This week’s material on Paintings is more about how we view art. Visual art such as paintings include more of a visual analysis. A visual analysis is being able to understand what you are looking at when you see art. Such as line, color, scale, and texture. This is so we can understand what the artist is exhibiting, but also recognizing the formal elements line, color, scale, and texture the artist put into their painting. 

The key to understanding these things is asking yourself questions while analyzing the painting. To know what kind of color, light, and tone used in a painting is recognizing if the colors are bright or “dim”, that just helps me understand. As well as light, noticing if there is any “light source” used can help you know the tone or mood of the painting. The scale to me is what objects that are prominent in the painting but catch my eye. Especially where they are placed in the painting. Asking yourself how the elements are can help you with the visual analysis when looking at any form art.

This painting is by Jean-Michel Basquiat, called Warrior(1982). I remember seeing this painting at an art gallery on a field trip and was confused. In no offense to the artist, i thought it was a drawing made by a child for an art project. At the time my concept of art or just paintings in general were ones like the Mona Lisa or the creation of Adam. Not knowing art can be in any form and people have different ways of how they display their art. What surprised me the most was the painting being worth 40 million, this intrigued me more than anything. 

First glance at the painting, the “line” is very prominent, the figure in middle uses a lot of this and the way they show up on the painting look as if they were made in a fast motion, just because they aren’t the straightest lines, meaning they didn’t take as much time to make. The color in the painting is bright. The bright colors around the perimeter of the painting make the whole thing look bright despite the black figure being in the center of the painting. The scale of the painting is obviously the black figure in the center of the painting. I think the bright background could be the scale in some cases just because the brightness of the color catches the eye. However for me it was the figure because of the contrast between the background colors and the black. The composition is not really “harmonised” and seems to have widespread arrangement. The technique of his art seems to be with spray paint, looking at the black figure and seeing the paint drops. Also an oil crayon because of how the texture looks in the painting.

Jean-Michel Basquiat sparked an interest in art for me. I began looking at more of his work and noticed that this was his style of art and what i loved was how distinct it was. Not only that but the meaning behind his art. You could see his work in the art gallery and know exactly who made it. I appreciated it more as i got older and loved the originality of his work, No one’s work looks like his

This week’s topic on food gave me more insight on what the American diet is. Nutrition seems to be fundamental to the average american diet, but this week’s material enlightened me that nutrition has become more complex through the years. I also noticed that what we put in our bodies is getting more complicated and risky. This being that the said nutrients we need for our bodies to function properly are not what they used to be and can be damaging. 

Reading “Unhappy meals” not only did it help me to understand the evolution of food to nutrients but how the presence of the food has evolved also. Growing up you hear your parents tell you eat your vegetables and you never have a meal without a vegetable. I always liked vegetables, and knew they were good for me because that is all you hear growing up. However as I am growing i am noticing how fundamental they need to be in our diets. As a growing person your diet and what you put in your body is very important as it is what keeps your body functioning. 

Food definitely can be essential to our self- identity, especially culturally. Having immigrant parents and adapting to the American diet is an experience. I’ve realized the difference in our “diets” or just the way our food is made living through both. I’ve noticed how easy it can be to become obese in America because fast food chains are EVERYWHERE and can become addicting. I’ve also noticed foods from other countries are made organically with fresh vegetables because it aids in their daily lives. Those nutrients they’re putting in their body are helping in how they function throughout the day. At this time i think gardening and planting your food is essential because I personally think the American diet is too complex, the ingredients, eating habits, and cost. 

https://gastate.view.usg.edu/content/enforced2/2579768-CO.090.0008.HUMN1000.52214.20231/Unhappy%20meals.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=cfaxVCm2CA6QErGosrcYyR3Dx

This week’s material gave me a complex understanding of what music is. It helped me to see that music isn’t just words and instruments and in fact more than that. Music is a powerful source of communication and in a different way than how we normally communicate. Just like any other form of communication we are able to share meanings, spread information, and emotions just in this case with sounds. Watching Music as Communication helped to understand this because i had no idea music could be a form of communication using sounds. Just like any other way of communicating it connects people.

The film about El Silbo showed how music and communication contribute. The whistling language they use La Gomera is a form of communication that has historically developed through time mimicking similar whistling languages. This shows that music communication connects people in different ways. Regardless of the culture, and location.

