...Communication – writers to readers In order for writers to communicate with their readers, they use different language in a way that links to their specific audience. For example, a news journalist will use different language to what a beauty magazine journalist will use. Using different language can affect many different aspects, such as creating a relationship and influencing their readers. The writer must also adapt his/her style, tone and clarity to the reading audience to ensure they communicate well. One way language is used to affect the audience, is the formality of it. The formality of language should match the formality of the situation and the relationship between the writer and reader. For example, when someone’s writing an email to a friend, it will be rather informal. Email tends to be written less formally, often with sentence fragments, poor punctuation, and with lots of abbreviations. A good example of formal pieces of writing would be gossip or music articles. Although the subject matter wouldn’t be too serious or too important, the writing still has to have a professional tone to it, to make sure every reader understands the writing and will want to carry on buying the magazine, so, the writer will make the article formal. Newspaper articles can be seen as formal or very formal, depending on the subject, but all in all, it’s the news and it has to be written in a highly professional and clear way. A letter or a CV/Covering Letter can be a good example of...
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...Collin’s poem, “You, Reader,” is a humor-filled narrative that catches the reader’s attention and illustrates how two strangers are interlaced with one another all while showing how idle time can be used productively. While reading the poem, it can also be noted that time and what you choose to do with it is a constant theme. The persona in this poem, who happens to be the speaker, expresses how he is linked to the reader. The main link between the reader and the author is the poem itself in its literal sense. Grabbing the Reader’s Attention The poem begins with an attention-grabbing dramatic monologue; “I wonder how you are going to feel when you find out that I wrote this instead if you” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 12.1). This very first line comes off as arrogant and cocky, in result creating dramatic tension between the speaker and the reader. The persona grabs the reader’s attention by using detailed imagery about the particular day that he sat down to write the poem. The narrator paints a picture by describing the environment that he was in while writing the poem. He remembers to, “mention with a pen the rain soaked windows, the ivy-wallpaper” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 12.1). The scenery in this line creates a miserable pathetic tone for the reader. One begins to ask oneself, what did I do with my free time? Was I being productive like the writer of this poem? The rain symbolizes teardrops due to wasted time. Maybe the reader was not so productive...
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...Purpose: The purpose of commentary is not simply to report things but to give readers a way to make sense of them. A commentary will help you write critically about a topic and will help you analyze this topic within a larger societal context. Audience: Your audience for this paper should be one who has a stake in the topic. For example, if you are discussing your understanding of a topic like ISTEP testing, your audience could be administrators. Genre: For this paper, your genre is in the form of a commentary. Stance: Your stance should be formal in that you are writing to an academic audience who will be making meaning of your topic. However, you may use the pronoun “I” to discuss your position. Media/Design: This paper should be typed and take the form of an essay: 4-6 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman, with title page. • Give readers something to react to, think about or use to make sense of topic. • You will not use an objective tone or take a neutral stance; you have a perspective. • You are attempting to analyze and explain what is going on around you. • You are asking your readers to consider one possible way of making sense of what has happened in the past and what is going on in the present. • Your readers want a satisfying account of our shared experience and to find patterns of meaning that can make the world make more sense. • Approach your readers as co-thinkers, you are asking them to look at the world from your perspective...
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...appropriately titled “Does Media Violence Lead To The Real Thing”, the writers of this article tackled the subject matter generally. They did not go into great details on how or if media violence actually causes people to commit real life violence. They only mentioned quotes from people who are aware of this issue and studies done by researchers. Even when they mentioned the studies they just stated the main points. What types of readers were the writers trying to attract with this article? It is no secret that the New York Times is read everywhere around the world and people of different knowledge on the subject can access the article at any time. However, in my opinion, this article was intended for people with limited knowledge of media violence and its effect on people and who only know about the subject generally. The people targeted are not professionals in the subject but they just have a curiosity on the topic. The role of the writer is to both inform the readers on the subject of media violence and its correlation with real violence and at the same time to persuade and convince them on an issue regarding this topic. For example, the writers were informing the readers on the various studies that took place to show the relationship between media violence and real violence. The writers also tried to persuade and convince the readers when they stated how while there is enough evidence that shows the relationship between media violence and...
