Writing AuthenticallyHow to Develop Voice in Writing
Dialect & Dialogue
Idioms Colloquial Diction The pace & WC of dialogue
Point of View
Three Little Pigs The True Story of the Three Little
Pigs
The Color of Voice
Creating Imagery
Imagery
Shifts in Tone
Reader’s Notebook Response
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is to not learn, but to unlearn.”
~Gloria Steinem
Revisions to Radical New VisionsTechnique Traditional Creative Radical
Audience Specific audience Change from adult to child
Parody
Voice 1 or 3 POV; passive Stream of consciousness
Double, multiple, or meta-voice
Time Sequential past or future
Flash backs; different era
Parallel time; tell backwards; unexpected sequence
Syntax Compound & complex sentences
Use of fragments; modeling other
authors
Planned patterns; alternating
sentence length
Typography Font changes; spacing
Adding images, graphs, illustrations
Different forms for speakers or emphasis
Genre Expository; Narrative; Persuasive
Change into “less” structured form
Multiple genres connected as one piece of writing
Shifts in Syntax
Crot
Not all writing has to be the same.Quick, easy, neat.The students scurry for their pens,On the walls…rulesIn the text book– rulesEverything is the sameThe book says so, the teacher says so,
so…Everything is the same—Including my writing.
Crot
It doesn’t matter what you write or say.
It is all going to be the same—follow the rules;
Rules should be and must be followed.I can’t even remember what I am
writing about because everything is the same.
Crot Samples
Liam is my little love but quite a challengeHow do I keep up? How can I be in three places
at one time?Books, cooking, meal planning, grading papers- In fact, I feel like I am stretched to be in
more than three places at one time.Books, playing games, finding the energy to be
silly or sing another song, or perhaps the same song for the 10th time
Liam is my little love and that is why I take on the challenge.
Lab
“You know, I have already had one of those days where you don’t get up in time, you are faltering all over the house, you lose your keys, you think you have a meeting but it really turns out it is tomorrow but Truc says she could cover for me and then what is for today is really tomorrow!”
LIST
Colleges are not all the same
Frustrating, paper work, fees.
Behind the desk, my application sits. Who decides?
I wait, ponder, agonizeWhen will they decide?
CROT
College--FrustratingPaper workFees…Who decides?WaitPonderAgonizeStress…When will they decide?
LIST
Grading papersHours upon hours10 minutes per paperComments, comments,
mark.Pass them backComments pass them
by.
LIST
Cross-out, mark, circle, and highlight
Erase, circle, cross-outThink, stuck, cross-outDraft, edit, revise…Cross-out, stuck, cannot
thinkWriter’s block.
Double Voice
Internal thoughts Can be a single person’s thoughts or
multiple points-of-view or perspectives
Placement of words (Typography) is important to understanding where the ideas should be read at the same time or individually
The genre or form does not have to be a poem but is often seen in poetic form
Repetend
Repetition A word, idea, phrase, quote etc…. Style & affect (not to beat it into
your audience’s mind)
Voice Homework
Use at least 2 different voice techniques we learned in class.
Write about a remarkable experience you have had in your life. This experience can be positive, negative, life changing etc.