Essays on Writing Page 5

Pick a topic. Descriptive essays generally focus on a person, a place, an event, or a thing. Writers convey an idea about their topic by describing the topic for the reader in a ‘show, not tell’ manner. Showing and not telling means that you paint a picture for your reader. For example, instead of saying,…

The first poem Balaki ko ‘Day Samtang Gasakay Ta’g Habalhabal by Adonis G. Durado is a simple poem yet the images portrayed in the poem catches the imagination of the reader. Durado used the Cebuano language beautifully. For anyone who has tried riding a habalhabal, a local form of transportation that can carry as much…

The Glass Menagerie is a four chapter memory play written by Tennessee Williams that reflects upon his own unhappy and dysfunctional family. With this being said, the narrator in the play, Tom Wingfield, resembles Tennessee Williams himself. The setting takes place in the winter and spring of 1937 in St. Louis and symbolically reflects the…

Susan Glaspell worte two different forms of literature that has basically the same plot, setting and characters. The main difference, of course, was the way the story was presented. She first wrote the play “Trifles” which was about two females being able to solve a puzzle as to what the motive of a woman who…

Presents illiteracy as a form of dependence. Hanna’s inability to read and write has a huge impact on her life, especially her shame for it. Throughout the novel it becomes clear that Hanna’s illiteracy affects her on her choices in life and her social skills, which in the end results in Hanna killing herself. She…

Wow! What can I say about another year of my life come and gone? It has been fast and slow, long and short and very, very colorful. I’ve learned new words like xenophile and soliloquy! I have grown up, but am still a child, and most of all I’ve learned to see the world as…

Over the years in school I have been taught a five step process for writing. It has been the topic of every English class I have ever taken since kindergarten. Most people, when they think of being taught how to write the immediately think of, English class. Even I do, As I thought about how…

I have accomplished and learned so many skills and information during this course. I was taught how to write different types of essays that I wasn’t accustomed to writing. For example, memoirs and a literacy narrative are just a few to name. When it came to writing papers it was kind of hard at first…

Lima Flattery did an excellent job in employing stylistic devices in “The Sniper”. There were significant amounts to imagery, which enhanced the reader’s imagination while reading the hook, There was also a distinct symbol that portrayed the true theme to the story perfectly. Also found interesting irony at the end, which concluded the whole story…

A formal report is a structured presentation of a subject or an undertaking. It encompasses concise summaries as well as additional details in the form of appendices. Put simply, a formal report records the outcomes of an experiment, design, or information, offering readers a thorough grasp of the objective, procedure, and findings. Moreover, it acts…