The Writers Goals:

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The Writers Goals

• To inform, instruct, clarify, persuade
• (serious and literary)
• A THESIS!
• OR
• To provide entertainment and escape
• (commercial, genre, formula)
• NO THESIS!

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ASSIGNED COLLEGE READING

• Writers Goal Are Serious
• There is a Thesis
• Critical Reading is Expected
• Themes The Ageless Human Themes
• Readers Must Ask the Appropriate Questions to
  Have the Must Comprehensive Reading Experience

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ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION

• FICTION OR PERSONAL NARRATIVE ESSAY
• What does the narrative illustrate?

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MARK TWAIN
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ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION

• PERSONAL NARRATIVE
• What does the narrative illustrate?

Langston Hughes
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THE THESIS

• DIRECT
• AUTHORS THESIS STATED
• REQUIRES READERS COMPREHENTION
• INDIRECT
• AUTHORS THESIS UNSTATED
• REQUIRES READERS INTERPRETATION

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DIRECT COMMUNICATION

• Newspaper, Magazine, and Journal Articles
• History
• Biography
• Editorials
• An Essay
• Your Formal Papers for 1101

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INDIRECT COMMUNICATION(thesis is unstated and
requires readers interpretation of thesis)

• ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION
• PERSONAL NARRATIVE
• PARABLE/FABLE
• SATIRE
• FICTION

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INDIRECT COMMUNICATIONGENRES

• PARABLE/FABLE
• FICTION
• PERSONAL NARRATIVE
• SATIRE

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ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION

• PARABLE/FABLE
• Whats the moral?
• FICTION
• What does the narrative illustrate?
• PERSONAL NARRATIVE
• What does the narrative illustrate?
• SATIRE
• Whats being ridiculed?

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ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION

• SATIRE
• Whats being ridiculed?

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ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION

• PARABLE/FABLE
• Whats the moral?
• FICTION
• What does the narrative illustrate?
• PERSONAL NARRATIVE
• What does the narrative illustrate?
• SATIRE
• Whats being ridiculed?

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR.
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CORE SKILLS REINFORCED l. Communication skills
2. Community skills (citizenship
diversity/pluralism local community, global,
environmental awareness) 3. Critical thinking and
problem solving skills (analysis, synthesis,
evaluation, decision making, creative
thinking) 4. Information management skills
(collecting, analyzing, and organizing
information from a variety of sources) 5.
Personal skills (ability to understand and manage
self, management of change, learning to learn,
personal responsibility, aesthetic
responsiveness, wellness) 6. Technology skills
(computer literacy, Internet skills, retrieving
and managing information via technology)