Post I: Discourse Surrounding the Essay

” The difference is like that between a golf ball in the air and the swing of the golfer that propelled it; the flight of a struck ball varies but the swing tends to always be the same. An essay is a golf swing…” by Ian Frazier

When I was younger and told to write an essay it was nothing like what this quote is explaining. This quote is proposing that all essays come out different because of the writer. Each writer has different experiences to back up the essay and make it their own. The experiences may be the same or similar, but the way the writer took those experiences and benefited from them makes the essays different.
My thought of an essay was always that there was a right an wrong. This is suggesting otherwise though. In my past learning, you had a beginning, middle and end. In the introduction you had a thesis, statement of organization and hook. Your body had to outline your statement of organization paragraph by paragraph and the thesis had to stay true throughout the entire piece. Then when you got to your conclusion you must summarize your points and not forget to tie it back to your hook. It also used to be my understanding that essays were more formal. If you wanted to get creative then you wrote a short story, memoir or poem. Essays stick to the facts. Guess I was wrong.
This quote makes complete sense to me. If I am trying to write about something, something that happened to me that is really sticking in my mind I have to start out the right way in order to finish the right way. It would be very hard to complete an essay on something that I don’t feel strongly about. Every writer has to have certain knowledge and passion about what they are writing about. They need to know where they want to take their ideas and how they want to present them. That’s what makes it a consistent golf swing. Every writer is also different. Adding their personality and creative touch makes each flight of the struck golf ball different.