My personal writing goal for this semester is to become an overall better writer. I feel like that is very vague but I struggle with introductions for my papers. Normally, once I can get a paper started I am okay during the body section. But I struggle with introductions and conclusions in my papers. So I want to become better at writing those parts of my papers.
August 2020
One Writing Rule
One writing rule that I have been taught my whole life is that you never start a sentence with the words “and”, “because”, and “but”. I have been taught this rule since I first started writing. It has just come to my knowledge recently, within the past few months that this rule is not always true. I always wondered why when I would read novels I would see sentences being started with these words. Naively, I thought that the authors were incorrect, that it wasn’t proper, or that it was “frowned upon”.