Summary: This article really describes the idea that writers/writing isn't always what it seems. Not every writer is in love with writing all the time and that writers themselves don't get writers block as well. Allen even admits to the feeling that everyone else feels, the bitterness of being stuck and having nothing to really write or discuss about. The idea that nobody even well respected writers have perfect days on writing. Even though writing isn't always perfect that you should be careful of who is revising your own work. The main idea is that writing is like a sport, there needs to be practice and dedication to work, and without any of that your writing will never be what it could be.
Getting Ready to Read:
1. A writing construct that often comes up is the idea of plagiarism. When it really draws the line. Most of the time when people think of plagiarism, they think of a college student copying and pasting word for word a paper. But in some instances there will be people that have just read an article and put the the information into "their own words". Yet at some points, it can still be considered plagiarism. The idea of stealing someone's ideas is a question of what is 'original'. Our modern day culture has bloomed from the idea of 'borrowing' ideas. Many students often forget the idea of 'plagiarism' as they're getting inspired off a piece of work they truly admire. Many professional writers themselves use plagiarism, take the hit book "50 shades of grey", the book was originally a twilight fan fiction. One of the best selling books of all time was based on another best selling book, and so on and so forth. The idea is that everyone at a time has plagiarized intentionally or not.
Applying and Exploring Ideas:
1. It would be a flat out lie to say that I've never used the method of imitation on high school papers or any of my past writings. Most of the time it was unintentional, I didn't think I was truly doing anything wrong, I still used MLA citing for my sources. Now I'm starting to realize that my approach is a 'shaky' one, it's not something that's taken lightly. However, in my defense when a teacher gives a student a 5 page report that's due off a topic that was never covered in class, it doesn't allow the student much legroom to work with. Especially if the teacher requires fact and no opinions. With facts, it's the idea that is agreed on. There is really no way to "create" a fact without taking an imitation of another fact. I believe that in circumstances of providing proof and facts, that imitations should be allowed.
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Throughout high school all my english teachers would talk about these inspired writers. All these perfect writers that have done this and that, all doing it not only seemingly effortlessly but flawlessly as well. When you hear all of these expectation, it can't help but to affect you in such a negative light. Writing long and difficult papers to meet the expectations of teachers is not only tedious but unattainable as well. The idea of a perfect writer that knows what to put in their writing and what to leave out all while being grammatically correct all at once is an almost task to complete. But in reality an 'inspired writer' isn't really someone who's writing is perfection while avoiding writer's block all at the same time. An inspired writer is a person that bases their information and expands on what they're given. Having writer's block and not wanting to write doesn't make or break the inspired writers. The idea of expanding on what's given and running with it, making it their own. That's what an inspired writer truly is.
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