How To Improve Your English Writing Skills In 30 Days FULL Lesson
this is the basic setup of an essay you
have the introduction the body and the
conclusion however there are five
different essay writing styles the first
one is your opinion
this style focuses on properly
expressing your opinion about a specific
topic or subject then you have the
information style it focuses on
delivering information logically about a
specific topic or subject then you have
the storytelling style the style focuses
on providing an engaging experience for
the reader and you have the prove a
point style it focuses on giving solid
or good proof for a point you have about
a specific topic or subject and finally
you have the summary style and this
style focuses on condensing or making
smaller or shorter a large amount of
information into a smaller piece of
information
now each style uses a different type of
outline and today I am going to teach
you the 30 day plan that will help you
master all five styles welcome to speak
English with Tiffany I am teacher
Tiffany let’s jump right in days 1 to 6
now from days 1 to 6 we are going to
focus on the your opinion style so day 1
pick and find for this day you need to
pick one topic from the 10 example
topics given then you need to find an
article to read that discusses that
topic now I want to show you something
really quickly even though I have given
you 10 topic examples or ideas right
here you can choose your own if you like
but for this example for this video I’ve
chosen number 5 how can a person become
successful so I start out by using this
topic example and I can go to a
newspaper I can go to a magazine or I
can even go online to a blog or some
other source you can also use a book if
you find a book that talks about the
that you’ve chosen you can also use a
book as well now the important thing to
remember is that reading affects writing
you’re trying to learn how to write
better in English which means you need
to read more English articles or books
or magazines alright so step 2 day 2 is
analyze and rewrite for this day you
need to analyze the article then you
want to rewrite portions of the article
in your notebook this is so you can
verify that you understood the article
so again you see right here I have
highlighted one to three different
sections and I’m transferring them to my
notebook now it is important to remember
that you need to use your own words so
let me show you an example of what I
mean okay so right here is the original
article the article that I read now the
article has three different sections
that I’ve highlighted that I want to
analyze so let’s start with this first
section and see how I rewrote it so this
is what I wrote Forbes magazine said
that Bill Gates is one of the most
successful people in the world okay well
I mentioned Forbes magazine and Forbes
is right here then I mentioned Bill
Gates and Bill Gates is right here and I
also said that he was a very successful
man and they have that right here as
well but I didn’t use the word according
so I chose to delete that word and to
rewrite things in my own words then I
continued by saying in 2012 he was worth
about seventy six point eight billion
dollars now right here I have 2012 and I
also have that right here then I said he
is worth seventy six point eight billion
dollars now that’s also right here but
what you’ll see is they said net worth
and approximately instead I said he’s
worth
about so instead of approximately I used
about and then I said he is really rich
now in the article they said filthy rich
filthy rich just means extremely rich
it’s an English expression so I didn’t
say filthy rich instead I said really
rich so this is how I rewrote the first
section of the article I read now I
continued in the second part right here
so I said a person’s aim and purpose
affect their success in other words it’s
not just about their money so in this
section they have one two three four
sentences and I only wrote one two
sentences I rewrote it in my own words
now for the third section for our
example I said the second thing is to
write why they want to do it the third
thing is to write down the expected
result so you see I have the second
thing and third thing in the article
they also mentioned the second and the
third but there’s is a lot longer than
what I wrote because I rewrote it in my
own words this is what you want to
practice doing on day two so let’s keep
going to day three imitate and summarize
for this day you need to read through
the article again and find three to five
new patterns then you will summarize the
article in ten sentences or more using
at least two to three of the patterns
you found so as you’ll notice in this
example there’s one two three four five
different patterns that will be applied
to the summary that I will do of the
article okay now I want you to remember
that this summary right here is not the
summary essay style that we’re gonna go
over later this is summarizing an
article which means it’s just a short
summary okay for practice this is a
short summary so you need to remember
also to pick
three key points okay let me show you an
example of this so on the left side
you’ll see the original article now this
is a very long article that I read
through because I wanted to show you how
