Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Chapter 8



 


Chapter 8 was a really interesting chapter. It covered exemplification, which is something that I don’t necessarily think about nor write about very often. I think what stuck out to me the most in this chapter was how you can use examples to really do anything you want as long as you provide enough of them. I think it was interesting to learn how you can use examples to persuade, at interest and clarify. I guess I kind and no that you use examples to prove these but I just usually don’t think about it. I think that structuring it is basically the same as any paragraph or essay you would write in English so that did not surprise me. What makes me mad, is the whole idea on transitions. For some reason, I simply hate using transition words. The reason I hate them is because I’m lazy. I don’t like spending 10 minutes on trying to figure out how to transition to a new idea about the same topic. I would like it if I could just say first second and third and be done with it. I definitely know what I want to write about in my upcoming essay. It’s about my experiences with entertaining people. I have a lot of examples I am ready to use and will hopefully make a good mental picture in the readers mind.

            Since I am an English class, I should talk about how I really feel about this topic educationally.  There are a ton of important points in the reading. I think the most important in this chapter though our three ways to use examples. I think this can really help a student figure out what exactly he or she wants to write about. When the reading was how to use examples to explain or clarify things, it made it very clear at that point what I really wanted to address in my own writing. Then when it told me to use examples to add interest, I narrowed down the examples in my head to what I specifically want to talk about. And then when it told me to use examples to persuade, I knew how I was going to write this essay. I haven’t actually written the essay yet but I have a very strong idea and a very strong plan of what I’m going to do. I’m actually very excited to write this essay because what I have chosen to write about is something that I absolutely love. I am choosing to write about how I love to entertain people.

 

-Preston Allen

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