Vocab Words
Review of Count and Noncount Nouns
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WHY DO WE WRITE? (pulled from thewritepractice.com, written by Joe Bunting)
We write to be fully alive:
We write to be fully alive. Writing draws us into the moment. We see the blades of grass, hear the miniscule chirp of the morning cricket, watch the shade travel from one edge of the yard to the other, seemingly for the first time.
Writing helps us make art out of everyday, ordinary moments.
We write to make a name for ourselves:
George Orwell says one motivation to write is sheer egoism, that we write out of the “desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc., etc.”
That’s part of it, but I think the motivation goes much deeper than being well-liked in the present moment.
If you’re being honest, you would agree that it would be nice to live forever. But if you can’t live forever physically, then why can’t your memory live forever? We’re still talking about Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, and George Elliott long after their deaths. Why not you?
While this might not be the most unselfish of motivations, it’s certainly natural.
We write to change the world:
People consume now more than ever in the history of the world. We eat more, we listen to more music, and we consume more information. However, we’ve also learned enough about consumerism to know it won’t make us happy.
Writing gives us a chance to turn the tides on consumerism. Rather than consume more, we can make something.
Isn’t that exciting? Every day, when you put your fingers to the keys, you’re creating something. And then, with the click of button, you can share it with the world.
Humans have a built in need to make our mark on the world. We want to bring new things to life, to mold things into the image we have in our imaginations, to subdue the earth.
We write not just to change the world, but to create a new world.
We write to discover meaning.
The psychiatrist Victor Frankl posited that the main search of mankind is not happiness or pleasure but meaning. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” he wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning.
Writers are uniquely gifted to find meaning for themselves and to help others find meaning. In fact, this has always been the main task of storytellers. Every story matters to the person living it, and our job is to tell the universal stories, the stories that reveal the story of every person on the earth.
We write to bring meaning to the world.
We write to make sense of the world around us.
Rhetoric contains all of the tools needed to write effectively and in a way that will make sense to a specific audience. Understanding rhetorical appeals and the background helps create a stronger argument and also helps you understand where other people are coming from.
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We write to be fully alive:
We write to be fully alive. Writing draws us into the moment. We see the blades of grass, hear the miniscule chirp of the morning cricket, watch the shade travel from one edge of the yard to the other, seemingly for the first time.
Writing helps us make art out of everyday, ordinary moments.
We write to make a name for ourselves:
George Orwell says one motivation to write is sheer egoism, that we write out of the “desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc., etc.”
That’s part of it, but I think the motivation goes much deeper than being well-liked in the present moment.
If you’re being honest, you would agree that it would be nice to live forever. But if you can’t live forever physically, then why can’t your memory live forever? We’re still talking about Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, and George Elliott long after their deaths. Why not you?
While this might not be the most unselfish of motivations, it’s certainly natural.
We write to change the world:
People consume now more than ever in the history of the world. We eat more, we listen to more music, and we consume more information. However, we’ve also learned enough about consumerism to know it won’t make us happy.
Writing gives us a chance to turn the tides on consumerism. Rather than consume more, we can make something.
Isn’t that exciting? Every day, when you put your fingers to the keys, you’re creating something. And then, with the click of button, you can share it with the world.
Humans have a built in need to make our mark on the world. We want to bring new things to life, to mold things into the image we have in our imaginations, to subdue the earth.
We write not just to change the world, but to create a new world.
We write to discover meaning.
The psychiatrist Victor Frankl posited that the main search of mankind is not happiness or pleasure but meaning. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” he wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning.
Writers are uniquely gifted to find meaning for themselves and to help others find meaning. In fact, this has always been the main task of storytellers. Every story matters to the person living it, and our job is to tell the universal stories, the stories that reveal the story of every person on the earth.
We write to bring meaning to the world.
We write to make sense of the world around us.
Rhetoric contains all of the tools needed to write effectively and in a way that will make sense to a specific audience. Understanding rhetorical appeals and the background helps create a stronger argument and also helps you understand where other people are coming from.
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Discerning an Issue
* What problem do
you hope to explore?
* In 3-4 sentences, describe why this issue is important to you.
* In 3-4 sentences, explain some possible solutions to the problem. What could be done do better this problem?
* List what type of information and research you will need to begin explaining the real problem and a possible solution.
* Finally, list several places you might begin your research (interviewing your peers, local newspapers, scholarly article to get to the heart of the problem, government articles/surveys, etc).
Looking Forward:
*College Writing Skills, Subjects and Verbs pages 610-615. Complete activity 3 and 4
*Post your Discerning an Issue draft to Elearning by Saturday, September 28. A dropbox has already been created for this paper, under the Kalamazoo Problem/Solution Process section.
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