to summarize so in the center right here
you’ll see that we have the breakdown
for how to summarize an article okay a
short summary so first we have the main
purpose then we have the key points and
then we have your opinion now you’ll
also notice that I have plus one pattern
that means in each section of your
summary you want to try to use one
pattern from the article that you read
now it’s very tiny but I still will
underline this is one pattern it says
not simply on it means not only or not
just one then we have have the compass
remember a compass is used for direction
okay and then we have true success so
I’m gonna take these patterns and apply
them to my summary over here and we see
true success not simply based on and
also have the compass so let’s look at
my summary real quick
the main purpose it says this article
focused on explaining the writer’s
definition of true success so I’ve given
the main purpose right there continue it
mentioned that success is not simply
based on money and it talked about a few
different types of success various
people want who and what so various
people and what they want right but the
writer did quote Forbes magazine and
said how much Bill Gates a very
successful man was worth in 2012 so I’ve
mentioned when 2012 I’ve mentioned where
and I mentioned why we’re in Forbes
magazine and why he’s very successful
alright so this first section of my
summary is done now the second section
we started off it says there were three
points in the article well right here
the number of key points done first you
must write down your goals point number
one done second you must write down the
reasons for your goals
point number two done third you must
write down the expected results point
number three done finally these were the
three key points the summary remember
summary is very very short when you’re
summarizing an article not an essay form
just summarizing an article so this
section for the key points is done and
finally your opinion section we say at
the end of the article it said these
three things have the compass that will
lead to true success right here the
conclusion and I completely agree my
opinion so your opinion goes there so
all three of these sections can be found
in my summary of the original article
okay this is how you do for day three
now let’s go on to day number four
decide and research for this day you
need to decide what your opinion is on
the topic then you need to do research
to find support for your opinion and
finally you’ll fill in the outline with
the information remember day 1 2 & 3
were focused on someone else’s opinion
some article that you read but now
you’re going to go into your opinion and
writing your own ideas now it’s
important that you apply the information
you found to the outline so let’s look
at the outline for the your opinion
style now on the Left right here this is
the important outline for the first
essay writing style all right so we have
three sections the first section is
introduction second section is the body
and the third section is your conclusion
now for the introduction for the
introduction section there’s three parts
so definition or general explanation
your opinion stated briefly and three
supports so let’s go
over here remember before we chose how
to be successful as the topic that we
were going to use for this week okay all
right so the first thing is definition
or general explanation well I said
success is the accomplishment of an aim
or purpose that’s the definition that I
gave all right then next my opinion you
become successful by believing in
yourself that’s my opinion okay now
three supports I’m gonna give an example
of Steve Jobs Martin Luther King and
Usain Bolt
those are my three supports okay all
right now let’s move on to the second
section of our outline the body so we
have three details about support number
one well support number one was Steve
Jobs
so right here Steve Jobs I have one
believed he could create a better
computer to started Apple and three one
of the top computers which is the
computer he created those are the three
details about my support which was Steve
Jobs then Martin Luther King very
quickly he believed he could change
society he helped to stop segregation
and he was the leader of the civil
rights movement now I want to pause real
quick remember what you’re doing right
now is organizing your thoughts before
you write a paper in English you must
have a clear idea of what you want to
say and the order in which you want to
say it this outline is gonna help you so
much when you start writing okay all
right next we have Usain Bolt and I said
believed he could beat World Records
broke world records and he became the
fastest man in the world okay so section
two is done now section three the
conclusion section restate your opinion
so right here I said the foundation of
success is believing in yourself well I
am restating my opinion why because up
here
I said believing in yourself okay all
right now the next thing is to summarize
your points the greatest
samples are Steve Jobs MLK Martin Luther
King and Usain both I’ve summarized them
and finally write my final statement the
last thing that I want to say that you
want to say believe in yourself and you
can succeed at anything now
this is the outline I’m gonna use to
