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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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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So in this essay I will be talking about how Roald dahl and ray bradbury are alike.How are roald dahl and Ray Bradbury alike? Well they are very good at making things without thought or emotions seem like they do. For example Roald dahl made it seem like the landlady’s dog and bird were alive. She treated them like real living things ‚ he made that seem very real. And Ray made it seem like the whole house was alive . For example Ray said said on there will come soft rains” the clock sang” or “robot
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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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Us vs Them “There are worse crimes than burning books‚ one of them is not reading them” (Bradbury). I hope that this quote can help a lot of people make better decisions to not take away books and intellectualism. Fahrenheit 451 is an example of what can happen in the future if we keep on the course of our affinity toward electronics and lack of reading. This is why we need to stop banning books and start learning. Firefighters In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ firefighters would make horrible
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Biographical information about the author: Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan‚ Illinois on August 22‚ 1920. He was an author of many great novels as well as a poet. He wrote fantasy and horror‚ Fahrenheit 451 was one of his most famous novels. At a young age Ray was a fantasy fiction lover and liked magicians. He chose to be a writer when he was about 13 and then later moved to Los Angeles‚ California. During the great depression he couldn’t pay for college‚ instead went to the library. His first
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“We have too many cell phones. We’ve got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines.” Ray Bradbury was a man of science‚ but also of writing. Which is why it puzzles me that he thinks technology is going to decrease social interaction among humans‚ I think he was wrong. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury‚ he shows us how technology and censorship can ruin a society. I agree with him to a point‚ but we also differ in opinions. Although he predicted our future fairly correctly‚ I
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Ray Bradbury was alive during a very interesting era‚ a time period that included World War II and the Cold War. There is no doubt that his experience through these historically rich time periods shaped what he thought and wrote during his career as an author. His writings were inspired and influenced by the aspects of the historical events in his lifetime. Ray Bradbury uses historical content in his novel‚ Fahrenheit 451‚ to express his thoughts on society’s weaknesses. By using the novel’s
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The short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury‚ takes place on the planet Venus-where it is always raining and the sun only comes out every seven years. Most of the children that live there cannot remember the sun‚ although Margot can. She had recently moved to Venus from Earth and remembers every detail about it‚ like the beauty of it and the many wonders it brings. However‚ Margot’s classmates are resentful of her considering she can remember something that they can only dream about. The
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