The first thing I ever wrote for Noah Gordon’s class was a description of a rather mundane object: the fringe around a white-board. Upon looking back at it, I immediately saw how much my writing has matured and changed over the past year of class. In terms of vocabulary, literary phrasing and structure (flow), and grammar; I am leaps and bonds ahead of how I wrote in the earlier part of the year. This being said, I think I have managed to keep my personal flavors in the writing. Here’s an excerpt from the first piece of writing I did, that I believe proves this point pretty well: “Let’s start with a color. White. Not a pristine snow white, no. An off-white paint color. A stained white-board white. A white that it would have after being written
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At the beginning of the year, I didn’t really have a method of writing. I would plot the words on the page, words that sounded cool when put next to each other… and hope for the best. If I was given an assignment, I wouldn’t make an outline or anything. Instead, I would start rambling on the topic, writing whatever popped into my head. This lead me to discover a large problem of mine when writing my Frankenstein essay: I often strayed off the thesis. In the process of writing the 1984 essay, I tried to correct those faults. I used techniques we had learned through the year such as categorizing evidence in terms of theme, or ordering one’s arguments so that they are more effective in convincing the reader. In “Seizing Power,” I carefully analyzed pieces of the text, and using socratic methods, attempted to make a convincing argument.
In writing this essay, I discovered a multitude of new ideas about characters and themes. I dug deeper into characters than I had before. In this case, Winston was the real focus of my study. I looked in depth at the way he lost power as he fell in love, losing his ability to control his emotions (and his facial
At the beginning of the year, I didn’t really have a method of writing. I would plot the words on the page, words that sounded cool when put next to each other… and hope for the best. If I was given an assignment, I wouldn’t make an outline or anything. Instead, I would start rambling on the topic, writing whatever popped into my head. This lead me to discover a large problem of mine when writing my Frankenstein essay: I often strayed off the thesis. In the process of writing the 1984 essay, I tried to correct those faults. I used techniques we had learned through the year such as categorizing evidence in terms of theme, or ordering one’s arguments so that they are more effective in convincing the reader. In “Seizing Power,” I carefully analyzed pieces of the text, and using socratic methods, attempted to make a convincing argument.
In writing this essay, I discovered a multitude of new ideas about characters and themes. I dug deeper into characters than I had before. In this case, Winston was the real focus of my study. I looked in depth at the way he lost power as he fell in love, losing his ability to control his emotions (and his facial