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December 1, 2009 lagiggl3z

The book the Everyday Writer is about teaching college students how to write good papers whether it is for research or just editing revised drafts. The book gives you guides, expectations, assignment examples of students, and many more helpful things you can learn about writing. It contains a top 20 guide to troubleshooting your writing which helps you with writing sentences. For example a wrong word sentence can throw of your reader, missing a comma after an introductory element can cause the reader to make a pause where their not sopose to, an incomplete or missing documentation will give the reader lack of sources, vague pronoun reference , spelling, mechanical error with a quotation, unnecessary comma, unnecessary or missing capitalization, missing word, faulty sentence structure, missing comma with a nonrestrictive element, unnecessary shift in verb tense, missing comma in compound sentence, unnecessary or missing apostrophe, fused sentence, comma splice, lack of pronoun-antecedent agreement, poorly integrated quotation, unnecessary or missing hyphen, and sentence fragment all throw of the readers and it is why you learn to fix those mistakes.

The author of the book the Everyday Writer, Andrea A. Lunsford, wrote the book because she thought it would help college students get better at their writing skills and learn how to fix their own mistakes. She believed that if the students learned from their own mistakes they get better as they keep learning. This book is a great guide for all college students because it shows the students commonly made mistakes and it shows how to fix them and make the papers better. It is a good way for students such as my self to get better at their writing because they are learning how to fix their mistakes. This is exactly what Andrea designed the book for.

The book the Craft of Revision tells you how it is important for writers including good writers to revise their writing. No one is a good writer at first, you have to practice just like sports to become good at that sport. In sports the saying is practice makes perfect and that is included in writing if you keep practicing your writing you will get really good at it. The author Donald M. Murray gives you examples of good writers and quotes of important people. This chapter teaches you how important it is to do revision on all your papers. Revision is only the start of your writing not the end. Donald shows you how to begin your writing and brainstorm so you can become a good writer.

The author Donald M. Murray says “beginning writers refuse to rewrite,” every beginner writer gets offended if he or she gets told to rewrite or revise their written work. Donald believes that the writers shouldn’t take that offensive instead the person that suggested that is trying to help, and the writer should admit to their mistakes and fix them. He also thinks that writing can never be done without having to be revised. Beginning writers like students always get offended when they are asked by their teachers to rewrite their papers and they get mad instead of seeing that the teacher is trying to help you towards becoming a good writer. So I believe that revision is a great part of writing now that I see it from Donald’s point of view.