Friday, December 16, 2011

Looking at life through new metaphorical glasses

Do you think that becoming a writer has forced you to look at the world differently or to read differently? Example?

Becoming a writer has basically given me some wider, xray glasses to look at the world. Here are some reasons why you would say I am a better writer and have gone through ap comp:
  • If people have poor reasoning, I murmur under my breath "logical fallacy"
  • My brothers now know when they use logical fallacies and when they use it in an argument against me, before I have time to say anything they yell out "Ya, thats a logical fallacy, ha ha" in a really sarcastic high pitched voice
  • I can never look at an emoticon the same way again (I always see it as a slight cop out) and whenever I use them I hesitate before I put it in
  • My mind goes through the steps of rhetorical analysis whenever I read through some text, and I always wonder and think about why I am appealed to this writing
  • I've found that on more research type papers, I try to use various forms of sentence structure and add various stories at the opening and closing paragraphs to add interest in my paper (I did this for a human anatomy paper)
  • I always ask myself why I am appealed to an ad and what make it visually capturing and wonder why they put it in a particular magazine.
  • When I watch Giada on food network, whenever she says one of her copius amount of adjectives to describe her food, I always visualize in my mind and think about what that adjective makes me think and feel, which then makes me want to eat the food
  • I have stopped (or tried stopping) using the words thing and very to describe various objects
  • I can't not do rhetorical analysis when I describe and have to ask myself why people would want to read what I write
  • I get excited to edit and slightly stressed out at the fact that there is so much that I could change about my writing to make it kick butt
  • I try to find the voice, form, audience and purpose whenever I write
  • I wonder what my voice is like in every type of writing (research papers, blogs, the way I talk too, even though its not writing) 

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