Jessica Mitford, the author of “The Story of Service”, writes about the business of embalming and open casket funerals. Within the chapter, she explains how the industry often takes advantage of the grief-stricken customers. The funeral homes over-charge for the service, taking into account simple things like bookkeeping, and ‘the idle time of employees is … [Read more…]
In the chapter titled ‘The Art of Summarizing’ in the book They Say, I Say, the authors instruct writers on how to properly summarize other authors’ ideas in your writing piece. They begin by relaying several common mistakes. Writers need to focus on voicing their own opinion rather than simply summarizing the article. Other writers … [Read more…]
Although the short story ‘A Small, Good Thing’ by Raymond Carver may not revolve around food, he incorporates several ways food and nourishment can connect us to others. The story begins with a mother placing an order for a birthday cake to commemorate her son’s eighth birthday. This birthday cake is a significant symbol, representing … [Read more…]
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For this paper, I spent the most time revising the paragraph where I explain how to make the dish. I received many comments about this part, mentioning how it was like a grocery list of sentences, just telling the reader the recipe rather than showing how my grandmother and I made it. I also spent … [Read more…]
In ‘The Art of Quoting’ chapter in They Say, I Say, the authors outlined the important rules for seamlessly blending quotes into your piece of writing. Quotes are important because they serve to give the reader proof of the evidence you gathered and they show that the writer didn’t just make all the information up. … [Read more…]
In my experience, drafting and revising writing projects took a long time to reach a quality final project. When given big writing projects in AP Literature, the class would meet in small peer editing groups where we would have printed out multiple copies of our work and hand them to our classmates for revision. They … [Read more…]
1) If David Foster Wallace was invited into the classroom, I would be intrigued to know why he choose lobsters as the topic of his essay. When was he first interested in the lobster industry? Why did he decide to write an essay on the topic? Does he have a connection to New England? Why … [Read more…]
In this chapter of They Say, I Say, the authors focused on the importance of starting your writing by describing what others are saying about the topic you are writing about. As mentioned previously in the book, writers need to have a clearly stated thesis in order to make the piece have meaning, and to … [Read more…]
