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Hey guys, what"s up? Stefanie the English coach here from Englishfulltime. com. In this video we are gonna talk about how to improve your writing in English.
嗨，大家好，我是Englishfulltime.com的Stefanie。这节课我们来聊一下怎么提高你的英语写作水平。
First there"s four things that you have to do. 1. Ask questions 2. Do research 3. Practice and 4. Get feedback.
你需要做到四件事。1. 提出问题；2. 做相关研究；3. 勤加练习；4.获得反馈。
That"s it, but we"re gonna break that down and talk about what each of those steps means. First, ask questions. . . this is the most crucial part to improving your writing.
就是这样，我们来分开分别讲一下每一步要怎么做。首先，提出问题，这是提高写作水平最重要的一步。
You have to know what good writing is. So start by asking questions: what are you writing?
你需要知道什么叫优秀的写作。所以首先要提出问题：你在写的是什么？
What are you trying to improve? What"s lacking?
哪方面需要改进？缺什么内容？
Who is your audience? What are the expectations of the people that are gonna be reading your writing?
你的读者是谁？人们通过读你写的东西希望得到什么？
Because the truth is, that there"s so many different writing styles that you could use depending on what you"re writing. If you"re writing a business email to a client, your writing and the structure of your writing is gonna be a lot different than if you"re writing a post on Facebook or if you"re writing an academic essay or if you"re writing a resume.
事实上，你可以有很多种写作方式。如果你在给客户写商务信函，那写作结构就要跟发Facebook或者写论文、写简历完全不一样了。
So really you have to start by asking these questions. What are you writing?
所以你一定要先考虑这些问题。你写的是什么？
Who are you writing it to? What are their expectations?
要写给谁？对方的预期是什么？
Then it"s time to do research. Go on Google, go on YouTube and start asking your questions.
然后就该做一些研究了。去谷歌、Youtube上搜索相关问题。
Read blog posts and articles, look for the answers. You can even read entire books on writing, Okay.
读相关的文章来找到答案。甚至可以直接读一本关于写作的书。
But what I want to suggest here is that you don"t go looking for material on how to become a better writer from English teachers. Okay? Here"s the reason why.
但是我在这里想说的是，最好不要从英语老师那里去找相关材料。我来解释一下为什么。
English teachers teach English. They teach vocabulary.
英语老师是教英语的。他们会教词汇。
They teach phrasal verbs. They teach grammar.
会教短语。会教语法。
But they are not experts on writing. If you want to make a blog in English, for example, an English teacher can"t show you and tell you how to do that successfully.
但他们并不是写作方面的专家。比如说你要写一篇英文博客，英语老师可不会教给你怎么样才能写好。
You have to go to the people who have already made blogs in English and look up. . . how do they structure their blog posts? How do they structure their sentences?
你需要去问那些已经写的很出色的人，看一下他们怎么构思。怎么样组合自己的句子。
How do they keep the readers engaged? What kind of writing style do they use?
怎么跟读者保持沟通。他们使用了怎样的写作风格。
How do they incorporate humor? You have to learn writing from people who already do that kind of writing.
以及他们如何运用幽默。你要从那些已经有了相关写作的人身上进行学习。
If you want to learn how to write a resume, you have to look up articles in English that are actually for English speakers.Okay? Pretend you"re already a fluent, confident. . . you"re an English speaker, even if you"re not totally there yet.
如果你想学怎么写英文简历，那就要看那些给英语母语者的英语文章。要假装自己能非常流利、自信地说英语，即便可能还不行。
Start looking up material that was written for English speakers because those articles, those materials, those books are going to have the best information. Now here"s a tip for you guys.
最好直接去看那些英文的原版材料，因为这些文章、材料、书籍都是最好的信息来源。给你们一个小提示。
Writers, they don"t study English. Great writers, people that have written books, people that run websites, and write blog posts (there"s obviously so many different kinds of writing you could do), but writers don"t study English.
作家们并不“学英语”。作家、运营网站的人、写博客的人（还有很多其他的写作风格），他们都不是学习英语才成功的。
They study writing. That"s very important.
他们学习的是写作。这是很重要的一点。
The best writers in the world, they don"t study grammar. They don"t study vocabulary, they study more writing from other great writers.
世界上最好的作家并不学习语法。并不学习词汇，而是从其他伟大作家那里学习如何写作。
So if you want to improve your writing, you have to study good writing. OK? You have to analyze it, you have to break it down.
