After starting the Mindful Writing book, I have learned more about what it means to be a writer. It takes skill and it's a process that we go through in order to make it effective. We are all writers and we write everyday. It's an art that we all do, but some do it better than others. I consider myself a writer, but I do have a lot to improve on. Brian Jackson teaches, in his textbook Mindful Writing, that if we want to be an exceptional writer, we must be mindful as it says in the title. Being mindful of our purpose in writing, our audience, and other various strategies. Strategy is a perfect word to use when talking about a great writer. They know what they want to do with their words and they think about how they want to write them.
I also really enjoyed reading the Family: A Proclamation To the World with a new perspective. The First Presidency had great use of rhetoric: ethos, pathos, and logos. They were so influential when this was published to the world in 1995. Their logic about the family just makes sense to anyone - religious or not. It's obvious they knew who their audience was and they were smart with how they presented the information.
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