Thursday, September 17, 2009
Week 6: Written Discourse
This week's materials could be said as deep as chinese text writings. No matter how much i read the articles, i can understand what i can understand sicne its all english. yet it is still quite difficult for me to differentiate the different styles of writing. the doodles of kaplan were sure interesting. but i think that it can be quite true for the chinese and english texts, since i can't say anything about the romance, russian or arabic styles since i do not read their texts. but the style of writing can be influenced by the way the students were taught to write. i still remember how my jc gp teacher drilled the different parts that should go into our essay. the topic sentence, elaboration and summary (something like that). so naturally every student we were taught this way would write in similar fashion. coming to think of it, wouldn't that make all our essays pretty boring? but i guess it's still better than an essay which only the writer understand.
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"i still remember how my jc gp teacher drilled the different parts that should go into our essay. the topic sentence, elaboration and summary (something like that)."
ReplyDeletesomehow, it was never so straight forward for me to do it. it's like i knew i was supposed to start a paragraph with a topic sentence followed by elaboration, but unconsciously i wrote what i felt like the flow of my essay.
if i tried to make sure i write everything in order, i think i'd have gone mad.
Writing styles derive a lot from our educational contexts. Understandable. Culture is mostly learned, unlike personality which can be mostly inherited.
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