Blog Questionnaire (posting 6)

• Do you enjoy blogging?

Yes, I really enjoy blogging especially when I do blogging activities for this task. Why I enjoy blogging activities? There are a few things I enjoy blogging. The first thing is I meet many people through my site. I have realized that blogging is an amazing way to develop real friendships, as it is really not that hard to convert an online friendship into an offline friendship. The second thing is I can find out what my thought really means through blogging. For example, when I start writing a post, I will thinking I am going to write something specific, and as I write, I realize that there were many things on my mind that I never paid much attention to. As I write an article, those other things come to light, and sometimes I will write about things in great details, even when I wanted to write about something in general. This is good, as I learn more about my own thoughts as I lay them down for practical use. The third is through the blogging activities I can learn about other people through their blogs and comments. Besides that, through blogging activities I also can learn how to put the attractive picture, and video clip in the blog and I was still remember when I first time blogging, I was step by step to learn how to put anything in my blog and it was a quite good experience for me.

• Based on your experience what is the benefit of blogging?

My blogging experience not too deep because I was started my blogging activities on last year. Based on my experience, it was quite a lot of benefit of blogging. The benefit of blogging is it will help you to improve your writing skill. Through the blogging activities, we also can share our thinking, reading material, and learn something different from other people and widen our knowledge.

• Do you need more assistance to set up your blog?

Yes, I need more assistance to set up my blog. I was not an expert people to make my blog look like attractive. Hence, I need help in how to make my blog background and theme become interesting. I also would like learn how to put the graphic or animation picture in my blog.

• Do you have any memorable/favourite topic in your blog?

Yes, I have some memorable or favourite topic in my blog. My memorable or favourite topic in my blog is about the E-community conference. I really enjoy for this conference and I also have summarise two interesting topic which are about the conference in my blog.

• List 5 advantages of blogging for you.

1. When I free, I will use my time blogging. Hence, I can spend my time wisely
2. Improve my writing skill
3. We can share any our information and knowledge with other people
4. Can be used as a diary
5. Blog is a good space to express our opinion and feeling (freedom of speech)

• List 5 disadvantages of blogging

1. Like practically everything else on the Web, blogs are easy to start and hard to maintain.
2. Blogs have a funny way of staying in the memory of search engines – such as Google. It's important to never post something that you might be afraid will come back to you.
3. Need to keep it constantly updated otherwise you lose potential readers
4. It takes time, effort, and skilful promotion to build an audience for a blog.
5. Blogging must do through the internet connection

• Will you continue blogging after the course?

Yes, I will continue blogging after the course because blogging now become my hobby and I can spend my time wisely through the blogging activities.

• Do you think that blogging improve your writing?

Yes. I think blogging improve my writing because when we need to do some writing in our blog, we need to do more research and read many reading material and always learn how to craft effective sentence and choose perfect words.

• Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students?

Yes, because through the blogging activity they can learn more different things and blogging is an effective way for language teacher to teach in the classroom

• Will you recommend your friend to blog?

Yes.

• Can you teach a friend to set up his or her blog?

Yes, I will use all my blogging experience to teach a friend to set up his or her blog.

Concordance (posting 5)

What is Concordance?

The first concordance, to the Bible, appeared in 1736. Its compiler was Alexander Cruden, born in 1701 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and a graduate of Marischal College, one of Aberdeen's two universities. His great work won him honour; until the later part of the twentieth century, concordances had to be compiled by hand.

A concordance is a comprehensive index of the words used in a text or a body of texts. Usually there are also citations of the passages in which the words occur.

A concordance will also show quickly how often any word is used. Just as significantly, it can show you what words are not used! Such features offer special insights into the issues or themes which are important or recurrent in a text - and they may not be quite what you expect!

Its simplest use is as an index, to locate quickly any passage in a text. All you need to know is one word from the passage: look up that word in a concordance to the text and you will find the passage.

What benefits concordance will give to language learning and language teachers?

For Language Learning

• Error Analysis

A guided use of the concordancer by the learner is in error analysis and correction. In this activity, the teacher signifies errors in student writing which can be investigated and corrected by means of the concordancer. This is a good activity to begin concordancing with, as it gives learners specific language items to investigate, but at the same time allows them to work out how their use of language differs from that of the concordancer.

