My most apparent flaw after writing the first of our papers for this semester is organization and clarity. I tend to write off on a tangent of my original point, and end up with paragraphs that don't seem to add much to the paper. They make sense to me because I know what I'm talking about, or believe in what I'm saying, but to someone outside of that it seems garbled. It really demotivates me when I have to take out something I believed fit because other people believe that it does not, but they do have the numbers advantage, and a fresh vantage point.
My writing is the true definition of trial and error. Literally. Trial by fire. I don’t know how many drafts I made for my paper before I finally found one that was acceptable to the masses. And even then it seemed it wasn’t acceptable to all the masses. Every group I passed the paper through found a paragraph they didn’t like and sections that didn’t make sense to them. Another problem was facts they didn’t believe. It’s hard to know what to site when I already know the facts behind what I’m saying, and instinctively assume that if I know it, everyone should know it. This brought me to my biggest realization about my writing; when I write, it is always written for someone with the pre-existing thoughts and beliefs that contour to my own. So for my next paper I’m going to attempt to write more objectively, which I know isn’t going to happen, but I hope that at least taking this mindset into the first stage of writing might solve my problem.
I am nothing without my objections.
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What a thoughtful realization, Stevie. This is big.
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