King's essay "Reading to Write" explains how reading is important for us in order to improve our writing skills. Besides, he states how reading could be useful for writing skills more than writing classes. ... Thus, writers can create their own methods or strategies during the writing process. ... I believe good novels can improve the writing skills to be a professional in an academic field of writing and helps us to write academic articles. ... All in all, no matter if reading bad articles, good articles, or through social communications, reading in general is the most importa...

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Even if it serves no other purpose than to allow them to view other cultures, opinions, and experiences through writing, it would still be an opportunity to enrich a student's mind through writing. ... The skills that many in this group lacks are basic writing skills. ... The answer is simple, we should make it required that they learn the skills that are required by college professors, before they even step foot as a student in their classrooms. ... This creative writing class would force emphasis on writing and strengthen students" backgrounds in it. ... By no means should we force ...

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• Grade Level: High School

My mother has been with a number of men: my father, my brother's father, and now my step-father. ... I was never taught to control my thoughts well enough to express them in writing. ... It was all about memorizing new words and writing uniformly structured essays. ... Writing is just another medium that allows me to share my thoughts with others. While I may not be the BEST writer, I'm definitely not afraid of writing. ...

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Orwell takes this concept a step farther by stating that it can get so extreme that our own thoughts, on the most personal level, are being changed by ready-made phrases. ... This is the type of writing we might find in 1984. ... It is important to note that while Orwell takes shots at everyday language, political speeches, news publications, essays and pamphlets, but does not voice any grievances with fiction writing. ... This is an important essay (not mine, Orwell's). ... This would be true in both speaking and writing. ...

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Tradition in writing has always played a key roll in the originality and success in the literary arts for both men and women. ... The literary pioneers of this women's movement included: Abigail Adams who had a genius for letter writing, Mercy Otis Warren who was known as the most productive "woman of the American revolution", with works that viewed history and politics as a struggle between liberty and power, and Sarah Moore Grimke who drove one of the first feminist spikes in her essay Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. ... In Woolf's essay, she stat...

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• Grade Level: Graduate