Writing to inform – There’s an interesting thought. Most of the time I’m just writing to get things done and out of the way. Does this sound like you? Ok, maybe not, given that the only one who is actually going to read this is the professor. But, then again, I guess that supports my point as well. Whether we are reading or writing, it seems like we are just doing it to get it over with. We hardly engage in what we write anymore. We just want to make enough sense to get a decent enough grade. Maybe that is why written literature in academia is getting progressively worse year by year.
I think I want to take on this challenge for the rest of my time in university – to write to inform. But it won’t come easy. Up to this point in university, I’ve gotten by putting minimal amounts of effort into essays all because I was blessed with a solid high school education, which blessed my ability to structure my ideas properly.
However, what we all strived to actually prove scholars wrong. What if we took theory and related it to our own experiences in ways that many of these old nerds couldn’t even fathom. All it takes is a little more time spent and a little more focus; a little more care for what we have to say, and a little less concern with our own lives. My goal is to take more pride in my own legacy, and consider the lives of my kids, and grandkids, and so on. My goal is to take full advantage of the blessed mind that God gave me.
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