On Writing
Maria sits down at her desk after getting back from school and decides to tackle her writing assignment first out of her plethora of homework assignments. She opens her computer and sees that it is a short-and-sweet one-page paper. She puts her headphones on and puts instrumental study music on Spotify because too many times she has played her regular playlists and finds herself accidentally typing out the lyrics instead (talk about unconscious plagiarism!) Instead of getting stuck thinking of her introduction, she gets straight to the thesis to outline her body paragraphs and evidence, just like all of her high school English classes trained her to do. She sometimes has to stop her flow of words to think of the word that's on the tip of her tongue or to find a synonym for a word she's been overusing. She knocks out the body paragraphs as systemically as a robot given a code to produce essays for the masses. Once she reaches her conclusion, she restates the thesis worded in a ...