write my essay or my paper talking about
my opinion all right now day 5 write and
rewrite for this day you need to write
the first draft of your essay based on
your outline okay the outline that we
did then you need to rewrite the same
essay again now this is the part that
may be a bit shocking because right here
you’ve already written your essay why do
you have to write it again you see what
happens is when you rewrite your essay
you actually find points in your essay
that you want to change things that you
want to maybe eliminate or emphasize
that is the key for this day eliminate
and emphasize maybe there’s a word that
you want to say a different way so you
change it on this side or maybe you feel
like one point of your paper was going a
little bit into too much detail and you
wanted to take it out that’s why you
rewrite and when you rewrite it makes
you have a better paper now for time
we’re going to keep going to save time
day six review for this day your main
focus is reviewing what you did over the
past five days you can review the parts
that you feel you need to practice more
and you can also practice with different
topics so it’s up to you how you want to
review on this day all right now days 7
to 12 the information essay style now
remember in our past week days 1 2 3 4 5
& 6 I expressed in detail what you had
to do actually there are similarities
for days 7 to 12
now here’s we’re gonna do so day 7 and
day 10 are different but day 8 day 9 and
day 11 are the same
as day to day three and day five now day
twelve is a little bit different because
on this day you simply have to relax you
don’t study you don’t write anything you
just relax remember your brain needs
time to relax as well so what we’re
gonna do is we’re going to look at day
seven and look at the different topics
we have and also we’re gonna look at day
ten to see the outline style for
information essays okay all right so
let’s jump right in remember day seven
is the first thing alright pick and find
for this day again you need to pick one
topic from the ten topic examples given
then you need to find an article to read
that discusses that topic well up until
this point everything seems the same but
you’ll notice right here that these
topics are different remember we’re
talking about the information style okay
so it’s not about your opinion it’s
about giving information so some
examples I gave were a famous person in
history all about water wonders of the
world
the brain plants tropical animals modern
technology the power of the ocean
America or another country or ancient
architecture now remember you can choose
a different topic okay you can choose a
different topic but these example topics
will give you kind of a head start okay
a head start as you prepare and study
and improve your writing skills now for
this one I chose all about water which
was number two this is the one I want to
focus on for our example okay so we’re
gonna skip to day number ten remember
day eight and nine are the same as the
previous week so decide and research for
this day you need to get the important
information on the topic remember we
chose all about water then you need to
do research to find the main aspects of
the topic finally you’re gonna fill in
the outline with that information so I
chose water
so I’m going to be looking for aspects
of water okay I’m looking for aspects of
water and the important thing you need
to remember is to apply this information
to the outline all right so let’s look
at the information outline this is the
outline you are going to use for the
information essay style now don’t worry
you can download the PDF that explains
all of this by clicking the link in the
description okay so don’t worry but
let’s keep going all right so this is
also broken up into three different
sections we have the introduction
section the body section and the
conclusion section now in the
introduction section you’ll notice that
the first thing is give a general
statement about the topic so what I’ve
done is over here I’ve given a fact I
said 71% of the earth’s surface is
covered by water well that’s a general
statement about water then the second
thing is the background the five W’s
remember the who what when where and why
so what I did was I said for who all
living things what need water
when daily where the world and why to
survive okay these are facts about water
and animals and human beings that need
water then three main aspects of water
natural springs lakes and rivers and the
ocean so the introduction is giving kind
of a precursor or information in advance
about the topic we’re going to discuss
okay now let’s go down to the body so I
need to give aspect one two and three
and pick one w to talk about for each
aspect so let’s go here and let’s see
what I did
so for natural springs one aspect I
chose to use was attributed to or apply
to when and I said in the past people
would drink from them then I went to
lakes and rivers and I chose what and I
said many are polluted these days and
finally the ocean I said where I said
6.5 percent of all the world’s water is
there so I’ve picked one W for each of
the aspects and finally the conclusion
all right remember this is what you’re
also going to do on this day now I need
to restate the aspects say the lesson
