Well known medievalist and Celtic scholar, David Dumville, in his essay, "Echtrae and Immran: Some Problems of Definiton," analyzes many archaic texts which fall under both genres. Dumville's purpose in writing serves to derive the fundamental differences between the two styles. He creates a magisterial tone to demonstrate his vast knowledge of the two genres, and establishes his credibility as a scholastic writer through his complex and verbose sentence structure. ... The syntax used by Kellogg is also much more rudimentary, suggesting he is not writing for the same scholastic audience a...

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I feel as though my writing skills improved throughout the semester. ... WRITING ASSIGNMENTS My best example of writing at this point would be my Research Narrative. ... I want to make my writing my own by writing how I want to write. ... I am now more aware of different styles of writing. It is easy for me to distinguish between genres....

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Our writing purpose - The goal of expository writing is to explain or inform our audience about a specific topic. ... We are not writing to persuade yet. ... Define a specific genre or type of music, movies, literature, clothing style, internet culture, car, etc. ... Assertive writing will explain and analyze the shades of grey. ... This is not persuasive writing. ...

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As my new sailing of life has begun, my writing sailing has also begun. Continuous exposure enables progressing of my writing sailing. ... In English 108, I step into a higher level of writing. ... The most important feature a writer should have is writing in a creative way rather than writing with good organization. ... In the third essay, I had to define a purpose, identify my audience, consider the genre of writing and use strategies, ethos, pathos and logos to support my points. ...

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