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.
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