Think of the best piece of writing you have ever read. Now what made you love that piece? What caused you to think, damn that was good? I bet it wasn’t the amazing grammar or the perfect arrangement of thoughts. Sure those aspects are what keep you engaged, but not what keeps you interested. In High School we are taught to write with the left side of our brain, even though it is best to use both. The left controls our logic, reasoning and analytic thoughts. When using your right side you are using your creativity, imagination and insight. This allows us to write in the most in-depth ways and about topics from a different perspective. We learn everything from a left sided view, but when you are writing it is best to use both sides of your brain, …show more content…
When we let our creative side go, words fly out of our brain and onto paper. It ignores the rules, avoids words and allows us to think in all sorts of new directions. The right side could also be referred to as a whole new imaginary world when writing. As it creates make-believe characters that seem so real they come alive that act, talk and behave as if they were outside of your conscious control. While you are in this world things may seem so real your work tends to write itself. In Paul McHenry Roberts essay “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” he states that “The writer's job is to find the argument, the approach, the angle, the wording that will take the reader with him.” The best way to do that is using the right side of your brain. Ever have that feeling when you sit down at your computer or with just a note book and pen and just start writing, without even thinking you just go till you can no longer feel your fingers? That’s your right side, that’s when you know that you are writing some of your best work. We all have it in us and we all have had it happen. But how do we control it, or make it work better than before. Sometimes you need to sit down and focus on what you’re writing about and think about the structure of what you’re writing before your right side can kick in. That is why you need both, for support with grammar and creating an abstract
: In reading How to Be an Undividual, it is clear that the author David Koloff is a full-fledged nonconformist, although, believes in the natural order of finding yourself; even if it involves being an intentional conformist in the beginning. He quickly lets the reader know his stance on conformity in the first paragraph, that illustrates the isolated feeling that children feel as they’re thrown from institution to institution as they grow up. However, how is Koloff himself a conformist? Well, Koloff is obviously a very successful writer. He seems to follow a trend in one of the aspects of his writing. Koloff uses satire, wit and irony as devises. Although, considering he was inspired to write this piece because of the conformity he sees in
In the article, How to Say Nothing in 500 Words, Paul McHenry Roberts starts by explaining that writer tends to focus more on the total of words that has to be used than on the actual content. McHenry gives many advice on ways to become a better writer. He mentions that writers should get rid of “padding,” which are words that simply add up the total number of words but does not add any detail nor does it support your main idea. He also talks about calling a person or item for what it is. McHenry use the example of a student calling a principal a fool but in different words.
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...
The more a participant preferred their left hand, “the better they were at tests of divergent thoughts” (3). The study also found that “Left-handers were more adept… at combining two common objects” and finding a way “to form a third” (3). The article gives the example that they were better at creating a birdhouse by combining a tin can and a pole. The left-handed group also “excelled at grouping lists of words into as many alternative categories as possible” (3). According to the article, the study found “an increased cognitive flexibility among the ambidextrous and the left-handed,” which tends to lead to a rise in creative thinking (3). This flexibility explains why lefties are over-represented in more creative thinking jobs like music, architecture, and the arts, including famous artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. To help Konnikova prove her claim, she makes an underlying assumption that having these skills are beneficial and adds a unique ability to the left-handed
The way writing is structured and written is important to the reader because that way, the reader can easily understand what the author is saying. Elbow talks about the importance of freewriting, and Murray talks about the importance of revising and editing. The way they structure and write out their writings is different yet similar, in that one is more organized, gives more detail and uses more references, or they both use examples, and personification. Both Elbow and Murray have similarities, for example, using similes, metaphors and examples, but they also have different ways of structuring out their writings or how many references they use, but neither of them are wrong. The straight forward way of Elbow’s writing may be more beneficial
It is fascinating to me to read the articles “Why I Write,” by George Orwell and Joan Didion. These authors touch on so many different topics for their reasons to writing. Their ideals are very much different, but their end results are the same, words on paper for people to read. Both authors made very descriptive points to how their minds wander on and off their writings while trying to write. They both often were writing about what they didn’t want to write about before they actually wrote what they wanted too. In George Orwell’s case, he wrote many things when he was young the he himself would laugh at today, or felt was unprofessional the but if he hadn’t done so he would not of been the writer he became. In Joan Didion’s case she would often be daydreaming about subjects that had nothing to do with what she intended on writing. Her style of writing in this article is actually more interesting because of this. Her mind wandering all over on many different subjects to how her writing came to her is very interesting for a person like me to read. My mind is also very restless on many different unneeded topics before I actually figure some sort of combined way to put words on to paper for people to read. Each author put down in their articles many ways of how there minds work while figuring out what they are going to write about. Both of the authors ended ...
