<p>Funny! That was literally my plan except the part of newspaper; I would use online scholarly articles like Forbes, LA time, TNYT. I would practice aloud and save certain structures or phrases. Back in HS, no one told my written skill was bad because with all self-esteem movement going on in this country. I was blindly made believe that I was a decent writer compared to most native English speaker until in college, of course. I still have bad memories from English class especially on the first real essay where it looked like been through a slaughter house.</p>