Introduction to Composition Summer 2017

Icarus, by Henri Matisse H ello to you all.   Hope you had a good week since last we met.   I read all the work submitted and found the material interesting and nicely composed.   I will return these papers today first thing and accept any late work or additional paragraphs using descriptive mode, as some of you may have done.   After reviewing the returned work and grammar practice we will spend the class time working on narrative form.   To narrate, you may recall is to tell a story involving incidents, people in situations that evoke questions and/or insights and perspectives   which the telling allows you to present and explore.   What happened, when, and who was involved are key elements, as is use of description to make readers “see” the scene or character.   Often dialogue will bring a sense of the here and now, a dramatic immediacy and clarity of voice that immerses in the moment. T he following is a rendering of a fairly w...

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. –Helen Keller Good day!  How was your weekend?  What words would you use to describe it?  What details of person, place, action?  What feelings, thoughts, perceptions?  What large or general ideas can you draw from the specifics of your focus? With such questions in mind might you begin writing your next essay.     T oday   we  pick up where we left off last week and that was with directions to practice writing in descriptive mode.  You were to choose several suitable subjects for single paragraph practices.  You want to bring the concrete, physical aspects of your subjects to life in such a way as to create a unified, strong impression, and point. Descriptive work makes a reader sense and understand the physical aspects of a given subject and the attitude ...