Dorothy Allison's This Is Our World

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“This is Our World” by Dorothy Allison is an essay that brings her own personal views to art and the impact that it has had on her life. She brings descriptive language to describe how the art can be compared to writing. The author persuades her audience that writing is more than just writing and it can be an eloquent and beautiful piece of art.
In all of these writings they have the same genre of being argumentative. Genres connect the audience to the writing and helps them know what the author is trying to perceive. At first, specific genres help attract a certain audience to the writing and then once attracted to a certain genre it can help the audience recognize what they are about to read. To someone that is attracted to argumentative

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