The sound used in music is what i believe draws a person to a type of music. It’s all about how it makes that person feel, emotions can be a major element to music. The sound is what engages people to listen and when people are drawn to a specific kind of sound they will want to listen to it more. Music and sound specifically cause emotional responses and define the mood of the person. So because most of the time listening to music can bring a happy response and people like listening to music that makes them happy, that brings to my idea of why sound is what draws a person to a type of music.

When it comes to music i go based on the rhythm and the feeling the music evokes. This is because i listen more for an emotional response and “musical pleasure”. I listen for the sound and how it makes me feel, more specifically how good of a mood it can put me in. I read an article about “Why we are moved by music” and how it affects how we behave and music can mimic emotions. A slow tempo sound supposedly expresses sadness, and a faster tempo expresses happiness. However, i am the complete opposite and noticed slower tempo music brings more happiness to me than faster. So as music is a language of emotion, this shows how much it contributes to how we behave and why our emotions can base what type of music we listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRMbH36HRE

https://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/films/el-silbo

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201807/why-are-we-moved-music#:~:text=Music%20has%20the%20capacity%20to,expect%20in%20a%20sad%20individual.

The bad idea is that reading and writing are not connected. The bad idea that they have been
taught in a way that appears like they are different when they are connected and the focus on
writing versus reading. This idea is bad because reading and writing are the skills we need in
order to communicate and practicing the two can improve the way students become stronger
thinkers and come up with ideas. In Reading and Writing Are Not Connected, Ellen Carillo
explains her better idea of reading and writing being connected and how the two should be taught
together. In Sofia Westin’s essay, “Social media eroding skills?” She explains that social media
could be the problem to why students aren’t able to write as coherently as they should be and
why students are seen lacking in vocabulary and critical thinking. Carillo and Westin believe that
reading and writing being taught together is the better idea and the two skills are how students
can create ideas and focus on other skills like grammar, vocabulary and writing.
Carillo’s better idea that allows reading and writing to be taught together is what she believes
will help students become better thinkers. She thinks there should be an equal focus on both
reading and writing because there is a connection made when learning the two. She explains
writing as an output to what students read and students being able to write better is connected to
how well they can read. She explains reading and writing is about creating ideas and in “Reading
and Writing Are Not Connected”, Carillo explains this idea saying “When one writes, one is
creating meaning by putting words and ideas together. When one reads, the same thing is
happening” (Carillo 40).
Westin’s better idea is reading and writing skills being fundamental for students to have better
critical thinking skills, vocabulary, and grammar. Her idea focuses on social media being the
reason students are not able to progress in their writing, and that is because they don’t spend
enough time reading. She explains students’ use of social media often affects their grammar and
vocabulary which can make students’ writing become less effective. In her article she presents a
source that shows the effects social media can have on students’ literacy skills “The five major
areas students felt a deficiency in were concentration, cursive writing, spelling, reading a printed
map, and grammar, respectively” (Westin 8). This supports her idea of why social media affects
students in all areas relating to reading and writing.
Carillo’s better idea of reading and writing being taught together focuses on students being able
to develop ideas of their own and become better thinkers. She also targets this idea to college
students in order to progress in any subject, it starts with reading and writing. Carillo suggests “if
students are not given the opportunity to continue working on their reading throughout their
college careers, they may struggle analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating all that surrounds them
since comprehension is a crucial step toward these more advanced interpretive practices” (Carillo
39). She believes that students may struggle in the future with analyzing, interpreting, and
evaluating if there isn’t an equal focus around reading just as much as writing.
Westins’ better idea focuses on how reading is a fundamental skill needed for students to be able
to write. If students read more, they can have better grammar and vocabulary but because we are
in the digital age and everything is technology, social media makes everything harder for
educators. She explains how social media has become students’ main source of “writing” and has
become harmful regarding communication skills. She believes for students to become engaged in
wanting to read and write it’s important for them to see the harmful effects social media could
have on their reading and writing skills and put communication skills before social media skills.
In conclusion Carillo and Westins ideas are important to think about for students to become
better thinkers. Practicing reading and writing together and providing strategies for students is
what students need in order to improve literacy skills. Also, being aware of the effects social
media has on communication skills that are harmful to students reading and writing skills. It’s
better to focus on the idea that there is a connection between reading and writing and the benefits
of practicing both at once to become a successful reader and writer.

