A writers thoughts are honest ones: many Americans dealing with the emotional toll of this busy society often don’t take time to adhere to their emotional and physical needs. One such woman, Karen Cangialosi, worker at Kaiser Permanente’s Positive Choice Wellness Center in San Diego and leader of a group called “Healing Through the Written Word” through the Creative Arts Therapy program, discusses the inability for people to cope in a positive way and introduces writing as a highly effective healing mechanism through the process of mental, physical, and spiritual restoration. Using professional studies and experimental results, illustrations of those using writing to cope and make sense of their emotions, and successfully employing emotional
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Cangialosis’ use of informal language enables her to reach a particular group or type of people intended. Her audience isn’t necessarily geared towards the professional type that would require a more sophisticated jargon, rather a relaxed, informational language. When the author discusses her personal approach as a group facilitator, she uses a lot of “I” statements and allows for the ability to see her method of procedure during her sessions. “Although, neither the group nor I try to tell people how they might change,” Cangialosi says, but “ we do create an environment in which change is possible (430). The emotional language used is meant to evoke memories of the past and make them appear more beautiful than once thought before. As seen in the paragraph, Writing has the power to heal, Cangialosi claims that writing has this affect; Writing can arouse things of the past and if done correctly can be internally healed in the process. If we can find it in ourselves to write about the past, “ we can link up our emotions…(and) have the power to take control of how those emotions and events affect our lives”(426). The two different languages used to cultivate the response of emotional, mental self-reflection and optimism of writing intended by the author, is introduced subtle and easy, yet bold and informative.
In Karen Cangialosi’s “Healing through the Written Word”, Cangialosi audience of emotional help deprived clientele of people either in need of some kind of solutions or clarifications to the skeptics that are unsure of the capabilities writing has. Through the rhetorical choices used, the points presented are successful and show how the authors writing has evidence that the past can have more than just one affect, rather many, and make the audience reevaluate their idea of the
Cangialosis’ use of informal language enables her to reach a particular group or type of people intended. Her audience isn’t necessarily geared towards the professional type that would require a more sophisticated jargon, rather a relaxed, informational language. When the author discusses her personal approach as a group facilitator, she uses a lot of “I” statements and allows for the ability to see her method of procedure during her sessions. “Although, neither the group nor I try to tell people how they might change,” Cangialosi says, but “ we do create an environment in which change is possible (430). The emotional language used is meant to evoke memories of the past and make them appear more beautiful than once thought before. As seen in the paragraph, Writing has the power to heal, Cangialosi claims that writing has this affect; Writing can arouse things of the past and if done correctly can be internally healed in the process. If we can find it in ourselves to write about the past, “ we can link up our emotions…(and) have the power to take control of how those emotions and events affect our lives”(426). The two different languages used to cultivate the response of emotional, mental self-reflection and optimism of writing intended by the author, is introduced subtle and easy, yet bold and informative.
In Karen Cangialosi’s “Healing through the Written Word”, Cangialosi audience of emotional help deprived clientele of people either in need of some kind of solutions or clarifications to the skeptics that are unsure of the capabilities writing has. Through the rhetorical choices used, the points presented are successful and show how the authors writing has evidence that the past can have more than just one affect, rather many, and make the audience reevaluate their idea of the