Writing style

Essay 2: Writing With Style Fewer words. Two word sentences. Trimble’s lessons on how to become a writer strikes at the fundamentals of how writing has been traditionally taught. As a student, learning how to write usually involves the tedious process of how to best shape your thoughts into the rigid structure of teacher expectation. At times, this best resembles trying to fit an elephant into a refrigerator. A student’s mind is noisy and cluttered, but expansive; however, teaching to memorize…

Luckily for me I was taught writing instruction by the world-renowned, William Shakespeare. Well, maybe not, although I did have teachers who were up to par on a Shakespeare level. My high school teachers were able to effectively teach their students to be prepared for writing in college. The writing instruction had started off simple and progressed throughout my high school career. The writing instruction received excelled during senior year, taught by Mrs. Billy Allison, and she made college…

Reading: I have only used Purdue OWL as an APA or MLA writing guide. I did not realize it was also a resource to improve on one’s writing technique. Learning to write paragraphs using the PREP Method and completing assignments that have a word limit, has increased my awareness of my tendency to write very wordy paragraphs. Purdue OWL has a section specifically related to writing with conciseness. Under “Conciseness,” Purdue OWL writes, “Like bad employees, words that don't accomplish enough…

have spent in the educational system I have used various writing styles in my literature. These different styles have helped me to find out the type of person I am. When I first started writing, I would write in a style of just writing down words to form a story that had no true meaning. I maintained this form of writing until one of my middle school teachers had a talk with me about my form of writing. They spoke to me on how my style of writing wouldn’t help me moving forward, because other…

As I look back to the writing I have done the past couple of years the first things I think of are rushed deadlines, automated essay prompts and constant cramming. Throughout my high school years the focus of writing assignments shifted from a method of self expression to a type of formula needed to pass many of the Advanced Placement exams. Although I did enjoy the freedom writing gave in my younger years when I was still given an opportunity to voice my thoughts and opinions, I have not grown…

selection, sentence structure and conformation to writing codes and styles should reflect the nature of the format. Blunt and verbose statements should be avoided (Hulbert 2-3). Critically, a liberal use of the active voice is imperative…

On my first day of writing class, I had numerous thoughts going through my head. I was afraid if my weakness will make me fall behind in class or my strengths was not good enough to get me a good grade. Yet the numerous assignments given to me over the quarter help me become a better writer. I think the JITT Posts, Bi-Weekly Refection and The Memoir were the main assignments that had the most important impact on me to become a better writer. When coming to college, I had many opportunities to…

Peter Elbow and Stephen King could not be more different types of writers. One is known for his horror and sci-fi writing style, and one is a professor of english at a highly accredited school, but differences aside, both Peter and Stephen make very good points about their preferred type of writing styles, and it’s hard to conclude whether Elbows method of freewriting or Kings method of just telling the story is a better way to write. Peter Elbow’s main objective in his work of literature, was…

The APA style of writing was developed to help both psychologists and business associated people to come together and format a way to understand each others writings. This style of writing helps the associates to have clear cut procedures to publish their materials. It gives the associates guidelines to publish by and has the structured elements such as punctuation, abbreviations, statistics, and numbers which allow the group of associates reading it to clearly understand how it is being…

Analyzing The Complete Guide to Fiction Writing The idea of telling a story or writing a book has probably cross the mind of everyone at some point in life. For those people wanting to take that idea furthur than just a fleeing thought, should read The Complete Guide to Fiction Writing by Barnaby Conrad. This book contains enough information for beginning writers to start writing the stories that are within them and learn to avoid the major mistakes most amateurs make. Barnaby Conrad was…