Adults often assume that if they know something, then everybody else should know it. It's not true. Students who take my writing courses learn that what is obvious to them might be foreign to others ONLY when they start receiving feedback from other people. We don't see what we don't see. It might be obvious to others that our writing lacks structure, but we don't see it.
To help yourself write in English with clarity, ask yourself these two questions: What do my readers know? What don't they know?
Don't assume that people know. Instead, ask them to read your text and give you feedback. Come back to your own text a week or a month after you have written it and give yourself honest feedback. Does it make sense? Is it clear enough? Can I SEE the message? Don't ask yourself - "Can they read my message?". Any 12-year-old can read words. We're practicing to SHOW people the story, to help them SEE the meaning in our writing.
Practice.
If you do something occasionally, it's not practice. You need to do it consistently. Consider joining the Creative Writing Practice to practice writing better in English and to get better at taking feedback.
Btw, the final advice on this slide is “rewrite, ideally several times, with the single goal of making the prose understandable to the reader”. If you took my writing course, you know the process 😉
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