所以，如果你想要提高自己的写作水平，你要学的是良好的写作。你要分析，要拆解。
You can"t just get tips all the time, because sometimes even if you get a tip and you know, someone says. . ."hey, your sentences need to be clear." That"s a great tip. . . but what does that mean! ?
你很难随时都得到提示，即便有时候你有提示，比如说“你的句子需要更简洁。”这是个很好的提示，但是问题是这是什么意思呢？
What is a clear sentence? What is a sentence that"s convoluted and not clear?
什么叫简洁的句子？冗杂的句子又是什么样呢？
You actually have to read good writing because some things won"t make sense until you see it and until you can break it down in your mind and analyse it and then go "ohhhhh, that"s what it is! That"s how you do it!
实际上你需要自己去读这些好的写作，因为有些东西你不看到你是不能理解的，你不去分析和拆解是很难弄明白的，这样才会明白：“原来是这样的！”“原来你是这么做的！”
That"s how you transition from one sentence to the next.That"s how you transition from one paragraph to the next."
“原来应该这样从一个句子过渡到下一个句子。”“原来自然段要这样过渡。”
You have to be a researcher, you have to ask questions, you have to research, then you have to analyze. And then the next step is practice.
你要变成一个研究者，你要提出问题，你要做研究，做分析。下一步就是练习。
You won"t improve your writing if you don"t practice. But now, at least, you know what you"re writing, you know who your audience is, you know what their expectations are, and you"ve researched what good writing is, you"ve looked at examples, you"ve broken them down, you"ve analyzed them, so now it"s time for you to implement everything that you"ve learned.
如果不练是不会有提高的。但是至少到现在为止，你知道你写的是什么了，你知道你的受众是谁了，你也知道他们的期望是什么了，也做了研究，看了例子，拆解分析了，现在该把学到的东西全部应用一下了。
And you want to basically make your writing look, sound, and feel like the writing that you"ve been studying. Ok? So practice, practice, practice.
你要让你写出来的东西看起来很像你之前看过的、研究过的东西。所以一定要勤加练习。
And then you need feedback. You don"t just want to ask your friends, though.
最后你需要反馈。并不只是问问朋友们就好了。
You don"t just want to ask some random English speaker that you know, that you work with. You want to ask somebody who understands the type of writing that you"re doing.
也并不是问问你认识的随便哪个英语母语者就好了。你需要问真正了解你写作那种的人。
So, let"s say you are preparing for the IELTS exam. You can"t just go to anybody, even if they"re a native English speaker, and say "hey, what do you think of this writing?"
比如说你在准备雅思考试。你不能只是随便找个人，即便是英语为母语的人，然后跟他说：“你觉得我这篇作文写得怎么样？”
Because honestly, writing is a skill that people work to develop. And just because someone is a native English speaker, for example, doesn"t mean that they understand how to write, and who your audience is, what"s expected etcetera, so you need to get feedback from someone who knows what you"re doing, why you"re doing it, what the goal is, what the expectations are.
因为实话说，写作是一项需要努力才能提高的技能。并不因为某个人是英语母语者，他就一定懂如何写作、懂你的受众是谁、期望是什么之类的，所以你要找一个真正懂这些内容的人来给你反馈。
Because then they can say "oh, look, this is a professional email that you"re trying to write, and this phrase that you used here. . . this isn"t very professional and this is why." Ok? If you talk with someone who doesn"t understand how to write a professional email, again, even if they are a native English speaker, the feedback you get is gonna be irrelevant.
这样他们才会告诉你：“你写的是一封职场邮件，但是这个短语……不是很专业，我来告诉你为什么。”明白了吗？如果你跟一个不懂怎么写职场邮件的人求教，即便是个说英语的人，那他们给你的反馈也会是毫不相关的。
They"re not gonna know what they"re talking about. So you have to get feedback from a source who knows.
他们不知道自己该从何说起。所以你要找真正懂的人。
Now, sometimes this means you might have to pay for it. You might have to go to a website where you can hire an editor, or somebody to go through and give you feedback.
即便有的时候可能需要花点钱。你可能需要去网上雇个编辑，或者有人能帮你审稿，给你反馈。
Or, hopefully, you"re lucky enough to have a friend who can help you with this. Or maybe you have to join a program where you practice your writing.
或者是，你刚好有一个朋友可以帮你提高。再或者你可以加入一个项目，练习写作。
I have no idea. But that is basically how you do it.
