What makes a good writer?

The struggle of all students: writing a good paper. But what is good writing? Good writing is clear, concise, focused, and logical. If you can do these four things then you can write a good paper. But a good paper doesn’t me an exciting paper. Your paper may be good but boring. And then we ask ourselves is boring not good? So then how do we decide what good writing is? We cannot say or list things that will always guarantee good writing. We can only give you things that will guide you on the right track. Like I said before being clear, concise, focused and logical in your writing will definitely help you with your writing. But you must make it interesting and fun. Obviously no one wants to read a boring paper so, spice it up, make it worth their effort. If you can do that, then maybe you’re not a totally bad writer.


Now perhaps it would be wise to hear about what is bad writing. Bad writing is just as hard to define as good writing. The reason for that is that it has to do a lot with personal opinions. Everyone has their own opinions and that’s what makes it hard. The first thing you should never do is write to please the teacher. If you write to please your paper will be boring and sort of lame. No one likes a suck up. Now I don’t mean to say you shouldn’t follow the prompt or the topic but do not write what you think the teacher wants to read. The second thing to never do is write what’s easy. Writing what’s easy usually turns out to be a poor paper. It usually lacks depth and has a lot of fluff words. The last thing that makes a bad paper is baby vocabulary. Like, always, more, and very are words that often appear in a bad paper. Stay away from them. If you go back and pull out each fluffy word and baby vocabularies then your paper will be ten times better.

This is an example of a well thought out introduction that is clear, concise, focused, and logical.

For the duration of the civil rights era, African Americans struggled to gain equality. This was particularly difficult in the South. The South was full of segregationists, racists, and KKK members who made it hard for Africans Americans to get the message out there. Racial issues have been a hard topic to understand since the roots are part of America’s dark history. To understand this time period better it is best to look at literature written at this time. The story, “Where Is the Voice Coming From,” written by Eudora Welty during the civil rights period, is about the assassination of a black NAACP member, Medger Evers, told through the white assailant’s point of view. The reason this story connects so well to the civil rights era is because this is a parallel to real life events. Roland Summers is Medger Evers while the Narrator who has no name is the man who killed Medger, Bryon de la Beckwith. To delve deep into the meaning behind this life and fiction parallel, critical faculties must be used. An analysis of the story through Marxist and historical lenses shows how the civil rights era was a threat to the white lower class and beneficial to the exploited blacks of the South

As you can tell this is clear, the message is concise, you can tell the focus of the paper, and  it uses logical reasoning to explain its thesis.

Changing the world....my way...and a little rant

Imagine that you are put in a separate school from every one you know. You are taught everything from math and science to history and art. You attend a separate college as well and get a degree. Now you are put into the world for the first time. You know everything a normal person would know except for some few differences. Every color as we know it has been taught to you differently, so has every number, and articles of clothing. For you green is yellow, blue is red, black is white, two is four, six is nine. Would you be able to re learn the correct things or would you go into some sort of shell because your brain couldn’t take the confusion. How would a person like this survive their first day in a world where they are alone in what they perceive with the exception of some crazies?

This is question that was asked in my sister's psychology class. And it sort of hit a spark in me. I got to thinking what if we could take people and teach them things to make them better people. Take away Racism, Homophobia, and Anti-Semitism. We could re educate the whole population. Of course we would have to destroy the bible…which should have been done a long time ago. It has only led to discrimination and hunts of “devil worshipers”. The bible is a story book on the morals of one person who may or may not have existed. And yet we follow them absolutely. We hate and judge others for no reason other than “it’s in the bible” and it “says too.” Well FUCK YOU!!!! Now I am not saying there is not any good that can come from the bible. But we cannot know where this book came from and I have trouble believing in something that comes from a book. If I where to go back in time and switch out the story of Jonah and the whale and switch it with Pinocchio, you would believe it to be true if it was in your precious bible

Some of you are thinking that I am going to go to hell for what I have said in this blog. Well I don’t believe in hell. And following you logic of believing in a book that must all be true, then if I don’t believe then it must not be true. It is not a bad thing to have faith or look for something to guide you and that’s all the bible is. It is a guide book on how one man thought YOU should live your life if you want to go to heaven. But I have my own thoughts on how to be a good person and that doesn’t involve people getting stoned for not being virgins before marriage.

The good, the bad, the college

Oh College. You are and interesting little bugger, (yes I am using a British a word). Some days I like you and some days I don't. College is like clothing (Stay with me for a moment. I'm not talking about fashion here). It's fine as long as its clean but, once it gets dirty...ewwww! Most of the time college is fine and dandy. I wish some classes were not as long as they are and I wish they all spoke proper English. My classes are scattered throughout the day which gives me time to do homework in between classes. This is actually a good thing, BECAUSE it keeps me from having excuses.

Last semester I had this teacher who did not understand grading. As we all know if a test is out of 75 points per say and there are 5 problems then each problem is 15 points. (You following?) Well tell me then how I can lose 17 points on one problem? Now for the flip side, how can I get a 25 out of 15 on a problem and lose 3 points overall on the rest of the test and get a 50 out of 75???? I had to spend lots of time having her clarify her “grading”. Her answer…. “I’m the teacher”. : (……… hmmmmmm……. Not sure how that justifies you not being able to add but…….. I digress. The food is ok. I ate it for a whole semester and did not gain the freshman 15lbs…(if you know me..that isn’t a good thing).

Besides that adjusting to college life really hasn’t been that bad. I mean YES I miss not having to shower with flip flops, and I miss not having my own room. But hey we can’t all live in a super single suit…..you know who you are…(angry eyes…grrrrrr…..).