Elbow's Ideas
Elbow focus on these ideas because of the voice expressing the essence of your feelings and thoughts. An essay with feelings instead of just text is more known to pull in those who can relate or compare to it, thus giving the essay “power” to pull in the reader.
R. 2 p. 108: Writers often use example to help illustrate their point. Does the example of a freewriting exercise Elbow provides in paragraph 3 help you to understand the method? Why or Why not?
I think it is easy to understand his example of freewriting. Elbow mentions in the first paragraph that freewriting is like “babbling or jabbering.” Paragraph 3 shows this example of this “babbling” by first talking about what is on his mind, to stating about the weather to talking about
R. 2 p. 108: Writers often use example to help illustrate their point. Does the example of a freewriting exercise Elbow provides in paragraph 3 help you to understand the method? Why or Why not?
I think it is easy to understand his example of freewriting. Elbow mentions in the first paragraph that freewriting is like “babbling or jabbering.” Paragraph 3 shows this example of this “babbling” by first talking about what is on his mind, to stating about the weather to talking about