According to King, <u>many writing teachers</u> will not like the idea that competent writers can be made into good writers.
This is his exact quote:
"...while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while it is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it <span>is </span><span>possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one."
</span>So writers that have some merit will become good writers after a time of practice and hard work.
The root word for spectacle is spectacular
I believe the correct answer is: Using technical language
helps the author stress the complexity of the scientific advances and
technological achievements that Edison observed.
In this excerpt from “"Edison Marvels at the Magic of
Electricity" from the New York Tribune (October 19, 1922), author intentionally
incorporate such highly technical language to stress the complexity of the
scientific advances and technological achievements that Edison observed.
Adverbs are known to describe how an action is being done. Some popular adverbs would be carefully, correctly, eagerly, easily, fast, loudly, patiently, quickly, and quietly.