I’ve met students who thought they were terrible writers and students who thought they were excellent writers, but I’ve always been surprised that all students, regardless of confidence, think they can become “better†writers simply by learning more adjectives or writing longer sentences. Good writing takes many forms but has little to do with how well you deploy Scrabble words or bury readers in a labyrinth of dependent clauses. Instead, writers are trying to make documents that create and th
