# 1.4 Developing your writing skills

Writing well does take practice, so if you want to develop your writing skills further, you may like to search the OpenLearn website or elsewhere for courses on this subject. In particular, take a look at another badged course, English: skills for learning. For now, this course will look at a popular way to organise your ideas before writing a piece of finished personal writing or a more formal essay – mind mapping.

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