Five Senses Of Showing: Video Analysis

Everybody has their own methods for writing; however, I believe there is always room for improvement. Chapter 3 in Everyone’s an Author has shown me that writing involves processes that need to be mastered through constant practice. It also revealed helpful tips on how to develop writing processes that can help write effective papers.

Natalie Goldberg’s definition of showing, not telling makes reading and writing a lot more interesting. In her definition she explains how the writer doesn’t write about feelings instead that feeling will awaken in his writing. “Ned nodded his head in agreement. He stepped on the brake, and suddenly the car started to slide on the slick pavement. They plunged off the road and slid to a halt at the bottom of an incline. Pale and shaking, Ned quickly turned to check if Susan was all right.  When she nodded, Ned relaxed and looked through the rain soaked windows.” These two lines from American folk build the feeling of fear from Ned and Susan’s reactions. Instead of the writer saying they were scared he describes a scenario where the reader

This chapter of the textbook by E. Shelley Reid’s Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing addresses writing students. Reid uses expository and descriptive types of writing in her text. She describes and explains about the ten different important things when it comes to writing. One example in her chapter is where she explains how to write by the rules, describes the steps on how to be a successful writer and why some people struggle with writing essays or paragraphs sometimes. The writer quoted, “Write about what you know about so that you can show not just tell in order to adapt to your audience’s needs and accomplish your goals. Unless you do a good job showing what you mean, your audience will not understand your message.” (4) She also stated in one of her steps that sometimes the audience or readers of an essay or writing cannot exactly understand what the writer is trying to tell them. She tells her audience to

In today’s society, many road accidents and deaths are often caused by the same reason. The reason being that mostly teens, as well as adults, have created a habit of texting while they’re driving. A film by Werner Herzog, “From One-Second To The Next,” is a documentary against texting while driving. This film documents the testimonies of four individuals who's lives have been affected by texting and driving.

When I analyzed my self-representation I noticed many different things, from the rhetorical message that it gave to people, to the physical aspects that would be interpreted by first time viewers. If someone looks at my visual representation they would interpret that I am a very serious or conceited guy because I am just giving a smirk look. In my visual representation there is ethos and pathos appeals that helps send a message to first time viewers.

Another effective writing technique that stood out to me that the author uses is identification. The author says that “TV has been my drug of choice and I’ve

Bram Stoker utilizes point of view, imagery, and tone to illustrate Lucy’s pre-transformative phase through a diary entry, giving further context to various symbols in Chapter 11 of Dracula.

When the speaker presents the action, dialogue, reports the thoughts and reactions of the characters, it helps to understand the overall setting of the story while also giving the reader the feeling of being an onlooker to the event. The point of view is used to conceal

After watching this video, I started thinking about where I would stand as an interpreter because there are six interpreters on this interpreting team. Would I stand on the stage next to the speaker, on the steps of the stage, or ground level in front of the audience. I would also have to think about where to stand where the Deaf audience members could see me along with the cameras filming the presentation. Also as an interpreter of this event, I would hope the presenter would give the interpreters the copies of the slide that she would be using in the presentation, that way I would be familiar with all the terminology. Another thing I would need to know is the spelling of different places and signs for those different places. Also, I would have a team of interpreters with me, I would hope, we would plan out who would be sign for what speaker and also that we would have planned the type of signing we would do during that presentation.

Stories We Tell is an observational and participatory documentary that tells the story of Diana's Life through her family and friends. The documentary is structured to reveal Diana through other people's stories of her. People close to her are interviewed and asked questions to recall her past, personality, life, and death. The piece is an investigation setup interviewing her relatives and friends with clips and photos of her past. It is interesting that Sarah is conducting the interviews, yet she is not the narrator of the documentary, her father is. The piece flowed greatly through time and it displayed past and present emotions.

Stories are told through various forms of literature, and the overall point of telling a story is to convey a message, a meaning that the author wants the reader to interpret and understand. The author does

This video used emotional appeal. This video shows emotional appeal because it tells us family and doctors have relied on it because it reduces muscle, back and joint pain. They incorporates family and why you should use it. It’s trying to persuade the people by saying their families will have reduced pain. This commercial persuaded me because it gives me facts about the medicine. It also says that doctors use it,which is trustworthy to me. In the end it says “Relief doesn’t get an better than this,” this line persuaded me the most because it shows that advil is the

There is a touching video that was made in Thailand that will likely change the way a lot of people think about homeless people. The video has a store owner who sees a homeless man outside of his store every day. Instead of kindly asking the homeless man to leave, he kicked the man and screamed at him.

Something that I can also do to help my writing is to always read what I wrote out loud. When I say out loud, I mean out loud! This will help me catch some of the grammatical errors that anyone can easily make, and I can also make sure that what I am writing makes sense. Something else that can help me

(Technique 1: transitions) The process of writing is not so simple. It takes a lot of effort to bring thoughts from one’s mind to the physical plane that is a piece of paper. One of the more difficult parts to writing is being able to transition from one idea to another. Without proper transitions, writing is just bits and pieces being forced together instead of many thoughts flowing seamlessly from one to another into one conglomerate piece.