Blog 1: First Essay

Being a firm abdicate to the philosophy that nobody is above self improvement, I am sincere to myself, maybe to a cruel degree, about the things that I need work on. More specifically, though, I believe that there are two major problems with my writing.

The first and perhaps the most crucial one goes as follows: because of my writing methods I believe that organization is the most predominant problem in my essays. When I sit down to write, I brainstorm for about fifteen minutes and simply start writing in a deductive manner. Therefore, it might not be until the middle of the essay when I realize that an element of the essay would have a much more relevant placement in the beginning complementing other elements better and allowing for a more fluent transition. Most of the times I am able to simply edit out this disruption of flow; however, sometimes the essay is tightly comprised and to add the new information would ultimately disrupt the whole essay. To correct this problem, I am going to challenge myself to device a blueprint of my essay that is detailed buttress the flow and direction of the paper, but remains ambiguous enough to still allow discovery.
The other flaw that I constantly run into in my papers revolves around the irresponsible overuse of abstruse diction that I use to embellish my essay. The result is an extremely verbose essay that makes me seem pretentious as a writer and ultimately steers the focus of my audience. I have decided that I do not want my essays to bewilder the reader by an excess of esoteric words that keep them reaching for the dictionary; instead, I want the ideas behind those words to enter the reader and impact them in a more profound level.
Over the course of this class I will address this two issues and be open for further criticism from both my instructor and peers. I will try to reciprocate the favor as well.