Some People Are Just Born Good Writer By Jill Parrrott Summary

Talent without working hard is useless. Some people are just born good writers by Jill Parrott an article exposing the myth of what a good writer is. The audience is both old and new writers who are and have struggled with the perception of their writing. Students in the literature scene all blame their poor English grades on not being gifted with the skill of writing. The article was written to ease writers' worries about the value of their work and change the perspective of what becoming a good writer should be. The belief that people can not become good writers because they are not born with it needs to be eliminated since it negatively impacts writers and the spread of becoming a good writer through determination should increase. The

“In fact, at times throughout history, the best authors were believed to have been chosen and directly inspired by God Himself”(Parrott, 71)Students and writers' idea of writing being a given gift is incorporated into their minds; this creates a large pressure and high expectation which leads them to feel unmotivated and inferior when comparing their work with others and not upholding to standards. Parrott exhibits how the lower social and financial status students are negatively affected by that ideology .“Students who were privileged to be of the right socioeconomic, national, or ethnic background already wrote to the university’s standards because they were part of the group in power who set the standards”(Parrott,72). The privileged rich and white students were considered the people who were born good writers since they already wrote at the college level but they only had that level of writing skills because they had more resources and tutors, these unmotivated lower-status students made them think they could never be good writers and ungifted. This mindset made writers dread writing and just wrote to get it over with the author states. “Essays were usually written once and were done, for good or ill”(Parrott,72). This way of thinking made students' attitudes towards writing shift making it feel like a chore and used that they were not born a good writer as an

Parrott states to improve the writing of new writers we must uplift them not lower their writing self-esteem. “Indeed, the key to improving novice writers’ experiences is improving how they think about their work”(Parrot,73). Writers are the first to critique their work and if they have negative thoughts about their work it would reflect on their work by improving their perspective students would improve their papers and refine their writing skills. The author claims training is necessary to master the skill of writing, having technique is never enough. “Persistence emphasizes that experience is more powerful than unchangeable ability, and challenges help move writers forward rather than delaying their progress”(Parrott,73). A good writer isn't just born; there's a need in nature to perfect that skill with persistence, with persistence both previously bad and good writers keep improving and they both can reach the same level of literary success. The path to becoming a good writer is outdated, the consistent type of assignment students receive to improve their writing is monotonous, making writers lose interest. “Writing experiences that broaden the writer’s audience or provide real contexts such as blogs or service learning placements in the community can help new writers see themselves as real authors with real audiences and see the act of writing as a socially located activity”