Writing Style/Technique Essay

During this class there were many different resources and strategies that was introduced that was helpful to me. The grades that was observed were 4th grade, 6th grade, and 8th grade. Each and every strategies and resources in all the different grades will be useful to me in my future classroom. There was also students in the classroom that had learning disabilities and I was able to see some of the accommodations and strategies that were used for them. During the observation watching the…

to use an APA style, they must know how to incorporate source material into a written publication and know how to format in-text citations and references. A person that incorrectly cites material or just disregards citations altogether can be held accountable for plagiarism. I will discuss how to incorporate outside material into a written publication, why proper format is so important, and the consequences of improper format. Using APA style, there are three different techniques that can be…

things I learned in Technical Writing class. Overview: I feel the purpose of technical writing focuses on the specific details of writing resumes, technical instructions, memos and accurate reports. This includes how to format and layout these documents. It is very important in the business field to be able to correctly prepare these documents. I need the ability to prepare written communication, proofread, editing, documentation formatting, and using different style guides in my career.…

Harris goes more into the different techniques of “tackling down” information, he is basically saying that those techniques are there for us to understand the structural format of writing and being a writer is mainly about. It adds to coates point of, to become a writer there are steps, ways and even struggles that you have to pass through and even that it takes sometime to gather everything in your control to better and improve yourself and your skills in writing. In the other hand, Gee is more…

The Visit is primarily a work of social and personal criticism, and thus Dürrenmatt employs both elements of comedy and tragedy within his play in order to highlight the human flaws of greed and vengeance as they interfere with justice and freedom. The literary devices that he employs serve both as a vehicle for tragedy as well as comedy-- Dürrenmatt has masterfully interwoven these two opposites so that they two play off of each other in a way that skillfully guides the audience to their own…

In Grendel; literary techniques help Gardener to establish the idea of an already corrupt mind, collapsing around the edges. As the novel progresses the energy created intensifies and allures the audience. In John Gardeners Grendel; kennings, existentialism and metaphor are used to highlight Grendle’s isolation and clearly establish a central idea that isolating one’s self leads to self-destruction. Notably, signs of isolationism in Grendel are evident from the very beginning with kennings to…

Macbeth, a story written by Shakespeare, concludes a story in which has content that is shown effectively and expressed in a couple different ways. The films that were shown such as Roman Polanski, Philip Casson and Rupert Goold had their own techniques of interpreting Macbeth. In this instance, for Act 1 Scene 1 when looking at the witches, all three film clips are focused on the shots to emphasize the witches. For Act 2 Scene 2 when the clips are showing the post murder meeting of Macbeth and…

In Nightcrawler there are a few aspects of surveillance portrayed but they are very subtle. The first one is the use of diegetic sound that comes from the police scanner. Throughout the semester multiple films of the surveillance genre were viewed and many of them introduced a “bug” that was used to listen in on different characters of the film without them knowing. As Lou listens to the police scanner it is relatively the same as “bug”, except the police scanner only listens to police…

Martin Luther King Jr. (M.L.K) was a social activist that played a key role in American history, for he fought for equality within every human being; analogously, M.L.K was inspired by nonviolence advocates. In M.L.K speech entitled “Speech in Memphis, 1968” and Bill Clinton’s “Remark to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ in Memphis,” both speeches use rhetorical devices in order to persuade their audience. M.L.K’s speech discusses his own perception of how different the whole…

After spending nearly 24 hours searching for his missing daughter, Jerry Hobbs was arrested and interrogated for an additional 20 hours, while processing the grief associated with learning his daughter and her friend had been brutally raped and murdered. After hours of endless interrogation, coupled with harsh police interrogation tactics that are standard in American law enforcement, Hobbs confessed to the rapes and murder, crimes he didn’t commit, and then proceeded to the next two years in…