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An Essay On Writing Analysis

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1. In the paper on “An Essay On Writing” written by an Anonymous author he gives a reason for rejecting good writing. The author states that “the misapprehension that is necessary to write well in order to communicate. This is utter nonsense”. What he is saying is that there is no linking between writing and communicating. They are two opposite things. Just because you're good at communicating doesn’t mean you’re always great at writing, but you might be the total opposite. The author had two good points to back up his arguments one was he did a test with three different people. One of the three was controlled. What he did is he “gave each subject a pencil and paper and commanded him to write. After “three minutes and forty-seven seconds,” …show more content…

What the anonymous author I feel is concluding from this that we are all as smart as monkeys.

2. There are problems with his arguments, but there also are not any at the same time. It depends on the way you look at it. I feel his arguments are not very scientific and that they are only from his own experiences. The argument that has to do with mathematics does help his argument, but I feel the study he did on his own was not very thought out. I feel if he wanted the study to be supportive he would have had a question that might have had something to do with communication.

3. The author style of writing is very strong and you can tell he is very smart. Just by the choice of words he uses. You know he put a lot of thought and effort on what he is talking about. I do feel the writing is effective because it makes you think about what he is saying, but at the same time, it does get confusing. It’s a well-structured paper it just has some ups and downs to it, this might be because I don’t have a broad vocabulary and this causes me to feel the paper is confusing and hard for myself to understand. But to someone else, it may be very straightforward and to the

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