Is The Education System failing Students for the future? 

The education system for K-12 has failed students for the future. For staters college students. In school, people were told what they learn in K-12 would help them be successful in college. That might have been a lie. The bad idea of writing that was taught in K-12 was that reading was not important too writing. Which is the cause of college students’ problem in college today.

Over the years there has been a debate about the importance or reading to writing etc. Reading is the first step. People cannot write without reading, Reading helps you learn words, meaning, and how to write and build as a writer.  Julie Myatt Barger author of “Reading is Not Essential to writing instruction” writes about how  over the years reading is not taught enough. The authors Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue wrote “Writing from sources, Writing from sentences”. The article was about how educators failed students buy not teaching them how to read.How that has caused patch writing and students not being able to fully understand what they read or is writing about. 

Students learning

There has been a long argument about reading. The question is, Is reading essential for writing? In the essay “Reading is Not Essential to Writing Instruction” written by Julie Myatt Barger. She argues how reading is not taught enough. “They should know this stuff before they get here!” (Barger 44). Barger quoted that indicting what professors think about college level students. Professors assume that by the time students get to college they have mastered the concept of reading. But in reality previous teachers do not teach what professors believe or expect. 

“First, their exists and education culture that privileges testing over sustained and meaningful encounter” (Barger 44). In the educational field of K-12 students are not taught to read for understanding and connecting. They are taught to read to pass test. Test that determines if they move on to the next grade level. The testing that determines if a student is capable of moving on to the next level. This does not only affect the student but also the teachers. “As teachers understandably grew fearful about losing their jobs because of test scores, they devoted class time preparing students for the test rather than developing practice that would help students improve as readers and writers” (Barger 44).  This shows how students can not enter college fully prepared because they were only trained to test take instead of learning.

Students taking a test

Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue authors of “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences” educators have failed students. “We began our inquiry with an exploratory hypothesis: that college students, both L1 and L2 writers, patch write.”  High school teachers did not teach student the proper way to use another person material. This could lead professors to believe a student is purposely plagiarized, but in reality, it was not taught or corrected in high school. In college plagiarizing can cause a suspension, which is terrible to a college student future.

photo about plagiarism

The fact that reading was not put up to high standards and was only taught for test caused students to not understand how to connect to essays, books, articles, etc. They were trained to look for the questions answers. In the article “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences” by Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue, “Three years after Brown and Day’ s experimental study, Sherrard (1986) asked ten paid undergraduates to alternately summarize or recall seven texts which were ordered randomly. She discovered that their most common method of summarizing is not to combine multiple sentences from the source but to paraphrase a single key sentence.” When test taking a student is taught that the best way to pass is to find the main sentence. The experiment showed how students do not mean steal, plagiarize, etc. from a author’s work. It is the way that best helps them when it comes to testing.

Caught plagiarizing

It is a bad idea for writing to not teach students to read. Reading helps students learn about writing. For example, if a student reads a argumentative essay or research paper they can learn how to give an author the credit that they deserve. Many people learn from seeing and being told. If a student reads, they can see MLA style, APA style, etc. If I student is told to follow the format of what they are reading it can and will better their writing.

Furthermore: Sources for why not teaching reading in K-12 is a bad idea. 

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-sch

All information is from these following sources: 

Barger, Julie Myatt. “Reading Is Not Essential to Writing Instruction,” in Bad Ideas About writing.  Edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe, West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute Morgantown, WV, 44-50

https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/

Rebecca Moore Howard, Tricia Serviss, and Tonya K. Rodrigue’s, “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences,” Writing and pedagogy 2010, Equinox Publishing.

http://www.citationproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/HowardServissRodrigue-2010-writing-from-sentences.pdf

“Writer” by Nattakorn Maneerat. Unsplash

         In the book Bad Ideas About Writing, author Elizabeth Wardle says that there is no such thing as writing in general and instead, writing is always in particular. It’s a bad idea to assume that anything you write is simple. This poor idea can cause authors to be less mindful of how creative writing communicates far more than people believe it does. As a result, writing is complex rather than simple. In her article “You Can Learn to Write in General,” she explains how writing, in general, is impossible. According to her, a report is always specific. Wardle believes that even the most casual paper contains meaning and detail. This wrong thought can cause authors to be less mindful of how creative writing speaks much more than they believe it does. As a result, writing is challenging rather than easy.

