I want to work with adding emotion to my writing. English 101 has showed me that good quality writing that keeps the readers attention as well as completes the course goals and outcomes is much more important than a writing with a bunch of big words that no one ever uses. I want my writing to sound educated but not that I went through and right clicked a thesaurus option.
I want my readers to feel as if they can relate to me and know that I care about what I am writing about. In my efforts to do so I plan to add feeling and more "I's" to my writing to make it seem like it means more. Comparing Sedaris's Standing By to Orlean's Lifelike I think that was a big tell tale difference between the two. Most people liked Lifelike more and I believe it's because of the powerfulness of Orlean's closeness to it. The only thing people seemed to like about Standing By was the incorporation of humor. You can tell this because that's the only thing people could seem to write their interpretive essays about. I'm targeting my peers as well as my professors, and I plan to write at a level appropriate for that group.
What kind of characteristics does writing have when it's for your peers and professors? Often students say "big words," so I'm glad you understand that using the thesaurus doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteSomething to think about when trying to make an essay more personal is just to care about it, like how you say Orlean was close to her topic/writing. If you choose a topic or controlling purpose that you actually care about, it makes your writing sincere and personal automatically.