how to be a better writer?

It is inevitable that people always make some grammar problem during writing process especially international students like me. There are mistakes about tense, vocabulary, noun, verb, subordinate clause, pronoun and so on.  However, it is not easy for us to find out our own mistakes although we may check for a couple of times. 

As for me, grammar problem has been the biggest trouble in my writing. There are often a lot of grammar mistakes in my writing. Firstly, my using of vocabulary is always improper.  For instance, "how aesthete the scene is". In fact, I do not really know what "aesthete"mean and how to use it. After looking up in the dictionary, I finally knew that aesthete is a noun rather than an adjective, so I changed "aesthete" to "nice". Besides, I will set "appreciate patiently" as another example. People don't often use appreciate to express the meaning "enjoy". However, I just wanted to make my vocabulary more fancy and different at that time, but actually i just made my sentence confusing and weird. Second, using phrases correctly is another big puzzle for me. Is it Insist on or to, Devote in or to, Provide for or with? I am totally confused by those phrases and i believe that there are a lot of people who have the same problem as(or like?)me. 

In order to solve these mistakes, I have done a lot of efforts, although it seems not useful. When I was in China, my english teacher used to give us a list of phrases and ask us to memorize it. However, I hardly did that since I can always get good grade because of my "sense of grammar". Unfortunately, nowadays my "sense of grammar" seems can not save me anymore, so that maybe I have to pick up the way that my teacher taught before. I will write down the phrases I am not sure in my notebook after looking up in the dictionary and memorize them before going to bed. As for vocabulary, I will look up on the dictionary for the characteristic or property of the certain word and make sure I can use it correctly. I will also use the certain word in the next writing as much as possible so that I could strengthen my memorization. 

In conclusion, there are a lot of errors in grammar. We should always be careful and check the grammar after writing. Concentrating on the writing is really important and keeping focus on the screen of ipad is necessary. I believe that as long as I focus on grammar and try my best to solve it, I will finally get over grammar problem.