Jasmine Cheatham

10/8/14

Style: Lesson 1

I enjoyed that we went over some of the concerns addressed in this lesson in class. It gave me a more clear understanding of what the author was discussing. In this lesson authors Joseph Williams and Joseph Bizup talked about clarity and understanding discussing the importance that writing should have both. You can tell a lot about ones understanding of a subject through their writing. Some can be direct and clear while others may be abstract and dense. As mentioned in class people tend to have an “ugly” draft when they are writing about something they know a lot about and/or are interested in. Personally I have experienced both unclear and abstract writing and clear and direct. I feel that the more knowledge I know about a subject the more focused my writing will be. Sometimes I feel that my writing will too be structured based on the format given to me by a professor. I am now dealing with a teacher that has given the class a writing assignment and isn’t clear herself on what she wants from us. She hasn’t given feedback and her instructions are unclear. I have attempted to make my paper as focused as possible seeing as how it is a topic I am not strongly familiar with. By her having unclear and dense instructions it is tilting some students’ papers that way as well.