creative process gets a thumbs up in my book. However, it wouldn't be fair to compare the two essays as one being better than the other as both essays have their merits. Mike Bunn goes into quite a bit of depth on the technique of reading like a writer, but the essay seemed to me that it was just another take on Aristotle's rhetorical triangle. The long list of questions he gave as an example for readers reminded me of all the work on the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos from English 101 last semester.
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Jennifer Machuca Mrs.Cunningham AP Language and Composition 01 October 2015 Rhetorical Precis Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” selection (1994) argues that writing takes a process and the first step is to write a shitty first draft. Lamott accomplishes this by labeling “the fantasy of the uninitiated”is the thought people have when they read a great essay or book.Lamott uses this label in order to acknowledge that writing a great article or piece of literature is part of a process.Lamott is writing
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In the article “The Maker’s Eye” by Donald Murray makes a strict points that writing shouldn't be a one step process. There are several steps that need to be taken Murray talks about how many riders will write their work and then either leave it for a while or immediately read it from A critical point of view. Murray stresses that riders should become their own critics when rewriting and editing papers. Murray suggests that in reality most students will only write one draft and then they will say
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How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago. Every time I talk about UChicago, I speak with what I call my “hyper accent”, characterized by excessive hand gestures and fast talking --and an occasional jump in excitement. “The Core and the ‘life of the mind’ spirit, a city bustling with opportunities, the House system, the zany
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When looking at my history day thesis and the effectiveness of it, I see that there is room for improvement. My topic for history day is Mission Dolores and the thesis which is associated with it is, “Native Americans who resided in the area between 1776-1780 where Mission San Francisco de Asís stands were forced into a compromise which favored the Spanish by manipulating them into religious conversion, violating their basic human rights, and stripping them of their native culture”. Rereading the
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Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays has been around for past couple hundred years. The real reason this question came about was because the anti-Stratfordians said that several other writers could have helped shakespeare with the plays. The anti-Stratfordians didn’t like Shakespeare and they tried to get him disqualified as a writer. The question of Shakespeare’s authorship argues that Shakespeare is not the author but just because Shakespeare did not sign his work does not mean he was not the author.
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first offer, but rather, to wait until the author him or herself decides it is right and their draft is ready. What he doesn’t mention here, however, is the possible cure to the urge to share work: the Ideal Reader, the one so-called person a striving writer can let
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Writing has been in existence for thousands of years. Older pieces of writing hold insight into the past and carry messages the writers wanted to immortalize and save for future generations. Older pieces of writing may seem outdated and obsolete because humans now live in a new era; however, human nature does not change meaning that the messages of any piece of writing are important and relevant. The struggle against fate has been a theme in literature and storytelling for millenniums, from the Greek
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the non-fiction resource, the author informed the person of information on the topic of nuclear winters. People were able to understand the information, therefore granting the writer success as an author because the purpose was to inform. Choosing this topic to write about was more difficult for the purpose because the writer can only have so much personality throughout a nonfiction document. Bodeen decided a strong purpose to carry throughout the entire article was to inform. She had other
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Authorship analysis is the examination of textual characteristics that helps to draw conclusions on its authorship (Olsson, 2008). Authorship identification in forensic applications helps to narrow down suspects in attempts to identify the real author of a disputed anonymous document (Mendenhall, 1887). The study of authorship analysis can be classified into three categories based on Kassou & El Bouanani, (2014): Authorship attribution or Identification, Authorship Profiling and Similarity Detection
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