Friday, December 17, 2010

The different reasons for writing

The strategies that the writers have used in the articles are all very effective. In the expository essay about the faceless teacher, Dennis Gardener, tries his best to persuade the audience that although the internet can benefit teachers, it is no replacement for teachers as some might think. He argues that the internet only produces result and does not teach the users about the creative processes that can be used to produce the result. He tries his best to make us seem like bins where information is just dumped from the internet. The audience of this story which was in this case, teachers would have most likely created a feeling of being made redundant and this also serves to help his argument.
The second article “Lou’s place” uses the descriptive strategy to create vivid pictures of what the setting is like. These descriptions evoke feelings peace from the audience by painting a picture of Lou’s place where everybody got along and there were no problems but just an overwhelming feeling a love and brotherhood. The writer targeted these feelings from his audience with excellent use of voice and made Lou’s Place seem like a place that all of us would like to be so that we could experience the love and togetherness that the characters in Lou’s place have. The third and final article Alina, the writer take the audience into the history of the events surrounding him meeting Alina so they may understand the event that occurred and they significance of them and also to provide support for the main characters perspective. He aims to get the audience to side with the main character and uses our position as Caribbean people to achieve this. He makes use of the act that many Caribbean people have relatives that have migrated to other countries and or not met with success but only more hardship. He also stirs up fears instilled within us of going to meet our relatives in those countries but only to get there and be treated like a slave to accomplish his purpose.

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