learned and the future so this is what
you’re going to do this is the example
I’ve given natural springs lakes and
rivers in the ocean then for lesson
learned water is important and it is
everywhere in the future our water
sources need to be protected so I’ve
given all of the information necessary
for the information essay style outline
okay and then I can write an amazing
paper based on this outline in this
order all right so let’s go on to days
13 to 18 the storytelling style now
again like before day one today six we
went over in detail each section now
four days 13 to 18 we’ll see the
similarities so day 14 is the same as
day to day 15 is the same as day three
and day 18 is the same as day 6 but day
13 and day 16 are different because the
topics and the outline style are
different and on day 17 is a little
different because I want to give you an
example of how to write a story I’ve had
some students in my past classes who had
trouble writing stories so I want to
actually show you an example okay
so let’s jump right into this part day
13
pick and find for this day you need to
pick one topic from the 10 example
topics given then you need to find an
article to read that discusses that
topic now this is again very similar but
what you’ll see right here is I’ve given
you 10 examples of a story type and you
can look for it can be a story about
love or friendship or family travel
school life work life fear success
adventure kindness or anything else
alright so what I did was I chose to do
a story about travel okay so
I decided to use number four and do a
story about travel which means that I
had to go to the internet or to a
newspaper or to magazine and find a
story or article that talked about
travel okay now remember reading affects
writing so if I read a good story you
know affect my writing style as well so
day 16 remember we skip me forward
day 16 decide and set up for this day
you need to decide what your story is
going to be about okay then you need to
set up the basic information for your
story and finally fill in the outline
with the information okay so you’ll
notice in this section right here the
setup of the story this is the general
setup you’re going to use when you’re
setting up a story because you have to
determine the basic story determine the
background the characters the climax the
conclusion and the lesson learned now
it’s important to apply this information
to your outline so let’s look at the
outline for a storytelling now it’s
basically what I just showed you however
I want to explain these to you you see
the basic story gives the focus and the
main idea the background gives the
details about the setting the characters
introduce the people to the story the
climax gives the problem to be solved
the conclusion tells how the story ends
okay you’re gonna tell how the story
ends and lesson learned
explain what you learned okay all right
so remember I chose a story about
travels so my story needs to be about
travel so I’m gonna choose for my basic
story I’m gonna say a young man who
traveled around the world with his
friends for the background I’m gonna say
Paris for the characters I’m gonna
choose John his friends and a taxi
driver
they met in Paris for the climax I’m
gonna say a car accident in the middle
of the night for the conclusion
they had no money but they made lots of
friends and the lesson learned I’m gonna
say always do the right thing and good
things will happen so again before I
even started writing my story I actually
have all of the information in my
outline so let’s keep going today’s 17
because I want to show you an example of
this write and rewrite remember for this
day you need to write the first draft of
your story based on your outline then
you need to rewrite the same story again
and I’ve explained why that’s important
okay
eliminating and emphasizing so let’s
look at my story and see how it turned
out here we go a story about travel last
year John and his friends decided to
take a trip around the world they
visited tons of countries but one of
their favorite places was Paris it was
beautiful ok so what’s happened in this
section right here I’ve already given
you the basic story and the background
let’s keep going they loved all of the
museums and the people but one night
something happened that they would never
forget after a night of hanging out they
were driving along a dark road then
suddenly they slammed into the back of a
taxi for a moment they thought about
speeding off but then they saw that the
driver had been hurt so instead they
decided to stay and take responsibility
for what they had done they called for
help and took the taxi driver to the
hospital then they paid for his entire
medical bill ok let’s pause really
quickly the story’s gonna continue but
we have the characters we have the
climax now we’re waiting for the
conclusion let’s keep going a few days
later after the taxi driver had
recovered he thanked them over and over
again for not leaving him on the side of
the road he introduced them to his
family and they all spent a wonderful
time together so again what was my
conclusion no money but they made lots
of friends so in this section right here
that’s where I have shown that to be
true right in this section right here ok
let’s close this one off
there now we need the lesson learned the
