Concepts about Writing

Writing is a process. A process of gathering information on what you’re writing about,

what kind of writing will work, and knowing your audience. Allowing the audience to

become informed or entertained. Also improving your writing. That takes time and

learning and involves taking critiques from others to help improve your writing.

There are different kinds of writing that have different goals. But mostly surrounding the

reader being informed of something. Like for a resume. It consists of you proving that

you are worthy enough for the job. An essay is you informing the reader of whatever

topic. For the resume, it’s best for punctuation and grammar to be on point, but when it

comes to other forms of writing, good grammar won’t help the reader comprehend the

writing any more than how well you build the story. But there are no set rules to figure

out if your writing is ‘good’ or not because of the different ways of writing. Like the way

you would set up a tweet on Twitter vs the way you would set up an essay for your

history class.

Whether you are doing persuasive writing, expository, descriptive or expository writing,

the focus is always on how the reader will perceive it. For a resume, informing the

reader about yourself. More about your skills and qualifications. You are trying to

convince the reader you are a great fit for the job. You would also want your punctuation

and grammar to be correct because who would want to hire someone with poor

grammar? Although it is important, it isn’t the whole point of the resume. The interviewer

probably isn’t looking for spelling errors or run-on sentences. They are focused on what

you wrote. Same for writing in other situations. If you’re writing something to be
informative, the focus isn’t on the grammar. A story could have horrible grammar and

spelling but could still be a really good story. It’s about how the text made that reader

feel. The content of the actual writing.

Writing changed a lot for me as the years went on. In elementary school, it was mostly

about writing ‘correctly’ and less about being creative. Creative writing would come

about, but it still fell under correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Not much about

how well we structure our writing and how we’re informing the reader. It was also the

same for middle and highschool.