Writing: Tell me a childhood story you’ve told many times before. Be sure to include the last time you told it.
Working with Description
Description draws on the perceptions of the five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch — to understand and communicate a particular experience of the world.
Objective vs Subjective Description
Dominant Impression — a central theme or idea about the subject. Could be something seen, an emotional response. Serves as unifying principle that guides the writer's selection of details and the reader's understanding of the subject.
Point of View — consistency is key
Working with Narration
We tell stories all day long. Your job in your essay is make some meaning out of the story and convey some larger point/idea.
Modes of telling a story: chronologically, en media res (start in the middle), flashbacks, frame story (final event comes first and then details of how you get to final event follow)
Thesis — You should have a point to make. And that point should be clear but not overtly stated (this is hard to do, but you'll get there)
Point of View — consistency is key
SAS Triangle
Speaker --> who?
Audience --> to whom?
Subject --> what?
Purpose --> Why? relationship between speaker and audience
Tone --> How? relationship between speaker and subject
Argument & Point --> So what? relationship between audience and subject
In-class reading and discussing ...
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