My spelling is very bad, but now the computer takes care of that!

I know very little grammar ….like I would be all at sea if I was asked to give an elementary lesson to a 5 year old!

However, it has turned out that I am pretty good at writing most things ………..business proposals, letters, messages of all kinds, speeches, etc. and I have earned a name of same………and many in business and the social organizations I belong to reach out to me do such writing or to review their work.

I would attribute this to:

-          In my early childhood I grew up in an environment where our native language Sinhala was used for communicating and my primary education was also at a school where the language of instruction was Sinhala. However, when I was around 12, we moved into a neighborhood that comprised people of different ethnicities and, as such, the general conversation was in English. Upon becoming confident and fluent in spoken English, I switched to English for my secondary education …..thereby acquiring writing skills……although my formal English learning as a subject was limited to the little I received in primary school.

-          Taking, economics, business studies, logic for my secondary education I read avidly in English ……….particularly for logic, which I came to like ……………..and I read Russell a lot ……..

-          I became avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction …………….. I have interest in current affairs, politics, religions, architecture, philosophy, culture, sports, etc. and the knowledge got in following these interests is very useful in my writing assignments. I feel when one has the facts at hand the language/writing just falls into place.

-          Thinking logically I would normally take the macro view of an issue to be addressed in a writing assignment ……. including all relevant facts ….so my writing comes out fairly well …..and, as such, now I spend a fair amount of my free time on writing assignments of others.