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Contrasting Writing Processes
While both authors, Anne Lamott and George Dila, present arguments for their writing processes, everyone eventually finds their own process.
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It’s ok to write in your own way
why do people judge others writing style? I can agree with both authors. You don’t necessarily have to write something and it immediately…
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My Experience In Writing First Drafts and Improving Them
Anne Lamott and George Dila have different views on writing techniques. As an aspiring writer myself, I see both sides of their arguments.
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How bad First Drafts Improve Future Drafts
Anne Lamott believes first drafts should be bad, and any good writer will write them. George Dila disagrees, are either of them correct?
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Different Writing Processes
Everyone has different writing processes that work for them. A study showed that professional writers struggle with conveying their thoughts.
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What Type of Writer Am I?
Lamott and Dila presented two very different writing techniques. While you may resonate with one more than the other, I’m somewhere in between.
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How rhetoric helps all of us
Rhetoric is extremely useful no matter the text. It teaches readers how to recognize and understand the different choices and author makes.
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How Rhetoric Can Help Us Read
Focuses on what is rhetoric, how it is essential to understanding what you’re reading, and how it’s helpful when it comes to writing.
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My Strengths and Struggles With Writing
Focuses on the strengths and struggles I face when it comes to reading and writing. I understand the issues that I need to improve.
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How Discourse Makes Us Act
Discourse is used in everyday life and the different forms of it help determine our characteristics depending on our setting.
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My relationship with writing
Writing has been a huge part of my life since I was seven years old. Over the years I have used in it my journey to help others.
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Is there such a thing as writing with the right words?
How should a writing be written? Can words like “I” and “Me” really hurt the way you are writing? If so, what is considered the correct way?
Categories
- Overview, Wk 1: Relationship with Writing
- Topic 3: Discourse Communities
- Wk 10: Authority
- Wk 11: Identity
- Wk 12: Situating Rhetoric
- Wk 13: Demonstrating Values through Genres
- Wk 15: Function of a Cover Letter
- Wk 2: Rhetorical Reading
- Wk 3: Writing the Right Words (in Context)
- Wk 4: Process Questions (Lamott/Dila, Scirica/Contreras/Brainstorming/Finding)
- Wk 5: Relationship with Revision (Lamott, Dila, Reid)
- Wk 6: Iterative Writing (Sommers, Brooke/Carr/Downs, or Yeakel/Cedervall)
- Wk 8: Community Membership
- Wk 9: Enacting Genres
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