Assignment A: Writing About the Art of Writing
I took this course because I want to improve on my creative writing skills. I know I am a mediocre writer at best. There are so many things I still have yet to learn and I think this course will give me more insight. I have a true passion for writing and I am actually hoping to become a journalist, but I am not good enough just yet. I want to glean enough knowledge as I can so that I will be prepared for university next year. I know that I will be doing a lot of writing at university and it will be ten times more difficult, but I am hoping I will not be as apprehensive when I am through with this course. I expect to identify effective ways to improve the quality of my writings; to be able to put my thoughts on paper in a more engaging, fluent and rhythmical fashion.
Assignment B: Choosing the Correct Audience
1. Knowing the audience is important because it determines the content that will appear in the writing. I think the content of a writing piece that has a specific topic that varies depending on the audience. The writer decides what the target audience will be for his or her writings by isolating what groups of people the content of the piece of writing would interest. For example, if I were to write a book about romance, my book would probably interest females
2. Importance of Snow Tires
The target audience is directed toward those who live in snow conditions. In addition the audience includes those who are vigilant and cautious about possible incidents happening on the road. The audience if furthermore directed to those who are old enough to have a license (16 and over).
There is No Liberation in Being a Liberal
The target audience is directed to conservatives. They do not have the same beliefs and values liberals do.
Parents Just Don’t Understand
The target audience for this piece would be teenagers. Parents have a hard time grasping what it is teenagers go through (this is coming from some experience). Parents believe that
Famous Writer: Jay Asher Writers Craft EWC4U Jay Asher is the famous writer of a book called 13 reasons why. He was born in Wyoming but later decided to move and live in California with his son and wife. Thirteen reasons why was the first book Jay Asher wrote. After the book published it became such a huge success, he got positive feedback not only from young teenagers but from teachers who then decided to teach it to their classes. It became a New York Times bestseller and was translated into…
2014 Basic Rules on Becoming a Better Writer “I don’t believe writers can be made, either by circumstances or by self-will” (18). This quote by Stephen King suggests that a person doesn’t have to be born a good writer; they can be made into one. This statement comes from his memoir “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, in which he helps a beginning writer become better. King has many distinguished ideas in the autobiography. His central argument is that a writer must practice his/her writing skills…
I. Career Writer II. Qualifications Job Description: Writers and editors can be divided into three categories. Writers and Authors produce content for print media, Online Media, television, movies and radio. Editors evaluate and select content for publication. Employment Facts: Writers and authors held about 152,000 jobs while editors held about 130,000 jobs in 2008. Technical writers held about 49,000 jobs. Educational Requirements: Many employers prefer to hire writers and editors with…
overall theme of this anthology is a common thing, death. it connects with the poems, short stories, novel, etc. its included in many ways, one of them is The tragic death it is involved in the novel Bag Of Bones by Stephen king, 1998 when Famous writer Mike Noonan just wanted to get away from reality for a while when his wife died. He went out to their summer cabin in western Maine, because he had a writer’s block, until he found out that there was a mystery about the dark score lake that his residential…
Lutetia, a large asteroid, about 10 times bigger than steins” (Bergin). While the science experiments are of varying degrees of importance, landing the Philae lander will be the most difficult part of the whole endeavor being the first time a human craft will attempt to land on a comet traveling through space. When the probe arrives at comet 67P/ChuryumovGersimenko, Rosetta will spend several weeks taking photographs of the comet so that scientists may study the surface in search of the most suitable…
relatable, and just badass characters. Getting to know a character from a story is key for me. If I can’t relate or at least feel like I know a character than the story losses its uniqueness. That’s what’s so amazing about fiction writing! It allows the writer to create amazing characters that readers can relate to and love. This is what really draws me in and enriches the story. 2. When crafting a fictional writing piece I’d imagine you should begin with a base. By base I mean something that your ideas…
resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source in your Works Cited. Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers, but often, these sorts of entries do not require any sort of parenthetical citation at all. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following…
then go on to revise, edit and publish their writing. Accountable talk, including active listening, is expected as an integral part of the learning community. Teachers confer with individuals to support and stretch writers and use those conferring notes to plan further instruction. Writers’ Notebooks are maintained as a vessel for collecting and developing ideas and tracking writing growth and process. How this unit builds on previous learning and builds to future learning: Previous Work 11th/12th Grade…
heartfelt or emotional way. In his “Philosophy of Composition” he goes into a sequential, step by step methodology of the construction of the Raven. In so doing he also discusses the writing process in general along the way. He is very purposeful in his craft and goes to the extreme to have a purpose of each and every word and sentence, selected and crafted to provide an element of the story. His writing method is predetermined and intentional instead of a flowing of ideas. The Raven is carefully and…
that there are no boundaries, only the ones that you set yourself. It echoes that everyone has different conventions when it comes to literature and that this may be the explanation for so many authors success and prosperity- The fact that so many writers have different writing styles is what makes their novels become your favourite; it is what makes you desperate to relive them over and over again- because they hold a certain sense of bewilderment and power over you. It is clear that Maugham seems…
