Monday, April 16, 2012

Craig Vetter "Bonehead Writing"

Craig Vetter, Staff member of Playboy, Outside, and Sunset magazines, graduated from the University of San Francisco and wrote a lecture to first year writing students. Vetter describes a problem among universities that gesture that graduates, and students in general are not getting the proper knowledge and know-how to be able to professional be able to write essays, papers, applications, and many other important texts. He explains that the problem is so huge it would have to be held in a large lecture building. Students, as he stresses, cannot teach themselves to write, nor can anyone else. Writing is simply thinking. I agree with Vetter because I can honestly say that some things that I write are completely awful and then I have others that are beautiful. The audience that reads what you are writing can really see what you are trying to write, and in other words, what you write on paper, including the style and language and structure, will be how the audience will perceive what you are trying to write. Writing appears as it is seen on the paper, as obvious as it sounds, but the audience will always respond to that accordingly to their repertoire. I learned from this lecture to not hold back in your writing and professionally pick apart your ideas to creatively paint a picture about what your writing about, and the audience will react positively, which is the main goal of college writing, which so far, I have learned a lot about and improved immensely personally.

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