Good writing is clear writing. To be clear, you need to know your
audience: who is this piece of writing for?
The wrong answer is the instructor.
Although instructors may grade the writing, they are in fact not your
real audience. If you think the professor is your audience, you may become
unclear by using “big” words to impress them. Big words are not for impression
but communication.
You may also feel that you need to impress them with your ideas—ideas
you don’t have, which you may be then tempted to borrow” from other
places.
Who is your audience? I believe it is most helpful to think of your
audience as your classmates: those who have heard the same lectures, read the
same textbooks, and are of similar intellectual level. Write for them. Use
words, ideas, structure, and development that will appeal to them.
Know your audience and write for them.
We of the left-handed, right-brained hemisphere have largely not even bothered to weigh in on this edifice of discrimination known as "the curse of penmanship."
ReplyDeleteMy teachers begged me to learn to type, and my grades went up three points when I did. As a left-handed student I suffered systemic discrimination and resentment from teachers who had to suffer through reading my largely illegible scrawl.
Yes, according to essaytyper.pro (click here for details), generations of left-handed students were oppressed and forced to adapt to writing with their right hand to ''conform,'' and that was good for what and whom?
Cursive writing is an institutionalized form of discrimination, and like slavery, it has all sorts of rational argument in its defense that is riddled with the basic blind spot that it is a grossly discriminating and therefor repugnant creed.