The Importance Of Writing

For someone, such as myself, who rather watch the movie of a best-selling novel than a reading the novel, could be missing out on specific details since majority of novels that have been made into movies, tend to either alter details from the novel, or do not mention the details at all. That goes to show you that I am not much of a reader, which does have an effect on some of my college courses that requires reading materials for class. However, whenever I do find something interesting to read, it has always been urban-fiction novels or an African American literature by amazing writers such as Alice Walker and James Baldwin. Even since ninth grade, I have somewhat grown to have a passion for one of literatures’ greatest mystery writers, Agatha …show more content…
However, when I do read, the writing must be strong and know how to tell a story without losing my focus.
This semester, if I had a dollar for every time I heard the “What makes this essay a strong essay?” I’ll probably be rich now, but at the same time, I would finally have an idea of what makes for a strong essay. In my experience in this particular English course, I feel in order for any writing be considered a strong one, it must be able to tell a story without the reader losing focus of the main topic. By this, I believe that whenever I read the text, I should be able to understand why the writer put a particular short story or reference in their writing without having to ask the question, “What does this have to do with the essay?’ Examples of this idea comes from reading Stephen Jay Gould’s, “The Creation Myths of Cooperstown”. In the beginning, Gould starts his essay by talking about the Cardiff Giant. Shortly after he shifts focus to baseball which in my opinion, the whole essay itself had me confused. This particular essay is one I …show more content…
Evidences of my improvement can be seen in my first essay titled, "Living for a Healthier Lifestyle". In this essay, I showed how well I can begin and end my paper. Throughout middle school and up until now, I have always been told that your introduction should bring interest to the reader and give a preview of what is expected in the writer’s paper. I was also told that the conclusion of a paper should always summarize what was said throughout the paper and also leave the reader wanting for more. In my first essay, I like how I started with the quote, "Food can’t hurt me. Food can’t leave me. Food won’t cheat on me” (Stewart). By using this as my hook for my first essay, my goal of this was to gain the reader’s attention by using something that they may have heard before and give them a sneak peek of what is yet to come in my paper. My first paper showed how I was able to present my idea of how people gain weight and what they go through to fit the perfect body. To present these ideas, I was able to smoothly present details and examples from other sources while still giving my own insight of the source. I hope by this essay, I was able to keep the reader interest, as well as teach them that they should not have to go through dramatic changes to have the perfect body. The reader should have learned that everybody was made differently and should not