Blog 4

One of the most pervading weaknesses in my writing is that while I do raise an academic voice, I fail to engage the reader in a sense entertainment. Truly, I think if I am going to make somebody read my evaluation of a new album, I should at the very least make it a witty evaluation that genuinely entices the reader to continue their journey to the other sentence. Indeed, I think sometimes I become to infatuated with words are forget that my audience might not feel the same thrill when reading the word “euphonious” or “esoteric” upon a page. However, I think that this defines me as a writer and to restrict my language for the sake retaining clarity, for a person that really just needs to read a book, seems a bit frivolous for me. All through high school my teachers have told me to tone down my vocabulary. “It’s not dumbing it down, just understanding your audience and the kind of language that it uses” I have always found this utterly absurd; never have I conceded to this type of conformist thinking. Instead I have remained adamant that just because my audience is dumb does not mean I have to debase myself to that level. However, I do agree that sometimes, in my effort to make my paper as semantically beautiful as I can, I neglect to add wit and other devices that would compensate with the reading difficulty of my papers. I shall work on this.