Young Authors' Essay: Why Young Authors is a Thing of the Past (PT. 2) // Blog 5 // 4/12/174/12/2017 Hello everyone! This is part two of my Young Authors' submission. If you haven't read the last blog, go check it out. Otherwise, this wouldn't make sense. Secondly, it would be a waste of time for a student if the Young Authors’ was required and the student felt that participating would not better them for a future job or career. If a student wanted to pursue a field that includes STEM or STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), such as an engineer or a biologist, you wouldn’t need the skill of being able to write a fictional narrative to perform the job. However, you would need to know how to understand complex visuals, such as graphs or three dimensional figures, or how to solve complex math, such as trigonometry or calculus. If a student felt that they would not be improved if they did the Young Authors’, they could research and learn a new skill that could help them improve, that way the time while others are doing Young Authors’ is not wasted, but utilized. "The future of the economy is in STEM,” says James Brown, the executive director of the STEM Education Coalition in Washington, D.C. With the utilization of the spare Young Authors’ time, kids who are aspiring to become involved in STEM-related careers can advance towards the career they want by researching and learning in this spare time. A seemingly good use of time can be turned into a truly beneficial time, all by changing what the students are doing in the time. Although some may say that Young Authors’ would help give students some time to let loose on writing, this is a required writing piece that is due for a grade, and can be placed into competition with other pieces. Wouldn’t that be stressful to be pretty much forced to let loose on writing, instead of just turn in at a really far off date?
Finally, the areas of jobs that schools are promoting and students are looking into would not require or need the ability to write a narrative, while still providing a sufficient amount of money. Take a look at someone like Donald Trump. He likely doesn’t write narrative stories, like an adventure across a wild, magical land, but more informational and persuasive pieces, like this one. He’s a billionaire entrepreneur and President of the United States of America, and he doesn’t write narratives like the ones in Young Authors’, that is required to do throughout schools and deemed very important by some school districts. Another example would be Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft and deemed the “richest man alive” and “set to become a trillionaire.” Sure he may read a lot of books, but most of the time, he is likely writing business reports and informational pieces, not narratives. Even with this, he still is the “richest man alive.” Schools are promoting STEM with the new STEM challenges, and a new science test that could be added to standardized testing, leading students to going into STEM-based careers, which don’t always require narrative writing. If you wanted to become the “richest person alive” or have a STEM-based career, would you have to write narratives on the daily? Although some may say that you can make lots of money by being an author, which you can, it would be a slow process. You would have to write on the daily if you would want to accumulate some amount of money, not mentioning taxes and other basic human needs. Also, people would be wanting you to come to a school, or go to a meet-and-greet with fans, which can cost lots of money for travel, hotels, and other travel expenses. What it all boils down to is a lot of money going towards your career and not you, so you earn about as much as your average higher-paying job. The conclusion is next!! Come back next post to see the ending to this amazing essay! Havaguday! P.S. A spring break bloog is soon to come! Stay tuned!
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4/24/2017 11:52:03 am
this is well constructed and formatted. the only thing is there are people who like doing young authors.
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