你是否真的寫得一手好作文呢?你有沒有停下來想一想自己的寫作質量?你確定你的寫作技巧比較好?你寫的內容別人能正確理解嗎?還是說你的讀者對你到底想表達什么內容感到迷惑?

　　Have you ever stopped and thought about the quality of your writing? Are you sure it's considered to be good writing? Are you getting the right message across， or are your readers confused as to what you're trying to accomplish?

　　1. Express, not impress.

　　是表達，而不是印象

　　Good writing is not about the number of words you've produced， the quality of the adjectives you've written or the size of your font–it's about the number of lives you've touched! It's whether or not your reader understands you. It's about expression， not impression.

　　寫得好不好不在于你用了多少詞、你用的形容詞的質量或你使用的字體大小——而在于你寫的東西感動了多少人!寫得好不好是看你的讀者是否理解你。它是關于表達，而不是印象。

　　2. Simple sentences work best.

　　簡單的句子效果最好。

　　示例：

　　- The only possible option in order to accelerate the growth of the food industry is to focus on the fact that the target market of this business demands convenience， competence and cost-effectiveness.

　　-要想加快食品行業的發展，最可能的方式是聚焦于目標市場對便利性、管轄權和成本效益的要求上。

　　- Better: The food industry can grow faster if food trucks focus on convenience， competence and cost-effectiveness.

　　-更好的寫法：如果食品交易聚焦于便利性、管轄權和成本效益，那么食品行業會發展得更快。

　　3. Active, rather than passive.

　　主動，而不是被動

　　示例：

　　- The offering price was established by the real estate vendor and the negotiation process was initiated by the real estate buyer.

　　-定價是由房地產商決定的，協商過程是由購房者發起的。

　　- Better: The real estate vendor set the offering price， and the real estate buyer started negotiating.

　　更好的寫法：房地產商定價，購房者展開協商。

　　4. Know who your target audience is.

　　了解目標受眾

　　Who are you writing for? Who do you expect to read your article， your book， or your blog post? Will they care about what you're talking about? Will they understand the message that you're trying to get across? Good writing isn't generic; it's specific because it's targeted towards a group of people with something common binding them.

　　你為誰寫作?你期望誰來讀你的文章、你的書或你的博客?他們關心你寫的內容嗎?他們會理解你想表達的信息嗎?好的寫作不是泛泛的;而是具體的，因為它針對的是一群有共同特征的人。

　　5. Read it aloud.

　　大聲朗讀

　　Reading your works out loud allows you to notice something that you might not have noticed if you were just reading it silently. Go on， read them out loud now. Also， try to listen to your work objectively as you read it. Are you making sense? Or are you simply stringing a couple of words together just to fill a gap?

　　把你的作品朗讀出來，這會讓你注意到默讀時所忽略的內容。現在就把它們朗讀出來吧。另外，當你朗讀時，試著客觀地去傾聽你的作品。你寫的有理嗎?還是只是把幾個詞湊在一起來填補空白?

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