Writing Well

Humanities 1: Writing Well

We will learn what it means to write well.  It is important to both read and write well.  There is no field, no occupation where an inability to communicate effectively and clearly is not a liability. 

Improving your writing requires that you do two things: understand the fundamentals of your language and read and listen to effective communicators in your language.  Once you achieve a mastery of something then you are more free to build upon or change it.  Modern English grammar is among the most fluid of such structures in all of human history.  The willingness of the English language to readily incorporate foreign words, concepts, and constructs into English in a logical and sensible way is one of the primary reasons that it has become a dominant language in both commerce and science (well, let’s not forget colonialism was an overriding part of the initial momentum, but good things can have unhappy origins).