Both of the two articles talks about good writings. The points they are talking about are how a good writing looks like and how to write a good writing. Both of them mention about writers should take care about the readers. An essay should follow the direction so readers can understand what they are reading. Appropriate explanations are necessary because the writers have to lead readers to the right way. Editing is the important point of writing because I saw most of the rules are focused on editing. Writers need to improve their essay through editing. We can tell that editing is the most important steps of the writing process, but it doesn’t mean we do not pay attention to our first draft. Do not be afraid to write an bad first draft but you need to pay your efforts in it. Do not force to finish it, a good writing needs time to incubate it.
One of the writing rules which I remember the deepest was “Assume the reader knows nothing, but don’t assume the reader is stupid.” This sentence give me some ideas. Once I was writing an essay, I lost myself into the topic. All I was writing were things appear in my mind, which does not make any senses to the readers. But I did not notice it at all until the my first reader told me “what hack did you write?”. What I did not do was give readers a guide. If we do not do that, there will be no reader who wants to read it. Editing will be the step I focus the most in the next writing. I will try to learn about what is an edit. In the articles they tells us editing is not only a grammar correction, so I expect my next edit job.
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