The person that I am ghostwriting for is my roommate Lee Xiong. Lee Xiong is my best friend in college and we always talk about life, school, philosophy, and anything that you can think of. I thought that ghostwriting for my best friend would be easy since we share most of our secrets. The paper was written about the independent business that he recently joined. I wanted to learn more about it so I decided it to write about the business so I could get a better understanding of it.
We talked for a couple of hours about his independent business, and discussed what he feels that is most important about the business. Then I went to do the writing after I had read his Philosophy paper. I thought that after reading one of his works I nailed down his structure and his writing style because we were so close. As I was writing the paper, I did not consult Lee, because I felt that he would have the same thought process and style as I did, well that’s what I convey. When I was a third to a half of the way done and I decided to let him read what I had so far he said, “That’s not even like what I would say at all. I wouldn’t put it in this way,” then I was stuck, I could not do anything. I strapped what I had had and started over. I didn’t know what to do, everything that I had was wrong. I found out the hard way that we writing differently. I believe that I am a very structural writer; my writing is more academic and wordy than his. Lee’s writing is different from mines, he doesn’t have long sentences and he has a lot a small paragraphs. This paper was really hard to write, after a while I got back to my writing style but kept his way of thinking of the paper.
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I think that short and concise style of writing your friend uses is generally encouraged in business settings. It also is useful in scientific research, but I usually don't see anyone using it in their research papers.
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