PB3A

For my writing project 3 I am going to write on the topic of Ebola. I wrote about Ebola in my writing project 2 and liked it a lot. This topic interests me a lot and can be easily written about whether it is for a younger audience or for an older audience. For my younger audience I was going with ages six through ages 8. I am going to do a children’s book. The reason I am going to do a children’s book is because I feel like that is how a child starts to learn reading, but also doesn’t lose their interest because of the pictures that are in the book. When I was growing up I always loved children’s books, my mom use to read one to me almost every night before I would go to bed and I loved it! In the children’s book I was going to write so that a six year old could easily understand what was being said, and the pictures that I am going to draw can easily be related for what the text is saying. For this writing project 3 I am going to have about ten pages in my children’s book to make it a good one. Children’s book range for pages and I think ten pages is right in the middle.

For the older group of people I was thinking about doing some text messages. Text messages are very common for this generation. People love to text. For this group of older people I was thinking between the ages of 30-35. This isn’t very old, but can still be considered aged adults. People in this day and age love not talking on the phone, they would rather just text and make things more convenient for them. For this project I was going to have a conversation between a boyfriend and a girlfriend and somehow factor in the topic of my scholarly text. This should be easy because I am able to talk using a more profound vocabulary and the older generation of people would understand what I am trying to say. Although texts can range from a very long conversation to a short one, for my writing project 3 I am going to do a in the middle conversation, just to have enough to make it look like they were talking for a little.

This writing project is my favorite, I feel like it is open to whatever you want to do and that is what writing should be about. Writing should be what you want to write and how you express yourself, and that is exactly what this project is. I feel like both my topics are both the most popular topics for those ages in this day and age, and that is why I chose to write about those. I look forward to working on this project because I love when I can create something from nothing and be as creative as possible.  

PB2B: Moves

A move is a strategic way that an author can use to write. When you have a move that you can revert to, and that is yours it makes the reader notice the style of writing that you are conveying. You can tell when an author is using a specific move because that move is most likely always going to be in the writing, even if the topic is different from one another. In the two readings that we had to do “Style in Arguments” and “How to read like a Writer”, both of the authors convey their points in different ways but use specific moves in their writing to help them get there.

In both of these readings the authors start off the readings with strong hooks that help them lure the reader into the reading. In “Style in Arguments” the author puts three distinct pictures at the beginning of the reading. In most cases, when a reader is reading and he/she sees a pictures and words written under it they are going to be attracted to it. In the case of this reading, when I saw that move that the author made I was hooked into the reading and wanted to finish it. Not only did the author put pictures, but described the pictures “style” which was a move to get the reader to keep looking at the text. The main argument the author was about style and different ways that you can create style. This discussion was really relate able to reader. As a scholar I am trying to put in my style into the writing I am trying to make. In “How to read like a Writer” written by Michael Bunn, he begins the text with a essay. This is a very different way to bring the reader into your reading, a hook. I was not the biggest fan of this way to hook the reader. In my opinion, the author did not even give a hint as to what was going to be talked about in the reading, so I had no idea if this was going to be interesting or not.. but since I had to read it.

Bunn in his text refers back to the essay that he used to hook the reader throughout the whole text. Although in the first reading “Style in Arguments” the author only uses the pictures as a hook and then does not talk about them anymore throughout the whole reading. This is a move and choice that the author makes to not refer back to the pictures unlike what Bunn did. When Bunn makes the choice to refer back to the essay throughout the reading he is making a move that he decided is a good idea. In Bunn’s reading he poses a question to the readers, and then for the rest of the section he is explaining slash answering the question he asked. This is a move that Bunn uses that helps the reader understand how to read like a writer, which he is trying to convey throughout the whole reading. In the other reading the author for each section gives a couple of words and then for the rest of the section the author goes into the specific details about explaining those words and talking about it. This is a move the author poses to not be to complex in explaining style. The author does not want to confuse anyone, the author wants the reader to understand the importance of style and how to create a style.

One of my favorite moves that the “Style in Arguments” reading has are respond sections throughout the whole reading. A respond section is like a activity for the reader to do to understand what is being said by the author. It helps the reader to obtain the knowledge throughout the whole reading and it makes it clear with the activities on the side. This move by the author is used all over, if you are reading a passage for school your teacher most likely will give you questions that go along with it. It is like that, you read and then you have a activity to follow. In the essay written by Bunn he is making the reader think while they are reading. He is posing questions that the reader must answer before they move on to the next section.

Both of these readings had successful moves and unsuccessful moves in my opinion. The authors are trying to get the reader to think like they have, and ask questions so that they can understand what message the author is sending. I think both authors did a awesome job explaining the details of there readings. I thought both of the readings were interesting and both got the point across.