Letter is one the oldest kind of written form addressed to a person or organization. At the beginning of a letter essay, the writer will specifically state the subject that he/she wrote to, but actually the audience can be more than that. For example, James Baldwin’s letter, he wrote to his nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation as the title tell us. But I think he wanted to tell not only to his nephew, but also the younger generation to love their race bestowed on them.
Letter is a personal message so it will be much easier to appeal to pathos than other approaches. The way that writer James delivered his message, the tone he said to his nephew, and the diction he chose to use enhanced the use of pathos. …show more content…
The music essay gets its name from such idea and developed into a new kind of rewriting approach. Literally, mosaic essay creates its piece by breaking down into many small sections. For example, in Gloria Anzaldua’s piece “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, the author concerned many kinds of broader in her experience of leading how to speak Spanish. She decides to break her piece down into a few sections and each section described different topic with a subtitle on the beginning. Even though each section talks about different things, they do not move in a clear linear way when the essay is going forward. Some sections have subtitles following by epigraph or quote, so the author is able to start talking about a new topic that is unnecessary related to the previous one. But the mosaic approach was not fit into every situation. It is good to use for an essay that contains a complex and broad proposition. In order to write a text in a mosaic way, we need to have a bunch of information to support and elaborate. However, the mosaic approach has its limits. If reach section does not have to related to each other, then the connection between each section becomes challenging; If we have a short essay with a specific proposition, it is hard to break it down into sections; if we only look at a specific section, we can not see the big picture until we put all sections