I am writing this to the Chair of the English Department to recommend that the book, Everyone's An Author, be the required textbook for all English 101 classes. As an English 101 student, I have found Everyone's An Author to be a very helpful resource when issues came about with writing. ... The main purpose of the book is to help writers by offering explanations and examples of different ideas in writing. ... These boxes serve the purpose of giving readers alternate readings and examples to look at to further understand the style of writing they are looking for. ... Everyone's ...

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Earnest Hemingway was a very well-known and highly praised American author who greatly influenced fiction literature in the twentieth century. ... This quote describes how Hemingway used a lot of true description to write about his settings in order to convey purpose, yet he still kept his writing to the point. ... Again, Hemingway hides the purpose under the story so that when readers cogitate and think hard about the writing, it becomes even more effective. ... Typically, readers do not want to read the work of an author whose writing is boring or whose writing is labyrinthine and too overpo...

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The author's reason for writing the novel was that he wants the reader to experience Vietnam much like he did. ... By writing he looks over his "experiences" and "separates it from himself" looks at it objectively and it makes him feel content with himself or at least helps him move on. ... To achieve his purpose the author chooses to tell a different story in every chapter, and every story has poses a theme. ... By mixing in the truth with lies the author is able to achieve his purpose. 4. ... The author alternates between these two settings to demonstrate what lead h...

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Vince Vail COLI 214B The Intentions of William Garrison When an author decides to compose a piece of literature, the author usually has a purpose in mind for that piece of work. ... However, the author of the preface may also have an alternative motive. ... Garrison is in no way objective in writing the preface. ... Propaganda is used to influence people to follow the views of the author. ... The purpose of protest literature is to influence the reader to join the cause of the author. ...

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The author mention who killed the Giant? ... Some of his writing are very explanatory but can cause you to evaluate his ideas and challenge you of your own thinking. ... The author is showing how God made use of the Hebrews experience of living under a king for his purpose, and by this preparing the people of the revelation of Himself in Christ Jesus. ... The author does deeply put his opinions in his writing. ... That all things work out for the good to those that love the Lord who are called according to His purpose. ...

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They are: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose. ... And last but not least is the purpose. ... Some articles may not hit on all the aspects of the pentad so you can conclude the author is talking about act/scene or act/purpose. ... The first article I will elaborate on is called "Reflections of the Columbine H.S massacre" The author, a teen writing to a local newspaper gives a brief overview of the event that occurred. ... The main ratio the author focuses on is act/purpose. ...

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The author grew up in North Carolina right between several of the NCAA's powerhouse teams. ... I believe his purpose for writing this piece was to enlighten the average sports fan, as well as anyone else in the general public who still has the romantic vision of college sports, about the real situation behind the scenes in all high profile college sports. ... The author takes us back to a simpler time when he was but a young, pre teen boy. ... There are no humorous or breaks in the urgent tone of his writing. ... He uses a very "in-your-face" style of writing, as he bombards us with facts...

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Indeed, when I informed people that I was writing a critical essay on Stephen King the most common response was laughter. ... His writing is subtle enough to make one believe in things that other horror writers of lesser powers simply cannot. ... While in time this does become a part of the overall plot, there at the very start of the novel it seems to serve two purposes. ... Why, therefore, is JRR Tolkien or Terry Pratchett not the world's bestselling author? ... Reading a King novel, we know we are on the "right" side, because we are on the side of the author. ...

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This will be discussed with reference to his personal experiences, his style of writing, allusions to religion and the Bible, his childhood, his marriages, and Steinbeck's passion for writing about important issues. ... Steinbeck was able to relate to these characters because before he found success as an author, he traveled across America from California to New York looking for jobs (O'Connor, pp25-31). ... This developed into what he called his "spoken word" writing style. ... Steinbeck's purpose for writing The Grapes of Wrath was to make it clear to Americans that the suff...

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This essay explains how woman are in need of people in their lives and how we do create stories in our minds that may be fairytale-like, but they do serve a purpose to us woman. ... In the first essay "Rape Fantasies", Margaret Atwood, the author, discussed woman and how they make up fantasies to fulfill their own dreams. ... These essays really work well together when you put the author's perspectives on the line. ... I think that not having many women write an essay about them says a lot about what these men were writing about woman. ... The purpose of this essay was to discuss the ...

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The author goes into an extensive reasoning, arguing why he thinks the impeachment was justified. In my opinion his purpose was achieved. ... (Benedict 31) Benedict uses his writing style to keep his readers tied into the story. ... (Benedict 60) What I did not like about Benedict's writing style was how he used many outside sources and direct quotes throughout his book which seem to be from long ago and are hard to read and understand. ... (Benedict 110) The author did draw sensible conclusions from his sources, first analyzing them and interpreting them, to co...

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Indeed there are entire books, classes and even careers dedicated to this very purpose. ... This may be the most clear and straight-forward writing we've studied in this class. ... These authors also spoke out against ongoing trends in society that they found disagreeable much the way Orwell does. ... This is the type of writing we might find in 1984. ... This would be true in both speaking and writing. ...

