What sorts of things should a writer consider before putting 'pen to paper'?

When we write something, it is very important to know why are we putting 'pen to paper' and what informations deliver to the readers. Many people do not know how to write in a proper way as linguistic is a sort of giftedness that not everyone possess it. There are sorts of things like problem-solving, thinking and learning is needed for a writer consider before write something. In encountering these problems, before we begin to write, we have to question ourselves:

• Why do we write out such main idea on the paper?
• What tactics we use to inspire readers? 
• What tactics we use to make our writing skills perfect?
• What is the importance of the specific knowledge that we write?
• What is the importance of the definition that we write convey to the readers?
• How we elaborate the ideas in writing?
• Are there any sources that we can use to spot 'excellent' writing as references?
• What is the templates of the documents to create a maximum effectiveness?
• How does the attractiveness of the documents influence on readers?

Language is the building block of life, we began to communicate since the age we are able to talk, so all of us have a sense of tactic knowledge in the field of communication; this sense of tactic knowledge operating in our unconscious mind. However, it is very vital for us to have confidence in our innate writing before putting pen to paper, but still, expanding knowledge of writing principles is indispensable. Therefore, in order to improve our educational capital, we need to keep moving on the track of communication in a fast pace, the succession is rely on the ability we communicate. Faigley (1986, p.38) mentioned the secrets of the writing power in a society:

'Language is power, take it as read.'



On the contrary, speaking and writing are both different things. Someone can speak fluently but that does not mean he or she can writes properly as we usually talk more than write or vice versa; someone can write better than speak if that person not often practise to speak. This theory is analysed by William Safire (1992, pp.133), he draws a conclusion that the spoken language and written language are imbalance norm as the tune we whistle is not the orchestra's score. So, to practise ourselves to write in an excellent form of writing, we have to digest the whole sentences prior to writing, thinking all sorts of perspectives and then build three arguments and compared to each other. We have to know who is the audience, putting extra attention in writing minor details is basically wasting of time, good punctuation marks help readers to identified the main points of the writing and excellent masterpiece of writing is most probably done by those who are good in reading.

References list:

Putnis, et. al 1996, Professional communication: principles and applications, writing to communicate, Chapter 7, Prentice Hall, Sydney, pp.223-263.
Safire, W., & Safir, L. (Eds.). (1992). Good advice on writing. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. 

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