Many of your English school teachers will have told you to read outside of school and you’ll often learn new words this way, as well as picking up writing tips without even knowing. Reading more can improve your own writing, but only if you’re writing as often as you’re reading, after all practice makes perfect. If you rarely ever write and you mainly read, you may still struggle with grammar, sentence structures and spelling, but by reading more and writing more you’ll have a winning combination. Reading exposes us to other styles, other voices, other forms and genres of writing but it also exposes us to writing that’s better than our own and helps us to improve. So yes, reading can definitely improve your writing, but you will have to put in the time and effort, combining the two to produce copy that’s perfect.