• Serendipity Learning

The easiest, most obvious and most autonomous learner application of concordancing is to allow learners to use the concordancer as and when they wish for whatever purpose they wish. This type of usage has been referred to as serendipity learning (Johns, 1988). It is similar in a way to browsing in a dictionary.

Serendipity learning has at least three obvious benefits:

• Learners -are truly autonomous and responsible for their own learning.
• Because searches are learner-initiated it can be guaranteed that the learning corresponds to
• learner needs and/or wants.
• By researching into language use this way learners develop an overall language awareness(James and Garrett, 1991)

• Inductive Learning

Concordance material can be used in both ways, such as deductive and inductive.

Deductive- If a teacher explains that he/she is teaching the contrast between the present continuous and present perfect, explains the difference in meaning, and presents concordances to illustrate both, then this is a deductive approach.

Inductive- Besides that, if the learner is told to work out a rule to differentiate between the two tenses, using concordance printouts, then it is inductive.

Levy (1990) proposes that the learner might use the concordancer in the following ways:

• checking meaning
• checking general syntax
• checking usage
• exploring special lexis especially ESP vocabulary
• checking derived forms
• checking collocates of words
• exploring set pieces, e.g. phrasal verbs, cliches

For the Language Teacher

• As a Linguistic Informant

How might teachers go about using a concordance as a linguistic informant?
For example, suppose a teacher wanted to refresh his/her memory on the use of for and since. Concordances of the two words would quickly reveal that for is typically followed by a period of time “‘for three years”, etc.) while since is followed by a point in time (since 1987, etc.). Such a statement, of course, might be found in a grammar book, but the concordancer will give a much greater range of examples and nuances and will show the preferred collocations these two items enter into: for example, the concordancer is likely to show that since is typically followed by a time expression, since Friday, since 194.5, but also, less frequently, to a person or thing, since Margaret Thatcher, since the budget.

• As a Sources of Input For Teaching

Teachers can generate authentic instances of usage to present to students when teaching a particular language point.

Thus, for example, when teaching the contrasting uses of the present progressive and present perfect, instead of teachers trusting to their intuitions and making up examples to illustrate contrasting uses, these can be derived from the concordancer. Similarly, in presenting new vocabulary, concordances can provide examples of authentic contextualized examples.

If the concordancer is kept in the classroom, then the teacher can even run a concordance when a problem of usage arises during teaching. For example, if a student is having difficulty with distinctions of meaning between the modals can and could, and then the teacher can call up, or have the student call up, instances of usage of these two modal forms and by means of the examples conduct an analysis of the different.

• As Input for Materials Development

This is where there is an advantage to be had in preparing concordance based teaching materials in advance. In this way, for example, inappropriate examples can be deleted, or all of the examples illustrating one particular usage of a word can be grouped together. This sort of editing can easily be done by converting the concordance file into a word processing format. An extension of this editing facility is the production of exercise material based directly on a concordance. For example the type of material such as a gap filling exercise.

The another uses of Concordance also are :

• Analyzing keywords
• Analyzing word frequencies
• Finding and analyzing phrases and idioms
• Creating indexes and word lists
• Comparing different usages of the same word:
  

URL

http://www.ask.com/bar?q=what+is+concordance&page=1&qsrc=0&ab=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dundee.ac.uk%2Fenglish%2Fconc2.htm
http://www.ecml.at/projects/Voll/our_resources/graz_2001/authentic/concordancers/menu_concordancers.htm#What
http://www.eisu2.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/stevens.htm
http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/10/1000064.pdf

Cameron Highland Trip (visit to Orang asli house)

Cameron Valley tea plantation

On 29 March 2009, our college (college Ibrahim Yaakub) Mandarin Club organized a trip went to the Cameron highland. The main purpose for our trip is visit to orang asli house. We have prepared many donations for Orang asli, such as clothes, and food.

Take photo with orang asli and my From far a view, we can see very clearly

behind is their house orang asli house.

Besides clothes and food, we also donated a computer to them

The children have many pose when they

take photo

E-community National Conference '09 (posting 4)

About the conference …..