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                                The writer of “You Can Learn to Write in General,” Elizabeth Wardle, believes that all writers make mistakes, but that you can improve your writing skills. “It’s not just common sense that says learning to write is impossible in general. Many writing studies have been conducted in the workplace, in college classes, and social and civic situations.” (Wardle, Elizabeth. Bad Writing Ideas, p. 30) Wardle is suggesting that practice and research can help a poor writer develop. Writers who feel their words have meaning might explore the principles of writing by thinking outside the box rather than thinking straightforwardly. It can quickly increase the success of their work and help them become better writers. If you want to improve your writing skills and become a more effective writer. Developing as a writer involves the study and analysis of different writers’ backgrounds. To improve, a writer must focus on one issue, master it, and then move on to the following meaning. You’ll have to work on improving your abilities and applying them to regular daily blogging.

           Being a great writer requires more than writing a story. It needs writers to understand people, understand themself, continuously learn about their audience, know the world’s current events, etc. Writers must be in tune with themselves, others, society, and the world to progress as authors. When we write, every word matters and every word has a meaning. Wardle sends a great message altogether. When reading, we have to understand our terms aren’t as simple as we think. It takes practice, and you have to study, understand the world, and understand people.

Citations

1. Wardle, Elizabeth. “You Can Learn to Write in General.” Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe, ‘’Bad Ideas About Writing’’. (2017) p30-32

A Better Idea for Writing: failure leads to success

The topic I have chosen to do my research on is “Failure is not an option” Allison D. Carri and Rory Carroll from Bad Ideas about Writing, and Silicon Valley’s Culture of Failure article. Their entire topic is about if failure is good or bad. They are arguing about both the good and bad sides of failure. When people think about failing in something they get very disappointed. They have this thinking that failure is not an option, but success is. Only successful people took the taste of success but what about the people who actually fail? So, in Allison’s argument, she successfully showed how both the good and bad sides of failing can affect our minds and control us. It’s like if you don’t know the taste of failure in life, you won’t know the joy of winning too! But also, it’s like if you fail then you’re not successful enough! 

                       In Silicon Valley’s Culture of Failure article, Carroll said that if at first, you don’t succeed try, try again”, or “if you get knocked down get back up” or “it’s not how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep going those counts” Carrol uses this evidence to show that success comes from one having the “mindset trained from failure.

In his article, Carroll said what about those tech entrepreneurs who lose – and keep on losing? What about those who start one company after another, refine pitches, tweak products, pivot strategies, reinvent themselves … and never succeed? What about the angst masked behind upbeat facades? it is this struggle or failure that paves the road to success. his evidence is to show how their failure led them to success while showing that the ones who stopped after one failure still fail.

                  Basically, I agree with both when they talked about how failure can be used as a lesson in different examples, and it can improve oneself more. Also, at the same time, I don’t agree with the fact that failure is bad. Metaphorically I would say if failure is bad and we only had one option which is to win then I guess this world would become more likely heaven. Everyone would be successful. But in reality, people fail and learn from their mistakes, and then if they try again, they do better. the only real failure is giving up. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

                  However, they also talked about the bad side of failure too, but when Allision took this entire concept to a point where she ends up writing that “Failure—and a willingness to fail often in large, obvious ways—should always be an option”. She even said how lab researchers try one thing repeatedly and then get successful results. Carrol as well he explains how businesses, companies try many times and they do better. The same way in writing too! If a writer starts writing he or she will definitely make mistakes but it’s more important than failure is how someone will learn from it and think of the failure as a learning tool and try again and then become successful. 

                   In conclusion, I would say it’s a great article. I have learned a lot from it and I think failure should be an option. I also think Humans make mistakes and learn from them and it’s more important that people who we are surrounded with understand it and give positive advice and encourage us to try again and be successful! 

 Works Cited                                                      

Carri, Allison. “Failure is Not an Option.” Bad Ideas About Writing. Page: 76-81.

Carroll, Rory. “Silicon Valley’s culture of failure… and ‘the walking dead’ it leaves behind.” The Guardian. 28

www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/28/silicon-valley-startup-failure-culture-success-myth.

