Monday, October 15, 2012

Undesired or Boring Writing


Undesired writing or writing that is boring is everywhere. Everyone wants to create the next big story. However, what about having it be interesting and show the writers style? This approach has been used to create famous books that over time have turned into movies such as: Chronicles of Narnia series, 20,000 leagues under the sea, The lord of the rings series, and hunger games. This undesired writing in most cases involves mindless writing or choppy writing or both. But interesting writing is not boring in subject.

            Writing that is not boring entices the reader to continue reading not push them away. Not writing mindlessly entices the reader to continue reading. Instead of thinking, the content is dull or boring the writer wants to continue their read. Mindless writing puts emphasis on older subjects like poetry and older ways of life that are long gone. It writes about the 18th and19th century, but does not think ahead to the future and is stuck in its ways. Updated literature assignments with more creativity will allow students to experience rich literature without bringing up every classic work from the past. Movies reviews allow the writer to write about something that interests them without the dullness of reading hamlet or Romeo and Juliet such as the new Romeo and Juliet movie updated to gangs instead of competing families with Jet Li in it and the style students prefer now over the old style reading and movie. Another non-boring writing would be a mini 5-minute movie script for an assignment that gets the student thinking creatively about what went into a creative play or movie that we watch now and how it differed form plays in years long past (movies are in a general sense are very extensive plays with specific scenes and special effects).
 
Note: I have no doubts as to my teachers skills as a writer. This was more or less a way to show how literature classes could be improved. I strongly recommend the mini movie script writing though, because under the disguise of MOVIE script the student will not think twice about writing their own movie script instead of a play script which are similar.
 

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Speech and writing, related?



            Speech has been around since before we could intelligent and understandable sentences. Stories were passed around the campfire in the old days before anyone started writing. Writing is used to instruct people on proven methods some of which are still used today and old culture, which does not exist anymore like some of the Indians language.  Today we use the telephone and electronic communication over the computer. Today’s writing has been put into a person’s personal learned style.

            This learned style came in two forms: physical/visual and impersonated. Impersonation involves a person imitating their favorite actor, real life hero, or imaginary character. The usual result is a person develops their writing style and style of communication around the individual imitated whether real or not. The physical/visual learning style involves visual and physical contact with something or someone. The people who use this learning style like to learn by doing themselves or are learn by watching other people do a task. Examples of physical learning include, but are not limited to science classes with labs (visual learning and learn by example), programming classes where a person is supposed to make a program that does a specific task by following the instructions, and  doing community work.