The seminar was organized by Pusat Kajian E-komuniti UKM, Universiti Kebanbsaan Malaysia. It was held on the 18 & 19 March 2009 at PNB Darby Park Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. But, I join the conference only for one day, which is on 18 March 2009 because I got computer test for the next day. The main motive for the seminar is “Merapatkan Jurang Digital: Masyarakat Berpengetahuan, Model Malaysia. From this seminar, I gain a lot of information and knowledge about how to bridge the digital gap between the citizens of Malaysia, especially for the people who from the small town or living in rural areas. Based on the information that I get from the seminar, the people who are living in the rural areas is do not have basics ICT knowledge and skill because their income is lower than the people from big city and they also do not aware the existence of online application. So, from this seminar I’ve chosen two very interesting topic that I want to share with you all are “Bridging the Digital Divide: SKMM perspective”, and “Reducing Writing Apprehension through Blogging Activities”.

Topic: Bridging the Digital Divide: SKMM perspective

Presenter: Dato Jailani Johari’s

The speaker for this topic is Dato Jailani Johari’s who is from SKMM (Suruhanjaya Komunikasi Multimedia Malaysia). Digital divide and USP is a mechanism to bridge the digital gap that exists among the rural community and to create an e-community. They have estimated household broadband penetration by 2010 and the BDD effort are including the 3 main things which are the infrastructure, service, and sustainability. In addition, Dato Jailani Johari’s also talk about the USP. Actually what is USP? USP is Universal Service Provision. The USP is designed to promote the widespread availability and usage of Network services and/or application services throughout Malaysia. The objectives for the USP are to:

• Collective access to basic telephony and public pay phone services

• Individual access to basic telephony services

• Collective access to Internet access services, and

• Individual access to Internet access services
  

There are some USP projects (2002-2008):

• Basic Telephony (2002-2007)

Basic Telephony (2007-2008) which is provides collective and individual telecommunicative and cellular voice communication. In providing access to basic telephony, public payphone services and Internet access, the designated universal service provider is expected to consider the use of alternative transmission technologies such as satellite, fixed wireless, Cellular and fixed wireline, where necessary for the provision of the services. The universal service provider is expected to adopt the best international practice in the telecommunications industry, including compliance to relevant industry standards on network end-to-end performance.

• Community Broadband Library (CBL)

They are target 152 CBL nationwide and (one supervisor among local community, training and promotional practice). Their target Groups is 36 OKU centers. They will provide assistive technology and facilities (consult the center) for people with disabilities.

• Community Broadband Center (CBC) 2007-2008

This project is planning for pilot project and it will provide communication towers along the East-West Highway. They target 1105 mukim with community Broadband Center (CBC) and one mukim for one CBC with 278 CBC nationwide. One manager and assistance also will be chosen for this project.

Besides that, Dato Jailani Johari’s also mention the USP target profiles and service which are about the:

• Underserved area

An underserved area is defined as an area where the penetration rate for basic telephony service is twenty per cent (20%) below the national penetration rate. An area referred to here is a district as defined under the National Land Code.

• Underserved localities

• Underserved group

At the end of the presentation, Dato Jailani Johari’s mention about the Broad Community Functionally and there are many issues about it which are the policy-uniformity of telecenter models, Location- site acquisition (land power etc), site suitability. Critical Infostructure- content development, community involvement and sustainability-local champion, expert, and trainer.

Topic: Reducing Writing Apprehension Through Blogging Activities

Presenter: Madam Azianura Hani Shaari

The topic was presented by Madam Azianura Hani Shaari from UITM Penang. This a very interesting topic because it talk about what are the symptoms for writing apprehension, and some factors that contribute toward a writing apprehension. Actually what is writing apprehension? As I know, such students were more apprehensive about writing, rated their own writing ability lower, were less confident that they could master certain writing skill or genres, and had more negative attitudes toward previous writing.

According to Madam Azianura Hani Shaari, there are 6 symptoms for the writing apprehension:

• Scared to write
• Hand cramp
• Hate writing
• Mental blocking problems
• Produce a shorted essay
• Ideas hardly developed

Besides that, there are some factors contribute towards writing apprehension such as:

• Lack confident

Student who are highly apprehensive (lack confidence) also report weak self-efficacy. The students who are lack confidence are contributing towards writing apprehension. Those students are scared to give any comment and opinion for their writing because they are lack of confident. Besides that, maybe the students will give up for their writing and never improve for their writing skill.