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...February 1, 2016 C Lit 251: Food in Comics Mid-Term Scene Analysis Mid-Term Scene Analysis The scene that I am going to analyze is the one of page 28 of Oishinbo a la carte: Japanese Cuisine, where Yuzan reacts to hearing his son and rival, Shiro, is responsible for the remarkable dish of Dashi. When initially glancing at this page and its pictures, the reader is able to make a prediction about what the scene might be about. The first thing I saw was the scowling face of Yuzan and the powerful streaks coming from behind his head. This panel is placed almost exactly in the middle of the page and takes up quite a bit of space. I think the reason for this is because it’s important to express to the reader how angry, mean and shocked Yuzan is when he finds out his son cooked the Dashi dish. The top tier consists of two panels, one rounded edge word balloon and two jagged edged word balloons. Since we are reading, not hearing, the conversation, it is a little hard to understand how things are being stated (i.e. tone, pitch, or loudness). I believe the artist makes up for this through the characteristics of word balloons. Simply based on what is said in each word balloon, I have come to the conclusion that if the word balloon has a jagged edge, then it represents a more powerful, angry or important description. If the word balloon has a smooth or rounded edge to it, then the voice is most likely softer, less important or a conversation happening in the background of the scene....
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...Bryant and Edgar Allen Poe are two examples of romantic writers. Though Poe fits the mold of a romantic writer it is obvious that his writings do not mirror those of Bryant or many other known romantic authors. His works share a uniqueness that is not found amongst the other writers, it is this uniqueness that separates Poe’s works from the rest. Bryant’s poem “Thanatopsis” is a good example of romantic literature. This work compared to Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” will show that characteristics of Poe’s work that, both, make him a romantic writer and separate him from other romantic writers. “Thanatopsis”, by William Cullen Bryant, is a very romantic poem about the relationship between man and nature. Bryant’s purpose for this poem is to spread his belief that at the last hours of life man is joined with the Earth and when that last hour is over man will join all those who have passed before him. From the first two lines of the poem it is obvious that this poem is romantic in nature. “To him who in the love of Nature holds – Communion with her visible forms,” (470). Bryant personifies nature in this poem by referring to it as a “she”. He does this to establish a common thread between the reader and Earth. It is easier for someone, reading Bryant’s work, to begin believing his ideas about nature if “Nature” is referred to as a human being. Along with Bryant’s approach to the reader his description of the connection between man and nature is also very romantic. “Go forth under...
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...Introduction to English literature Love is a human emotion the majority of us have experienced, Will experience or yearn to experience throughout ones life. The relationships between people have massive effects on individuals and it brings with it so many other emotions such as happiness, pain, humour, guilt, hate, jealousy and so many more. This assignment will discuss how the poems “Ballad” which is a traditional poem with an unknown author “The Sick Equation” by Brian Patten and the Short story Brackley and the Bed” by Sam Selvon, depict love and relationships the effect the writer has on the audience and also how the texts reflect social issues. In the traditional style poem “Ballad” the writer uses short regular rhyming verses to tell the story of a young maid who falls in love with a shepherd. The writer portrays the maid as the Protagonist and the victim of a love crime from early on in the poem for example. “ He stole away my liberty, when my poor heart was strange to men. He came and smiled and stole it then.” (Lines 2 – 4) The writer describes the antagonist Shepherd as “faithless” and a “rogue” who seemingly promised the young innocent maid the world but in return took her virginity, impregnated her then left her in a depressed suicidal state. “He promised beds as fine as silk, and sheets for love as white as milk. But he when won my heart astray let me to want a bed of clay.” (Lines 21 -24) The writer’s use of contrasts in this poem is very effective...
