How to be good at writing compositions?

Question

i'm an honor student in our school but i don't have the writing skills. i don't know how and where to start. i'm always having a hard time when we have the composition-writing assignment. no one helps me. i study on my own and do my school works on my own. now, i'm always reading some articles and writing about what happened to me everyday. like a journal. but it still didn't work. so, how?

Answer 1

OH My!

What kind of school is that never teach the student any writing skill.

Even though you are not in journalism/business class course,

the school shall teach you about this. (I am from engineering course)

My advice:

Read more story book (Chicken Soup recommended)

Try to attend extra class about "Report and Writing Skill"

Answer 2

Props to you for taking time out of your day to write.  By the way, HS English teacher here.  

You won't properly learn everything you need to learn about composition from Yahoo answer.  With no disregard to other fields, writing is more complex than adding or explaining some kind of formula or proven scientific theory. Composition, as is literature, is interpretive for many reasons.

When you write, you are inserting parts of you in your writing, no matter what type of writing you are composing.  Writing will never be objective; it's subjective and evaluative because it is your unique writing, but composing also requires convention, grammar, punctuation, style, tone, and tons of aspects.  Seek the advice and help of your teacher, and I would suggest you find your strengths and weaknesses to improve your writing.  Reading and writing will also sharpen your composition skills.  Remember, it's not about what you learn and soak in..but what you do with that which you learn.  Wonder, discover, learn, apply, (maybe fail, which is not a bad thing at all), practice, learn from your applications, and repeat!  Good luck.  I'm sure you will write wonderfully!

Answer 3

Something that helped me go from a D student in writing to an A student was learning syntax. Like how to form sentences by using interjections and never starting a sentences by stating a fact.  like your first words should be However, Although, While, Also, When, Due to, etc... and you're smart enough to look up the proper way to use those words. try also to invert your thoughts like starting the thought with the effect then stating the cause (Seeing as how her dog ate her homework, Martha ended up having a bad day at school. instead of----Martha had a bay day at school because her dog ate her homework)