When I look back at my writing experiences my memories are full of sweaty palms and anxiety attacks. Writing has never been a strong suit, I remember in fourth grade having to write a book, hand written with illustrations, my nightmare. In college my professor told me that my writing was so bad I would make a terrible teacher. Reading is a little more enjoyable than writing, I like reading books before I see the film version of the story. I am a mother now and I do not want my son to face the…
Peru among other destinations.The selection we read for class today is an excerpt from his book “The Animated Alphabet”, published in 1997. Demeude begins the chapter with a history of alphabetic writing and then of decorated letters, more specifically, the decorated initial. He deals with the picture/writing dichotomy(?) Elkins writes about by quoting Victor Hugo “All letters were once signs and all signs were once pictures” proposing, perhaps that within the family of gramma, Elkin’s…
mind on how creative writing came to be or ever occurred how one sculpture came to be? Well it began that ancient cultures, such as Stone Age had no way in communicating, but they became creative, they started drawing on walls to tell us stories or when the ancient Egyptian used symbolize to tell laws. As ancient societies lost ways to communicate they found other ways such as telling stories and used documents to tell us what happened as to result they used, creative writing/symbolize,…
creative ways to prolong my stories. I am grateful to my parents for cheering me on in this way. I believe God has given me the gift of storytelling. Although I have written off and on over the years, I have been more committed to writing in the last year. I believe writing Christian fiction is the best way to tell the stories God has laid on my heart. While I pray God would use these stories to reach the unsaved, I believe my primary audience is the young adult Christian reader. I desire to…
Writing is the visual counterpart of speech. While speech can be forgotten and hard to keep track of, writing is the opposite. Once written it remains despite memory or passage of time. Writing may have come to be because priests and clergy in ancient Mesopotamia needed ways to record and keep track of things. They used pictographic drawings on tablets along with very simple tallies in the form of the ten fingers of the human hand. The questions Mesopotamians needed answers to are listed in the…
papers. I have never enjoyed or found writing the bit interesting. Ever. I don’t know what it is about writing that I honestly just really do not enjoy. I think it may have something to do with how much you actually have to think and compose. I have done well in courses like Mathematics solely because you put an input, and automatically have an output. Also, with whatever your answer may be, you can go back and check to see if it is correct or wrong. In writing there is not much of an right or…
class is a requirement for all those seeking a degree. Not only did I learn how to think of subjects and topics more objectively, but I learned a multitude of different modes and strategies I can employ in my writing. Before taking this class, I had most only…
for more complex means of engaging with the world. It is a unique attribute of humans that we develop language as a way of communicating. The need for language is emotional, social and cultural. A child negotiates these needs through speaking and writing, listening and reading. Language is initially transmitted orally and with body language. As communication demands become more complex and abstract, language can be seen in written form. Both spoken and written language develops around a standard…
Growing up I have always enjoyed writing, I view writing as the most effective way to tell your true feeling, because sometimes telling how you feel to someone that person can rebut or cut in to what you saying. Writing makes what you want to say come across exactly how you mean it and how you want it to come across In my current stage in life I do not like writing in any form not even texting. When I think about writing or have to do a writing assignment I get poignant memories and it just…
class discussions, but demonstrates her understanding of the classroom dialogue interactions and reading assignments through her written text. Initially, Amanda’s response to my inquiry about how she feels about writing conveys the typical adolescent attitude when she says “writing is boring because of the actual tedious aspect of it.” I asked her why she thought it was tedious and she explained that it takes longer to write things out and it hurts her hand. She said she would much rather…