My Writing
Over the course of the years I have been in school, my writing has developed greatly. My writing has evolved throughout the years but this semester is when my writing became the best I have seen it. Due to my experience and my evolution of writing, my definition of good, effective writing may differ from other people’s perspectives. Defining something as “good” can be quite vague in the sense that good means many different things such as desirable, righteousness, and well. In my first and second “Theory of Writing” paper, I stated that the aspects that make writing good and effective are: having ideas that flow together nicely, not drifting off topic and to not be redundant with your word choice and sentences. I still at this point in the semester
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Within these five paragraphs, you had to have five to seven sentences or your paper was not using the “proper writing technique.” That is what good, effective writing was in elementary school. Now for middle school it was pretty similar but had a few tweaks made to it. We still had to write five paragraph papers, but the paragraphs went into much more detail compared to elementary school writing classes and you were able to use as many sentences you needed to get your point across. For high school, I don’t know about other schools but in my school we started to write multiple pages for a writing piece. There was a minimum and maximum amount of pages you were allowed to write and if you were over or under, you had a few points deducted. Now, being in college, I have learned that it is not about the amount of sentences, paragraphs or pages, it is about what it is you are writing about and how you present it. You don’t need three to five pages to make a good point. All you need is the knowledge of what it is you are writing about and the passion for
Within these five paragraphs, you had to have five to seven sentences or your paper was not using the “proper writing technique.” That is what good, effective writing was in elementary school. Now for middle school it was pretty similar but had a few tweaks made to it. We still had to write five paragraph papers, but the paragraphs went into much more detail compared to elementary school writing classes and you were able to use as many sentences you needed to get your point across. For high school, I don’t know about other schools but in my school we started to write multiple pages for a writing piece. There was a minimum and maximum amount of pages you were allowed to write and if you were over or under, you had a few points deducted. Now, being in college, I have learned that it is not about the amount of sentences, paragraphs or pages, it is about what it is you are writing about and how you present it. You don’t need three to five pages to make a good point. All you need is the knowledge of what it is you are writing about and the passion for