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...THE ELEMENTARY OF A PROPOSAL 1. Introduction The introduction is the part of the paper that provides readers with the background information for the research reported in the paper. Its purpose is to establish a framework for the research, so that readers can understand how it is related to other research. In an introduction, the writer should create reader interest in the topic, lay the board foundation for the problem that leads to the study, place the study within the larger context of the scholarly literature, and reach out to a specific audience. 2. Statement of the Problem State the problem in terms intelligible to someone who is generally sophisticated but who is relatively uninformed in the area of your investigation. A problem statement should be presented within a context, and that context should be provided and briefly explained, including a discussion of the conceptual or theoretical framework in which it is embedded. Clearly and succinctly identify and explain the theoretical framework that guides your study. This is of major importance in nearly all proposals and requires careful attention. 3. Purpose of the Study The purpose statement should provide a specific and accurate synopsis of the overall purpose of the study. If the purpose is not clear to the writer, it cannot be clear to the reader. Briefly define and delimit the specific area of the research. Foreshadow the hypotheses to be tested or the questions to be raised, as...
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...brains of adolescents provides insight into how easily psychosis can be triggered when teenagers use drugs. The bold title and self-explanatory title picture immediately catch the eye: “THINK – THE TEEN BRAIN, DRUGS AND PSYCHOSIS” and is designed to make the reader pay attention, almost as if to say “Stop what you are doing and pay attention!” and is designed to provoke an interest with the reader with regards to the relationship between adolescent brains, drugs and psychosis – especially if that reader is a parent of a teenager/young adult. The stereotype of “Young people love to experiment” that the writer used in the lead of the article is used to build up to the probability of “disastrous effects” (“can have disastrous effects”). The lead of this article also creates a degree of certainty with the reader by stating “With the help of Dr.Lize Weich, psychiatrist at Stellenbosch University” – here the reader receives a certain level of assurance that the information that follows in the main body of the article is verified/endorsed/checked by a professional psychiatrist who is based at a professional institution. The easy to read and understand information contained in the main body is in a serious tone and makes the reader realize that this is a reality in everyday life. The main message of the article is well supported by the information tables provided on page two, which stand out because of the bold headings and the colours used. The information provided in the first table...
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...Johnson 11/PELA/026 INTRODUCTION Modernist literature is the literary expression of the tendencies of Modernism, especially High modernism. Modernistic art and literature normally revolved around the idea of individualism, mistrust of institutions mainly government and religion, and the disbelief of any absolute truths. Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1900 and the middle 1920s. Modernist literature addressed to aesthetic problems and can be viewed largely in terms of its formal, stylistic and semantic movement away from Romanticism, examining subject matter that is traditionally mundane. It often features a marked pessimism, a clear rejection of the optimism apparent in Victorian literature. It attempted to move from the bonds of Realist literature and to introduce concepts such as disjointed timelines. Modernism as a literary movement is seen, in large part, as a reaction to the emergence of city life as a central force in society. Furthermore, an early attention to the object as freestanding became in later Modernism a preoccupation with form. Modernist writers were more acutely conscious of the objectivity of their surroundings. The most prominent modernist authors are: T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Gertrude Stein, Mikhail Bulgakov, MarcelProust, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, Katherine Anne Porter, Rainer Maria Rilke, F.Scott...
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...UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS FACULDADE DE LETRAS COMTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING PROF. DR. SANDRA ALMEIDA ANA PAULA RAPOSO Women we know: a biographical critical analysis on Unless by Carol Shields Belo Horizonte 2013 Sumário Introduction 3 Men and Women 4 Writers and Readers 7 Goodness 9 Mothers and Children 10 Referências 13 Women we know: a biographical critical analysis on Unless by Carol Shields Introduction Unless is the last novel written by Carol Shields, before she passed away of breast cancer in 2003. The novel is structured in a first person narrative; the narrator is Reta Winters, a 44-year old writer and translator. Throughout the narrative, the reader follows a linear chain of thoughts by Reta on the central theme of the novel, which is her quest to find out why her daughter Norah decided to drop out of university and live on the street with a sign on her chest written "Goodness". The essay will be developed through research in primary sources – interviews – in order to analyze Carol Shield’s work using mostly, but not only, her own concepts and reflections on Literature, writing and being a writer, and composition process of Unless. Many scholars have made researches on the novel, especially about language resources, metafiction and gender issues. The most cited work is Nora Foster Stovel’s ““Because she is a woman”: Myth and Metafiction in Carol Shield’s Unless”. By investigating her compositional...
