Seven myths about writing

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Seven Myths About Writing



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First, a short writing assignment.

On this assignment, you will be graded on the basis of how much of the page you can fill with words.








Choose either topic A or topic B

Topic A: What are the characteristics of a good husband?

Topic B: What are the characteristics of a good wife?


You have exactly 5 minutes.





How did you feel about that?

unexpected fun stupid interesting boring waste of time easy difficult anxious competitive





Your experience with writing(not your writing experience)

In my L1 I am

an excellent writer a good writer a fair writer a poor writer





Your experience with writing(not your writing experience)

In my L1 I

love writing like writing don’t mind writing if I have to don’t really like writing hate writing





Most people think of themselves as “poor” or “fair” writers, even in their L1

Writing in a second language is an amazing accomplishment.





Our formal schooling teaches us grammar and literature.

You probably have all the grammar you need.

What most of us write ain’t literature.




Myth: I can’t write because my grammar and vocabulary are not good enough.

Seven Myths About Writing 1.

Fact: You ‘grow’ your vocabulary andgrammar by writing.




Myth: Writing is a product


Fact: Writing is also a process

2.

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Myth: Writing is a solitary pursuit.

Fact: Writing as a processincludes many people.

3.

Fact: “Composition” is usually (but not always) done by one person alone.





I can’t show my writing to anyone until I am finished.

Feedback from friends and colleagues is the best way to improve your writing.

4.





Myth: Good writers write one draft.

Fact: Good writers are constantly revising.

5.





Myth: Revising means correcting grammar mistakes

Fact: Revising means thinking about how it all fits together.

6.

Fact: Correcting grammar is part of the copyediting process





Fact: Revising is what will make you a better writer.

6.1.

Myth: Revising means I am a bad writer.




Seven Myths About Writing 7.

Myth:Writing has to be formal.

Fact: The tone of the writing should match the needs of the audience.




Seven Myths About Writing 7.1

Mandarin Style Plain English

The degree to which these levels of landuse change have in fact manifested themselves upon the hydrological regime of the river remains unclear.

It is not clear how much impact land use changes have had on the hydrological regime of the river.




Conclusive basinwide evidence of such hydrological responses to changes in rainfall-runoff relationships caused by these landuse and landscape change does not appear to be detectable within the historical data, bearing in mind that some of the flow timeseries for the river extend back almost 90 years.

No one has found any conclusive evidence in the 90 years of historical data for these expected changes in rainfall-runoff relationships.





This reach is a well-defined physiographic subregion of the Lower Basin being almost entirely mountainous and extensively covered with natural land cover, though there has been extensive “slash and burn agriculture”.

This reach is almost entirely mountainous and covered with natural forest, although there has been widespread slash and burn agriculture.





Seven Myths About Writing 7.1

Sometimes your writing is not the problem.






Education

Seven myths about writing