Hello! Recently, I discovered this website thanks to a YouTube video about improving your writing skills in a foreign language. I think this is a very good way to practice my writing and also to learn more grammar. That's why I started to post some reviews about different stories that I'd read, because for me it is easier to write a review than to write about a random topic. So I just read a short story in English or Portuguese, and then I try to write what I liked about it.
But lately I realized that I don't know what I should do after I post it. Of course, I read all the corrections that I get, but I don't know whether to correct the post or leave it as it is so that others can learn from my mistakes. Also, I don't know how to “thank” someone. I realized that you can do it because I received an email saying that someone thanks me for my suggestions, but I don't know how people do that. I also don't have a clue if I can see what other people commented in the corrections I left in other people's posts.
If someone knows how to do all those things, I would appreciate your responses.
Hi RavenclawGirl,
As you might have seen, I normally edit my posts. I do it for me. And I sometimes go back to my posts and read them again. Because I edited my text, I then read "correct" language. Sometimes I even click on the blue comments to see what I had initially been writing. I also mark things I edited by underlining. This is for other people to know that this part had been edited. As a commenter this helps me to concentrate on other things. I also tend to comment with more pleasure on posts from people I see editing their posts or at least interact in the comment section.
I keep a Google Slides presentation that I made look like a diary using a background photo of an open book, and I paste my corrected posts into text boxes placed over the pages.
From time to time, I revisit my posts on Journaly to see what mistakes I made before, and compare it to my corrected diary.
I never correct my errors but I always click the heart to the right of the correction to thank the person for correcting my writing.
I like to correct mine, and I am planning to rewrite each by hand in my journal next to the original first draft that I wrote. I'll also use the corrections to find patterns of grammar rules that I should practice.
Looks like all of your technical questions were answered, but I just wanted to say that your post is quite well-written. You made a few small errors, but it flows nicely and reads smoothly.