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...There are many similarities and differences between writing skills in the book Exploring Language. By examining some of the authors in the book, Linda Flowers and Anne Lamott are the authors that connected best with improving my writing skills. Anne Lamott a graduate from Drew School, tells all her new students on the first day of a workshop that good writing is about telling the truth. Telling the truth in an interesting way is not as easy as it seems. Most lose faith. Their sense of self and story shatters in crumbles to the ground. Commonly her students will show up for the first day of the workshop looking like bright ducklings who will follow her anywhere, but by the time the second class rolls around, they look at her as if the relationship is definitely off (Lamott 95). Lamott tips on writing what is real will help me stay focused on writing about my own true stories, because the work won’t have be made up. You don’t have to keep digging and digging trying to make your fake story real, real stories sometimes may sound fake but they real and more interesting then your fake stories. My senior year of high school my English Teacher gave the class a writing assignment to write about a true story in your life. I wanted my story to sound the best, so I made my story up. The story was about a ghost encounter in Colorado, it...
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... Consumer Encounters Consumer Encounters The product and service quality are tested at each encounter, so for this reason managers have to be prepared for each possible one. The Unique Experiences of a Navy Wife is a book directed towards two groups (1) North American females in the ages between 18 to 25 years and (2) North American males in the ages between 25 to 43. To be successful during the purchasing process it is important to reach consumers’ expectations and being prepared for each encounter. Consumer Expectations Beliefs about service’s performance or product’s attributes at some time in the future are the definition of consumer expectations; they are also a key determinant of satisfaction (Rust, Inman & Zahorik, 1999). Purchasers form expectations for many foundations, such as word of mouth, advertising and past experiences. These expectations are compared with the performance of the service or product and if it is below the purchaser expectation, he or she will be disappointed. However, if it meets or exceeds expectations the consumer will look forward to use the same provider again and recommend it (Kotler & Keller, 2007). Expectations of readers and purchasers can be found by a consumer expectation survey administrated to a sample of the selected target. Nevertheless, managers can have an idea using the patterns of the segment selected. Initial Encounter with the book search process For many in the generation X and Z, technology is crucial...
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...One the other hand, Wayne C. Booth stresses in “The Rhetorical Stance” that one of the most important things for students to learn in college writing classes is to balance the triangle of subject, reader, and writer. Booth believes that students could write excellent essays if they balance the subject, reader, and writer in their essays well. Moreover, he elaborates three stances, the pedant’s stance, the advertiser’s stance, and the entertainer’s stance, which would destroy the equilibrium of the triangle. “Students should avoid these three corruptions in order to make their writing more efficient and arousing to write and read.” Booth says. Just like Booth’s triangle, the rhetorical triangle also guides students to think of the writer, the...
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...Before you can begin to determine what the composition of a particular paragraph will be, you must first decide on a working thesis for your paper. What is the most important idea that you are trying to convey to your reader? The information in each paragraph must be related to that idea. In other words, your paragraphs should remind your reader that there is a recurrent relationship between your thesis and the information in each paragraph. A working thesis functions like a seed from which your paper, and your ideas, will grow. The whole process is an organic one—a natural progression from a seed to a full-blown paper where there are direct, familial relationships between all of the ideas in the paper. The decision about what to put into your paragraphs begins with the germination of a seed of ideas; this “germination process” is better known as brainstorming. There are many techniques for brainstorming; whichever one you choose, this stage of paragraph development cannot be skipped. Building paragraphs can be like building a skyscraper: there must be a well-planned foundation that supports what you are building. Any cracks, inconsistencies, or other corruptions of the foundation can cause your whole paper to crumble. So, let’s suppose that you have done some brainstorming to develop your thesis. What else should you keep in mind as you begin to create paragraphs? Every paragraph in a paper should be Unified—All of the sentences in a single paragraph should be related...
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