JML Reading & Writing

Writing in a second language There are many aspects that influence writing in a second language as well as reasons why we should write in a second language. Influence of Reading When we read in any language we understand new vocabulary, sentence structures, writing styles, and are influence to obtain our own writing styles.  This is even more important when reading and writing in a second language. In comparison of read-writers who do not read regulary in their native language to those that do so is that when they transfer to reading/writing in a second language the consistant reader-writer in their native language has a great advantage of reading/writing better than the others. At many times when a person is a new language learner they need to relearn how to read in that new language becasue most of the time the sentence structure, imigary, grammatical structures, vocabulary, and other aspects have changed. This at the beginning can frustrate new language learners but...

Important points to writing your story! Writing a story of any type and any length to many can seem like a scary task, but once you get started it really isn't that difficult. However, there are some important points and ideas that should be discussed and remembered. You need to find your style and your audience. If you don't know what style you want to write your story in and who your audience will be then it will be very difficult to finish your story. You may in fact finish the story but it will most likely not make sense. Do you want to write for children, teens, or adults? If children what age? What style do you want to write in? You can write fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, historic, comedy, romance. Also you want to look at what type of story you want to write? You can write poetry, a short story, picture books for children, chapter books, comics, novels, etc. There really are many combinations of styles, types, and audience that you can have to write a wonderfu...