What Classifies a Good Writer?

What is a good writer? Is it someone who never makes grammatical errors? Someone with the best ideas? Someone who does thorough research, and uses facts to back up their points? Or, is a good writer simply someone who has heart? A person who shows deep emotion in their work. Putting their soul into all they do.

Technically speaking, the correct answer would be all of the above. All of these qualities together probably wouldn’t make a perfect writer, but most likely a pretty great one. Personally, I believe that only one or two of the listed qualities would make someone a good writer, but what do I really know, I’m only a struggling high school student.

I’m not what you would classify as qualified to say if someone is a good writer or not. I’m not a good writer myself, and English is currently my worst class, but I can give a list of what I think would make a talented writer.