last sentence says so even though the
young men had no more money they did
have some new friends so this right here
is the lesson learned I’ve told a great
story because I have all of these in my
story from the storytelling outline okay
great job let’s keep going
now we’re going today’s 19 to 24 the
prove a point essay style now again so
day one today six we looked at in detail
so four days 19 to 24
let’s see where the similarities are so
day 20 is similar to day to day 21 is
similar to day three and day 23 is
similar to day five now day 24 is just a
relaxed day I know you will enjoy that
all right now for day nineteen and day
22 we have different topics and a
different outline so let’s jump right in
at day 19 and day 22 alrighty 19 pick
and find for this day you need to pick
one topic from the 10 example topics
given then you need to find an article
to read the discusses that topic again
same as the previous ones okay so right
here we have 10 example topics now what
you’ll notice here is that I have
underlined certain parts of these
examples the reason I underlined them is
because you can change this part for
example I said all children should learn
how to play sports well you can change
that you can say all children should
learn how to play music or play a
musical instrument okay you can change
that part so it’s up to you now again
these are just examples to kind of give
you a head start when you’re trying to
practice and improve your writing skills
okay all right now for this example
though what I did was I decided to
choose no television for young children
which actually is number five okay
number five is what I chose to use for
my example okay and again reading
affects writing so I’m going to read an
article
it talks about children not watching
television okay so day 20 to decide and
research for this day you need to decide
your position then you need to do
research to find examples that support
your arguments finally you will fill in
the outline with the information okay by
applying the information to the outline
now here you’ll notice it says argument
number one number two and number three
so let’s look at an example okay for the
prove a point
outline now this is the outline that you
will use for this essay style okay we
have the first section introduction then
the body and then the conclusion now
what you’ll notice is when you’re trying
to prove a point the introduction is a
little bit different alright so right
here you see it says attention-grabber
now I explained this in my series on how
to write an essay you can click the link
in the top right of the screen if you
want to find out more about that but an
attention-grabber
the purpose of an attention-grabber is
just to get the attention of the reader
all right so from my attention-grabber
I chose to give a fact all right so we
have the fact right here birth to age
three sees the fastest rate of brain
development in the entire human lifespan
this is a fact that I found online
alright now the next thing is your
thesis statement so my opinion so what
happened let’s circle that right there
watching television too early is not
good for babies that’s my opinion that’s
my point then three arguments right here
I said they zone out when watching TV TV
lowers their attention span and can make
them violent okay those are my three
arguments now I move down into the body
section right here and the purpose is to
give a detail and an example for each of
my arguments all right so let’s get
started now argument number one they
zone out when watching so detail staring
at the screen example my nephew watching
commercials all right let’s keep going
lowers their attention span fast moving
pictures that’s the detail and my
friend’s daughter can’t sit still during
reading time that’s the example so you
notice for the next one I did the same
thing can make them violent I said
showing aggressive behavior and then
example on the news a child found a
weapon and hurt another child all right
and finally now for the conclusion
section so what happens I need to
restate summarize and write my final
statement so restate children should not
watch television and summarize zone out
low attention span increased violence
and final statement television is not
bad but it should be limited for
children all right so I filled out the
outline for the prove a point essay
style and now I can write my essay based
on this outline all right let’s move on
to the final days of days 25 to 30 the
summary essay style all right
so again we have these six that we
already went over now day 25 - day 30 so
day 26 day 27 and day 30 they are the
same as day two three and six and day 29
is where I’m going to give you all an
example of how to do a proper summary to
help you all because some of you have to
do summaries for school and day 25 and
day 28 are a little different because
again their topics and the outline style
are different okay all right day 25 pick
and find so for this day you need to
pick one topic from the ten example
topics then you need to find an article
to read that discusses that topic so for
this one here are the ten example topics
and I also included them in the free PDF
so don’t worry they’re in the PDF the
link is in the description but I chose
examples for example that dealt with
