We Need to Learn How to Write

It amazes me that corporate America can't write. I feel there is no excuse to send an improper email to a boss, professor, or anyone above you. And spelling mistakes really make me mad. Why don't you just take the time to put in a comma or capitalize your letters? It will only take about .01 seconds out of your life to add on the proper punctuation.

Furthermore, writing like a slob makes you look bad (especially in the eyes of your boss). Someone is usually looked at in a much higher light if they are proper than if they just slop down some incoherent set of words onto a paper. In addition, businesses are spending way to much money on teaching their employees how to write. They shouldn't have to do that. Employees should come into their jobs knowing how to form a simple sentence such as "I have just sent you the reports for the day." However, this article has shown that employees can't even form that simple sentence, much less punctuate. So therefore billions of dollars are being spent on classes to teach employees basic reading and writing. I think that this money could be spent on more reasonable items if everyone paid attention in their middle school english classes.

However, I think that there are other important characteristics out there that a good writer must possess besides being coherent and using proper punctuation. For example, a good writer isn't afraid to take risks and put what they believe out there. A good writer is able to make a clear statement and support it with facts or other knowledge they have on this topic. And according to many sources such as Ken Smith, a good writer is a good reader. Many say that reading is a key element in good writing because it allows people to bounce off others' ideas and start something new of their own. Last, a good writer has their own voice. They are able to reach out to a variety of audiences and truly define their writing through the choice of words.

I realize that we were supposed to write this blog post in simple sentences. I really did try, but that doesn't seem to really be my thing. Experiment failure?
But by reading these articles I have developed a couple of key characteristics I think a good writer should have.