Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Good Writing vs Bad Writing

Most of the time I love the courses I’m taking. In fact, I love them all. There’s only one course that I’m really not liking right now; the Anatomy and Physiology course.

It’s not the subject matter because I am interested in the body and how it works. I find it very fascinating, and when I was young I used to read all sorts of encyclopedias and books about weird body facts and all that.

The reason I don’t like this particular course is because the writer of the course material wrote it in such a way to make it more complicated, confusing, and difficult to understand than it really is. When I read the course, I spend a lot of time re-reading the sentences to try to make sense of it, but when I borrowed one of the textbooks on Anatomy and Physiology from the library, I enjoy reading it so much that I feel like I want to read the whole book from cover to cover.

Unfortunately, the textbook is huge, and I’ve only got a limited amount of time to finish the course.

Bottom line is, it is so important to be able to write in a way that people understand what you’re saying, and enjoy reading the things you write.

I’m just going to have to slog through the rest of the course materials. =(

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