Milo Beckman Why I Write Bad

In Milo B. Beckman’s article “Why I Write Bad” he talks about how college students are not taking their college writing serious enough. They are merely going through the motions of writing out a “formula” of what they think the professor wants to read and then adding that extra fluff to make it look pretty on the outside but not have a lot of substance on the inside when you actually go into it and analysis what the essay is really saying. For Beckman to get his main message across to his readers he uses his experience as a student and his vast knowledge of his audience to convey to them of the importance of actual good writing through his diction and appealing to their need for success. Milo B. Beckman had clearly written the article for mainly college students to read. The fact that he is a college student himself, the article is published in The Harvard Crimson, and the language that he uses makes it very obvious

With him establishing himself as a trustworthy person the reader doesn’t really ask themselves that many questions when they are reading the statements that he is writing. He also mentions another author named Steven Pinker, who wrote an article in The Chronicle call “Why Academics Stink at Writing”. Beckman uses this source from a more well-known writer, that has also written an article that has a similar topic to the one that he wrote, because it strengthens the argument that he is presenting in the article. The students will realize that this is not just a problem that they have at Harvard but a problem that they have at campuses all over the nation. Most students want to strive for success and when they hear that college students all over the United States are making the same writing mistakes over and over they will want to make a change to that. Beckman was able to do this because of how well he knows his