Oral vs. Written Communication

It is essential to understand that classes taken in grade school do not give students a full understanding of each subject. With the topic of writing, there will always be a new lesson to learn, an aspect to improve, or a differing way to explain. Author Craig Vetter states in Bonehead Writing, “This is your enemy: a perfectly empty sheet of paper. Nothing will ever happen here except what you make happen.” Each story, essay, or response comes from a writer’s experiences. With each attempt at a new piece comes an underlying story of emotions the writer is facing. Each person’s writing is unique and the ideas people have are related to their past experiences and what they believe to be familiar with when deciding which writing style to use. As a high school student, I have learned many things about writing that helped me become the improved writer I am today, but the most essential advice I have received is practice makes perfect. Although there is no actual perfect way of writing, I have discovered that each essay I write, my writing improves. It is easier to spot mistakes, find areas to improve, and ponder elevated word choice to use.

The essay I was assigned is “How To Write With Style” by Kurt Vonnegut. After reading the essay, I found that a theme that would best summarize it is “effective communication. Kurt Vonnegut writes in his essay about how one should write in order to attract the reader and effectively communicate your thoughts. His advice to writing as he calls it “How To Write With Style” provides an insight to some elements that allows the writer to effectively communicate his thoughts and be true to him or herself. Keeping it simple, Have the guts to cut, Sound like yourself, Say what you mean to say, Pity the readers are his advice to writers to become effective writers. After reading the essay, I looked at several stories and poems that shared a similar

After taking Honors Written and Oral Communication freshman year I have changed as a communicator. I have grown in many areas as a writer and speaker; however, I have also have skills that need improvement. From the Fahrenheit 451 essay to the six-word memoir, my writing capabilities and experience has changed. I have sincerely grown in certain areas whereas I have also fell short in other areas.

When we encounter experiences through person-to-person, alterations occur at times on purpose by the conveyor on the experience so the translation by the recipient can result in the closest experience to the experience retained by the conveyor. These changes highlight the retained ideas in the experience, allowing it to remain a truth, O’Brien explains, “when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed”(O’Brien 442). As a recipient of an experience one is bound by only the translation of the experience one can retain, so when the conveyor tells his or her experience/story. The conveyor emphasizes the experience retained causing the alterations in the experience but this allows the recipient to translate a truth similar to the conveyor. Those translations are also seen in Krakauer’s writings, where Krakauer show McCandless was prepared by translating McCandless’s experiences through McCandless journal entries, “He was green, and he overestimated his resilience, but he was sufficiently skilled to last for sixteen weeks on his wits…he was fully aware when he entered the bush that he

thought, and experiences instead of only hearing from one person. Having style in stories like

Written communication can take the form of legal documents or manuals that can be stored electricity or hard copy. Allows workers to have access to customers information. Even by leaving a phone number the service writer or technician doesn’t have to make on-the-spot diagnosis. That way customers be notified of the problem, course of action, and cost before work. allows a repair facility to keep track of sales, inventory, job applications, repairs. It allows all participants to have a sold copy of costs and agreements All shop policies regarding labor rates, guarantees, and acceptable methods of payments can be sent out in a mass letter or an email.

The writing strategies that we learned to find where, organizational choices, storytelling, mood, the way things were analyzed and reasoned, including sources, tone, and description and imagery. In my writing, I mostly use including sources, such as including quotes from the author to show that I am getting my information from somewhere reliable and relatable. In this paper, I use storytelling in

Russell Baker, a popular journalist, admitted that at one point in his life he had trouble writing. In his article, “ Discovering the Power of My Words” he explains how he found his writing process. In his junior year of high school, his English teacher assigned an essay asking the student what they had done over their summer vacation. Baker was confused and did not know what to write but then had the idea to write about his first experience eating spaghetti with his family. “Suddenly I wanted to write about that, about the warmth and good feeling of it, but I wanted to put it down simply for my own joy, not for Mr. Fleagle. It was a moment I wanted to recapture and hold for myself. I wanted to relive the pleasure of an evening at New Street. To write it as I wanted, however, would violate all the rules of formal composition I’d learned in school, and Mr. Fleagle would surely give it a failing grade. Never mind. I would write something else for Mr. Fleagle after I had written this thing for myself.” (Baker 51) Baker encourages his audience by stating that one should write about experiences that they have had or anything that they have knowledge on. This will make you feel more comfortable. The writing will also be natural and more enjoyable to read. When he uses this method of writing, not only does he get a good grade on his paper, but he saw the enjoyment that it brought his classmates when his paper was read out loud.

The plot is developed in a different tone in both versions of the story. In the actual textual part, the mood isn’t as brightened. For example, it starts out on page 127 paragraph 2, “The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the center of a vacuum.” This gives a permeating feeling through the reader's mind. Yet, in the radio play, they start out with the sound affects at about 3 minutes, the sound effects and worrisome emotions with characters really drew you

In the novel, storytelling is essentially about the experience of the person who is telling it. A story will never be told the same way because people go through different emotions in their life. For example, Adah’s life during the novel changes the most. How would Adah have told stories in the Congo if she would have felt wanted? Would she have told things differently? These factors of life affect the way people tell stories. Stories are never one-hundred percent truthful, solely because of the fact that people have emotions. For instance, Rachel and Leah are both in the Congo at the same time, experiencing similar things, but when Rachel

There are many different style to write in. Along with the different style there are also different perspectives. First, second, and third person are the types most people think about. The reality is that there are many more types out there. When a person writes it is hard for them to be able to stop thinking of what they were told when growing up. In the article Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Student by E. Shelley Reid, it is said that while rules are important in writing the rules can cause more of a problem then a guideline. Instead focus on writing in a way the completely describe what is trying to be said. The details in the story are what need to be focused on. The more detail that are used the

In ‘Chemistry’, author’s written the story in the word of narrator, mixing both the perspective of adult and young boy’s. Line” My father’s death was a far less remote event than my grandfather’s but no more explicable, I was only seven.” can be a good example. Almost the whole story was written in past tense, added to the effect of recalling. He’s shown a grown up man recalling memories when he was back in 7-10 years old. This kind of writing style makes readers felt more personal, because the subject is ‘I’, when reading out the story, readers will feel like they’re experiencing the narrators’ life, as if they are the narrator. Also, another interesting fact about this kind of writing style is that if I were to look at the same events in other character’s perspective, it might be another whole different story because

I think the best part of my narrative is my introduction and conclusion. My introduction sets a mysterious tone by stating “I always wondered how would my life…” By starting the

The story told it in more context. There was a lot of talking going on to help understand what was going on. It told lots of details about each scene to help understand and picture what was occurring

My most significant experience in my life is unforgettable. I was there with my sisters, my mom, and my dad. It was the most horrifying event that I have ever witnessed. The daunting image in my head is still clear as day, as though it happened yesterday. This event did not affect only me, but also my family. The story that I am about to tell you may change the way you see things and it may not. All I can say is, it