A better idea…African American Language is not Good English  

There are a lot of stereotypes about reading and writing and if the way people talk affects the way they write. There are a lot of arguments in debate whether or not African American language is a good language. In her essay “African American Language is not Good English” Jennifer M. Cunningham (Bad Ideas about Writing), Cunningham gave us a little background information as to what some might refer to as “African American” English. African American language can range from large, to Ebonics, to broken English, according to Cunningham.

Cunningham proves a point as to why the African American language is in a class by itself and is not related to regular English. Based on the things that Cunningham studied and the sources that she pulled information from and came up with a better idea of the topic’s approach. While explaining her approach to this writing, Cunningham gets into what a lot of people might say “African American” language is. As stated before, she says that “(also called Ebonics, African American Vernacular English, black English, broken English, bad English, or slang) has been discounted as a lesser form of communication than other forms of spoken and written English.” She talks about the different types of African American language or what people think the African American language is. One of the sources that Cunningham uses to better get her point across is Talkin and Testifyin: The language of Black America by Geneva Smitherman. Throughout Smitherman’s writing, she looks inside to black culture and lifestyle to better get her point across. She talks about how African American culture and the lifestyle that is lived and endured had a lot to do with the African American language. She states that African American English is its origin of language and it dates way back to slavery days. Cunningham takes some of Smitherman’s points to further help her point across. They give a better idea rather than saying that African American language is a bad language. 

In writing this, Cunningham puts her ideas and the sources that she studied to make a good idea. In her writing, she explains how African Americans often replace the th sound with other vowels or sounds. “African American Language speakers tend to replace a voiceless th sound (such as with) with another voiceless sound, usually a /d/ or /t/, which produces wif or wit.” She never said that this kind of English was incorrect, she states that African American speakers tend to change the way that things are spelled/pronounced. Another source that Cunnigham used and pulled information from is African American English: A Linguistic Introduction by, Lisa J. Green. Green uses a lot of her viewpoints and what she thinks the African American language is. Cunningham uses some of her points as well in her argument. 

In conclusion, Cunningham gave a new outlook on the topic. She turned something that was looked down on into educating people on what some might say African American language is. The author marched the source’s ideas, plus some of her own, to come up with a better idea and a new approach to the topic. Cunningham informs us that African American Language is in a class all by itself and it is not necessarily bad English, more so different English. Cunningham broke down the reason as to why people have this assumption about African American language and gives background information as to why African American language is not bad English. 

Work cited 

“Lexicons and Meaning.” African American English: a Linguistic Introduction, by Lisa J. Green, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009

“Talkin and Testifyin.” Wayne State University Press, 1 Jan. 1986, https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/talkin-and-testifyin. 

Cunningham, Jennifer M. “African American Language is Not Good English.” Bad Ideas About Writing, edited by Cheryl E Ball and Drew M Loewe, West Virginia University Libraries, 2017

     In Bad Ideas About Writing, there is an article by Christopher Justice titled Texting Ruins Literacy Skills which highlights the cons that texting has on the youth when it comes to applying themselves in a formal setting, like the classroom. According to Justice, he believes there is a significant difference between text and speech. He hates how students fail to separate the two in an educational/formal environment as it makes them come off as ignorant (Justice, 308). Furthermore, he feels like using technology in the classroom is a bad idea as it tends to incite bad recreational habits when it comes to communicating. However, as technology advances and becomes more widespread, texting should just be embraced as another form of communication because it is not going anywhere anytime soon.

     One of Justice’s central claims in his essay is that ‘text’ and ‘speech’ are different. Justice defines texting as the communicative practice of sending brief messages via technology (Justice, 308). He explains how texting also allows the sender to “grammatically pollute sentences,” and it is acceptable, whereas doing the same in day-to-day dialogue (speech) simply isn’t. However, linguist John McWhorter disagrees. McWhorter goes on to make the valid point that if speech is an ongoing innovation based upon humans “talking like they write,” then there should also be a form of communication where we “write like we talk” (McWhorter 3:10-3:21). By this, McWhorter is saying if speech is us writing how we’re supposed to talk, grammatically, then texting should be an escape for us to write like we speak with no grammatic infrastructure. Furthermore, different parts of the world maintain different dialects; therefore, when it comes to communicating via text, it may allow us to connect better with some people better as opposed to others.

