Unabashedly Me: The First-Person Essay

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FilmPublisher number: 1406748 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2016Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Jennifer Cognard-BlackSummary: The use of a first-person perspective in essay writing is a powerful tool that invokes intimacy, empathy, and witness. Ethos is more inherent in an “I” essay because the person sharing the story actually experienced the events. Learn how to write concisely to avoid an “I” story becoming simply an outlet for your own feelings, instead using your emotions to develop a broader appeal that will interest and benefit others. Professor Cognard-Black also reveals how general tricks of the writing trade (for example, “show, don’t tell”) don’t always apply when writing essays.

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The use of a first-person perspective in essay writing is a powerful tool that invokes intimacy, empathy, and witness. Ethos is more inherent in an “I” essay because the person sharing the story actually experienced the events. Learn how to write concisely to avoid an “I” story becoming simply an outlet for your own feelings, instead using your emotions to develop a broader appeal that will interest and benefit others. Professor Cognard-Black also reveals how general tricks of the writing trade (for example, “show, don’t tell”) don’t always apply when writing essays.

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