Essays can be used to discover rather than to prove or persuade. While this may not be the standard academic paper, it can be useful when conducting research. Not every paper may thought with a developed thesis but come to a realization of a thesis after conducting necessary research. Jay Holmquist’s essay “An Experience with Acronyms” approaches his topic with a narrative interest that leads to a question to start his exploration. This implemented his process of discovery going from his story to
Franklin Foer is a highly acclaimed American journalist, well-known for his eccentric and individualistic writings. His devotion to the World of Soccer has prompted him to write a perspicacious and thrilling book on the sport. The extract is from the book “How soccer explains the world: An unlikely theory of Globalization” which was published on June 29th 2004. The book presents a unique and brilliantly illuminating look at soccer, the world’s most popular sport, as a lens through which to view the
argument in the paper is important because writers want to communicate their ideas to the readers through using different textual conventions. In this paper, I will analysis two different types of textual conventions, using published information and personal
Cathy Caruth once said ‘The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess.’ It is true that fictional narratives are not always derived from the personal views or experiences of the author who is writing them. But at times, they can perfectly capture trauma so convincingly that we are almost convinced they are drawing off of first-hand experience. Cathy Caruth, a trauma theorist, has summated
to her ultimate conclusion through sympathetic pathos, juxtaposed diction, bookending structure, and her overall appeal to the audience’s humanity. Woolf draws the reader in immediately in the first paragraph, incorporating imagery and her own personal unique definition of a moth, “They are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor sombre like their own species” (par. 1 Woolf). The imagery allows the reader to recall images of moments that are similar or exact to that of the description
Essay 21: “The Dog, The Family: A Household Tale” By: August Kleinzahler Classification: Descriptive Proof 1: “Grand was a boxer, purebred, but one of his ears was wrong; it didn’t set up properly. And his right eye dripped. He also had a skin condition, something like mange but untreatable” (Kleinzahler 162). Proof 2: “Father worked and read the paper. Children and child rearing, in his view, belonged to the realm of the female, and in my case the dog” (Kleinzahler 166). Explanation: Kleinzahler
had a teacher in the past that has told us that we have to write objectively. I have always wondered why this has been the rule we have had drilled into our heads when it comes to writing a paper. This is more than something that we have been told not to do we have been marked down points for doing so. It is impossible to write without having yourself in the writing. In an article by Donald Murray, he talks about how everything we write is autobiography. This well-known writer believes that this
realization that she is a lesbian. Interestingly, Alison Bechdel uses this novel to recount her experience of events that helped to shape her personal identity, which resulted in a transformation of the way she sees herself. In the end, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a wonderful narrative that shows its readers the complexity of personal identity, and how things like sexual orientation, love, the values of society, and politics can all play a part in the shaping of one’s character. Fun Home: A
sin entered the world it opened the world to grief. While all of humanity shares the experience of grief; it is a deeply personal and individual experience. There are many ways in which humans process grief. One useful way to process grief is through writing therapy (O'Connor, Nikoletti, Kristjanson, Loh & Willcock, 2003). In the story Lament for a Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff writes about his son who died in a climbing accident. This could be considered a display of writing therapy. The Wolterstorff’s
of Dominican history contained mainly in footnotes, the narrative takes on traces of pop culture, creates analogies to science fiction and refers to elements of magic and superstition. In this essay, I will argue that Yunior uses these alternative modes of expression to tell the story of the de Leóns, as well as the history