English Segment 1 Study Guide

Writers that take an extensive amount of time describing details often disrupt the fluidity of the story they are trying to tell, and cause the reader to become disinterested due to the fact that he or she "lost sight of his priority" as King mentions. I am conscience of the speed at which the story is being told, and can often "get bored" of a piece of writing if the writer's decision of over explaining everything slows down the telling of the actual story. A reader can learn from reading such material "to keep the ball rolling", and to avoid getting caught up in describing unnecessary details. Anything that strays away from the actual story and slows down its speed causes the reader to become disinterested and conscience of "the craft."

Standard conventions exist, like the use of “Dear Sir” that’s normally found at the beginning and the use of “Yours faithfully”. This is used because the person isn’t known because they might be a company. The use of “Dear Mr” and their name, and “Yours sincerely” will be used since the person is known. Letters tend to use standard layouts. These are usually blocked, semi blocked and indented. House styles can be presented for organisations. This could be things like fonts, formatting and etc.

* Must know the difference between a memo and a business letter they have very different purposes.

Having each story been written in a third-person narrative form, the reader knows the innermost feelings of the

because through his first person narrative, the reader is drawn to his sensitive nature, his

Thus, when writing a longer work, the author is able to use that voice to strengthen the story, and as Ligon talks about with his own work, develop characters at a more in depth level. An excellent example of how short stories are able to quickly pack in a punch using syntax is “The Bed You’ve Made” by Sam Ligon. In the story, Ligon uses excellent diction to help paint a very clear picture in the mind of the reader about what is happening, but it does this in a piece that is not more than three or four hundred words. For example, Ligon uses the phrase, “It broke our hearts to sing such mournful words, tears staining our cheeks as we sang our haunting hillbilly harmonies,” (Ligon, The Bed You’ve Made), when he just as easily could have said “The song was sad.” However, the word choice paints a clear image to help one understand what is happening in the story so much more in depth than it would to say that the song is sad and why it’s sad. It cuts out the fluff, and makes the writing significantly stronger. When an author learns to pack this kind of a punch into a sentence, they can take the syntax, and use it in longer works, and make something that is truly a masterpiece. In long works, like novels, authors are more focused on telling the story, whereas short-short authors are like a grandfather telling a story from when he was young around a campfire, attempting to make a story grand and captivating by using imagery and

The author intertwines long and short sentences to maintain interest. The author includes short sentences such as, “it doesn’t have to be this way.” to create suspense. Through these short sentences the reader feels anxious and wants to know what they can do- they start wondering how they can help after the author completely overwhelmed the audience making them feel guilty for not protecting the beautiful nights. The author also includes vast sentences full of detail, showered in commas (along with listing).

What point of view is used in the story? What are the advantages of this point of view? The narrator has a third-person objective point of view or Dramatic point of view in the story. The narrator tells what is happening in the story through the actions and dialogue, but not through a character’s emotions or personal thoughts.

The original pages of the formal memorandum use computer–generated letterhead for the first page and plain white paper for continuing pages. The informal memorandum uses plain white paper but does not use letterhead.

Chapter 14. Writing Letters, Memos, and E-mails 2. A salutation’s purpose is to “is to greet your reader with all due respect” (Ogunjimi, n.d.) as explained in an blog article from the Houston Chronicle. These are used to open letters and other correspondence in a professional way. There are many different salutations that can be used in writing.

Writers sometimes round out of things to say, so they just write sentences that are to obvious or with no real sense. For example, “Horses eat hay and like to run” these sentence is a fact but really do not do nothing but take space in the introduction. Instead of impressing the reader with new information or a great source supporting the writer’s argument.

I attached a photo of the letter (not filled out) to show that I am talking about.

Every writer has their own writing style; for example, Herman Melville’s style can be explained using complex diction, lengthy syntax, repeated ideas, description and characterization. First off, Melville can use simple words like, “cautiously,” “animation,” and “excited,” (Melville 3&4) but he mainly uses complex words such as, “countenance,” “inarticulate,” and “convulsively” (3&4). Furthermore, Melville seems to be very fond of using long sentences such as, Receiving the topmaul from Starbuck, he advanced towards the mainmast with the hammer uplifted in one hand, exhibiting the gold with the other, and with a high raised voice exclaiming: “Whosoever of ye raises me a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever

The Client Communications Editor, is where you can read, edit, re-write, print, and save the letters contained in the program. You can also add your company letterhead and logo to the letters. The right pane

In Trimble’s Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing, there are two requirements when he reads an article or story, specifically in his second requirement he states, “He not waste my time getting out what he has to say” (Trimble Pg. 58) When writing a short story, adding unnecessary words and phrases can have the reader lose interest and stop reading. Short stories are stories told minimally without a lot of add-on. If you are inconsistent with your pace, and drag on, you tend to lose your audience on what you are writing. Coming from this, a writer’s way of pacing are essential for creating a well written and compelling short story.