How to make your writing more interesting...

When you are assigned a writing project don't procrastinate. I usually do and it doesn't help anything. You end up not writing your best work. When going to write your first draft make sure your comfortable and not distracted. That affects your writing as well.

When writing something don't be afraid to use to much detail. Details help make your writing more interesting and informative. Details will vary depending on your purpose. Sometimes you want to change your vantage point to make the story more interesting. When writing never forget about your purpose, audience, genre, stance, and media/design.

When writing a narrative arrange the events in a particular sequence. Most of the time you want to order the events as they happen, starting at the beginning and writing until the end. But you can also write in reverse chronological order which is where you begin with the final action and write until the first.Narratives work best for beginnings and endings of essays or writings.

Dialogue is also a way to make your reading more interesting to others. It shows people the scenes instead of telling them.

"Read, Read, Read. Read everything..."

When you sit down to write something there is several different things you can do before jumping into the writing project itself. Freewriting helps to bring random ideas to your head and kind of piece things together. With looping you write until you can't think of anything else to say and than you read everything you just wrote and than start writing again. Listing is just a method of writing down in lists your thoughts and ideas. Some authors like this better than freewriting or looping. Clustering is where you write your topic in the middle of the paper than circle it. Than you branch off from that with ideas. From the ideas you branch off into details and random tid bits of information. Cubing you describe your topic, compare it to something, classify it, analyze it, and argue for or against it. With questioning you ask the basic questions of; who, what, where, when, why, and how. Outlining is where you list and number your ideas in the order your going to write about them. Always write a draft and go back and correct the mistakes later. When writing a draft just focus on writing and worry about grammer and spelling later.

The first story was pretty interesting about how Tanya is born a Latin American but raised in the United States so she can' speak Spanish. I think it's odd that she is embarrassed that she can't speak Spanish because I'm sure there are a lot of others just like her. The next one is about a slave named Fredrick Douglass. At first his mistress taught him to read but after slavery got really bad she became bitter and stopped teaching him things. She eventually believed that slavery and education didn't belong together and did everything in her power to make sure the slaves weren't educated. When he got to his teenage years he began hating his life and slavery and wished for nothing more than death. One day some men gave him advice to run North so he could be free and from that day on he started planning his escape. He learned how to write from boys on the street. He would challenge them saying he could write better than they, and learn from them. After doing that for several years he learned how to write. Another story from this part is about Mike Rose and how he doesn't remember much from his early years in school. He never paid attention in math and wasn't to good in English but he loved chemistry. He liked to read also and he began reading all the time. While reading he stumbled across astronomy and his mother ended up saving money and buying him a telescope.

Helpful Hints to think about before writing!

What I read will actually be very helpful the next time I write something. For example I never really thought about my stance, which is the attitude in which I am writing. The reading also talked about is the way your writing is designed or the medium in it. When you write something for little children you would use a different size/type of font than you would for a business person. "We write to explore our thoughts and emotions, to express ourselves, to entertain; we write to record words and events,to communicate with others, to try to persuade others to believe as we do or to behave in certain ways."

This quote was my favorite part of all of the reading because it's true. Everyone has different styles of writing and different audiences to whom they are writing to. Some people prefer to write children books while others prefer to write newspaper articles and etc. Everyone has their own style and that's why when an English teacher gives a class a topic to write about the reports can come back with many different opinions that are all relevant and relating to the topic. Each and every person has their favorite font or different types of media or paper that will make their paper unique from the rest of the class. Some people will write about the topic using a different type of audience, or in other words their report will be told from a different view. When writing always think about the stance because if you are trying to persuade someone of something there are certain ways to write but if your trying to find your lost dog your writing is going to affect that. Your stance shows what you think about your audience and the topic ypur writing about.