'Writing is not a basic skill' - Larry Mcenemey
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Writing, as taught by the school curriculum, gives a pupil the ability to produce, at most, a compotent memo and
when they are tasked with engaging a knowledgeable reader, shows how entirely insufficient the study has prepared the child for life. Furthermore, let's not
overlook that teachers read student texts because they are paid to care about them.
At the snowy mountain peaks of higher education, in complex thinking, the scholar uses writing to help collect, organise and clarify;
yet this is also next to useless when communicating with target readers.
What we are seeking for our reader is value and writing must become the device to convey
that in a persuasive manner. In addition, a degree of instability, through the covert strategies of conflict and challenge,
must be inbuilt to encourage the reader into the text, but without unnecessary arrogance.
which of the following will encourage the reader?
Hey readers! Community, I've read your stuff, I know what great work you've done AND I have something to say
Hey readers! Community, I've read your stuff, I know what great work you've done BUT you're wrong
Readers of different topics will have their own codes and instabilities that must be leveraged by the wily writer;
Whilst this may seem underhand to many, previously successful texts of other writers must be dissected by reading and then by using the skills of
simulation, those codes can be applied to our lacklustre text.
The function of a successful writer is to move the converstion forward;
it is not to preserve their beloved thoughts indefinitely.
Earlier this week, Philip Hammond declared that leaving the EU by Oct 31 without a Withdrawal Agreement would be
a disaster and that his purpose was to stop that happening. He went further, claiming that to leave without a deal
was a betrayal of the referendum result. No one, he maintained, voted to leave without a deal.
Other Remainers have intoned similiarly (and endlessly) that no one voted to lose their jobs or to be poorer, as though
they had some incredible insight into not just what motivated those who voted Leave, but also into the consequences of
our departure. This is, of course, utter nonsense.
Iain Duncan Smith - Telegraph 16 August 2019