Essay Why Boys Don T Play With Dolls By Katha Pollitt
2 August 2010 Conveying a Purpose by the Use of Tone in Essay Writing
The tone of an essay reveals to readers who the author and gives them a sense of the writer's personality. Tone tells the reader why the author is writing about their chosen subject. Both Barry and Pollitt are comparing the differences in men and women but their reasons for it and outlook about it vary greatly. Barry seems to celebrate these differences and make light of them while Pollitt explores the causes and effects of the differences. Katha Pollitt’s is most effective at revealing herself and her views through the tone of her essay.
Tone can be set from the first sentence written or a single word used in one incidence in a paper. The words one chooses, voice inflection, pitch, or slang expressions determine how people interpret the intent of verbal conversation; tone does the same for writing. Tone lets the reader know if the writer intends to be humorous or serious, casual or formal. The words an author chooses to use in their writing leads …show more content…
After reading the opening sentence she seems put off and perhaps even disgusted and sarcastic in her tone. Pollitt maintains this throughout her essay. She uses phrases like “we don’t need”, “It hasn’t even”, “I’m at a” and “just don’t understand”. Pollitt’s continuing use of contractions was a good technique. It allowed the essay to speak to the everyman or more correctly the everywoman. If she had chosen to write in a formal tone this same essay would read as a mere rant by a feminist, leftist with a hidden agenda instead of being able to maintain the disguise of nothing more than an informative essay published in the New York
The tone of an essay reveals to readers who the author and gives them a sense of the writer's personality. Tone tells the reader why the author is writing about their chosen subject. Both Barry and Pollitt are comparing the differences in men and women but their reasons for it and outlook about it vary greatly. Barry seems to celebrate these differences and make light of them while Pollitt explores the causes and effects of the differences. Katha Pollitt’s is most effective at revealing herself and her views through the tone of her essay.
Tone can be set from the first sentence written or a single word used in one incidence in a paper. The words one chooses, voice inflection, pitch, or slang expressions determine how people interpret the intent of verbal conversation; tone does the same for writing. Tone lets the reader know if the writer intends to be humorous or serious, casual or formal. The words an author chooses to use in their writing leads …show more content…
After reading the opening sentence she seems put off and perhaps even disgusted and sarcastic in her tone. Pollitt maintains this throughout her essay. She uses phrases like “we don’t need”, “It hasn’t even”, “I’m at a” and “just don’t understand”. Pollitt’s continuing use of contractions was a good technique. It allowed the essay to speak to the everyman or more correctly the everywoman. If she had chosen to write in a formal tone this same essay would read as a mere rant by a feminist, leftist with a hidden agenda instead of being able to maintain the disguise of nothing more than an informative essay published in the New York