Blog #7

« The personal essay allows me to report the important news of the human condition, the stories rarely covered on page one, on radio news, on television».

This reason is an important one; information is not always written or said in the real way but rather in a way that is good for the person writing it or for people or organizations of a big importance. Essays allow having a different opinion and point of view. And sometimes the information given in essays is not even in the news. This makes essays even more important and irreplaceable.   

I actually have never written essays outside of school homework and exams so I can’t really add anything in the list… But I think that he pretty much covered all the different reason why writing personal essays.

I think Length is an important advice that I do not use enough in most of my writing. I find it hard to say what I want to say in the fewest words but with the most details possible. It is also difficult to have “every word tell”, each of them making the essay go forward and bring something to it. In my opinion writing about what you want without unnecessary words and sentences, but still incorporating a lot of details is very hard, and is the key to be a good writer.

In my article I want to make sure that every word or sentence written has a reason to be there and try to add more details where my text is missing some. I want my article to explain precisely what I think and want to say.