Whirlwind Writing Style Analysis

When things become hectic, most people’s first reaction is usually to avoid whatever is causing distress. What happens when this occurs during the writing stages? What happens when a person has so many ideas to explore, and yet has to somehow cut down? That is what many writers face when attempting to write any type of piece, and it can truly influence whether or not the piece is strong or not. As someone who has many ideas, I often get swept away by them rather than controlling them. This type of style is what I call “Whirlwind Writing”. This style has both benefits and pitfalls: the ability to implement one’s ideas without losing it within the writing itself, but also having to be wary of page limits that unintentionally make the limit itself …show more content…
Without having one’s own voice along with the voices of scholars and outside sources, there is nothing to be proven. The point of many formal essays is to bring your own idea to the table, then either support or disprove that idea with the voices of scholars and people knowledgeable about the subject. Looking at how I integrated the quotes within my essay, I did a decent job at making sure both my view and their views were separate. While I did use the sources to back my claims, it is still obvious that my ideas are within the essay itself. In the Othello and King Lear paragraphs, I use the quotes to bring to light ideas that I thought about and that other people may not have even noticed. For Othello, I thought about how while many people may think that Othello is at a disadvantage because of his skin color, it might actually be quite the advantage for him. I quoted how “Paradoxically, social prejudice against him results in an outcasting of Desdemona which isolates her even more than other wives and places her more completely at her husband’s mercy” (Vanita 343). By bouncing off of this idea, it took my original idea a step further and helped me defend my claim rather than it being baseless. It helped me reach the conclusion that Desdemona is isolated because of the fact that she went against her father and married a man of color, and so this makes it easier for him to have control over her if he wished to. Because of how I phrased this idea (diction), the tone was as formal as needed for an English paper. The use of outside sources and scholars who research Shakespeare for a living also gives the paper some type of legitimacy that a paper without sources would not have been able to