Troy University

The Effective
Reading Activities
in Improving Writing Skills
for college student
in their future life

Name: Pham Anh Duc

Class: Troy 08A
Teacher: Tran Vu Thuan
 Abstract

This research is to find out which reading activities are more effective in
improving writing skills for college student in their future and help them to have good
writing skills. For this research, student in the college are surveyed with the
questionnaire designed by the researcher. The participants agree that reading and
writing are related to each other and some reading activities are more effective in
improving writing skills and absolutely it’s very useful for their life. As the reading
levels, they think that reading words, sentences and short stories are more useful to
improve their writing skills. Also, they select magazines and newspapers, academic
journals and articles, and subtitles on TV or movies as good reading materials. In
addition, learning key vocabulary, summarizing and comprehension activities are
more helpful post-reading activities for writing.
I) Introduction: