It has all been done before. Most things relating to issues have already been said. Nothing new can be brought to the parlor except your personal standpoint on issues. Freshmen are bright and idealistic. Your idealism, experiences, and feelings are the new things you bring to the conversation. What you must give the world in the papers you write is the information and how it relates to you. All writing must come from you and much like the samurai of Goldberg's essay you have to be honest. When you write about things that excite you it will help you write better. Arguing emotionally is speaking about things that move an audience. All of this relates to the center of your being and is a part of the elusive "Samurai Center" that Goldberg speaks about in her essay. Cruises and Channel put it best, "Try to around emotions that you yourself have genuinely felt; whatever moved you will probably also move your readers" (139).

I refer to this as the clear viol of your memory, and accessing that "clear viol" requires the honesty of the samurai to talk about things that move you and make you different from others. "Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released." (Goldberg 38). What I refer to as the "clear viol" Goldberg calls the compost heap. We "continue to work with this raw matter, it will draw us deeper and deeper into ourselves, but not in a neurotic way. We will begin to see the rich garden we have inside us and use that for writing." (Goldberg 15). Goldberg's book is a rich source of tips. We will study her strategies as well as those of argument. Once you focus the writing through yourself, you must also trim the writing down.