This weeks reading of George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language was difficult to understand because it is highly analytical. Orwell intends to explain how we shouldn't write essays with words that we have to look up in the dictionary.
Sometimes we use words in our essays that we might think means a certain thing, but it is actually something different. This is because how we are influenced by the "bad habits which spread by imitation," according to Orwell.
Also, our constant changing politics are giving us the guidelines of how we should think, regarding political and economical issues in our nation and abroad. For instance, words like democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, justice and other that Orwell uses can have different meaning with every new presidential term.
Orwell's rules on writing essays are very helpful. Sometimes i try to write and essay using words that sound sophisticated but i end up not even understanding my own essay. Another thing that I often do is to write words just to "fill up" the essay in order to reach the assigned number of words. Hopefully by following his those rules my essays will turn out to be better in quality and analysis like in Orwell's Essay.
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I definitely do the same thing when it comes to writing an essay. I try to use big words and make my sentences longer. When writing a five page paper the only thing i think about is filling up space. lol
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