When Is Writing Good Analysis

When is Writing Good? When is writing good? Most people think that there is only one correct answer to that question, and everyone else who says something that differs is wrong automatically. Some people only care about conventions, while others only care about citations. Good writing isn’t necessarily any of those said things, and it can be something total different. I used to believe that writing was really on how well one can literally write. I judged writing on how well individuals used conventions, organization, and how long it was. That time was a long time ago, and my ideas have changed every year since then. Good writing isn’t just based purely on conventions or citations, but rather, good writing is based on the ideas and points an author can get …show more content…
Wallace talks about having a closed mind and the negative effects it can have on both writers and readers. He talks about how a mind can be so closed, that “blind certainty” happens. Wallace defines Blind Certainty as: “a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he is locked up” (Wallace, 2005). An author has to know and believe what he is talking about; but the author also has to know the world is not centered around him. Open-mindedness and learning new things should be a trait we all have in our lives. From the Iowa Review, Dragon Slayers tells a story about an African American who was a teacher. A white person asked him how he taught and he said: “my students don’t focus on white cruelty but rather its flip side: black courage. ‘After all,’ I continued, slaves and their immediate descendants were by and large heroic, not pathetic, or I wouldn’t be standing here” (Walker, 2006). Jerald Walker has learned to keep an open mind despite the hardships his ancestors faced previously. Due to that small fact, he is a better person and writer because of his ability to open his mind to different