Write a document of at least 200 words; you will do this activity every day. These documents might be your opinion of something in the news, details about what you did at work that day, a description of the sunset, instructions for operating your DVD player or anything that requires you to stay on one subject. Use a word processing program for your writing. Print the document in a large font.
Read your document aloud; only concern yourself with what you had to say, not any grammatical or spelling errors. Use a pencil to change anything that you did not state clearly or anything that you could say in fewer words. Add more details where they belong; delete details you think are unnecessary. Check the order in which you wrote, changing anything that is out of sequence or chronological order. Make these changes on your computer document and print this second version.
Proofread your assignment by first paying attention to whatever errors your word processing program has pointed out. If you have misspelled a word, correct the error; in addition, write the word on the back of your document for practice. Check carefully for homophones; your spell-check program may not be able to help with a sentence like "I love the desert" when you mean "dessert." For grammatical errors, you won't always be able to count on the corrections suggested by the grammar tool, but study and assess the suggestions the program presents.
Consider hiring a tutor after you have created two to three dozen documents. Call high schools and community colleges to inquire about faculty members who do tutoring. You might check with local universities for junior or senior English majors interested in tutoring. By beginning with the documents you created earlier, you'll save time. A tutor will examine your work and zero in on skills you need to build.
Ask your writing tutor to recommend a workbook that contains sentences to revise; the book should have the answers printed in the back rather than in a separate teacher's edition. Work through the book, checking your work for errors. Once you have finished the exercises in the workbook, use the sentences you found difficult to revise as models for new sentences you create.