A writing teacher in internet

Reading through the books page of the New York Times is becoming my intellectual habit. It would be the best if I could print them out and check the verbs they use, which clears off the given language to anybody. Using the appropriate verbs is most difficult yet worthiest approach to improve writing. Theoretical truth, however, is often inaccessible for elemental leaners. Nonetheless, I throw myself in such category on English writing.   

Giving an answer to the life-test, I continued reading book reviews for time to time in about a month.  A month ago, since the professor advised me to find the literature critic whom I want to copy the writing style from, I was looking for such a person in the articles. It looked very long journey and looked impossible forever. But there, I found the best person, Michiko Kakutani.

Ms. Kakutani is a well-known book reviewer of the NY Times, which I did not know her name until yesterday. Once I read her article, every words seemed vivid and holding the power that stretch the arms to grab the reader’s neck, so did my neck. I did not realize her name when I read it on my PC screen, and then the familiar Japanese name Michiko jumped in my sight when I read it in my smartphone in the train. She is a second generation of Japanese-American, living in NY. And more surprisingly what I found was she made a lot of critiques to Philip Roth, John Updike who are all familiar to me. Knowing her background more on internet, I had to admit my ignorance here again.

Now she was nominated to my writing teacher. How wonderful the internet age is!

I hope someday, soon would be much better though, one of the professor comments as, “Your writing is quite similar what Michiko Kakutani does”, would be the great compliment on my writing.

You can check all her current articles in this URL.