Simply Good Writing - Introduction to the Blog

A college degree is a writing degree.
Breanna Lynn Page graduated as the valedictorian,
summa cum laude, in 2013.

I have the best of jobs and the worst of jobs. Everyone has to learn how to write better and more efficiently to graduate from college. Most people see writing and composition classes as the worst possible form of torture. Making English composition required only increases the pain.

On the other hand, relatively few professors like to teach English composition and this subject will never lack in demand. That is especially true since few students enter college today with the necessary skills to finish the degree. Yale University began offering remedial reading and writing classes to its new students over 20 years ago.

Writing is especially valuable today because of global communication and work teams. Someone involved in Christian ministry can broadcast, blog, tweet, and email the Gospel all over the world.

Written communication is the most coherent form of expressing thought, so it is necessarily the most difficult kind.

• Simply thinking is disorderly, chaotic, with intrusive thoughts and distractions.
• Conversation is verbose, full of incomplete sentences, diversions, and dead ends.
• Writing is focused, coherent, concise, and thematic.

Many do not know the basics of good writing, so I created this blog to store resources for students to use.