Good Essay On How To Write

I think that the article by Colson Whitehead had a lot of interesting things to say. In this article, he gives some good advice about how to be a better writer. He includes eleven different rules that are really fun to read to read and not boring. There are two rules that really stood out to me that I think will help me to become a better writer.
The first one is rule #1 where he talks about how writing should be like “show and tell.” The reason I think this rule would be helpful to remember is that I think it is important to really like your work and be proud of it. Even if the writing seems a little strange to some people, it is a part of your imagination and can be very interesting to share with other people. Writing should be something that means something to you. Even a boring paper about a subject that you’re not interested in can be changed into a work of art if you add your personality to it. In this way, your paper can be treated like a “show and tell” item that you are proud to share with your classmates. I think that this first rule mentioned by Whitehead will be very useful in my writing for this class because I hope to write about things that I really feel strongly about and hopefully they will be interesting to my classmates too.
The second rule that I thought would help me was rule #10. Here, Whitehead talks about how important it is to revise your paper. I always usually skip this part of writing out of laziness or because I run out of time. However, I can see that it is really crucial to add this step into your writing plan because it can make your paper a lot better in the long run. I have noticed many times that after I turn a paper in and get it back I realize that I have made many writing mistakes that could have easily been fixed with just a little bit of revising. Therefore, I think remembering Whitehead’s advice from rule #10 will help me to be a better writer and I hope to put it to use over the course of this class.