• Teachers’ comments

In addition, the teachers’ comments also contribute towards writing apprehension. According to Madam Azianura, the teachers’ comments are very important for student writing. For example, if the teacher gives the good comment for the student writing, so it will encourage the student to do more writing. But if the students get the bad comment from their teacher, so they will evasively to do more writing. It is because maybe the student cannot accept the bad comment from their teacher and gives up improving their writing.

But for me, sometime we should accept any comment from our teacher because the comments from the teachers are the best way to improve our writing. If we always do not learn how to accept any ideas, any comment from another people, how we can always improve ourselves from the mistake and become a successful person?

• Examination
• Culture- Face saving
• Lack role models
• Audience
• Proficiency Level
  

Besides that, Madam Azianura also mentions about “Fostering Positive Writing Attitudes through Blogging” It mean that through the weblogs, it can reduce our writing apprehension. What is the point mention by Madam Azianura? Let us see the below…

• huge audience-native speakers

Especially the native speaker (huge audience) from the different background and other part of the world, they can give the comment for student on weblog. The students maybe can always get the different, fresh comment, and learn something from the huge audience and at the same time they can reduce the writing apprehension.

• face saving

Normally, the blogging activity is providing the space for the blogger to write their comment, opinion, and every interesting thing in their life. So, the people can leave their comment, and share everything on the weblog without losing their face because nobody will know what kind of people that you are.

• boost up confidence and motivation

Blogging is the best way to boost up confidence and motivation. It is because through the blogging activities, the student can get the different comment from another people and learn something from them, and it will boost up the student confidence and encourage them to do more writing on weblog without any negative attitude, such as feel panic, fear, and hate to write.

• students –centered

• increases involvement among passive students

• promote brainstorming and peer review activities

As a result, blogging activities are the best and reasonable way to reduce the writing apprehension. If you have the symptoms of writing apprehension such as scared to write, ideas hardly developed, and hand cramp. Thus, you can start to try the blogging activities and you need to write, and write a lot. “Practice makes perfect” is the key phrase here.

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Search engine (posting 3)

The differences between mamma.com, Google scholar, Yahoo.com, and Ericdigest.com

Differences

Language

Mamma.com
English, François

Google Scholar
English

Yahoo.com
English, Chinese

Ericdigest.com
English, Espanol

Features

Mamma.com
The Mamma home page is clean and uncluttered, and right above the main search query box is a few different tabbed options: the Web (of course), News, Images, Yellow Pages, and the White Pages.
Mamma's image searches are powered by Picsearch, an image search engine. Mamma's Yellow Page results are powered by Yellow Book, and the White Pages are powered by Infospace. You can also find maps using Mapquest, get driving directions, or use a reverse lookup directory.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
Thus, Google Scholar is a great way to find scholarly and academic articles on the Web.

Yahoo.com
Yahoo is one of the Web's hottest properties. Yahoo offers many search options on its search portal page; including the capacity to search the Web, search for images only, search in the Yahoo Directory (this gathers results from the human edited subject directory, as opposed to the main search engine driven results page), search locally, search news, and go shopping. Yahoo also provides the advertising program and we can advertise on Yahoo. We also can read the hot issues on the Yahoo as the entertainment. In addition, you can look at local weather results, upcoming movies, the Marketplace, and Yahoo International. Yahoo's home page is pretty crowded but it has a lot to offer. I've used Yahoo for many moons now; for their great Yahoo Mail service and for the My Yahoo search options.

Ericdigest.org
ERIC is a Service Mark of the U.S. Government. This site exists to provide the text of the public domain ERIC Documents previously produced by ERIC.
Ericdigest provide the academic library online and we can search for the full-text scholarly books, journals and more at www.Questia.com/Learning_Styles. So, Ericdigest is more concern on educational journal article for academic research purpose.

Similarities

Besides the differences, there are a few of similarities for mamma.com, Google Scholar, Yahoo.com, and Ericdigest.org. search engine. The similarities for this all search engine is they are provide the search toolbar at their home page and we can use the search toolbar to search any information, such as we can search images, website, and video. The all search engine also use English as the main language in their home page.

