Week 2 Language comprehension Skills

A realistic attitude about writing must build on the idea that writing is a skill. It is a skill like driving, typing, or cooking, and like any skill, it can be learned. If you have the determination to learn, this book will give you the extensive practice needed to develop your writing skills. People who believe that writing is a “natural gift” rather than a learned skill may think that they are the only ones for whom writing is unbearably difficult. They might feel that everyone else finds writing easy or at least tolerable. Such people typically say, “I’m not any good at writing” or “English was not one of my good subjects.” The result of this attitude is that people try to avoid writing, and when they do write, they don’t try their best. Their attitude becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: Their writing fails chiefly because they have convinced themselves that they don’t have the “natural talent” needed to write. Unless their attitude changes, they probably will not learn how to write effectively.

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