We can read our writing out loud to ourselves to hear how it sounds
I have found that this method works very well for me. I find myself constantly correcting my writing when this happens
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- Jan 2023
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When they start to write, many writers, like Lauren, think of writing as filling a certain number of pages.
This is how I have always thought of writing. In past astronomy classes I have added a lot of fluff to fill pages. To be fair, most assignments give a page requirement
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You need to know when you need more information and how to get that information.
I think this is where most of my writing teachers didn't come through. To this day, I still don't think that I know how to do this
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Maybe, as my son Joseph told me once, you are still thinking that the writing process is this pointless thing high school teachers made you do, so you’ve ignored the potential benefits to your current situation as university students.
I knew that it was important but I didn't know how to get better. Like, for math, I knew exactly what I had to do to get better. But for my writing classes, I had no idea (besides practice). I wish I was given more guidance on how to correct myself
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They have sat in peer groups and told each other “good job” without even reading the papers—and then had a great conversation about the prom or the football game or something else more interesting than each other’s writing.
To be fair, more exciting things were happening. In school, implementing this process was boring and I felt like I could never write the perfect paper. Like I just wasn't capable of it
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