<p>who else absolutely DESPISES writing essays? seriously, I don't have a voice at all. my essays are always so dull, boring, impersonal, unrealistic, abstract, confusing, etc. how should I improve my syntax/diction/voice so that it sounds "real" and passionate? gah its so hard. I have some ideas, now how do I successfully put those ideas on paper in a form that is pleasing to the reader?</p>
<p>pretend you're explaining it to a friend, and write down exactly what you'd say verbally.</p>
<p>you might have to do some planning/outlining first and some editing later, but this pretty much works if you want to make it sound "real."</p>
<p>The best way to develop a written voice is to think about what you want <em>to say</em>, and then write it down. Write just like you would on the internet - except grammatically correct (of course you could always just use proper grammar on the internet).</p>
<p>Besides, pleasing the reader is overrated. I've read too many essays where the writer tries to impress and instead it becomes impossible to understand. Simply conveying your thoughts in an organized and persuasive fashion is pleasing enough.</p>
<p>I don't really understand the point of the voice. The only teacher(Ap Lang) that really taught me anything in writing(except for a couple of grammar teachers before that) tells us try to stay away from using examples/narration/I unelss you are a published writer. You don't have to have a a voice and still be succesful(but you must have diction and synthax).</p>
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<p>I've always had bad handwriting, so early in school I thought of myself as a bad writer and avoided writing long passages. Not writing very often only made the process even more nerve-wracking. I would spend five minutes on one sentence trying to make every word perfect. That caused me to think of myself as a bad writer who was also slow. This went on for years.</p>
<p>During the whole process I was always on the internet typing loads of text informally (like now).</p>
<p>One day I had to write an argumentative essay for English. I pretended that it was part of some passionate flame war and the words just came to me. This broke the feedback loop that was my writing inferiority complex.</p>
<p>^That's a good point. A lot of times things like this are purely psychological. If you get the hang of it once and stop worrying, you can do it every time.</p>
<p>I love writing essays. They make me cum...</p>
<p>...pletely miserable.</p>
<p>Pretend you're telling a story, because you are.</p>
<p>Pretend you're speaking to someone.</p>
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<p>I was always told to approach voice like it's your writing style. It's how you personally write, and to have good voice you don't need to say "I". Voice comes through in fiction and rarely will an author say "I" in their point of view.</p>
<p>I agree; it's you worrying too much, just don't care about that stuff and start writing...</p>
<p>i'm good at expressing myself but i have problems with words that i know but don't know how to spell them :(</p>
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i'm good at expressing myself but i have problems with words that i know but don't know how to spell them :(
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<p>Ya, I'm a fairly bad speller also. My mom would bribe me in third grade to
A. Get near perfect to perfect scores on my spelling tests
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B. To have good hand writing</p>
<p>I think I got $5 for each.</p>
<p>seriously, handwriting's becoming obsolete...they should teach us how to type in school instead of writing cursive.</p>
<p>I actually have an easier time with cursive than print.</p>
<p>At the time where I lived computers weren't that big of a deal though, so it didn't matter. </p>
<p>My handwriting goes back and forth between cursive and print. It kind of melds together.</p>
<p>I agree that they need to teach more typing in school. Now that is a real-world skill.</p>