Writing: The Untold Story

Do I consider myself a writer? Well, seeing that a writer is merely "one that writes", I suppose by definition I am.

Despite this, I don't consider myself a writer. Like most others, I attach the definition of "writer" to that of "author", and an author is somebody who writes books as a profession. I do not write books as a profession; I've never written one for fun either, but I may in the future.

I do feel that I can convey thoughts more clearly via writing. With writing, I can delete, start over, insert new material here and there, etc, but with everyday speech, I've only got one chance, and odds are that I'm not going to do as good of a job as I could if I wrote it.

By taking this class, I hope to get more betterer at word making because I can get very much gooder than I are now. I also want to get better at writing research papers, because my current paper-writing abilities are far below that of the scholarly articles I often read on the internet and in textbooks. If I can become 50% better at that, then this course will have done it's job.

~Jason New