What is good writing?

This was what I produced in our first in-class writing task. I imagined my text to be an introduction to a guide for good writing.


I imagine it feels like you have written a hundred essays and papers during the years of your studies. And how many times did you actually feel from the beginning: "I know what I have to do."? What I want to point out is the following. Millions of teachers as well as professors have a spectacular talent to expect brilliant texts from their students while they never really taught them how to be brilliant in writing.

This book shall be your guide from now on. You will find information about how to produce a good structure and where to find a variety of words. As it depends on your readership how you have to form your work, you will find a number of chapters dealing with various approaches. Starting with the uninformed reader you will learn how to address relative outsiders as well as high-level readers.

While reading these pages you will see that the use of correct language is as important as being informative and interresting. But what I want you to learn most of all: It is a pleasure to produce good texts! Don't look on it as hard work, have fun in creating something yourself.

Introduction

This is my first attempt to use a blog for my studies at university. When I first tried blogging, it was to let my family and friends know about my life during an eight-month stay in London. This was of course a very different situation as everybody was glad to read some lines, no matter how brilliant my style or how interesting the content was. And, by the way, it was all in German...

So let's see how this will work out. I decided purposefully to let everybody read this blog and also I resolved to make it possible to be found on google. This is because I am interested in everybody's opinion concerning this experiment. So please be so kind to read my texts and don't hesitate to let me know what you think.

Thanks and all best,
Mareike.

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