For the article “Shitty First Drafts” we read this week, it remained me something about writing. This is a essay written by Anne Lamott, who is the author of six novels, the food reviewer for the magazine, a book reviewer for Mademoiselle, and a regular contributor to Salon.’s .“Mothers Who Think..” She’s busy because of several occupation at the same time, but there's still a question that what made her writing attracted? In this essay we read, there may be the answer.…
As technology advance, so does our way of communicating. In Michaela Cullington’s “Does Texting Affect Writing” Cullington answer the effects of textspeak, a language used in texting that is often composed of abbreviation, acronyms, and emoticon. In her essay, she addresses the concerns, her experimentation, and findings on the effects of textspeak. Using several rhetorical contexts: logos, pathos, and ethos, Cullington puts forth a convincing argument against textspeak impacting formal writing negatively.…
The Real Writer,” for example, Sarah Allen argues that writing is not a gift you are born with and if someone is determined to better their writing they must write without fear. Others such as Lennie Irvine agree, arguing In “What is Academic Writing?,” that there are many myths about writing that make it seem very structural,…
The nonfiction book On Writing Well by William Zinsser is about nothing more than what the title itself implies it to be. The book is divided into four parts: “principles,” “methods,” “forms,” and “attitudes.” The first part is about how to write with simplicity so that the reader will understand by removing unnecessary words and putting the right ones with the right meaning for what is trying to be said. Overall, doing so without having to completely take away the parts that give style to our writing. The second part is about the structure of writing; Zinsser gives helpful information on how writing should begin and how it should end.…
Learning to write When I attended elementary school, part of the curriculum was penmanship. There was a certain segment of instruction dedicated to penmanship rather than writing. We were given large sheets of oat colored paper with three parallel lines widely spaced. The alphabets were used to print and write in cursive using the midpoint, and upper lines for capital letters. The handwriting grades were based on neatness and readability.…
Jones, Dustin Professor Moreno English 1A 4 Oct 2016 Even in an Electronic Era, Reading and Writing Lives On David Crystal’s writings describe the implications on reading and writing from new texting technologies. Crystal’s main points discuss the new texting language, the outcome of texting on literacy, and the innovative possibilities of texting on our language. Dennis Baron’s writing has us think about writing with all of the new innovation and think to ourselves should everybody write or should it be for an elite group only. Baron shows how the different evolutionary steps of writing add density to the question, “Should everybody write?” Crystal agrees and supports Barons idea that abbreviations and shortcuts are not a negative thing and…
How to Write with Style Everyone has his or her own writing style, and some writing styles are considerably more distinct than others; however, anyone’s writing style can and should be improved over time. There really is no one specific or perfect way to write because everyone has different opinions on what is well written and what is poorly written, so it is important to alter one’s style so as to capture the attention of very different audiences. Kurt Vonnegut, an amazingly talented author from the 20th century, wrote an essay entitled “How to Write with Style” which gives excellent techniques on how to better anyone’s writing style. Each of his techniques has an explanation as to why they should be used, and he uses each of them in his essay.…
As Lisa Ede made abundantly clear in “Rethinking Writing”, our modern world is more inundated with writing than ever. As writing steadily gains prominence in the technological age, it also loses any sense of formality. The myriad everyday ways and settings in which we use writing can engender serious obstacles to our generation’s awareness of the value of writing. Awash in a deluge of mundane, quotidian writing, we can easily lose sight of the impactful ways that writing, and the means we choose to deliver it, can affect us.…
The art of writing is a scary process for me. I am not very confident in my writing skills, so I have found a few resources to help me improve. The resources that I have found to be beneficial to me consist of “The Little Seagull Handbook”, Paperrater.com, and “Business English”. First, “The Little Seagull Handbook” has a section to help me come up with a tentative thesis. It guides me through the steps and the questions I should ask myself as I ponder my statement for the main point of my essay.…
Composing practices now are preparing you for your future in writing; applying for jobs, letters of recommendations, research papers. The literacy practices valued are continuously changing as different platforms of text emerge. In the twenty first century…
As an educator I have always used simple sentences and abbreviations as I wrote notes for observation records and planning. Once I began studying with Curtin University, this needed to change to a more formal approach. I was disappointed with the errors in my writing that were assessed by my tutor in the first unit of study. As I believed I did a good effort but as I researched these errors I now understand the mistakes. Websites such as Paper Rater will allow me to analyze my problem areas.…
I feel that writing is a good subject to be familiar and practicing in frequently, it is a necessary tool to communicate properly. Although, if I were to be truthful I’d have to say that I am not the biggest fan of it due to the fact that it bores me and I have trouble figuring out what to say. So I find it hard to enjoy writing because most of the time I am just struggling to concentrate because I don’t have much more to say about a topic. Recently, since I have not been in school for a while, I have found myself forgetting rules to the English language in my everyday speech so I find it to be useful. This has influenced how I feel about writing because the more I write, the more easily I can remember to use these rules in my daily…
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ― Thomas Mann. Writing is a subject that is different for everyone. In my opinion if I could write about a topic I choose and I am passionate about I know my papers would be interesting to read. On the other hand, I when I am given a topic to write about I think it is harder to make the paper interesting and enjoyable to read.…
They argue that there are five key principles that underlie the various critical approaches to teaching basic writers. These principles included assuming all students are capable of learning, engage students in student-centered work, address “higher order” issues alongside “lower-ordered” issues, integrate academic writing and reading instruction, and embrace the conflict between what they already know and what they need to learn (21). Mutnick and Lamos suggest that there are four major basic writer pedagogical approaches that go with theoretical changes since its conception. One of the four approaches is error centered, which is based on Shaughnessy’s theory of the logic of errors. They focus on the student’s errors he/she produces, view Standard Written English as “normative and neutral rather than ideological and culturally biased” and are still used to help students learn grammar conventions (22).…
In the guidebook, Rules of Thumb, the authors, Jay Silverman, Elaine Hughes, and Diana R. Wienbroer, demonstrate how to utilize writing principles. The term guide means referring back to what holds a significant message. As people we forget, so when an issue pops up as we’re writing we have an alternative tool to review. There are four main parts included in this tool guide, which are “The Essentials: Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar”, “How to Create a Paper”, “Managing a Research Paper”, and “Genre”. According to the authors, The Essentials section includes common made mistakes and these rules were placed first because they’re what students stress about most.…