If there?s one important reason why you need to write effectively in the workplace, it is this: the quality of your writing imprints a lasting impression on the reader. This reader may be your boss, a client, or a person who is ready to make a billion dollar business deal with you.

A paradigm has been described as ?A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them.? Each writer comes at their work with a certain paradigm at work. Each writer will write with a set of assumptions about the world around them, they will subconsciously include concepts and values they find imperative. In the broadest perspective possible each writer will express their worldview in some form o...

Those who venture into fiction writing often fall prey to certain avoidable, yet highly normal faux pau's with their first book. Many of these novels are grand experiments. Often chapters unfold without advance direction or character notebook, sometimes there is a multitude of point of view shifts and there is often a desire to try to pack as much into the story as possible. One of the key difficulties for new novelists is to track down inconsistencies in their work. Fo...

In poetic literature you will often find a poem that seems to be inviting the reader to participate in an adventure or a love story. The use of ?you? is evident in the poetry, but in most cases the reader understands that the poem is written to a third party and the author is simply allowing you the opportunity to read these moments of intimate conversation. Possessives in poetry, marked by an apostrophe, are a way to understand that the poem is written for and to another ...

Many believe that they can become a writer if they were given the chance. However, it is not as easy as some people would like to believe to be a writer. For the most part the life of a writer is difficult and stressful. Getting noticed by the publishing community is nearly impossible and your book must be prolific and unique to even shake a possible publishing deal from an agent. The main problem that people have when they begin writing is the fact that they do not know w...

A writing exercise that is helpful in learning a very specific style of writing is called Emulation. This is done to match the style of a specific author. In essence, you create an entirely new passage using an existing passage as your guide. For example if you wanted to try to write in the same manner as the Psalmist you might copy a passage of Scripture? Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Kno...

There are at least sixty different types of rhetorical devices in English literature. The English language is an odd mixture of truth and symbolism and most often exhibits this propensity in the form of various figures of speech. Of all the types of symbolic or rhetorical devices used, hyperbole is the most common. The use of hyperbole may remind you of William Shatner and his propensity to overact. Worsley Online School asked visitors to come up with examples of hyperbole...

If you know how to do something -- and can do it well, almost without thinking -- it makes sense that you?d want to share this information. What better way to do it than with an instruction manual.

There are two specific, yet lofty goals writers strive for every time they commit words to paper. That goal is to write in such a way as to draw their readers into the written word. If this goal is in fictional writing the author wants the reader to become so absorbed in the story that they are both satisfied, yet sad to see the story end. If this goal is in non-fiction the writer accomplishes the objective by relating details in a way that leaves the reader interested ...

?[Henry David] Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowed to witness.? ? Nathaniel Hawthorne (Journal entry, September 1, 1842) Most of the greatest poets were not recognized for their work until they had long been laid to rest. Many suffered g...