Problems or Experiences and Identifying Them in Your Life
Introduction
Life is like a movie series of movie as it is full of episodes where some of them are painful, difficult and heartbreaking while others are sweet, joyful and promising. Nevertheless, any life experience is worth taking note of and putting it in writing. Writing is a process which is initiated by diverse experiences in life. An individual ends up noticing how impactful or important it is to share these experiences to the rest of the world. Writing an essay or a novel tends to be the best approach towards achieving this dream of retelling a real-life story in a more creative way, leaving a mark in the reader’s mind. Personal problems or experiences are the easiest to put into writing, and outstanding writers must follow some key steps towards coming up with excellent essays. In her article ‘’ Looking for troubles: Finding your way into writing assignment’’ Catherine Savini (2010) argues that establishing a problem should be the main priority when writing assignments since that is the basis of every excellent essay and novel. Savini backs up her argument by making a comparative analysis of every day’s problem and how pointing out solutions to common problems can be useful in improving the quality of an individual’s writing skills.
In “Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment,” Catherine Savini, presents the spotlight and guideline of ways that help in eliminating the confusion and what seems to be an outstanding strategy towards writing a soothing, flowing and reader taking story. Writing is a hell of difficulties and challenges mainly for the starters which without some good guidelines about what is expected and how to approach it can be surely havoc. As explained by Savini, some of the interesting topics to write about in essays are the problems that people face in their lives. In one of the cases, she presents the Misery movie by Paul Sheldon. Sheldon was moved by a life incident thus, forcing him to come up with an interesting story (Savini 52). It is an illustration of how the best personal experiences and problems can be when put into essays. Savini admits that writing is challenging but is also the very best thing for one to do when it comes to describing their personal problems. Any individual can easily and to the best of their ability describe what they feel, or they have felt, more than any other person. In her thesis statement, she indicates that overcoming life challenges takes a certain process, which is similar to what writing entails where there are evident challenges which need to outshine. She further suggests that finding meaningful problems to investigate is the key to writing excellent essays for they provide us with a platform to come up with fruitful questions.
Savini takes note of the problems that are always evident in people’s lives, which people need to overcome, if at all they are to reach a destination called success. According to Roger Martin, successful leaders have a mutual characteristic which is the ability to think in an integrative manner (Savini 53). To paraphrase, integrative thinking entails experiencing and allows people to combine opposing ideologies such as personal experiences and writing thus creating an innovative third idea that serves as the solution to the problem. ‘’First-rate intelligence’’, as brought out through the article, is the ability of people to come up with solutions when they are encountered by such ‘’opposing ideas.’’ As elaborated, problem solving includes integrative ideas in such a way that a person can come up with the best solutions possible but not handling one thing at a time. A per idea, she asserts that the same approach once applied in writing can bring forth brilliant results through developing new ideas to be used in solving any arising writing problems.
“Looking for trouble” according to Savini is the key to learning how to start writing. Problems as per her explanation are a process of integrating life experiences with current challenges faced by students in writing. Her explanation is cemented by Hegel and Rousseau example where she describes them as historian scholars who were able to combine history with modern civilization (Savini 54). Cultivating ideas is a process which she explains as finding a mix between ideas which can be applied in writing any paper. She explains the idea of creating a juxtaposition between two contrasting ideas through her comparison of Hegel and Rousseau which happens to be a great discovery for great writers who publish contrasting essays (Savini 54). Savini affirms that writing essays on comparing and contrasting various ideas take a similar form just as how successful writers raise contradictory thoughts without creating an argument. Therefore, for clear contrasting and comparing characteristics in essays, the writer is expected to come up with explicit essays which apply the same concept as described by Savini. The approach aims at coming up with an essay that best describes various life experiences and problems which are the strongholds for an excellent writer.
For one to become a great essay, they should begin by seeing their life experiences from the perspective of an essay or story. Other essays might need more than just compare and contrast. Savini provides the solution to this by recommending that the writers can perhaps try to find the trouble by investigating beyond the obvious facts. Through an example on the human rights topic where she suggests that students can identify a problem to be researched after they synthesize all information that is related to the topic of discussion. There is an approach to this topic which involves the scope, defining socio-demographic factors and others, and assessing shortcomings in the information sources in order to identify the problem that requires further research (Savini 55). It is upon the writer to develop a compelling thesis by finding a rich problem.
Savini holds that excellent writing originates from the ability to identify a problem and a feasible solutions that accommodate diverse ideas in relation to personal experience. In her view, this approach as excellent steps towards writing good papers. Understanding what the essay requires is noticing and identifying a problem indicated by patterns in texts. Comprehending the meaning of the title of the paper is the second step which is accompanied by articulating problems with details that are juxtaposing texts on the same topic to identify tensions in terms of key concepts (Savini 57). The writer must relate their personal experiences with the offered arguments in the text and at last, find something relevant that he is overlooked by the text. To avoid disappointments, the student develop clear objectives and limits so as to come up with a meaningful projects. The ideas can help them determine what is expected. Savini recommends those steps as the best approaches towards writing an excellent essay.
Practicing and practicing again is necessary due to the complexity of writing and challenges when it comes to putting personal experiences into writing. Unless a person makes the first attempt then they will never come anywhere close to success and excellence as far as essay writing is concerned. Practicing writing the first essay, the teacher goes over it and highlights the various mistakes evident and recommends the student to do a revision. Once the task is completed, another task is assigned where the same practice is repeated over time for perfection. The whole concept of practicing and doing it again involves focusing on tension within texts which affect the flow of ideas. Savini summarizes the concept by affirming that writing begins with articulating ideas, raising questions, and presenting refined drafts that reflect good academic writing. As indicated in the article, regardless of the discipline that one is expected to write on, the key and secret behind coming up and writing a meaningful, excellent essay are to find meaningful problems to examine allowing a person to develop the best questions.
Generally, writing is a journey that involves various steps as highlighted and discussed by Savini. For excellent writing skills that will transform into the best essays, the writer is expected to involve and utilize all the indicated steps which aid them to articulate various ideas concerning a given topic of discussion in a systematic and scholarly manner. It is worth noting that writing best essays cannot be a one-day task. Devotion pushed by practice is key towards developing and coming up with such essays.
Work Cited
Savini, Catherine. “Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing
Assignment.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, edited by Charles Lowe and Pavel
Zemliansky, vol. 2, Parlor Press, 2011, Writing Spaces. pp. 52-
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