This document provides strategies for improving student writing skills. It recommends that all faculty view improving writing as their responsibility. Instructors should assign brief in-class writing exercises, provide guidance throughout the writing process, and have students critique each other's work. Finding other faculty to discuss effective writing techniques can also help students. Specific tips include reminding students that writing is a process of learning, not just an end goal, and teaching students how to expand basic sentence structures and organize paragraphs.

1. EFFICIENT WAY TO IMPROVE
STUDENT WRITING SKILL
By :- S. Bhupinder Singh
Resource Person (English)
Distt. Kathua

2. General Strategies
 View the improvement of students’ writing as your responsibility.
Teaching writing is not only the job of the English department
alone. Writing is an essential tool for learning a discipline and helping
students improve their writing skills is a responsibility for all faculty.
 Let students know that you value good writing.
Stress the importance of clear, thoughtful writing. Faculty who tell students
that good writing will be rewarded and poor writing will be penalized
receive better essays than instructors who don't make such demands. In the
syllabus, on the first day, and throughout the term, remind students that
they must make their best effort in expressing themselves on paper. Back up
your statements with comments on early assignments that show you really
mean it, and your students will respond.
 Regularly assign brief writing exercises in your classes.
To vary the pace of a lecture course, ask students to write a few minutes
during class. Some mixture of in-class writing, outside writing assignments,
and exams with open-ended questions will give students the practice they
need to improve their skills.

3.  Provide guidance throughout the writing process.
After you have made the assignment, discuss the value of
outlines and notes, explain how to select and narrow a topic,
and critique the first draft, define plagiarism as well.
 Don't feel as though you have to read and grade every
piece of your students' writing.
Ask students to analyze each other's work during class, or ask
them to critique their work in small groups. Students will
learn that they are writing in order to think more clearly, not
obtain a grade. Keep in mind, you can collect students'
papers and skim their work.
 Find other faculty members who are trying to use writing
more effectively in their courses.
Pool ideas about ways in which writing can help students
learn more about the subject matter. See if there is sufficient
interest in your discipline to warrant drawing up guidelines.
Students welcome handouts that give them specific
instructions on how to write papers for a particular course or
in a particular subject area.

4. Lack of interest in writing
( Reason)

5. Teaching Writing When You Are Not an EnglishTeacher
 Remind students that writing is a process that helps
us clarify ideas.
Tell students that writing is a way of learning, not an
end in itself.
 Help them to identify the writer's key activities:
 Developing ideas in English only
 Finding a focus.
 Composing a draft…. Think about sentence structure
 Getting feedback and comments from others
 Revising the draft by expanding ideas, clarifying meaning,
reorganizing
 Editing
 Presenting the finished work.

6. How to expand basic sentences into more elaborate
ones
 There are five basic sentence structures in
English:
 Subject –Verb (Ram studies; My friend is playing )
 Subject –Verb – Object (I like apples; Sita reads
novels)
 Subject –Verb – Adjective (Harman is happy;
Sarman is pretty)
 Subject –Verb – Adverb (She speaks fluently;
These flowers are everywhere)
 Subject –Verb – Noun (My father was a chemist,
You are a student)

7. Learn how to organize a paragraph
 A useful way to improve your English writing
skills is to start your paragraphs with a topic
sentence: i.e. a sentence that explains what
you are going to write about. Continue
with supporting sentences: i.e. sentences that
provide more information about the topic.
Finish with a conclusion: i.e. it is generally a
summary of the ideas developed in the body
of the paragraph. Learn how to make
transitions between paragraphs to signal
relationships between ideas so as to create a
fluent body of text.

8. Tips on How to Improve English Writing Skills
 Read as much as you can. ...
 Keep an English dictionary. ...
 Brush up your grammar. ...
 Check your spelling before and after writing.
 Keep a diary in English. ...
 Learn how to expand your basic sentences
into more elaborate ones. ...
 Learn how to organize a paragraph. ...
 Write an outline.

9. Hat tip
Hat tip to DIET
Basholi, DRG Kathua
andTeacher trainees
for watching this file.