even, as an anchor for all the complex ideas and examples you’re connecting to it, as a place for the audience to recognize the main idea and find a way to “sing along.”
repeat ideas with keywords, to loop things together- kind of like how a song replays the chorus over and over again, people like that, and people can follow along
Repeating the chorus helps bring the audience along with you from verse to verse: the audience thinks, “Aha, I know this!”
Build up your argument in a way that makes people follow your essay in a way that makes it obvious to the reader; repeat info, make the reader feel like they know what is going on.
Hey, coming up on the right here in about two miles, there’s an amazing huge neon Pink House: watch for it”
give this kind of advice when writing in your essay to not take people by surprise; repeat information over and over so you don't lose them
she may show your note to someone else
a secondary audience is when someone shows your work to someone else
learn to be greedy as a reader, to ask for the good stuff from someone else’s head
keep asking for details in essays to get the exact picture of what the writer is imagining
“I have a little green ball about an inch in diameter, small enough to hide in your hand. It’s light neon green like highlighter ink and made of smooth shiny rubber with a slightly rough line running around its equator as if two halves were joined together. When I drop it on the tile floor, it bounces back nearly as high as my hand; when I throw it down the hallway, it careens unpredictably off the walls and floor.” Now the ball in your mind matches the ball in my hand much more closely.
This is an example on how to show, not tell- write like this to show what you mean when writing about something in an essay