health or sleeping habits or weather or
current events finance
art music fashion entertainment sports
book reviews these are the type of
articles that you can look up when you
want to practice doing this style but
what I chose was our
on the benefits of healthy eating okay
again remember reading affects writing
so day 28
remember we fast forwarded because 26
and 27 were the same all right
skim and arrange now this word skim
remember skim just means to read over
briefly or quickly okay to read over
quickly let’s do this cue like this
quickly
okay so skim and arrange for this day
you need to skim through the article
again looking for important points then
you need to arrange the information in
order of importance and finally you will
fill in the outline with the information
now arranging the information there
gonna be lots of points in the article
that seem to be important but you need
to arrange them in their order of
importance and you need to find out
which ones to keep and which ones to
eliminate okay this is why this step is
so important all right okay so look for
the most important pieces of information
don’t forget that so here’s an example
for the summary outline remember this on
the left right here is what the outline
looks like for the summary essay style
again we have the introduction section
the body section and the conclusion
section now remember this is completely
separate from the previous summer we did
this is a summary essay style alright so
let’s get started so first we have the
main purpose and what did I do
to explain the benefits of eating
healthy that’s the main purpose then the
five W’s so I have four who I wrote all
adults for what I wrote how to eat
healthy
four when written last year four we’re
in the USA and four why many adults were
sick so the introduction is done now
moving on to the body I need to write
the number of key points each point plus
the description and in the summary of
the key points so looking here in the
body section I wrote I have three
keypoints then I wrote each point right
here and the next to it I wrote the
description in this section so key point
one gives more energy then I said you
throughout the day
point two helps people think better
description enhances concentration and
helps prevent disease is number three
and I said provides needed nutrients
okay now for the summary I just said
it’s above remember the outline is just
my notes or your notes before you write
your essay and finally the conclusion
you’re going to describe the ending and
then give your opinion so here we go
eating healthy is important for all
adults then I also have it emphasized
that food affects a person’s life so I’m
giving the ending of the article and
then finally my opinion I realized the
importance of eating healthy so I will
use this to write my summary of the
article that talked about the benefits
of eating healthy now write and rewrite
for this day you need to write the first
draft of your summary based on your
outline then you need to rewrite the
same summary again eliminating and
emphasizing so let’s jump right into the
example alright so you see right here we
have the outline right now let’s jump
into how I summarized remember the
article was about eating healthy so
introduction main purpose well where’s
my main purpose this article was written
in order to show the benefits of eating
healthy very good that’s my main purpose
now I’m looking for the five W’s where
are they it focused mainly on all adults
who live and work in America
the article made a point to show how
they can eat healthy especially on a
daily basis it was written on December
20th of last year which was close to
Christmas the exact place that the
article talked about was the United
States which we already have right here
America which is quite populated it
focused on America because so many
American adults were sick last year so
we’ve answered the why the what the
where the win
the who now we’re going to move to the
body section okay the number of key
points the article included many
important points but there were three
key points done next each key point plus
the description the first key point was
eating healthy gives more energy that
can be used throughout the day
done the second key point was eating
healthy helps people think better by
enhancing their ability to concentrate
while working good and finally the third
key point was eating healthy helps
prevent diseases by providing the body
with the nutrients that it needs done
now the summary of the key points these
were the three key points or major
points stated in the article done but I
also added in general the article used
these points to encourage adults to
think about their health more great now
this is done as well
now finally the conclusion describe the
ending and your opinion so I said the
last portion of the article said that
eating healthy is important for all
adults done it emphasized once again
that the food a person eats will affect
their entire life now my opinion after
reading this article I also began to
realize the importance of eating healthy
so we have completely written our
summary because we follow the summary
style outline now you will master all
five styles now remember if you want to
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