I apologize for posting reaction late since I was so overwhelmed with my Lighting Studio and Photoshop class assignments...
It is interested to read the book as a comic instead of a bunch of pages of words. In this way, the book keeps reader’s attention of what’s going on especially for students who do not like to read.
There is a few things that I learned through the introduction where they did not go in depth yet. First of all, xxxxxx says “All writing is influenced by what you know about an audience’s expectation.”. I found this to be truth when you are writing for a specific audience, you will write in a particularly way. For example, an request of a recommendation letter will be asked politely to a instructor; an analysis of a shooting assignment will be wrote neatly and detailed as a final draft and all the blogs we posted are supposed to contain specific information we learned from the articles. Pretending me myself as my targeted audience and, writing in the way that the audience would expect could help the writer to start the first step. In the other words, write to persuasive yourself first.
As Zander Cannon, one of the illustrators of this book, says that he likes to let his thoughts wander before he starts the project. I am a hundred percent agree with him because every time I am assigned with a paper or an essay, I write so carefully and I just worried about those little mistakes all the time. I did no go boldly through writing process which makes me stressed a lot when writing for real. Actually, writing is really fun when you know your targeted readers and you express yourself “freely” through writing.
I really appreciate that there is people in the world who would like to help students to have fun in writing rather than training them to write.
