The Maker's Eye Murray Analysis
Branden Dang
August 17th 2015
Assignment 7
“When students complete a first draft, they consider the job of writing done”. Generally this is what all students wish to happen. People wish they could just get things done the first time around. Unfortunately in the draft process readers have to proofread and modify their content for improvement and perfection. Leading to not just one but possibly many drafts written in order to meet perfection and/or satisfaction. In The Maker’s Eye by Donald Murray, he stresses the importance of revising your own essays. I agree with his reasoning because of criticism, audiences, and voice.
First off, Criticism is one of the most important things to revision. Murray emphasizes and stresses the importance of peer …show more content…
Murray really emphasizes the intended audience and the necessity of consideration needed to be put in. “Writers...put[ting] themselves in the reader's situation.” Writers should be anticipating who they are writing for and getting ready to answer future questions they have. For this reason the writer must be fully understand the audience, maintain interest, and trying to make connections with the readers. In this case writers must need include special needs and interest in common with the audience of readers. It is important to build a relationship with reader and writer for many reasons. To make clear who the intended audience is, To clarify and make everything clear for the reader to understand, and to persuade and convince the reader to keep their attention. The main objective of writing essays is to convince and to catch the reader's attention. Which is why audience is a very important term for revising …show more content…
Murray emphasizes in The Maker’s eye the importance of Criticism, Audience, and Voice. After reading this content Murray's teachings have taught me very well and i will use his techniques to be in my benefit to a more successful writing path. There are other this he also emphasizes minorly which is information, meaning, and form. Another objective to his writing is to persuade the writer that revising is not all that bad and it is a lot easier to do and accomplish. Though it might be tedious and pointless at times but just do it, it is better in the long run and one will most likely get a better
August 17th 2015
Assignment 7
“When students complete a first draft, they consider the job of writing done”. Generally this is what all students wish to happen. People wish they could just get things done the first time around. Unfortunately in the draft process readers have to proofread and modify their content for improvement and perfection. Leading to not just one but possibly many drafts written in order to meet perfection and/or satisfaction. In The Maker’s Eye by Donald Murray, he stresses the importance of revising your own essays. I agree with his reasoning because of criticism, audiences, and voice.
First off, Criticism is one of the most important things to revision. Murray emphasizes and stresses the importance of peer …show more content…
Murray really emphasizes the intended audience and the necessity of consideration needed to be put in. “Writers...put[ting] themselves in the reader's situation.” Writers should be anticipating who they are writing for and getting ready to answer future questions they have. For this reason the writer must be fully understand the audience, maintain interest, and trying to make connections with the readers. In this case writers must need include special needs and interest in common with the audience of readers. It is important to build a relationship with reader and writer for many reasons. To make clear who the intended audience is, To clarify and make everything clear for the reader to understand, and to persuade and convince the reader to keep their attention. The main objective of writing essays is to convince and to catch the reader's attention. Which is why audience is a very important term for revising …show more content…
Murray emphasizes in The Maker’s eye the importance of Criticism, Audience, and Voice. After reading this content Murray's teachings have taught me very well and i will use his techniques to be in my benefit to a more successful writing path. There are other this he also emphasizes minorly which is information, meaning, and form. Another objective to his writing is to persuade the writer that revising is not all that bad and it is a lot easier to do and accomplish. Though it might be tedious and pointless at times but just do it, it is better in the long run and one will most likely get a better