Essentially, students are, from the time they start school until they graduate, taught to write to an audience – teachers – who are both:
1. Paid to read it, and have no real possibility to stop reading because they get bored (teachers will read anything from beginning to end).
2. Looking for, in the writing, evidence that the student has learned the information.
Neither of those two things are true of the rest of the world, when they are reading a book or an article by an aspiring professional writer. Therefore, writing to such an audience will require new skills which most people have never practiced.
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Essentially, students are, from the time they start school until they graduate, taught to write to an audience – teachers – who are both:
1. Paid to read it, and have no real possibility to stop reading because they get bored (teachers will read anything from beginning to end).
2. Looking for, in the writing, evidence that the student has learned the information.
Neither of those two things are true of the rest of the world, when they are reading a book or an article by an aspiring professional writer. Therefore, writing to such an audience will require new skills which most people have never practiced.