CONFIDENCE

Confidence is the most important factor in an essay. Through confidence, the reader is able to persuade her audience and thus engage their imaginations. Understandably, confidence, like writing, is a skill that takes practice to produce satisfying results. This is often encouraged in an "edgy" thesis that is meant to be arguable. Still, confidence reassures the reader that the writer’s idea is the right decision for the reader to follow, thus magnetizing the reader’s attraction and positive approach to the essay. In Essay A2, Anastasia never digresses from her main point. Her goal is to prove why Mr. Darcy is often misjudged and consequently hated. Though a debatable topic, Anastasia definitely convinces me that Mr. Darcy is human, naïve, and vulnerable. She explains that these common characteristics should transcend his snobby shallowness. Confidence allows Anastasia to “perform” at her best, by delivering her resolute belief. While some readers mask their insecurities with arrogance, Anastasia’s confidence is attractive and genuine (you could almost imagine this as conversation). Anastasia gently coerces the reader to invest in her belief that Darcy is simply misunderstood. Evidently, Anastasia believed that her certainty in Mr. Darcy would be explained to her audience, as promised. Her firm delivery and subsequent attitude overtake any of the reader’s previous misconceptions. Furthermore, if a writer is able to convey her purpose, grammar, syntax, and structure can be revised later on.

After all, if the writer doesn’t have confidence in her ideas, why should reader have confidence in them?