Analysis Of Rick Moody

Changing the beginning of the introduction was essential to make a stronger statement of how important reading is for our personal growth and even our social and economic advancement. Reading also widens the horizon of thinking, and as I read authors like Rick Moody and Alberto Manguel, it widens my horizon on the all the possibilities of what reading means. On the third sentence of the introduction I stated that reading, “plays a key role to academic success” and this a very important aspect of reading for a student like me. Reading is one of the very fundamental tools of learning. Not heeding the professor’s annotations by leaving the word “students” on the last sentence of the introduction was necessary because I am a student, and Rick

The second sentence was reconstructed not only to fix the mixed construction, sentence, but also to highlight the beginning of the essay as Rick Moody lists the all the things he believes about reading. The sentence was revised to “He recites about his freedom of picking out the kind of books that “strikes” him as he walks up and down the stacks,” because it shows how Rick Moody was the type of person that was not confined to following the norm. I strive to be more like Moody in that sense where I do not really care about society’s expectations of me. Being a free thinker Rick Moody stands up for his beliefs and never falters regardless of his critics. I have learned to use an “assertive, confident, and objective” essay language and this is why it was necessary to reconstruct the sentences of the summary for several reasons, first, to construct a well thought out cohesive sentence structure and second, to avoid mixed constructed ones. The summary paragraph is now written in an organized and objective way to show the reader that I have a detailed knowledge of Moody’s essay. When describing Mr. Buxton as he reads Macbeth, the word Shakespeare was omitted to avoid redundancy. When introducing Mr. Flanders, it was necessary to expand my thought to have an assertive sentence. Ending the summary paragraph with a

Rewriting the Argument “position” sentence was necessary to demonstrate a stronger argument on why I agree with Moody’s opinion, as well as inform the reader right away to what specific extent my argument holds. In my Argument essay I agreed with Moody to a certain extent, but I needed to show the reader to what capacity my agreement stands. Literary texts, novels, even the Gospel are the type of writings that can be read in many ways. Euphemisms, metaphorical meanings, psychological and philosophical meanings exist in these type of texts and I agree that there is no ‘right or ‘wrong way” to read these particular kind. Continuing on with the idea of Umberto Echo’s concept of “open text,” the sentence was restructured, first because of mixed construction and second to provide a complete and well thought out idea. The Kafka’s Metamorphosis example of the “bug” was omitted, because in the original essay, I was forcing myself to make a point that the word “bug” could be interpreted in many ways. Though that is true, using Umberto Echo’s Role of the Reader and the concept of “open text”, already more that supported my argument. Revising the example made regarding Mr. Flanders’ influence was necessary to support my reason that there is more than one way to interpret a text like