Do you think posting in mylot help you improve writing?

I think it really depends on the person. If he or she wants to improve on their english or grammar skills, then they will try and will succeed by paying attention to others. However, I have seen some posts where grammar just does not exist and they had hundreds of posts. I have also seen some that are more like text messages.. R U going 2... Drives me crazy! But, I am not their teacher so I just ignore my inner teacher screaming. But, for those who are willing to learn, I think Mylot is a great way to practice. And, by the way, your writing is great. I would have never known you weren't native if you hadn't said so. Great job!

The only way in which it helps is that it gives more ideas of what to write about. I type my responses on here so fast that I'm really just typing as I'm thinking, without much care as to the grammar or the amazing creativity that exists or doesn't exist. In here it is more like a conversation where I type as I think instead of talking as I think. Things happen way too fast for it to be really good writing.

I am pretty sure that participating here in myLot discussions has improved my English and writing skills tremendously... And there is no question, it is working perfectly for everyone else too. I have come across many posts here in which the author said that his/her English and writing skills have improved... The reason behind it is 'practise'. Just as you have put it 'practise makes one perfect'. So here we're getting our writing perfected... I have one more thing to add to the 'benefits of being on myLot'. The participation here has cleared and improved my thought process too. Yes, I can feel the changes in my thought process. Now, whenever an issue comes to me, I analyze it immediately. Sort out the facts and judge the situation and pronounce a judgement, which proves to be very helpful... I have joined a new job and myLot, at the same time. My colleagues say that they really like to ask me for advice... They say that I am guru of all the issues... And I feel proud of it!!! This is the most wonderful site!!!

hi friend.... this kind of thought also came to my mind that participating in discussions help us improving our writing skills and even our typing skills... that is why my interest in mylot is getting deeper and deeper... as u can see from my number of posts that i m a new member... i just did these 60 posts in two days... whereas i joined this a month ago... it just suddenly gained my interest....

Yes, I'm think it improve our writing skills and English grammar, just like me (forgive my grammar)I want to improve my grammar and speak English natives or learn American English expression. I found mylot as expressing my self, by writing reacting and comment, although i know i'm not good in English i just tried and tried to write just what you said practice makes perfect.

I believe it helps you more than just your writing skills. Because being able to spend time reading and exploring lots of ideas from other users makes you more aware of alot of issues and in the end you benefit from everything that you read. Your way of thinking will be more broad and you will be able to participate in alot of discussions too to help you grow as a person ;)

i personally think so... even if it is just a little bit... i myself feel that i improve my writing skills a little bit after i join this site... even my typing skills as well... so i think this site will be a very good site for people who want to improve their english language and as you say "practice makes perfect" which is very true... take care and have a nice day...

Actually it did improve my writing skills a little bit (English is not my mother tongue). I still have the dictionary open in one of my browser's tab to re-check the underlined words, though... But it's not only that... MyLot gives me the possibility to discuss things that interest me ... and i don't have to bring the subject myself, which is really great. I just browse through the topics and there it is... something of great interest to me that I never thought I would discuss with someone directly... MyLot squeezes new ideas and thoughts from our mind, and we have a good time here writing about it... And then there's the money, of course...which is not much, so that people won't write if they don't have a passion for it, but would be a little more motivated if they really like to post their thoughts online. This mechanism works for me, and to get back to the subject, yes, it does develop my English skills... (as you can see...no writing mistake so far! - i checked 3 times the text before opening this bracket) ~ MyLot administrators will just love this topic when they'll see it ~

I've also mentioned that positive effect of posting here on myLot. I think my vocabulary has improved much since I joined this site. I think I've also improved my sentence structure and ability to express my thoughts in writing.

well as far as it goes for me I think posting on here has definitely improving my writing as I was never much of a writer and never wrote a whole lot when I did write or do that kind of stuff. Being able to come here and express our thoughts and opinions through the spoken word is a great way to express ourselves and after doing it so many times you can only get better at something the more you do it. I believe the more that i have done my writing on here whether it is in a discussion of just replies through posts I feel that I am getting better at it as when I first started I couldn't seem to make very long posts and since i have been here longer I have gotten much better at expressing my opinions and at making longer replies.

Yes, I think mylot could help in the improvement of a person's English writing skills. That's one of the benefits I get for joining here, not exactly my primary reason but it's an advantage. It becomes easier and easier to write in English everyday when you do this a lot. It's just like how I first learned the language in school - practicing it until it's made perfect. If not perfect, then next to perfect at least.

I think so. When I started, it took me a while to respond to discussions. It takes me a few minutes to just structure what I want to say. More so in making discussions. It is a little bit easier now. I sort of already know what kind of response I want to make based on an idea, and I just sit down and type away!

Well, MyLot certainly helps to keep some level of writing. We all know that if you don't exercise you forget much of the learned. About improving English, it's complicated because different people have different ways of posting. Some search the internet, some are improvising and so on, but definitely there's some new things that you can learn here like vocabulary and different ways of writing about different topics.

The vocabulary and writing skills increase immensely through mylot its really a great sites which pays also! otherwise who would waste their time on this but its very usefull i guess.Reading newspapers,novels,story books also improve our english skills

I am very impressed with the standard of so many non-English speaking members here, and I hope that everyone can benefit from participating in discussions in MyLotland. I have a couple of non-English speaking friends in my list and I have seen their written English improving more and more. This is a wonderful place for people to practice their linguistic skills.

I think that writing in mylot has helped me gain more experience in writing paragraphs, proper spelling, and expanding my variety of topics to write about. I have a spell checker that shows me my incorrect words and I learn how to correctly spell it. After a few times I am typing the words correctly. I was never a good speller in school which kinda held me back. But I have improved significantly since then. When I first got the internet I started using short form words and internet language. Then again in school I would use these words. Since mylot I have trainned myself not to use as much slang and use proper wording.

It helps a lot for me specially I'm not so fluent in English but an average. I like doing this to have my ideas get wide and open up for whatever new things we have read from the respondents. We learned from writing and also reading its comments and views regarding our topics. This is an additonal strategies to make our sentence construction be corrected and it will be understood well too. This is really a great help for everyone and so for me as well.

i do agree with this. yes it improves writing.using mylot have seen an improvement in my speed of typing as well as less mistakes in spellings. as i know that they will decrease my ratings if i just put the discussions with wrong spellings so i also concentrated on the spellings of my words.

Yes! It helps a lot when we are posting on discussions here in mylot, it will make us more conscious of our grammars and it polishes our english, that's why when I started mylotting I really am very inspired to do it everyday and join discussions because it polishes my writing skills as well.

yeah it does help not only on writing and spelling,grammar if you are aware of it and ideas too, you will learn to share and make friends, enrich your daily learning for free and you help people too at the same time..