Qualities Of Good Writing

Chris Lane Jim Keller ENGL 125 02 July 2015 What Is Good Writing? Chris Lane “If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy” (George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, orwell.ru). As the essay from George Orwell, the blog from Ann Handley, and the article from Michael Bérubé show, there are many experts with subjective opinions on good writing. Nevertheless, there are countless different beliefs regarding the meaning of good writing. It is undeniable that one of the utmost vital factors; if not the most essential factor, is clarity. If clarity is not achieved in one 's writings, all other factors happen to be meaningless. To have clarity in one 's writings one must be willing to share his experiences …show more content…
Ground your content in facts: Data, research, fact checking and curating. Your ideas, and opinions and spin might be part of that story—or they might not be, depending on what you are trying to convey. But content that’s rooted in something true—not just your own opinions—is more credible” (Ann Handley, 9 Qualities of Good Writing, annhandley.com). If a writer is able to avoid being vague, deceitful, and complicated one might say that would be in the writers and audience’s interest. Some may consider that if the writer chooses purposefully to abuse these vague, deceitful, and complicated words, he may be hiding his true intentions. Through fact checking, and expert reviews, eventually the audience will find out regarding the true intentions of the writer. Even though a writer may slip through the holes at the beginning, eventually the truth will catch up, and the writer may lose all credibility if his goals were dishonorable. If a writer has a reputation of being honest, straightforward, and credible one might agree that his audience 's age, social, education brackets may be bigger and have added success, then the deceitful writer that has credibility …show more content…
The reader should not be obliged to second guess the meaning of the readings. If the writer has the feeling to formulate it purposefully difficult, there may deeper underlying reasons. These might be that the writer targets a certain audience by age, social, or education hence the point the writer is attempting to formulate will be understood. On the other hand, one might assume that especially with audiences in lower social economic brackets, writers may attempt to hide, their true intentions by appealing more to emotional than factual