Reading train - Improve your reading skills

How does reading a novel improve writing skills?

How does learning to effectively communicate keep people out of trouble?

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2. Whenever a person reads they absorb new vocabulary and ideas which will help them in their writing skills. The person will also become more exposed to other people, places, times as well as how to use different voices in their writings. Hope that helps.
3. Are these two different questions? Communicating allows you to talk things out before acting irrational, for one..............
4. Those are two very interesting, but very different questions. Reading a novel can improve writing skills by showing you how ideas cana be presented. But you have to read analytically, not just turn the pages. Look for the underlying themes, see if you can find where the author is setting you up for the next event. Look for the tricks authors use to develop character, and make the people in their novels seem real. There are many things you can learn through critical reading. How does communicating effectively keep you out of trouble? Well, the honest answer is it doesn't. But at least if you get in trouble, it will be because you have clearly communicated a belief or an idea. Whether someone else accepts, adopts or endorses that belief or idea is a whole 'nother question!
5. Communication doesn't keep you out of trouble, unless you're a good liar. Reading a novel improves writing skills because it helps you develop a data bank in your mind, an instinct for what sounds right and how grammar works and how characters are developed. People learn to stay in tune when they sing by listening to others and learning what "on key" is. The same thing with writing: you learn by example.
6. Reading provides examples of writing that you can use, things like good grammar. Effective communication may or may not keep people out of trouble depending on the situation it could also get people in trouble. Effective communication has nothing to do with the end result. For example: A Motorcycle gang member cuts you off in traffic. You give him the finger. This is very effective non-verbal communication. The biker sees this and understands your message perfectly. He then shoots you dead. There you have it, effective communication with a negative ending.
7. Language, written and spoke is a tool you can use to your advantage, if you know how. Reading will broaden your experience of how things can be said in different ways and have different meanings just by changing a nu-once. Look through some questions, many people know what they want to ask, but they construct a question that asks exactly the opposite. Some have a question that is 500 words in length. Some use "and" between words because they don't understand subject relation or punctuation. My personal favourite is a bit of an American "thing": and I LIKE told her. What does that mean? Does the writer mean they liked telling her something? Sadly because 5 million young sheep-like imbeciles all copy each other in everything they do they tend to level out at the lowest possible level, the language they murder is just another victim of apparently fashionable stupidity. Read as many different styles of books as you can, the day you don't learn something from a book will be the day you die.
8. The phraseology is learned and becomes part of one's bank of knowledge. Communicating effectively is the crux of civilization.
9. Well, that's two questions. Reading novels lets you see how the masters do it. You can improve your own writing by absorbing (but not plagiarizing, Kaavya!) the rhythms and vocabulary of authors you read. I don't know why it works, but it does. The only thing that works better, in my opinion, is writing and rewriting and rewriting again to find your own voice and tone. As for your second question, miscommunication causes a lot of trouble in this world. If you couldn't read, you wouldn't be able to read laws and could inadvertently break one. If you couldn't communicate with others, misunderstandings would develop - and those can lead to everything from broken friendships right on up to wars.