After reading the article “Stephen King’s Top 20 Rules for Writers” it was so interesting to see that one of the first rules on the list was to write for yourself and then to write for your audience. It was interesting to see this when many of us try to write to reach our audience first. We try to reach the audience first so that the audience can connect to the writing piece. Rule number 5 was to not obsess over grammar and Professor Friend has always told us that grammar doesn’t matter that much because it shouldn’t be our main focus when writing. The focus should be making the reader welcome and to tell a story. I feel that the advice coming from an author who has sold over 350 million books can be reliable, especially as someone who has that much experience writing.
The article “Writing the Conventional Resume” by Schall’s is about how we can write a good resume based on the heading, objective, education, experience/work , computer skills, activities/ volunteer work, and references. A section that stood out to me the most was how your name being at the top in bold will give away that it’s a resume because typically we would think we have to put “resume” as a header but it’s a certain type of document that we don’t necessarily need to do that. Writing a resume could be a great way to show employers previous experiences in volunteering/ school or even work. The purpose of it is for our readers to hire us or allow us to join their teams. These 2 articles can benefit from each other because by writing well we can write a good resume.
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