Writing style

Tim O’Brien’s writing style represents his own unique approach to writing, where he starts with a short sentence, then levitates towards long run-on sentences, before going back to short sentences. He repeats this form of writing several times throughout the passage. O’Brien might be using this technique as a way to evoke, emphasize, and breakup the different settings, ideas, and thoughts he had at the moment. Firstly, he began by explaining the setting, adding a comma, and then relaying his…

Personal Style and Growth What I want to learn from Creative Writing is to be more imaginative in my writing, learn different ways to complete assignment, and get better in my writing ability. I want to get more confident in my writing and work on my weakness like grammar, spelling, and coming up with ideas then turning them into stories. This class has helped challenge me to better my writing capability. My first writing assessment was a memoir. I choose to write about my brother playing…

Paper 1 For this assignment, I decided to choose the two writing genres: essay writing and instant messaging (such as Facebook and MSN when that was still around). I chose these two types of writing as they are what I have spent almost all my time writing. However, they are so different that they are close to being opposites of one another. There are many reasons for these distinct differences, one being the interest in the act of actually writing the piece, another is the atmosphere the piece…

Writing Etiquette While reading the letters written by Abigail and John Adams, I noticed that they were written differently than if someone from today’s society had written them. They were written well, clearly thought out and pleasantly worded. There may have been an occasional misspelled word; however, despite that, it is obvious that both Adams were highly intelligent. It is a shame that people today do not give the same careful attention to their written communications. Writing properly…

my writing style that come to mind have to do with using active voice and passive voice. I find myself reading sentences over and over rechecking and rewording to make sure I am using the correct context. Most of the writing I do seems to be in the passive voice. However, there are time that the active voice should be used and can be more effective to the audience or recipients’. In many cases by just putting the subject first makes the sentence in active voice. Strengths of my writing,…

one in college comp, I had confidence in my writing. I attended comp last semester, and developed adequate writing skills for the class. However, as the teacher handed my essay back, I gasped at the red marks all over the page. I acquired a fourteen out of thirty on my first memoir! My confidence level nose-dived, and I experienced a wave of depression. The unfortunate grade evoked a feeling of anger towards myself. I believed I had improved my writing skills tenfold since last semester, but I…

my own writing style and how it can be perfected. There’s many new techniques and little tweaks that have and will help me with my writing. My papers from the beginning of the year will prove that I have fixed many major and minor problems in my assignments and they will stick with me for as long as I am able to write. I have learned many things about my writing style that I had not noticed before this class. For instance, I realized how much I used the word “you” or “we” in my writing…

numerous amounts of resilient writing tactics from English 110 here at Cal Poly Pomona, I have molded myself into a far more suburb writer than in the beginning of the quarter. Certain assignments were tasked upon me which required me to improve and successfully learn the seven learning outcomes. Below, are examples of how I have not only improved, but thrived throughout this quarter and everything that it entailed. When push comes to shove, brainstorming and pre-writing can be considered one…

because of the numerous letters they have received from fans asking about writing advice. This guidebook goes in depth of the writing process and advises how to improve writing in a friendly and easy-to-comprehend format for young writers. It offers many tips and covers many concepts such as how to find a voice, develop characters and plot, make revisions, and overcome writer's block. In addition, the book has several writing prompts in every chapter to motivate writers to use their creative…

When an author tells a story, they use writing styles to bring out the theme and make the story alive. The writing styles Mark Twain uses are sentence structure, pace, vocabulary, figures of speech, dialogue, tone and paragraph structure. He uses these writing styles in the successful short stories “Luck” and “A Trial. Mark Twain, however did not use these writing styles specifically to support the theme. He used the writing styles the same way in each story regardless of the theme. Sentence…