Readers Response to Writing Badly Essay

In his essay, The Importance of Writing Badly, Bruce Ballenger encourages students to write freely and to not worry to the highest degree finding the finished panache of saying it. I feel by saying this he means to not worry or so what youre writing and it may not necessarily be perfect, but that you write what you are thinking and continue writing even if its fallacious or may not make sense. He means to put all your thoughts drink on paper and start from there. Ballenger gives his students permission to write speculatively. He expresses that when the writing stops, so does the thinking. He also states that he is far more interested in promote thinking than error-free sentences and concise, clear writing. Do I hold up with Bruce Ballenger? I feel that I absolutely agree with him. If you would have asked me in High School if I agreed, I would have said no. My English teacher in High School was much like the teacher Ballenger describes in this essay as Mrs. ONeill. Every p aper we had to write had nothing but red pen marks correcting bad sentences.Or as Ballenger put it some high priest of good grammar whose angry scribbling occupied the margins of our cover. She was much more critical of our grammar and punctuation then what we were writing. This was very discouraging to me and a lot of my fellow classmates. I then became more critical of myself as a writer and how I was writing and not what I was writing. I was paying more attention to other details instead of what I was thinking most writing, which remnanted up making it very stressful to write. So by the end of my English class, I was fairly decent with grammar. In fact friends and family of mine occasionally have asked me to proof read papers of theirs, and I find myself doing nothing but cognizeing grammar issues instead of actually reading the paper for the report political machined it is. I agree with Ballenger when he says that clear writing matters and should be demanded, but that it should not be the offshoot thing important when you start writing a paper. You can always go back and fix grammar and punctuation issues, but you sometimes may not get your thoughts or ideas back that you were thinking of to be able to express what you wanted to write after lifting the pen from the paper. Before reading the text, just smell at the title I thought this was just going to be about writing bad and not worrying about what you are writing. And really it is, but the text was more than that and made me realize that writing isnt about how you write it is more about what you write about. Its about acquire to what you are writing about and the process it takes to get there. More than just writing words down and making sure you use the words correctly. Its about expressing what you are really thinking about and writing down your thoughts to begin with. I will take Ballengers advice because I feel I will have more to say after free writing and brainstorming my topics and by d oing that I will have more effective essays. Ballenger ends this essay with And what matters in this journey-at least ab initio-is not what kind of car youre driving, but where you end up. I think what Ballenger means by this is that it doesnt matter how perfect you write. What matters is that you get the ideas you have and the point you are trying to make across in your writing. And in the end having your thoughts down, you will write the paper you are trying to write even if that means that the writing you initially write is not perfect.