Clear Text (Bonus Blog) // Emma Kate Patterson

 In the Orwell reading Orwell discusses the importance of making ones writing clear and making it known easily what is being said. I think this is important in writing because although we are left to interpret writing for ourselves there are certain circumstances in which interpretation can be dangerous. It is important for a reader to be able to read a writing and be able to know clearly what is being said. As a philosophy major this has been made clear to me through the many ambiguous readings I have read during my time in undergraduate. It is the job of a philosopher to ask questions instead of answers so much of the reading in philosophy is unclear and open ended. Although this is a good thing in philosophy in many other subjects the text should be clear. One should be able to read a work and know what is being told to them through the text. Orwell makes it clear that an author should purposefully make the purpose in their works clear. I found this interesting because we always talk about interpreting text. If authors make it clear the point will there still be a need to interpret text? I believe there will be because the difference in culture and time periods. I also think that being that humans each are different that we will always have different opinions and interpret each text in a different, unique, and special way.

I commented on Bug Olsen's post and Madalyn Dillard's post.