In Kurt Vonnegut’s How to Write with Style, the author gives his insight on how to enhance the quality of your writing, and attract readers. Vonnegut was asked by an international paper to explain how to put your style and personality into everything you write.
The purpose of this article is to give tips on how to write with your own style. Writing is easy enough for some, but many people do not know how to add their own touch to the piece they are writing.
He gave good tips on how to make your writing your own. A good example of this is, “2. Do not ramble, though. I won’t ramble on about that” (Vonnegut 66). This was a great example because most authors tend to explain why they had given a certain tip. The tip given to try not ramble, does not require the author to explain why we should not ramble, his explanation for that tip was perfect.
The main idea was to make people aware that what you write gets more attention if you had your personal touch on it. Vonnegut states that news reports, people writing for papers etc. Do not reveal anything about them in their articles. Generally, every other writer gives the audience a peak as to who they are and what they like, just by writing articles.
Vonnegut did not target a specific audience, it was meant for budding writers and even people with a career in writing. This article was meant to help everyone improve on the quality of his or her writing.
Do you think that you would consider his tips the next time you are to do a writing piece?
I too liked the humour he used when talking about rambling, but enough about that. Reading his article it does give me confidence in my own ability and tells me to trust it more.
ReplyDeleteI agree, i will definitly refer to this article for future writing...I think the first thing that grabbed me was the point that he made about journalist..and that the rest of us don't have to write that way.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your take on the article. Personally I never knew how to write something with "style and personality" as most of the time I have no interest in the things I have to write. However, this article is one that I intend to use for all my future writing assignments. I even printed it off.
ReplyDeleteI too enjoyed this artle, I think that this article used easy to understand language to explain how to write using our own style. I will defenitely use this for fuure writing assignments.
ReplyDeleteIf you can enjoy a 'how to improve your writing' kind of essay then I did. The information was to the point and simple to understand. I tried to employ some of the strategies in my research paper and especially the bit about the importance of a sentence illuminating your topic; if not don't use it and not rambling.
ReplyDeleteThe author was successful in making a dry subject amusing and readable! I will try to make use of his tips when I write from now on.
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I too enjoyed Vonnegut's message to put something of yourself into your writing. I really enjoyed learning that he was from Illinois because it shows that a writer can come from anywhere. You don't have to have been born in Ireland (James Joyce) or you don't have to write in a cafe in Paris (Hemingway).