Writing An Argument Essay: Misconceptions

English being one of the most important things to learn as Americans here in the United States, there are mandatory classes we all take and learn an abundance of material about writing, books, poems, and literature in general. One thing our teachers growing up vaguely mentioned was the idea of a misconception. A misconception by definition is, a view or opinion that is incorrect because it is based on faulty thinking or understanding. There are many misconceptions one could address such as: the 5 paragraph essay being an awful way to write, even though our teachers in high skill asked us to write in that form, or the fact that diction is not the most important thing to write a solid paper, even though as we age we just accept that that is the …show more content…
How would one keep from from being subjective or bias is the main concern. Different people will consider one form of writing good while others may not. With that being said, how would one avoid bias’? There are many different ways to avoid bias’ , one of these ways is to include people with substantially opposite lives, opinions on the matter. I conducted a few interviews with some really intelligent but different people i’ve met in my years and simply asked them, “What is good writing to you?”. Now it may come as no surprise I got different answers from the different people. A girl I went to highschool with by the name of Claire said that “good writing has to captivate me, it also needs to make me think about something greater than myself or something that reflects on myself. I think good writing includes good sentence structure too. I love short sentences because I think they make a point more emphasized.” She wants to be grabbed by the writer, and read something that has good sentence structure with very strong short sentences that articulate a whole lot of importance to the whole …show more content…
Excellent writers understand that detail and dialogue need to be authentic and real.” She recognizes good writing by the ability of the writer to be confident in their writing and writing something that is real and tells a story authentically.
With that being said, I must also explain what my idea of good writing is. “I think good writing is the ability to write down your thoughts with full intentions of making a reader read between the lines to understand what they’re reading. Good writing is hard to understand and serves a bigger purpose than for the writer to just get paid. I think that with good writing the author has to be passionate about what he or she is writing.” Basically good writing to me is having a point to your writing that serves a bigger purpose than what’s written on