are reading a text you would know if this text is conversational and chatty or if it comes from a writer who uses formal grammar and vocabulary.

Know what is your writing purpose: You have to know what's your purpose and what you are going to talk about if you want to catch the attention of the reader, to present the information clearly, etc.