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 [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] 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.