If there's one thing about the internet that I absolutely hate, it's netspeak. "r u there" instead of "Are you there?" or stupid acronyms like ROFL or LOL. Like anyone in the real world would ever actually say "rolling on the floor laughing" or "laughing out...
Since I've been writing these things for a couple of months now, I've come back to the one thing that I always hated when I was writing regularly in high school and college: writing introductions and conclusions. Obviously, these two items have their places in a piece, but I've always had...