In his essay, Paterniti uses “close 3rd” point of view as he describes each of the main characters. How does his choice of point of view impact your understanding and impression of motel owners Jack and Bout, specifically? This point of view choice forces the reader to see the world through the context of the people in the story. The vivid imagery of the piece really helps play this up too. For Jack and Bout in particular, Paterniti uses a lot…
Empathy and The Human Condition The screams are earsplitting. As a 12 year-old me sits on my red-eye flight to visit my family, all I hear for the first 30 minutes of the flight is screaming. A disheveled mother sits behind me, accompanied by her toddler and infant. Frantically trying everything to keep the toddler busy and to quiet the infant, the mother clearly begins to be frustrated as she tries in vain to control the situation. I sat in…
3. Read over something you’ve written with an eye for the devices you’ve used to connect the parts. Working either by yourself or with a partner, do the following: Underline all the transitions, pointing terms, key terms, and repetitions. See below. Describe the patterns you see. Do you rely on certain devices more than others? I rely a lot on transitions and use a lot of the same transitional phrases. I definitely spend a lot of my word count on…
I found this experience with peer review much easier and more helpful. Having marginal comments and suggestions made it easy to tell where needed the most work and where I could just lightly revisit. The most helpful marginal comments were related to my quote usage and integration, something which I aimed to work on the most during my revision process. The online format worked better for me as well, as I get used to my essay being in a particular…
3. Lammot asserts, in her excerpt “Shitty First Drafts” , that writing is more about the process than the product. Writing happens in stages, with much of it being based on small bits of genius that you come up with when just writing whatever comes to mind; Writing is based heavily on where you start and what your stance is, which is easy to develop in a drafted type of process that Lammot describes. I don’t think I fully agree…
1. The commencement speech titled “This is Water” by American author David Foster Wallace discusses the importance of being aware of others and how your own perspective is biased. Foster Wallace uses many stories and cliches to emphasize the importance of viewing other people’s perspectives and making the conscious decision of how to think. He discusses how each person is, “…the absolute centre of the universe…[and that] there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute…
MLA Citation Bloom, Paul. “Is Empathy Overrated?” Ideas.ted.com, 24 Mar. 2017, https://ideas.ted.com/is-empathy-overrated/.
