POSTING 2:H ow blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance their writing skills

The best way to improve your weblog is to improve your writing skill. No amount of search engine optimization and membership in blog rings can make people regularly read your articles are poorly written. A newspaper editor once said : the easiest thing for the reader to do is to quit reading.

Some people are was born with a gift for writing but for most of us, improving our writing skills is a tedious but rewarding process of continous learning and rewritting.Fortunately for us, there are a lot of good websites that offers tips on how to improve our writting skills. Here are some of the sites that i frequently visit. I hope a few bloggers find the list that i listed is useful. If you know of the other sites, please get me know it yeah!!!!!!!!!! sharing is caring bebeh..:)..huhhu..

www.newsu.org
The website was put up by Poynter to help journalist improve their craft. The site offers a lot of free courses. Here are the courses that i found is very helpful:
*cleaning your copy
*get me newrite: The craft of version
*The lead lab
*The writer's wrkbench: 50 tools you can use

www.poynter.org
Poynter is probably the best on9 resources for journalists. Here are some articles that i particularly like:
*The log and winding road
*Performance under pressure
This article convinced me that i should continue blogging. B4 this i have started for blogging for my other courses last sem but the effort was half-hearted!!!!hehe..

www.theslot.com
The slot: A spot for copy editors: This website by Washington Post editor Bill Walsh. He is have a blog and it is also a good site for writing and editing tips. If you have the time, make sure to read all his tips but if u'r not(in a rush,perhaps..) here are a few you might want to check:
*parallel construction
*caption writing

So, to my all dear friends..hopely all my suggestion will help us together to guide use to be a good writer and helping a lot for our ''writting academic courses" also..