WORD CHOICE
Chosen with explicit care, each and every word has it's purpose in portraying the theme or message a piece possesses.
ANGRY LETTER
For this succeeding assignment, the angry letter was an assignment where students find a legitimate reason to complain to any company and write a letter in hopes of persuading said company to fix the issue. On the outside, it may seem as if the angry letter was one to be fueled with hatred and was intent on pouring out frustration. However, one must remember that we are writing to actual people, thus, we must take into consideration how we execute the writing. I chose to complain to the DOE about right-handed bias, and how it frustrates people such as myself; someone left-handed. I've had to deal with this problem countless times in nearly all of my classes that use the traditional "arm" desk, and I used that to my advantage in connecting my personal experience to the problem. I needed to maintain a balance between both the frustrations I have, possible solutions, and the positives I see in the educational system. Funnily enough, when I introduce wise word choice, the letter itself doesn't seem so angry anymore; rather, simply an inquiry and request. I believe this assignment also best represents how I effectively used and met this standard in writing.
WORD CHOICE OLYMPICS 1/2
Choices and decisions in writing, life; really anything, are consequential. Meaning they follow as a direct result. Think at it this way--the computers we have today were consequential to the designs of yesteryear, and the year before that, and the decade before that--the same goes with writing. Words and their positions should be there at the right places and at the right time when writing a great piece. These two assignments, although more of a way to "practice" effective word choice, still was a challenging one for a lot of students. One had to dig deep down to write a story in any image they find (or the ones selected, for the first assignment), and translate that into something vivid; something that would get the audience involved, using effective word choice. For example, the concert image; one could have easily said "the three girls cried as they saw their idol" and call it a day. But when incorporating wise word choice, we name them, we we describe their appearances, their actions, etc. We can change that into "JoAnn, with her admission strip tightly strapped to her arm and her visibly distinctive blue shirt, reached out in hopes of...attention". It makes a big difference, and these two word choice "olympics" assignments definitely show that best.