还有很多很多。但是基本上都是这些东西。
That"s how anyone and everyone improves their writing. That"s how I"ve improved my writing.
所有人都是这么提高自己能力的。我也是这么提高的。
First, by figuring out what am I writing, who"s my audience, asking those questions, doing the research, practicing, and then getting feedback. That"s the formula.
首先，想清楚我要写什么，我的受众是谁，然后提出问题，做研究，练习，最后得到反馈。这就是整体框架。
That"s how you do it. Just remember, that there"s so many different types of writing out there, so you need to pay attention.
这就是你怎么提高自己的写作能力。要记住，有很多种写作方式，所以需要很注意。
There"s different ways of structuring writing depending on what you"re writing. There"s different tones that you can use in your writing.
基于你要写的文体，有不同的结构。也有不同的风格。
And a tone is created by your word choices and by your sentence structures. So as I was saying, there"s different tones you could use depending on who you"re writing to, what effect you want your writing to have on the audience.
而风格是由你的遣词造句决定的。就像我之前提到的，风格取决于你写给谁、想要起到什么样的效果。
So, you know, this is not a simple process. This is not something that happens overnight.
这并不是一个简单的过程。也不是一夜之间就能练好的。
But as long as you are being strategic about it, you can improve your writing reletively quickly. You just have to know what good writing is, and what are you writing, and who is your audience, and then do the research.
但是只要你坚持方法，你就能相对比较快地改善自己的写作能力。你只需要知道什么叫优秀的写作，知道自己在些什么，知道受众是谁，然后做一些研究。
Figure out what you have to do to get to that end goal. Look, grammar is a part of it, it"s obvious.
要搞清楚为了达到目标需要做什么。语法很显然是其中一个部分。
You need to understand grammar. But guess what, grammar is not writing. OK?
你要理解语法。但是语法并不等同于写作。
Grammar is grammar. And sometimes you can have good writing where the grammar is wrong and that"s part of the writing style.
语法就是语法。有时候也会出现语法错误但仍然是优秀写作情况，因为这种文体就是这样的。
Sometimes that happens. In the famous book, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, that"s one of the style elements of that book.
确实会这样的。在马克·吐温的名著《哈克贝利·芬历险记》中，这就是整本书的一个元素。
In the dialogue where the people talk with each other, the grammar is totally messed up because it reflects how people would talk in that time period, in that era, etcetera. So, that"s a kind of random example.
那里的人们彼此之间交流，用的语法全是错的，但是这就反映了当时当地人们是如何说话的。当然这只是一个例子。
But, you get the point, right? That writing is different everywhere depending on what you"re doing.
但是你能明白我的意思吧？基于你在写的内容，写作是完全不同的。
So hopefully this video was helpful. For those of you who know nothing about writing, I know these tips are really gonna help you.
希望这个视频能有所帮助。对于完全没了解过写作的观众来说，我相信这些提示有所帮助。
For those of you who kind of already know a lot about writing, maybe this stuff was obvious to you, and that"s good. . . it should be obvious. Anyways, if you guys want 5 ways that you can improve your writing in less than 10 minutes, and these are really specific examples, then you can go ahead and download a free audio class that I made for you.
对于那些已经知道怎么写作的观众，可能这些都太小儿科了，但是仍然还是很不错的提示。如果大家想要知道5种10分钟内提高自己写作的方法，你们可以去听一下我给大家录制的音频课。
I will link it in the description. And it"s basically the basics of good writing. . . do this, don"t do that.
我把链接放在评论了。基本上就是介绍了一些优秀写作的基础，该做和不该做的事。
That"s what I teach you guys in that audio class. So, it"s linked in the description.
我在音频课里给大家讲解了这些内容。链接在评论区。
And don"t forget to find me on Instagram and follow me there at @theenglishcoach and @englishfulltime a new Instagram account that I started for our community. Also, feel free to find me on Facebook.
别忘了去Instagram上关注我@theenglishcoach，还有一个新的社区账号@englishfulltime。还有，大家随时可以在Facebook上联系我。
Follow my page there "The English Coach" and check out the website and blog englishfulltime. com. There"s some other free stuff for you guys there, too.
我的主页是"The English Coach"，也可以去englishfulltime.com关注。那里也有一些免费的学习材料。
Anyways, that"s it! I will put all the links in the description, and I look forward to seeing you guys in another video. Bye!
我已经把所有的链接都放到评论区了，下次视频见，拜拜。
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