How do I become a better writer and enhance my vocabulary?

Question

any good books i can start off reading that could help me out?

Answer 1

You can start by reading more graduate level work; periodicals, journals, daily news (ie: www.yaledailynews.com), etc. Then begin writing more; journals, school papers, anything that interest you. Writing for a school newspaper will prompt you to rapidly develop your prose professionally.

Vocabulary building is easy with a little dedication. There are many ways accumulate vocabulary, but the best way is to learn from what you read. Go buy a notebook. Each day before you go to bed, read graduate level articles until you have come across 10 unknown words. Write them down, look them up on a dictionary, and write down their definition and how they are used. This should take no longer than 30 minutes. If you do this for a year, you will have learned 3000+ new words which puts you at the upper 95 percentile of the population.

Answer 2

I would recommend reading books very thoroughly, with a dictionary at your side. When you cannot understand any word, look it up. Underline the entry, and then rewrite it on the side of the page. Following such, read it aloud. This enhances your visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses; therefore, it enables you to retain the definition longer.
As for becoming a better author, there is but one remedy: EXPERIENCE! Practice daily.

Answer 3

the best sloustion is reading!!!

no matter what you are reading, but something that contains good english, then you can some times memories the par taht you like, and by doing this will build up both your reading and writing skills. the voabulary automatically improves, don't worry much about that but be sharp and look up for the words that you don't know and reread parts that you don't understand and make sure you understand wvery single part before moving on to another part "follow the story"

I hope that helps and will help if you practice it.

Answer 4

You need to expand your horizons read stories and books from authors of different genres like mysteries, dramas, tragedies, romance,{ugh} suspense, all kinds. Notice the different writing styles and it will enhance your vocabulary as you go along.

Answer 5

Read , read, and read,
You should have a good dictionary and also a good synonymous book with you all the time.
Observe everything around you , including yourself. Pay attention to the simple things and find their value.

Answer 6

This will sound like a boring answer, but truthfully, the more that you read and write, the better both will become.

Answer 7

Read more, learn a new word out of the dictionary daily and use the new words that you learn.

Answer 8

Any book will help you learn spelling and sentence flow. Both are helpful when you want to write.

Answer 9

read more
really, if you read more complicated books by good authors, you begin to absorb their writing style and it'll come easily to you