Feminist writers

page. I stop my hand and stare at the page. Nope! I rip the paper out of my shrinking notebook, crumple it up, and throw it in the general direction of my overflowing trash bin. I glare at the blank sheet staring back at me. “So, how’s my favorite writer today?” says Jasper as he throws his body down into my computer chair. It slides across the wooden floor with ease and collides with my writing desk, making me turn and cast a snarl his way. Jasper’s warm laugh fills the stale air, “Writer’s…

Writing an article, a book chapter, or any sort of literature can almost be comparable to a science. Authors must write in such a way so that the reader can understand the content and be persuaded by it. As such, writers often tailor their arguments and supports based on what kind of audience they are trying to reach. Bruns and Highfield, trying to target the expert audience, use a different method than Steele, who is addressing the non-expert audience. Although they are both writing on the same…

As for any writer knowing your strengths is very important. Your strengths can really help you stick out of the crowd and have the reader wanting more. Being aware of your flaws can improve the quality of your paper. One way to identify your strengths is by keeping a journal and writing frequently. Some of my strengths as a writer is I can visualize and give good details. I’ve notice from over the semester is I have made wonderful progress and I care more about what I write, I put more…

Throughout this unit my identity as a writer and my confidence in my writing has continued to develop and improve. From the nerves I felt in regards to writing my first journal entry on the Loan and Muir quote about being a practicing writer, to the latest entry on a current news story I feel as though my writing has vastly improved, not only in its context, but also in my approach. One of the most influential pieces I read on writing came from the communications toolkit. Grellier and Goerke…

Conversation,” begins by asking the reader to think of things that they do well, pointing out once someone masters that skill, it becomes second nature and doesn’t require conscious effort to complete that that task. The writers then compare that principle to writing, claiming that writers have an arsenal of tricks that they pull from on a regular basis. Within this chapter, there is a huge emphasis on using one’s own writing to respond to others. Writing should be a conversation. Without this…

Robert Browning, the author of Pied Piper of Hamelin, has written many literary works that have a lasting affect on those who read them. Browning was born May 7, 1812 in a suburb of London. One of Browning’s most famous works, Pied Piper of Hamelin was written near the end of Browning’s career, but was the single piece of literature that made him widely famous. Robert Browning, the author of Pied Piper of Hamelin, not only wrote many famous pieces of literature, but he is also considered an…

If you are a professional in any market, you need to be writing more. Not just any kind of writing, I am talking about well organized, informative content writing. I am talking about the type of writing that takes some time and preparation to create and it needs to be interesting and engaging. Are you asking yourself, why should I be writing when there are so many article out there I can forward and share? Well, you came to the right place. Let me tell you why. The first thing writing offers…

The book “They say, I say” written by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provides a useful method of teaching academic writing. Each chapter has different contents like chapter two is the Art of Summarizing, chapter three is the Art of Quoting and chapter six is Planting a Naysayer in Your Tex Every chapter has a unique understanding and the specific way to teach that how to use correctly. All of these learning processes in this book will make your personal writing skills inventory shine.…

should strive to master these skills to the best of their ability. Out of the three techniques, I would have to concede that writing is by far my weakest. However, the eight weeks I have spent in Writing 101 have truly helped me to become a better writer. Over the course of those eight weeks my writing skills, that had been suffering from years of atrophy, were challenged; the biggest challenge of all being the research paper I did on the use of the atomic bomb. The amount of research required,…

Throughout the year in Honors Freshmen Literature Composition, I have grown as a writer through fine tuning my strengths, acknowledging my weaknesses, and assessing my growth as a writer. I have improved my use of sensory detail, vocabulary, and word choice and set reading and writing goals for next year. My most prominent writing strength that I have improved during this year is my use of sensory detail. Throughout my recent writings, there is evidence of my expansion of sensory detail through…