     Despite ultimately claiming texting was an ineffective way to communicate, Christopher Justice did manage to point out one of the most significant benefits of texting: marketing. The marketing scene is one of the main reasons texting will not be going anywhere any time soon. With technology constantly being used at an all-time high, the world revolves around apps and social media (Justice, 311). For apps to appeal to a younger audience, they must remain ‘hip,’ and they do this through the usage of text to connect with their target audiences.

     Although Justice believes that texting is destroying the literary skills of the youth he also understands that it’s a new period of time from which he was brought up in. With Justice and McWhorter’s fondness of texting aside from speech, why is it not referred to as another form of communication? To Justice’s credit, there is a time texting and speech should be separated. However, although it is imperative that ‘speech’ and ‘text’ are differentiated amongst, they both contribute to literature in their own respective ways. Texting should not be referred to as a ‘bad idea’ but rather a new form of communication. If society continuously fails to adapt to the changes in its environment, then it’ll reach a stagnant point. The moment society peaks due to the stubbornness of innovation is the beginning of a harsh end.

Works Cited

“John McWhorter: A Surprising New Language — Texting.” Performance by John McWhorter, YouTube, YouTube, 26 June 2012,        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoF2vdLxsVQ. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.

Justice, Christopher. “Texting Ruins Literacy Skills,” in Bad Ideas About Writing. Edited by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe,          308-314. Web. https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/

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Many people for years have lived with the dangerous philosophy that some people are just born good writers (Parott,71). This Dangerous philosophy leads writers to not apply themselves and the adoption of poor writing strategies, due to these writers believing they are born either having the skills or they do not having them. This statement, however, could not be further from the truth. People who are great writers have a great writing process and are constantly trying ways to try to become a better writer. John Goins states in his blog post “The Difference Between Good Writers & Bad Writers”, “Good writers practice. They take time to write, crafting and editing a piece until it’s just right. They spend hours and days, just revising”(Goins, 1). Anyone who uses the proper writing processes, practices, and does not fear failure, can become a good writer. 

For someone to get anywhere close to being a good writer, they need to be taught correctly how to develop a writing process. The key to developing an effective writing process is developing a sense of metacognition. This process allows for the writer to be able to self-critique themselves, learn from their mistakes and write better in the future. Jill Parrott states in her essay “Some People Are Just Born Good Writers”, “Opening up cognitive space that allows for metacognition and reflection is essential to experiential and practical improvement” (Parrot,73). The process of metacognition also greatly helps you understand how valuable experience is for your writing and helps steer u away from the false belief that people are born good writers (Parrot, 73). 

Good Writers are constantly building experience by practicing and refining their writing strategies and processes. Learning these processes are not everything, writers must still maintain an excellent work ethic to build their writing skills as well. Goins says in his article in reference to good writers, “They’re resigned to the fact that first drafts suck and that the true mark of a champion is a commitment to the craft. It’s not about writing in spurts of inspiration. It’s about doing the work, day-in and day-out.” (Goins, 1). Good writers are like athletes in a way when it comes to working on their craft. Parrot as well even states in comparison to athletes that” A person may not be naturally strong, but how could they gain strength? Lift weights. Need more flexibility and balance? Practice yoga. Likewise, it is with writing” (Parrott, 74). Good writers are always motivated to practice and work on their craft. 

Bad writers often are very unmotivated to work on their craft. This lack of motivation comes from the fear of putting in the work and not reaping immediate benefits. These writers are terrified of critique, failure, and change but must not fear these things to stay on the path of becoming a good writer. Goins states in his blog “Good writers aren’t perfectionists, but they’ve learned the discipline of shipping, of putting their work out there for the world to see”, to explain the positive thought process (Goins, 1). Writers must internalize this thought process, or they may never become a good writer. When internalized the mindset allows for writers to have an even better work ethic when practicing their writing strategies. 

People who would like to become a good writer in the future should adopt a good writing process and a fearless work ethic as soon as possible. When younger students are in school, they are often taught these key writing values and is important that they internalize these values to exceed in life their life aspirations. Language and writing is everywhere around us so it is important to develop good ideas about writing. 

Citation 

Goins, Jeff.Goinswriter.com. The Difference Between Good Writers & Bad Writers. https://goinswriter.com/the-difference-between-good-writers-and-bad-writers-2/ 

Parrott,Jill.Some People Are Just Born Good Writers. Bad Ideas About Writing. https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf