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Beyond the Omelet…

Beyond the Omelet…. A Writing Continuum…. The Suggestive.

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Beyond the Omelet…

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  1. Beyond the Omelet… A Writing Continuum…

  2. The Suggestive Literature in which everything is explicit is no fun to read: part of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others. The purpose of allusive writing is to arouse associations deep in the reader’s mind and feelings, not necessarily to communicate plainly. -Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Civilizations

  3. Suggestive Defined…. • Writing that is highly figurative or allusive finds truth by suggestion rather than definition • Suggestive writing prefers the personal essay to the informative or critical piece, valuing the perspective of the author over the common truth • Written in recollection and often feels immediate • Authors: Wordsworth, Whitman, Kerouac

  4. The Suggestive… • First Person • Implicit • Impressionable • Intuitive • Mythic • Individualistic • Subjective • Connotative

  5. The Realm of the Suggestive… • Stream of Consciousness- The symbolic expression of interior states as in the work of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner • Confessional Poetry- Highly personal symbols as found in the works of Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Ted Hughes • Psychological Realism- The projection of interior states onto exterior objects, found in the expressionism of Franz Kafka, Eugene O’Neill, or the drama of Jean Paul Sartre • Hyper Realism- The highly focused use of realistic images to suggest transcendent states as in the work of Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates, and Do DeLillo

  6. Continue….The Realm of the Suggestive… • Lyric Poetry- Expression of interior states via more conventional images and language. Found in classic works of Metaphysical, Carpe Diem, Romantic and late Victorian writers • Memoir- A prose recitation of personal events. The autobiographical word of Maya Angelou, E.B. White, and Annie Lamotte

  7. The Informative

  8. The Informative Defined… • Informative writing mixes memory with shared perspective to find common ground • A variety of sources-memory, direct observation, interview, and recorded information • Incorporate first, second, and third person • Informative writing seeks neither subjectivity nor complete objectivity • Think Media! • Truth is the goal

  9. The Informative… • Reportorial • Evidential • Historic • Communal • Perspectival • Denotative

  10. The Realm of Informative… • Participatory Journalism- First-person involvement in the event under study often mixed with second-or-third hand sources. (Hunter Thompson) • Dramatized Journalism- Fictionalized interpretations of current or historical events based on research and interviews. (Truman Capote) • Feature Writing- feature writing often has a first-person feel but is less oriented toward the perspective of the writer and incorporates outside sources

  11. Continue… The Realm of Informative… • Summary News- Summary news eschews the dramatic for the factual. The meat and potatoes of newspapers. • Interview- first person angle has disappeared completely as we are absorbed in the view of the source • Biography- range of sources and perspectives convey the world or culture of a subject separate from the writer

  12. The Critical

  13. The Critical defined… • Communicates its meaning • The “what” supplanted by the “how” or “why” • Characterized by persuasion • Uses analysis to unearth the meaning of a text • The speechwriter uses language to enlighten • Editorial writer seeks to change our point of view • We must do more than understand a belief; we must share it • Encounter critical writing through literary analysis

  14. The Critical… • Third-person • Explicit • Evaluative • Declarative • Scientific • Cultural • Persuasive • Analytic

  15. The Realm of the Critical… • Performance Critique- evaluates a performance’s merits • Editorial-weighs the merits of a case, but with the additional intent to persuade the reader to share that evaluation. Letters to the editor and the opinions pages of media publications demonstrate the power of the editorial • Informal Analysis- this is a first-person treatment of a subject, the author interpreting material gathered from numerous sources. • Academic Analysis- Third person in perspective, academic analysis

  16. Benefits from all three = The Chef • Suggestive writing requires brainstorming or clustering-use anecdotes, conversations, and descriptive details-gives a richness that communicates the intensity of their experience • Informative writing expands the range of sources, encouraging students to supplement their own experience and observations with the experiences and observations of others • Critical writing requires an awareness of the material under discussion-how it operates, what it intends-so that the writer can communicate to others that same awareness and understanding

  17. Group Work…. • Choose 4-5 people for your group • Read each essay • Determine as a group which one represents informative, suggestive and critical • Annotate details in each group that support your decision

  18. Essay Time…. • Listen to the examples…. • Read the directions for each topic • Choose to write a suggestive essay or informative essay • Check Edmodo for the assignment post…

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