Sharp as a Tack, Dumb as a Box of Rocks
Ever since the distinction between the sciences and the arts has been in school, I have two distinctly different ways of writing. My science writing has always been very cut and dry. Full of facts and citations, not a fun read, but an educational read. My science essays and reports were meticulously reviewed, punctuation was scrutinized, vocabulary was emphasized and the facts were double or tripled checked. My literary writing on the other hand was mostly created to be emotion provoking. I didn’t scrutinize over my grammar, I didn’t use elaborate vocabulary, I only care if my work provoked the emotion I was striving for to evoke. This class has brought my writing ability to a new level by bridging some …show more content…
Together, I thought I could finally write a paper that would actually be A worthy. My ability to provoke emotion was exemplified by your comments on my The Things I carry paper, my Literary Walk RR paper and my Prose Poems Reading Response paper. In the Things I Carry paper, I try to evoke empathy from my reader for living a charmed life. I elect to spin having a blessed upbringing into something that is boring and seemingly unwanted. I felt that after writing basically the same paper about my baggage from growing up to try something new and it worked. You confirmed my ability to provoke some kind of emotion, by answering my rhetorical question “am I boring” in the feedback saying I am in fact “far from boring.” In my Literary Walk RR paper’s feedback section you wrote “the compass with set directions definitely puts a sad spin on the desire” to be something different. You said “you aren’t a shadow.” Once again, in this paper I wanted to evoke sadness and compassion for me because I had to take some general education classes. I used the strong images used by Marin Bell to do this. Using his idea of a shadow to portray myself as always being on bottom, never succeeding in these class. You being the great teacher that you are, even offered a bit of relief to me saying “you do get to focus on your science a lot of the
Ever since the distinction between the sciences and the arts has been in school, I have two distinctly different ways of writing. My science writing has always been very cut and dry. Full of facts and citations, not a fun read, but an educational read. My science essays and reports were meticulously reviewed, punctuation was scrutinized, vocabulary was emphasized and the facts were double or tripled checked. My literary writing on the other hand was mostly created to be emotion provoking. I didn’t scrutinize over my grammar, I didn’t use elaborate vocabulary, I only care if my work provoked the emotion I was striving for to evoke. This class has brought my writing ability to a new level by bridging some …show more content…
Together, I thought I could finally write a paper that would actually be A worthy. My ability to provoke emotion was exemplified by your comments on my The Things I carry paper, my Literary Walk RR paper and my Prose Poems Reading Response paper. In the Things I Carry paper, I try to evoke empathy from my reader for living a charmed life. I elect to spin having a blessed upbringing into something that is boring and seemingly unwanted. I felt that after writing basically the same paper about my baggage from growing up to try something new and it worked. You confirmed my ability to provoke some kind of emotion, by answering my rhetorical question “am I boring” in the feedback saying I am in fact “far from boring.” In my Literary Walk RR paper’s feedback section you wrote “the compass with set directions definitely puts a sad spin on the desire” to be something different. You said “you aren’t a shadow.” Once again, in this paper I wanted to evoke sadness and compassion for me because I had to take some general education classes. I used the strong images used by Marin Bell to do this. Using his idea of a shadow to portray myself as always being on bottom, never succeeding in these class. You being the great teacher that you are, even offered a bit of relief to me saying “you do get to focus on your science a lot of the