Writing Essays As A Way Of Learning
To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed letter to a friend about why it is so hard to explain, and then remove the initial “Dear Friend” part and you’ll have a great first draft.
Kevin Kelly • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
what I first needed to know more about was how writing was related to learning. How much do we learn about a subject through writing that we wouldn’t learn in any other way?
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
An essay lets the soul of a memoirist, the rigor of a scholar, and the pen of a poet all co-exist on the same page. Out of all the mediums, it's most able to fuse the best parts of every other genre. It's literature's sponge, the frontier of the written word. https://t.co/Olikaqb5pV
