A Creative Approach to Looking at Writing: Metaphors

This article took a unique way of looking at different writing styles, no matter the skill level of the writers.  Everyone has a personal and creative way to express their thoughts, and in order to elaborate on that creative perspective, the author used metaphors to criticize and explain each style.  The way the author organized the essay was through the different types of metaphors, each new section has a heading which is a precursor to metaphor used to personify the student. There is a thesis for this article and it analyzes the use of the metaphor to the student’s writing and the way the students perceives themselves as a writer. Through the use of actual student papers and an in-depth analysis of each, the author was able to create a very interesting perspective paper, with the purpose to neither argue or pursued the reader but to merely expose. Throughout the paper, the author looked at the way “skilled” writer view themselves and how it correlates to their level of work and the same was done with the “less-skilled” writers. Overall, it was concluded that the “skilled” students are more confident and precise writers than the “less-skilled”. By looking at the students’ skill level in comparison to their “writing metaphor”, the author was able to better explain why their writing style or skill developed in the way it did. This article took a creative approach to analyzing students writing and it perhaps found a solution to why there is the division between the “skilled” and “less-skilled” writers.