The two hemispheres of the brain are the left and the right hemisphere. Each having it's own unique purpose and function. The two hemispheres are separated by a fold down the middle connected only by a thick nerve cable called the corpus callosum. The Left hemisphere is thought to be the logical side controlling speech, reading, writing, details, facts, maths and science and rational, literal, practical analysis. The right hemisphere is seen as controlling the intuitive, creative side of life, with spatial perception, symbols and images, face recognition, imagination, beliefs and fantasy. (Vered, 2013, www.brainskills.co.uk)
People spend their whole lives trying to gain knowledge in many different areas, while others stay focused on a single topic. Once vertical and horizontal thinking are combined people can gain more knowledge and understanding within several different topics. Sven Birkerts, the author of “The Owl Has Flown” explains in many ways how vertical and horizontal thinking are used in everyday life. Vertical thinking is a way in which a person goes more in depth to gain a better understanding of a certain topic. On the contrary, horizontal thinking is gaining more understanding on several different topics, but not as in depth as vertical thinking. There are other components to consider when trying to reach vertical and horizontal Engagement. Finding
Writing requires a delicate balance between pleasing an audience, yet finding and sticking true to personal perspectives. More often than not, people find themselves ignoring their own thoughts and desires and just following along with the crowd, not standing up and arguing for anything, leaving behind a wishy-washy essay because they are too scared to stray from the obligations to others before the obligation to themselves. Anne Lamott’s “The Crummy First Draft” and Koji Frahm’s “How To Write an A Paper” both evaluate and stress the importance to find your own voice in writing and to be more critical towards readers. The reader’s perspective needs to play a role in writing, but it should not overrule the writer themselves. Writing needs to
“Where Is It Written?”, by Adam Schwartz, is a story about Sam. A young man living in a hard time because his parents are divorced. Sam first told his dad to sue his mother. Then his mom schedules an appointment with a psychologist. Finally, he cared for his mom like she did to him. Coming of age is an important time in which a person becomes more mature and thinks differently about someone/something. Another way to see a person coming of age is when a person starts to develop and see things as an adult. Sam came of age because in the beginning and the middle he didn’t like his mom. However, all the problems that went on between them. He knew his mom cared for him and he understood her in the end when she said that, that was her son and she also deserves to be in the family picture. Sam in the end wants to change her but he knows his mom won’t ever
From my past experiences, I have grown to prefer reading over writing. When I am reading, I can visualize the text in any way that I see fit. It is almost as if I am rewriting the novel using the illusions that I feel express the words in a passage. For example, in the current independent novel I am reading, it portrays a woman of high stature who is able to lure ...
there is no way I could write what I had thought because I tend to forget after a few second. I am able to write down certain words I could remember but I cannot expand on them quick enough for me to actually start a few sentences. Reading while taking side notes is one of the best way I have found that has help me in building words together to form sentences even if my thought sometimes gets clustered with so many ideas. When I do have more material for my papers I must stop what I am doing and quickly write them down before I forget, later I could go back to what I wrote and expand to make them into sentences and even paragraphs. There are also times where I could write down couple of things and just expand on them for a while but then it begins to fade and I must go back to the last few things I had writing to get inspired
I am sitting in my bed, thinking about my process of writing as I am trying to go through it. It seems the more I think about it, the less I understand it. When I am writing, I don’t think. Which I know, sounds bad. But, I spend every single moment of every single day over thinking, over analyzing, and over assuming every aspect of my life. When I’m writing, I’m free from that for just a little bit. Until of course, my hands stop typing or the pencil (no pens- never pens) stops moving, then I’m right back on the carousel that is my brain. Heidi Estrem says, “...writers use writing to generate knowledge that they didn’t have before.” (Writing is a Knowledge-Making Activity 18). I believe my ability to write without an exact destination
In theory, the left and right hemisphere of the brain process diverse information to the corpus collosum. The corpus collosum will consecutively process information about what the left and right brain identify and then generate the conclusion. Both sides of the brain have its own specialized function to interpret the information but it cannot comprehend the same way. A research experiments conducted by Roger Sperry, validate the characteristics of each side of the brain. The left hemisphere of the brain is logic. It main focuses is language, critical thinking, numbers, reasoning, and objective. The right hemisphere is more creativity. It abilities include expressive, recognizing, music, reading emotions, color, images, intuition, and subjective.
The main reason why I have so much trouble when writing, is because I don't concentrate