An author’s primary purpose is to amuse or present values and ideas, to influence an audience to view a concept differently. Not only do they openly feed readers with knowledge, but also strive to convince them that most details are more or less accurate. He/she would occasionally use various writing technique to gain the audience utmost attention. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate, reveal and distinguish writing among five individual historical works. The piece extract and reduced from large works, include “A First Book in American History” by Eggleston, “An American History” by Muzzy, excerpts from Christopher Columbus’s Journal, Wayland’s “How to Teach American History: A Handbook for Teachers and Students”, and “A People’s History of the United States” by Zinn. Each document covers a subject of specific historical events based on facts.
Firstly, it’s logical for an author to seek a particular type of audience. Their writing style helps readers understand who the text is aimed to. As I review Eggleston’s A First Book in American History, it is understandable that the work is directed towards a younger audience as he have clarified it, in his preface, “The …show more content…
Among these five documents, each one display and carries a writing style, more are less similar to one another. Each reveal historical events, however, expresses differently because they entrust that some facts are more significant above the others. Since Eggleston’s book is directed to children, it was wise of him included the early life of Columbus, showing realistic struggles involving rejection before reaching his goal. But later, after his big discovers, the author mentions encountering of some sort “misfortunes”, leading to his big fall, yet, still, believing him to be an admirable “hero”. Nevertheless, the other four authors were utterly blunt about what the events were about, where readers liked it or
Firstly, it’s logical for an author to seek a particular type of audience. Their writing style helps readers understand who the text is aimed to. As I review Eggleston’s A First Book in American History, it is understandable that the work is directed towards a younger audience as he have clarified it, in his preface, “The …show more content…
Among these five documents, each one display and carries a writing style, more are less similar to one another. Each reveal historical events, however, expresses differently because they entrust that some facts are more significant above the others. Since Eggleston’s book is directed to children, it was wise of him included the early life of Columbus, showing realistic struggles involving rejection before reaching his goal. But later, after his big discovers, the author mentions encountering of some sort “misfortunes”, leading to his big fall, yet, still, believing him to be an admirable “hero”. Nevertheless, the other four authors were utterly blunt about what the events were about, where readers liked it or