Author: bianca (Page 6 of 6)

From the readings “Maybe I could Save Myself By Writing”by Jose Olivarez and ” The Fourth of July” by Audre Lorde, I have noticed that the key points to getting your point across to the reader is by sharing your story and your experiences.  Establishing the setting of your story and expressing your opinions on events that have happened to try to get more personal with your audience. As Jose Olivarez shares his experience of feeling like he doesn’t belong from where he lives or where he comes from is being relatable to his targeted audience. As he is trying to reach those with similar experiences and help them to know they aren’t alone in this life as he had looked for someone like that when he was growing up. He reached this environment by mentoring and creating a safe space for those going through similar situations. To be able to start my own educational narrative, a great place to start would be learning how to set a tone for your story. I think it’s so important to be able to explain and get the reader to understand how you felt in a situation they haven’t ever encountered. Reading allows you to experience various circumstances that you have never come across and allows you to explore. So the tone, word choice, form , everything is crucial to how your story gets across to the reader.  I would be concerned on how to pace my own story so that the reader truly gets to know you without being overly formal, but still being informative on the subject.

As Mike Bunn states “You Are Already An Author”, I believe he is trying to relate with his audience on how no matter how little or how much you have written we are all authors. On our day to day basis we communicate through various different platforms while shifting between formal and informal mannerisms determined by the circumstances we are put under. As he helps us better understand through his viewpoint with using comparison and getting advice from old students to relate on a more personal level with his readers. I personally have not written many essays in my life or any that I believe that matters, however all the writings I have written gives me experience and makes me an author. This experience will help greatly in my college reading and writing career  because I have the experience and with readings such as this, in my new college english class and I am sure to improve by a considerable amount. As well as the knowledge that I have previously gained I am sure to learn and adopt many new techniques that I come across in new readings. Some of the techniques I took note on in Bunn’s article that I would love to try incorporate in my own writing would be using comparison to connect with the reader. For example  when he adds “Author David Jauss makes a similar comparison when he writes that “reading wont help you much unless you learn to read like a writer. You must look at a book the way a carpenter looks at a house someone else built, examining  the details in order to see how it was made”. I love the way this puts the reader to look at it in a different perspective and help them to connect with the article.