• About the search engine…..
  
  A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files.
  There are many search engine available in the internet netwok. For example, the most pupular is mamma.com, google scholar, eric digest, and yahoo.com.
  
  Mamma.com
  Mamma bills itself as the "mother of all search engines"; and while that's a claim that could be disputed, Mamma puts out a pretty good metasearch engine experience. Mamma retrieves results from approximately a dozen major Internet search engines and directories and has a few nice extra search features that are worth a try.
  
  Mamma home page
  The Mamma home page is clean and uncluttered, and right above the main search query box are a few different tabbed options: the Web (of course), News, Images, Yellow Pages, and the White Pages.
  
  Mamma Metasearch
  Searching with Mamma Metasearch is easy. Just type in a word or phrase and go. Here's my example: I typed in antelope.
  First of all, I saw Mamma Classifieds at the very top of the search results page. From the site: "Results in "Mamma Classifieds" are paid placement listings, meaning that every time you click upon one of them, Mamma receives payment from the site owner/advertiser."
  
  Mamma Metasearch Options-Images, News, Yellow Pages, White Pages
  Mamma's news search seems to retrieve results from a very limited amount of news sources; the only ones I spotted after numerous searches were MSNBC and the BBC. Mamma's image searches are powered by Picsearch, an image search engine. Mamma's Yellow Page results are powered by Yellow Book, and the White Pages are powered by Infospace. You can also find maps using Mapquest, get driving directions, or use a reverse lookup directory.
  
  Mamma Metasearch Engine Advanced Search
  Mamma's Advanced Search offers the power searcher a variety of options. You can select which search services you'd like to be included in your searches (Google is notably excluded), set preferences, etc. A couple things here that I haven't seen in most other Advanced Search offerings were the ability to highlight search terms and limit (or expand) the size of the search result descriptions.
  
  Mamma Metasearch Engine Search Extras
  You can check out the Mamma Explorer Bar, which "saves your searches by letting you select results from a Mamma.com results page into the Explorer Bar", or get the Mamma Toolbar, which gives you instant access to Mamma metasearch (only available for Internet Explorer users).
  
  Reasons to Use Mamma Meta Search
  I wasn't completely bowled over by Mamma.com, but I do believe that it's a very solid metasearch engine. Results are relevant, and retrieved fairly quickly - which is a common user issue with most metasearch engines. I also appreciated the advanced search options. In short, I would be comfortable recommending Mamma's metasearch engine service to anyone who's looking for a very straightforward, solid, metasearch engine experience.
  
  

Google Scholar
What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a great way to find scholarly and academic articles on the Web. Here's an official blurb that sums it all up:
"From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research."

Google Scholar Shortcuts

Google Scholar can be a bit overwhelming; there's a lot of very detailed information here. Here are a few shortcuts you can use to get around more easily:

• ehrenreich poverty: If you know the general subject of an author's paper, just type in their last name with the subject.
• "barbara ehrenreich": If you're looking for a specific author's works, type in the full name (or first name initial with last name) in quotes.
• author: ehrenreich: You can also use the author operator to return an author's works.
  

• Google Scholar Advanced Search: There's a few tricks that you only do within Google Scholar Advanced Search for some reason. For instance, if you are looking for a topic from a specific publication, enter in your topic in the "Find articles with all of the words" box, and the publication in the "Publication - Return articles published in" box. Kind of tricky but it's a great way to return targeted results.

• Restrict the dates: You can also use Google Scholar Advanced Search to restrict the dates of what you're looking for; just enter in what you want in the "Date-Return articles published between" area and you're all set.

Yahoo



Definition: Yahoo is one of the Web's hottest properties. It was originally just a subject directory, but it now has search engine capability, maintains an extensive directory of sites, and is a major online portal.

Yahoo Home Page

Yahoo offers many search options on its search portal page; including the capacity to search the Web, search for images only, search in the Yahoo Directory (this gathers results from the human edited subject directory, as opposed to the main search engine driven results page), search locally,search news, and go shopping.
In addition, you can look at local weather results, upcoming movies, the Marketplace, and Yahoo International. Yahoo's home page is pretty crowded but it has a lot to offer. I've used Yahoo for many moons now; for their great Yahoo Mail service and for the My Yahoo search options.

