Reflective Analysis Of My Writing

To analyze my writing and compare and contrast effectively I chose three texts that are all written with a persuasive intent. The three texts that I will be using for my analysis include a letter to my oldest sister, a quote that I re-wrote to convince myself to live life more fully and an e-mail to a client, for a company in which I hold employment . In this paper, I will analyze how my writing changed in terms of formality depending on who my audience was; while I still had the intent of persuading the reader accomplish a task. I will also analyze the way my voice changed though the separate texts and how I adapted to my audience. The letter to my sister was written out of frustration as she had left home to stay with her disagreeable …show more content…
While the level of seriousness did not vary much the level of abstract communication did. When I was writing to my sister, I was vague and used quotes from The Alchemist, which is her favorite book, as an appeal to her character. I reminded her of her favorite line from the book "you can find life 's meaning in a simple grain of sand" because I wanted her to come home. I wanted her to realize that she did not need to leave, to find the direction in which her life should go. I wrote to her, using abstract ideas because I wanted to give her the illusion that she was drawing an independent conclusion for herself. When in reality I was using my knowledge of her character to manipulate the idea of coming home. I found myself using the strategy of abstract meaning and knowledge about character to communicate with my sister in order to persuade her to come home through my entire …show more content…
When I wrote to my sister I wanted her to take me seriously. That is why I inserted a few quotes from the philosophical book, The Alchemist. I thought that might serve to establish some form of borrowed credibility. The writing for myself was a bit different because I just wanted to write it out in a form that would make me think. I was writing to myself with the intent of making me question what I meant with that quote at the time that I re-wrote it. What type of life events would make me want to write that one out, why it struck me and why I re-wrote that one, but no others. With the e-mail to a client I wanted them to think I was friendly enough for them to want to call me back but to also take me seriously. I let them know that I would like to set program expectations and review software use. Choosing to say that I would like to set program expectations and review software use, creates more urgency than stating that I would like to see how they have been using the program and talk to them about a few things that I would like to see them do during their participation. The latter is also more confusing than the former and it is too casual. Voice is perhaps the area that I found my writing varied most just because of my separate audiences and how I wanted them to view