Stewart Pidd: Exploitive Perspective Kook

Stewart Pidd: Exploitive Perspective Kook
In their book, Gary Pollitt and Craig Baker explain the basics of point-of-view: They first describe point-of-view as the manipulation of pronouns to create the writer’s perspective towards a topic. A writer can choose between three point-of-view perspectives: First-person, which is effective for telling a story about oneself, second-person, which focuses on the reader, and third-person, which is commonly used for academic writing. Pollitt and Baker advise writers to avoid second-person perspective with academic writing. Finally, they admonish students to maintain a consistent point-of-view, for doing so will easily separate them from the reckless point-of-view shifting masses (159-167). Stewart Pidd should be able to maintain a consistent third-person point of view. He can easily fix the point-of-view shifts in his report “Ignacio Pistachio: Ludville’s Greatest Explorer.” With a few minor changes, Pidd can shift his opening sentence from the first-person perspective to the third person: “We all know that over three-hundred years ago Ludville’s greatest explorer, Ignacio Pistachio, fell off his ship…” (1). Pidd …show more content…
Pidd misuses the first-person singular pronoun “I,” and the first-person plural pronoun “our.” To fix the point-of-view shift, Pidd can eliminate the first-person pronoun “I” by removing the independent clause, “I wonder.” Pidd must also replace the possessive pronoun “our” with the possessive noun “Ludville’s.” To change the question into a statement, Pidd can give the answer to the question, and replace the question mark with a period. The corrected sentence will read “Ludville’s children should not be taught to idolize such an exploitative