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These two characters embody their author's perspectives on what it means to grow and be a true artist. ... Lily views her painting in the exact opposite way that Stephen views his writing. ... Lily simply does not have the same lofty hopes about her art that Stephen has about his writing. ... The last words of the novel convincingly articulate Lily's feelings about the purpose of her work, "she looked at her canvas; it was blurred. ... The negative feedback that Lily receives from the people around her changes her feelings about the purpose of her art. ...

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These characteristics give us an inside glimpse of the Southern lifestyle in which the author was participating in during the writing of this story. ... Many think of O'Connor's writing as humorous. ... O'Connor achieved her purpose because she successfully portrayed her characters in the manner most suitable to convince her readers. ... She might have also been looking for a way to cope with death by writing her stories. ... She suppressed her anger by writing what she thought about them; therefore, releasing herself from the anger she felt. ...

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It has been my observation, through years of avid reading, that a book or story written by one author can be very well done by itself; however, should the like author attempt to bring back characters from an old work into a new, the well-known characters of old become flat and lacking individuality. In addition, I have found that simply changing the point of view, from which a story is told, can ruin a work for an author. These aforementioned points have been great fears in my mind when it comes to my writing. ... The readers are left with very little to draw upon concerning the characters ...

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Since I was interested in the short story, I searched for the author's biography and some backgrounds on the story. ... As the "author of one of the enduring works of modern African literature, Achebe sees post colonial cultures taking shape story by story."(Bacon, 2000) He uses English in writing African fiction, in order to make Europeans understand African culture and tradition more directly and truthfully. ... The author, Achebe, wanted to show the serious reality in Africa and tried to help do something in this field. I believe that is his purpose in writing this story. ...

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They may serve a purpose as in teaching a lesson, describing a mood, sharing an emotion, or conveying an idea that the author wishes. Many authors have written poems stating their own definitions of poetry to expand on that of the dictionary. ... Hughes was writing in the first half of the twentieth century. ... The title of Hansberry's play comes from Hughes's poem which had a double purpose. ... One way that authors exhibit this is through the use of imagery. ...

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The parents play a major part in Native American writing, showed in the poem "A story of How a Wall Stand", written by Simon Ortiz... Fictional narratives were usually told for entertainment purposes especially for the children. ... However, author Longfellow wrote Hiawatha in 1855, which became particularly popular. ... Dualism is another part of writing because things in nature, colors, and word are thought of in pairs. ... In the 1920's the Native American authors started turning to the novel. ...

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Title: The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman Author: Ernest J. ... Number of pages: 259 Type of Book: Fictional Autobiography Biography of Author: Ernest James Gaines was born in 1933 on River Lake Plantation in Louisiana. He is the author of six novels including the widely acclaimed Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. ... He studied creative writing at Stanford University on a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship. ... The Author purpose in writing the book. ...

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John Wilson will focus on the accurate representation of the two themes; loyalty and deception, character reactions and the style of author. ... John Wilson would have been an exceptionally difficult book to write because the author only has the evidence she collects to work with and she has to assume what is going on in between. When writing a fictional novel the author is easily able to make up dialogues and feelings of characters because he or she is in control but in a novel like The Secret Life of Sgt. ... Lastly, an author is usually open to using any style of writing but there are cert...

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When reading "The Harlem Dancer", the reader really has to analyze the poem in order to understand what the author is talking about. ... The writing goes on to talk metaphorically about the dancer and how unhappy she was with her position. ... Another example of how words can portray a message is how the author describes the characters. ... The purpose of McKay's poem was to allow his readers to understand the struggles of all African Americans so that Americans could try to change their ways of treating them. ... McKay uses the English sonnet way of writing for his rhyme sche...

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When reading "The Harlem Dancer", the reader really has to analyze the poem in order to understand what the author is talking about. ... The writing goes on to talk metaphorically about the dancer and how unhappy she was with her position. ... Another example of how words can portray a message is how the author describes the characters. ... The purpose of McKay's poem was to allow his readers to understand the struggles of all African Americans so that Americans could try to change their ways of treating them. ... McKay uses the English sonnet way of writing for his rhyme sche...

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The author's general approach is quite straight forward. ... There are seven numbered essays that either contain pictures or pictures and writing. These pictures serve their purpose very well in context to alluring the reader into intrigue, and visualizing various topics. ... In the third chapter, the author goes on to explain that women are primarily seen in are as a sexual entity, while men are said to be overpowering and ruling. ... The writing is quite to the point and its organization deals with one topic at a time. ...

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Informal writing reflects this relaxation. ... There are many differences between the processes of speaking and writing. Writing is not simply speech written down on paper. ... Unlike speech, writing requires systematic instruction and practice. ... I, like one of the authors suggests (Eschholz pp.172), would like to know the rules of grammar to the point that I am absolutely confident in my speech. ...

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Coming of Age In his novel, "This Earth of Mankind" author Pramoedya Ananta Toer writes of a boy, Minke, who is constantly being changed by the world around him. ... His teacher, Magda Peters, even describes him as being a person who, "has proven capable of writing perfectly in a language that is proven that he is capable of writing perfectly in a language that is not his mother tongue." ... Since writing for him can certainly lead to a career, he can now let go of any thoughts of being anything else, especially a bupati. As a writer, Minke can focus in on what his purpose is, what he is ...

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