/lit/ - Literature

>>16432720
In freshman year of college our final project in Eng 101 was to write a persuasive essay and I wrote mine on why technology needed to be abandoned wholesale if humanity was going to continue as a successful race, basing my argument heavily on Kaczynski. I wrote two versions, one where I used weak, academic phrasing like
>in this essay I will argue
>in conclusion
>In this essay I will conclusively prove
>now let us consider therefore, that
and I wrote one version that used very matter-of-fact, forceful language. Turned the latter in and got a 96%. Went in after and showed my professor the first one and he said that it was terrible although the only difference was the connecting words.

>TL;DR don't write arguments in pussy language, always assume you're right with no doubt in your mind and force your opinion on your reader

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