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Professor Virginia Komenda English 100 April 1, 2019 What skills and abilities are necessary for a writer to have in order to produce good writing, and why are those skills and abilities so critical? To be a good writer you have to be able to paint a picture in readers minds. A good writer is not only the ones that can follow all the rules of writing or that writes and reads the most, it is also the ones that add soul, passion, and personality to their writing, almost as if was possible to hear the writer’s voice when reading. Almost as if writing was a form of art, where instead of an actual picture being painted, words are being used as ink, and the writing skills are the art brushes being manipulated by the painter/writer. It is very critical to have the skills and abilities to be able to transcend feeling and sounds in the form of tones and attitudes to readers, these skills are the tools that can make readers take a jump into the pool of words and be emerged by the story, instead of just watching the water from the border outside of the pool. It is important to cultivate a tone and an attitude when writing a paper. A few of the many ways to implement these tools to a paper is by using periods, changing the FONT SIZE, repeat, repeat, and repeat words, use dashes, play around with a sentence length or maybe adding exclamation points! Those all can be used as ways to engage readers to a story, make the audience believe, understand and relate to the situations or it can also persuade them into agreeing or not to something when writing an argumentative essay. Another great example of how to do that is by using dying metaphors, as mentioned in the reading “Politics and the English

Language”: “A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g. iron resolution ) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness.” (Orwell). These metaphors are sometimes too crazy to even be real, even though they are metaphors, because for example, no one actually “feels like shit” but it does automatically paint a picture on how the person does not have a positive feeling going on, and having that momentum where the “picture is being painted” is the goal to have a reader completely understand the writer’s (or the reading’s) essence. In order to produce good writing, is also needed to be able to know the basic rules of writing, it is critical not only follow them, but also make sure that everything connects to the essay’s/writing’s main point. There are basic rules that are applied when writing, such as spell check, make sure that necessary questions are being answered, be able to provide arguments to a thesis, make sure not to leave the audience with a vague feeling of what the writer is trying to argue. Vague writing is the opposite path of making the reader connect and engage in the writing. It not only breaks the momentum of painting a picture but also it makes the writing seem disconnected, building an invisible barrier between the storyline and the reader. Being able to set a tone, engage an audience by portraying a picture in the reader’s mind, and also have an understanding of how to connect the lines in a paper is what sets apart from a good writing and bad writing. The dying metaphors example by Orwell is an incredible and strong example of a tool used on engaging an audience because it brings the popular sayings to the art of writing. Anyone can write. But only the writers who have many times jumped into the pool of words, being able to immerse themselves into the art of writing and are able to make an

audience feel, listen and imagine what the words are trying to transcribe, are the ones that are able to produce a good writing....