Wednesday, November 2, 2011

methodology in writing

Writing an essay is no simple task. You absolutely have to use a process when you are writing an essay. Unless you want your work to be completely useless, use a process. It’s more than the drafting, brainstorming and editing. You want your essay to be effective or persuasive. Whether it is arguing for or against something, moving the reader by simply telling a story, comparing or contrasting a thought or idea or to break down and elaborate on something important you, you want to get your message across.  Using tools in writing to make your essay effective and persuasive is called using rhetoric. 

Depending on the type of essay you are writing there are tons of different rules in rhetoric you can use to get your message across. When writing a narrative, you want to use story grammars. Story grammars are explicit, vivid details that provide a framework and structure to make the story make sense.  Cause and effect is an important aspect of rhetoric that provides depth and flow in an essay. Comparing and contrasting in rhetoric allows the reader depth as well as gaps so they can better relate to the essay. Lastly, classifying and defining in writing is a very effective tool you can use when you need to reach an audience. Classifying is taking a topic or idea and breaking it down into subtopics. Defining is taking those subtopics and elaborating and defining them. Using rhetoric in writing is essential to reaching an audience.

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