RE: What Are Writing Skills?

[Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Sharon:

 
--- Sharon Burton <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com> wrote:
I sent you to Minimalism as a way to think about
structuring your writing. 

Tony Markos:

Ok, let me summarize: I ask "What Are Writing Skills?"
 I'm told that the "meat" (my summary word) of writing
skills is skill in structured writing.  I research the
web on structured writing and only find fluff.  I ask
this listserv for specific, concrete steps and
techniques.  Only you respond, stating, if I
understand correctly: Structured writing is all about
Minimalism.

Problems:

1.)  When I ask "What Are Writing Skills?", I seek the
real "meat", not the periferal.  Are you saying that
Minimalism is the "meat" of writing skills or
structured writing?  

2.)  I googled on "minimalism is".  I reviewed the
first thrity hits.  Problem:  Those pages only state
things like Minimalism is "a set of [high level]
principles", a "generic" term, a "concept", and
"everybody has a different definition".  In other
words: They give fluff, not specific, concrete steps
and technqiues.

Sharon, again, if structured writing is the "meat" of
writing skills, then I have to believe that
discovering specific, concrete steps and/or techniques
for doing such would be a very straight forward task.

Sharon Burton:

I think I sent you a small reading list. 

Tony Markos:

If you did, and I really don't remember seeing such;
if the readings give specific, concrete technqiues
and/or techniques PLEASE resend - I really seek an
answer to "What Are Writing Skills?"

Sharon Burton:

I offered to let you take my class this spring where I
can teach you how to write in a structured way.

Tony Markos:

Thanks for the offer, but if structured writing is so
fundamental to TWing, to answer my basic question, I
really should not have to go to such lengths.   


		
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