There are 5 concepts and/or rules for organizing content from Letting Go of the Words that I will apply beyond this course and beyond writing for the web: 1. Organize your contest into logical categories Letting Go of the Words suggests to divide contest by, • Questions people ask • Topic or task • Product type • Information type • People life event • Time or sequence Since people learn through pattern recognition and repetition, organizing a content into similar categories promotes successful communication. Grouping information into a class of things with similar characteristics allow people to break up a huge amount of visual or verbal information into small manageable pieces. This concept is important because it reminds me that in writing …show more content…
This rule is important because it remind me that to make a successful argument I need to think about the needs and expectations of a global audience. Beyond writing for this class and for the web this rule teaches me that I live in a global world in which people comes from different background and different cultures. Keeping my audience in mind will help me with biases and stereotypes. 3. Don’t organize by your internal chart (Redish, 2012) Letting Go of Words suggests that there are several ways for organizing content. The one way that does not create a successful communication is to organize the content with the author of the content in mind. This rule is important because it teaches me to put aside my ego and my needs and expectation and to pay attention to diversity. 4. Think “information,” not “document” (Redish, 2012) Letting Go of Words suggests that a successful argument delivers information in small pieces- "Index cards"-rather than information in complete pages. In organizing content, “index cards,” allow people to quickly visualize what they need and to discard what they do not need. This concept is important because it reminds me that I often overshare my thoughts and ideas, delivering the wrong information in the wrong amount (Redish,
Writing is important because it enables a community to create symbols and signs understandable. The society must have a stable food supply in order to keep its people alive,
Ramage, John D., Bean, John C., and Johnson, June. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. 7th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. 535-37.
With this, a reader can learn how to judge good writing because they have interacted and know
Thinking…Thinking…And more thinking…This is what writing takes. #1 An ordinary day is always filled with thinking: getting up before the sky changes colors, thinking, taking an icy shower to wake up your unconscious mind, thinking, getting dressed in your favorite purple hoodie, thinking, and them ready to get the day over with before it has even began, thinking. All this thinking, why? Because it’s the thinking in every moment in your life that makes up your puzzle pieces that will eventually create your story. As Didion would say “I writing entirely to find out what I’m thinking.” (Didion 2) By writing Didion is able to understan...
When discussing something like words and ideas it seems much simpler to allow someone who has done both for a living do it for you. This quote, quite succinctly, summarizes language, and ...
When a baby hears the words “mommy” and “daddy” for the first time he or she cannot erase that, it is a part of the file cabinet of knowledge now. To give people the best model possible, we should imitate it in the media and at home. In Gloria Naylor’s essay, “The Meaning of a Word,” the author briefly states that verbal and written language are the same. Even though, verbal communication packs a powerful punch, I believe written communication has a lasting effect.
The Joy of Canning: Motivation in a Productive Home” by Erica Strauss. Strauss had my full-on attention with her writing methods. She was crystal clear in her message without even having to explain the portions of her article that hardly pertained. It’s the beauty that I see in writing and daily language. There are no boundaries of what a person can talk about so long as they get the main idea back into circulation. If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from college is that the thought process of an article needs to be as spontaneous without drawing out boredom as possible in order to retain the thoughts of students. So once again the question of, why am I exiled from groups like there’s no tomorrow? Easy enough to answer, but hard to explain; my writing techniques follow me into the speaking world. If there’s one place that a person hates to be led around in a flashy display of words, it’s within speech. The reason being is that they won’t comprehend it the first time and don’t have the luxury of rereading it in order to grasp a better understanding of what’s being said. I strive for this “imperfection” on the behalf of my speaking capacities. The reason being is that I love watching people get flustered over the fact that they weren’t paying close enough attention to find the point of a conversation. It’s a conversation checker to see who is worth the time to speak to. An introduction into the complexity of which is my mind; the only constant is the hamster on the wheel that powers my
3. Be careful with run-on sentences. Allow only one or two ideas in each sentence.
Reminding each other that in order to look at the future the necessity is to deal with the present. According to Sullivan, “real thinking is better done without words than with them, and creative thinking must be done without words”, this is untrue because without words no one is able to think in both real and creative terms. The way people express themselves in writing is because they thought about the words they were going to be using to send the society a message. Sullivan states that people don’t have time to build words, but don’t words help in expanding the thoughts into bigger details. Words help in various forms of expanding the vocabulary and the thought
finish figuring out what each paragraph will be about, I then go in subdivisions on the details that
Any craftsman knows that you need the right tools to complete a project successfully. Similarly, people need the right language and usage to communicate in a positive way. How people write is often a problem because they don’t have the right tools, but a bigger problem occurs when a writer “is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything at all” (592). If a writer carries this mentality, why try to communicate in the first place? People need...
...Moreover, by having paragraphs smaller and/or larger then others, it helps the reader identify what is important within the confines of the text.
Another purpose for writing is to inform. Information is power. In today’s society people need a lot of information to perform, thus making information qui...
It is important because it is a way to communicate our thoughts clearly and originality. It helps us think and see what evidence we can come up to contribute to that thinking. This course approached this idea of academic writing by exploring further
The ability to experience and express emotions can be a long process. Everyone starts experiencing emotions pretty much from the day of birth; as a person grows up with their family every single day they become more experienced and have more emotions that can help create and form their lifestyle. The decisions a person makes is always influenced by the emotions they have at the current time and the emotions they have experienced before. Experiencing emotions are easier than expressing them. Emotions may be easier to express at a younger age, but as anyone grows older it becomes more difficult. Both experiencing and expressing emotions are different for everyone. The ability to express emotions can be influenced by a person 's culture, personality,