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Writing skills are very important in the university classes, so if the students have plan to take the university classes must focus and improve their writing skills.

First, we must know what is academic writing structual in English. There are three parts in an essay-introduction, body, and conclusion. Everybody knows this structual, but they usually don't know how to organize it. In Asian cuture, the main idea usually in the conclusion part, but in English writing, the main idea states in the introduction part, and the body part will supporte the main idea, then conclusion part sums up the essay.

Second, we should know academic vocabularys because it makes the essay more fresh and interesting. For example, the conclusion part restates main idea, but we shouldn't use same words that used in introduction part, so we have to use some synonyms to restate the main idea to make the readers feel more exciting about read the essay.

Third, we need to read more books to be familial with English writing. Some students still write a their native language essay first then translate it to English, so the sentences are strange for English readers. The best way solve this problem is to read a lot of English books. From reading we can learn new vocabularys and sentence structtuals.

It's hard to write an interesting academic essay because the topics usually very serious, but we need to make it amuse.