STUDENT Learning Centre IMPROVING YOUR WRITING STYLE FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Academic writing requires a level of clarity and precision that makes repeated editing essential. This brochure describes some aspects of good writing style and will give you practice at editing sentences to improve their style. TONE Academic writing sounds different to more casual writing because it: ♦ is usually impersonal and unemotional ♦ uses precise vocabulary and complicated nouns ♦ uses passive
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playwrights to aid in the development of characters or to display themes in novels and plays. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism heavily in his text "The Great Gatsby"‚ as does Tennessee Williams in "The Glass Menagerie". Various symbols appear throughout the respective texts that allow the reader to gain insight into character’s personalities and also add value to major themes and ideas in the texts. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby" is a text that is reflective of the Period in which it was
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Styles of writing and use of available resources In this following assignment we will be looking at styles of writing and the use of available resources in health and social care settings. We will describe how each available resource can be used to support health and social study care; we will also explain why the resources are presented differently due to the types of media used. We will then produce three pieces of information in Persuasive writing‚ journalistic writing and in a scientific report
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Writing Styles In this essay I will be going into detail about three different writing styles used in health and social care. I will also be comparing the writing styles against each other. Persuasive Writing – Persuasive writing is all about trying to get someone’s attention on something. Persuasive writing use’s specific features which help the information used to become persuasive towards the audience. This could include using present tense‚ using emotive language‚ using rhetorical questions
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vs. Shirley Jackson Analysis As a common reader I’ve come across many authors that have intrigued me due their style of writing‚ choice of words‚ paramount of symbolism‚ sense of irony‚ use of color‚ etc… but no two authors have caught my attention more than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Shirley Jackson. These two authors are completely different in every way including their writing styles! Both of these authors have written short stories that have been extremely famous with the public. For example‚ Nathaniel
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Careless Characters and How Their Choices Affect Them in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald October 4‚ 2010 Honors English 11 Dr. Lane To be careless is to be free from anxiety or to not pay attention to what one does. There are several characters throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald that could be labeled as careless. Nick Carraway witnesses these careless people and the choices they make while he is living in New York. It is because of these people that
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How does F Scott Fitzgerald tell the story in chapter two of ‘The Great Gatsby’? The introduction of Tom’s mistress‚ Myrtle‚ in Chapter Two of ‘The Great Gatsby’ plays as the focal point of the chapter. It begins with Tom and Nick travelling into New York on the train‚ however they get off in the Valley of Ashes‚ a derelict setting between West Egg‚ East Egg and New York. The pair stop at a mechanics‚ and speak with the man who is married to Myrtle‚ Wilson. Myrtle‚ Tom and Nick then go to their
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How does F. Scott Fitzgerald Create a Picture of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby? Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic novel‚ set in the year of 1922 and is primarily centered on the character known as Jay Gatsby. What makes this book so symbolic are the amount of references of the American Dream‚ which Fitzgerald manages to condemn‚ praise and define. There are many different stages and events which happen in this story that Fitzgerald is able to use to symbolize
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was a writer who was born in 1896. He became one of the most famous writers of American history. His stories are still being read by people all over the world. His stories are everlasting‚ and make the reader long for an epoch they were not even present in. I personally find "The Great Gatsby" a very interesting story. Fitzgerald tended to write about characters who had luxurious lives and were obsessed with power. I think it was easy for him to write all these stories because
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story‚ “Winter Dreams”‚ he suggests that the American Dream is a desire for “glittering things”‚ but the message Fitzgerald is trying to come across is that a person’s success depends on the effort put into it instead of class or race. Fitzgerald gives many examples of the idea American Dream‚ also Dexter’s desire for material success and his desire for Judy Jones. It’s also comparing his desire for both success and his childhood crush‚ Judy. The story starts off
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