Response Letter To Mr Ballenger

Dear, Mr. Ballenger I have read your essay, “The Importance of Writing Badly”, and there are many fascinating and captivating points you have made, which I would like to discuss with you. In your essay you have stated, “I find some people who reminisce fondly about their own Mrs. ONeill, usually an English teacher who terrorized them into worshiping the error-free sentence. In some cases the terror paid off when it was finally transformed into an appreciation for the music a well-made sentence can make.” In other words, you are saying we all have that one English teacher who will push us to our limits to help us become better writers and make us understand the reason why we should always proof read our writing and make sure we have no mistakes. And because of that push we become

I made numerous grammatical errors and had many run on sentences in the essay but I didn’t read over my writing before I turned it in. The next day she handed me back my essay and told me to re-read it and fix the mistakes I had made. Well I was re-reading my essay, I noticed how many mistake I had made. The next day when I handed my essay back to her she said always make sure you proof read your writing because that would help you get a better grade and if you don’t you will regret it because if you don’t fix your mistakes it will led you into getting a lower grade. In your essay you have also stated, “The night before the essay is due they pace their rooms like expectant fathers, waiting to deliver the perfect beginning. They wait and they wait. It’s no wonder the waiting often turns to hating what they have written when they finally get it down.” I can completely relate to this statement because I am one of those students, who the night before the essay is due will wait around in my room until an idea pops in my brain. And when I finally get an idea and write it down, I end up hating what I wrote and then sometimes I crumble up my paper and start thinking of