Even as you tacklethe same purpose, what may be motivating for one group may be off-putting to another. Calibrating your message to your audience andpurpose is both difficult and necessary.
It is very complicated and has lots to think about writing.
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Attitudes: What attitudes do audiences bring to your writing? Arethey hostile? Excited? Wary? Are they interested in your subject orindifferent to it?
Attitudes are helpful to decide the tome of writing.
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Needs: What does your audience need from your piece of writing?Essentially, what is the writing being used for?
Why are you writing?
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persona, thecharacter we perceive through the writing
A person that we imagine the writer is.
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in some cases, it won’t really matter if we can identify thespecific genre, as long as we know how it’s working and what we’retrying to accomplish as we engage our audience
The same thing knowing your audience.
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To know what kindof essay is being written requires deeper knowledge of why we’rewriting and who we’re writing to.
It is important to know your subject and audience.
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Reading like a writer changes the question from what to how, as in,“How does this say what it says?”Reading like a writer involves asking questions of the piece ofwriting in order to understand what it’s trying to do and how it’s tryingto do it.
Reading like a writer is like not just getting a story in my head but thinking about the authors point of you and getting into the author's head.
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Usually, we spend most of our time reading for meaning, taking inand assessing the ideas presented in a piece of writing.
Usually when I read, it was just a story in my head.
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reading like a writer.
What does this mean?
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the dynamic world of ideas must be done not asisolated individuals but as social beings deeply connected to others
Ideas are useful to share.
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A few things that add warmth to the passage are Coryell’suse of everyday colloquial language
Colloquial means it is informal, but in ordinary conversation.
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Ultimately,then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of establishedforms but in the imaginative use of them.
Everybody creates creative work based on people's work. Nothing is really new.
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It is plagiarism, however, if the words used tofill in the blanks of such formulas are borrowed from others withoutproper acknowledgment. In sum, then, while it is not plagiarism torecycle conventionally used formulas, it is a serious academicoffense to take the substantive content from others’ texts withoutciting the authors and giving them proper credit.
Using a template is not plagiarism as long as the details are added my own words and proper credit has been given.
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naysayer
A person who criticize, objects to, or opposes something.
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manuscript
A text not yet published. When I am starting to write something, it helps to use template.
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caricature
A picture of exaggeration. Audiences don't like when I insult the other side of the argument.
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scapegoat
A person who blamed for wrongdoing, mistakes, or fault for others.
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disparage
Regard or represent as being a little worth and insulting.
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nobody is likely to disagree with it
If no one disagrees, then I am stating the obvious. That is boring.
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the phantom “they say”here is the common belief
The common belief is arguing against everybody.
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Alexander avoids two common temptations: to either burychallenges to her argument, or to acknowledge them but in mocking,dismissive ways.
The page says that I don't have to argue against famous person. It can be anyone including myself.
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Alexander avoids two common temptations: to either burychallenges to her argument, or to acknowledge them but in mocking,dismissive ways.
The page says that I don't have to argue against famous person. It can be anyone including myself.
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views he treats not as objections to his already-formedarguments but as the motivating source of those arguments
It is not necessarily disagreeing, but it is building upon argument.
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element of contrastwithout which it won’t make sense
Contrast makes easier to see including topic for argument.
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summarizing what others say andthen using it to set up what they want to say
Giving a basis for opinion.
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stating our own ideas but in listeningclosely to others
It's important to listen and acknowledge others.
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critical thinking and writing go deeper than anyset of linguistic formulas
The templates will help practice, but not automatically making a good writer.
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Instead of focusing solely on abstract principles of writing, then,this book offers model templates that help you put those principlesdirectly into practice.
For practice, I am using templates to create muscle memory.
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key premises is that these basic moves are socommon that they can be represented in templates
Template is a tool for easily replicating writing.
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The same applies to writing.
Writing is like muscle memory.
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