Effortless English: Learn To Speak English Like a native

How To Develop Your English Writing
So how do you develop a simple, conversational, and direct writing style? It turns
out you already know the answer! In the last chapter we discussed the importance of
pleasure reading. The research shows that this kind of reading is not only a great
way to improve your reading speed, reading comprehension, and vocabulary — it’s
also the best way to improve your writing.
Just as listening is the key to speaking, reading is the key to writing. The same
principle applies: Understandable, compelling input is the foundation for effective
output. In other words, listening is the foundation for speaking and reading is the
foundation for writing.
Just as you focused on fairly easy listening to improve your speaking, you’ll
focus on fairly easy reading to improve your writing. Just as you focused on
listening to real stories and authentic audios to master English speaking, you’ll read
stories and authentic books to master English writing. You needed a lot of listening
to speak effortlessly and you’ll now need a lot of reading in order to write
effortlessly.

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This is why your number one activity for writing is reading. Nothing beats high-
volume pleasure reading for improving written grammar, written vocabulary,
sentence structure, spelling, and clarity. The more you read for pleasure, the more
you intuitively absorb English sentence structures. In other words, you learn to write
best by modeling your writing after good writers. The best way to imitate good
writers is to read their books.
Remember, when it comes to pleasure reading, the amount is what is most
important. Your goal is to constantly increase the number of pages you read in
English every week. Read novels that you love. Read non-fiction books that
fascinate you. Read comic books. Read simple articles. It’s the amount you read that
is most important, not how difficult it is. In fact, easier material is usually best,
especially for the purpose of improving your writing.