Yahoo Search Tips

Be concise. Because Yahoo’s results are both from a human edited directory and its own search engine, your results may not be as targeted as you might like them to be. Narrowing down your search to a few specific keywords will help. You can also try these Yahoo Search Shortcuts to help you get the absolute most out of Yahoo.

"Use the “Search Views". Yahoo’s main search page has tabs with various search view link, such as Images, Video, Directory, etc. that will help you to refine your search even further. For instance, if you want to look for a Weird Al video, by all means, click on the Yahoo Video tab. Your search results will be accomplished a lot more efficiently.

Use Yahoo Keywords. If you want quick, specific results, you can usually get them by targeting keywords that Yahoo gives out as “shortcuts” to find what you want. You can find this shortcut and more in my article titled Yahoo Shortcuts, and believe me, it does save a lot of time.

What are ERIC Digests?



ERIC Digests are:

• short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education. There are a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more.

• targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community.

• designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information.

• produced by the former 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field.

• funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

Why ERICDigests.org?

The ERIC Clearinghouse system was eliminated in 2003. ERIC was massively reorganized and most of the content at the former ERIC sites (including the ERIC Digests) found new homes. This site is striving to make it easy to find ERIC Digests that have been produced prior to the end of the former ERIC system. (For information on these changes, see http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/doe.htm.) The Federal ERIC site no longer maintains the ERIC Digests separately and has mixed them into the ERIC database as hard to use .PDF files which are not found by the major search engines. More links.

Blogging for Language Learners (posting 2)

How blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance their writing skill?

As we all know, blogging is something that we frequently have to update all the new information and make an editing in time to time; so, as a result it does help me improving a lot in writing. Mostly, when we want to convey a massage or information necessarily we have to make sure that the sentence structure is accordingly in terms of to make sure that our content is meaningful and understandable. Consequently, we will be familiar with the sentence structure that has a proper position.

Besides that, in blogging generally most of the idea that we have to elaborate is something that have a complex and comes in a compact information, in that cases to shorten the idea we have to make an summarizing for each information that we were responsible to do so. First, we have to search the main idea then find some example and lastly create a new passage or text that contain a complete and understandable information without missing any important idea. By doing this such activity, we now know how to make an appropriate summary. Furthermore, not forgetting in blogging we are not narrowing only in the same scope, we will as hard as we could doing something that can interact people read our blogging; on that matter, we did searching for a new and fresh information. As a result, we do get lots of new vocabulary and know how to use it semantically.

3 good reason blogging for language learners

• If you want to run a semi-successful blog, or an interesting one for that matter, you need to publish to it on a regular basis. I know a lot of people who blog whenever they can, but I think this would prove to be more difficult to manage. Establish a routine for yourself (say one hour a day) and your writing will be more enjoyable, and meaningful (your loyal readers will also thank you for the reliability). Thus,automatically your writing skill will be improved if you established blogging as your routine.Hopefully, you can translate this routine, or learn from it, to your more enjoyable writing endeavors.

• If you want to better your writing skills, you need to write, and write a lot. “Practice makes perfect” is the key phrase here. Think of how much practice you’ll get if you post to your blog at least once a day (keeping in mind that you want to improve)? I’m not going to say that this blogging habit will automatically make you a great writer, or allow you to publish to magazines, but it should give you a good foundation for that.

• I found that my blogging routine does something as important as the first two in this list, it sets my mind at ease when I get started, and allows it to be as creative as it wants to be. Why? If you’re posting on a regular basis, well, you will need something to write about. Your mind gets into the creative mode when it comes time to post. This creativity will transfer (from your blogging) to your other writing projects. Thus, blogging is the good way for us to express our thoughts and become our mind more creativity, then it was the good for you to improve your writing skill.
  

There are some interesting website which i want share with you all after i enjoy reading:

URL:http://www.helium.com/knowledge/6272-how-blogging-classes-can-improve-writing-skills-in-students

URL:http://www.blogcatalog.com/topic/improve+writing+skill/

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