Musa Mubarez MS. Mosher English1010 9 October 2014 Portrait of a Writer Setting lonely in a quiet room, laying down, in a red large couch, with blue pillows all over, each pillow about the size of a small laptop, listening to R&B music, eating cubes of cheese and drinking an orange juice half way filled with ice. Holding a black pen in the hand, tapping it along the song that is playing on the radio, having a piece of paper on the side and facing a red mac laptop as it’s curser is blinking
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Writing as concisely and precisely as possible to convey assertions and ideas is always the best way to keep the reader engaged. Throughout most of my writing career, my writing - as suggested by my instructors - was based on that statement. I needed to concisely portray my thoughts in a grammatical and syntaxical pleasing manner which ultimately deemed my writing as good. Most of the critiquing I would receive over my written works focused primarily on grammar and syntax and not until my high school
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English. As writers, we all have our strengths, weaknesses, and goals. Nobody is perfect, and that’s okay. English is one of the hardest languages in the world, after all. I think I’ve always been good at allowing my voice to flow in the essays I write. It’s a very tricky skill, but after years of writing for different classes, It’s a skill that kind of develops on its own. The different between an okay essay and a great essay is being able to hear and understand the voice of the writer who wrote
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In the art of literature, the author has many techniques that they can use to their favor. One of these techniques is the plan of making the reader wait to build interest in the book. This is used by both Toni Morrison and George Orwell in their novels Beloved and 1984 respectively. The idea of making the reader wait plays a large part in these novels to drive the plot forward. In the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, the idea of making the reader wait for plot details is apparent. Through the
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basis of creativity to explain to his readers how stories do not simply write themselves, they are created through many hours of time, practice, dedication and even tears. Bradbury uses his essays to present a list of ways for one to become a better writer and ultimately understand the art of writing itself. In the first section of Bradbury’s book, he uses the quote, “Do not.. turn away from what you are, the material within you which makes you individual and therefore indispensable to
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I have never considered my self a good writer. The idea of writing a “perfect paper” seemed like an unreachable concept. However, this year, my writing has improved greatly. I am not a five star writer, but i am reaching to better skills now, rather than where i was at the beginning of my freshman year. With the practice and building up my skills, i have improved in certain areas ad a writer. throughout this year, i have improved on the idea of properly analyzing evidence. For the book club unit
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Have you ever thought about how a writer carry out their purpose to an audience? Writers use rhetorical strategies for audiences to understand their purpose. Throughout history many writers have demonstrated this skill to send a message to their audiences. Writers such as Martin Luther King Jr, and Sojourner Truth use pathos and repetition to express their person to an audience. Martin Luther King Jr and Sojourner Truth use emotions to persuade their audience to support their cause. In Sojourner
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Out of seven possibilities, the most common ones are “ Handicapped, Disabled, or Cripple.” Which one did Mairs choose? In this passage Nancy Mairs, a dear woman who has multiple sclerosis openly identifies herself as a “ cripple”, instead of handicapped or disabled. Mairs presents herself in a specific way to show why she made that word choice of “ cripple” to name herself. Upon doing that Mairs uses rhetorical features such as tone, word choice, and rhetorical structure to further her reason.
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“ In order to write the book you want to write, In the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book” ( Diaz 1). Every author has their own style of writing, that is unique to them. For instance Beowulf and Grendel are the same story but with two different point of views and detailing within the story. Which makes the story more unique to the reader who is looking for that sense of adventure within the book they are reading. There are many ways two books alike can compare
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Marcia uses glowing woodcuts than an aid in learning the alphabet. As I was flipping through the book I began to see that Marcia is using the alphabets to tell a story. For example, I see two Cats Dancing in red, yellow and black, then to an amusingly strange Elephants Fly? And so on, each double page picture working butterflies into more or less prominent roles. Every turn of the page hits you with a whole new view in a startlingly different key, and one is tempted to describe each one in turn --
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