Bell hooks used a variety of strategies and techniques to attract her audience in her book: introduction to teaching and transgress. This paper will focus on the chapter on education as the practice of freedom. The strategies and techniques portrayed in this chapter include drawing readers with the first sentence, strategic formatting, short paragraphs, clear writing and a conversational tone (Hohenshel and Hand, 36).
The chapter starts off with Bell Hook explaining why she was preoccupied by dreams of consecutively away from Oberlin College. This first sentence draws the readers by the choice of words she uses and how she uses them to explain herself. This strategy is experienced in all the paragraphs of this chapter. This attracts her audience …show more content…
This strategy makes the reader to feel like Bell is conversing with him or her while reading. Thus, it erases boredom and enables the reader to easily understand the more complex ideas or explanations she portrays under different situations. An example of a sentence where she applies this this interesting strategy is seen in paragraph six of the chapter. “Attending school, then was sheer joy. I loved being a student. I loved learning” (Bell, 3). She has successfully applied the conversational tone by using the first personal pronoun, which is ‘I’. She brings in the technique of short, clear sentences which makes the reader easily understand her ideas and keep them in mind for a longer time. It reduces confusion and forgetting of ideas and the story line. This strategy thus attracts more readers who manage to read the chapter from the beginning to the …show more content…
This reduces strain while reading, which can cause eye damage. The pages in the chapter are well formatted. This is clearly seen in situations where she has to give detailed information or deeply explain her idea by good use of punctuation marks like brackets. An example is seen in the last paragraph of page nine. “But the work of various thinkers on radical pathology (I use this term to include critical and/or feminist perspectives) has in the recent years truly included a recognition of differences-those determined by class, race, sexual practice, nationality and so on.” Thus, this technique attracts more readers by making the chapter readable (Hohenshel and Hand,
The chapter starts off with Bell Hook explaining why she was preoccupied by dreams of consecutively away from Oberlin College. This first sentence draws the readers by the choice of words she uses and how she uses them to explain herself. This strategy is experienced in all the paragraphs of this chapter. This attracts her audience …show more content…
This strategy makes the reader to feel like Bell is conversing with him or her while reading. Thus, it erases boredom and enables the reader to easily understand the more complex ideas or explanations she portrays under different situations. An example of a sentence where she applies this this interesting strategy is seen in paragraph six of the chapter. “Attending school, then was sheer joy. I loved being a student. I loved learning” (Bell, 3). She has successfully applied the conversational tone by using the first personal pronoun, which is ‘I’. She brings in the technique of short, clear sentences which makes the reader easily understand her ideas and keep them in mind for a longer time. It reduces confusion and forgetting of ideas and the story line. This strategy thus attracts more readers who manage to read the chapter from the beginning to the …show more content…
This reduces strain while reading, which can cause eye damage. The pages in the chapter are well formatted. This is clearly seen in situations where she has to give detailed information or deeply explain her idea by good use of punctuation marks like brackets. An example is seen in the last paragraph of page nine. “But the work of various thinkers on radical pathology (I use this term to include critical and/or feminist perspectives) has in the recent years truly included a recognition of differences-those determined by class, race, sexual practice, nationality and so on.” Thus, this technique attracts more readers by making the chapter readable (Hohenshel and Hand,