Your essay must be valuable to your readers
Your job as a writer is not to convey your ideas, but to change the readers' ideas. As such, your essay needs to be clear, organized and persuasive, but above all else it has to be valuable to your readers. Its job is to help a reader understand better something they want to understand well.
Things to keep in mind when writing:
- Who am I writing for?
- How does my essay change the way they see the world? To inform? To inspire?
- How is my writing valuable?
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