Better Writing is No Accident
We all remember sitting in boring English classes being lectured about how important writing is. We were bored to death about how to use the comma, quotation marks and semi-colons. We were taught about how a sentence works, how a paragraph works and how paragraphs are arranged together to make a cogent essay. We were all taught the same formulas on how to do this, and yet all writing is different.
So few people write the same since not all of us practice writing in the same way. Not all of us want to write well and not all of us know how to improve our own writing. We all get taught the same rules about how to write and, as students, we are all given the same topics to write about, but every teacher can tell you no two students write the same. So, if we’re all taught the same, what makes us all different? Practice.
Better writing, and therefore better writers, is made not by following rules, but by putting them into practice. It sounds simple enough, but the more a person writes, the better her or she becomes at it. A good writer knows when to break rules of writing and when not to. A good writer knows the point of writing is not following rules, but communicating effectively.
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| Published on July 14th, 2008 | | Comments Off | | Posted by admin |