“Am a writer?”

I have learned that writing for most people globally is a major challenge because they lack certain tools to make them good writers. Generally, in primary school and high school, writing was about writing what you think and sharing your opinions without having to persuade the reader. However, at post-graduation level writing is an important tool to change readers’ ideas. From Larry McEnerney video I have learned helpful rules, skills, and resources that further develops my writing style. A good piece of writing must be clear, valuable, organized and most importantly it must persuasive to the readers who are reading it. I have learned that the audience has different views regarding how a writer should write but Larry states out that a writers writing should help readers understand something they want to understand better. There are certain functions that makes writing better to understand, these functions are; having a good structure when writing, being creative when writing and highlighting the importance of what you have written. Another important fact I have learned from the video is to use transition words to making sure that there in flow in my writing and use valuable word that will make the reader want to read more of what you have written. He highlighted that writing is not about writing about your feeling but is about the readers, something that affects them too. Once the writing is based on you, no reader would be interested to read what you have written.

In the video I was further enlightened on how to have an interesting proposal. His emphasis was mainly on opening with a problem statement that related to the reader, the problem must be built for an example reference that previous studied stated different idea to current studies. By doing so you bring out the background of the journal you are written, background is the problem that you trying to make the readers understand. In the problem you need to state the costs and benefits for readers, having more benefits will interest the readers as it will not only benefit the writer but the community at large. Larry insists that after stating the problem it is important to come up with solutions to the problem, by doing so you are showing the readers that it is not a one ended writing that will not benefit the readers.

In summary I have learned that the audience has different views and it good to provide writing that will help writers understand something they want to understand better. Secondly, I have learned that the writing that I was thought in high school will not benefit me because it is mostly based on the writers feeling that will not help the writer understand something more. Lastly, I view writing with the reader very difficult because you have to understand the readers so that you can use their coding to make them read what you have written. With these learned, I am confident my writing skills will improve and will no longer fear writing again because I am now a writer.