Blog 13

When looking back at my “Essay on Metaphors in Medicine” essay with intent to seek out the writing devises and strategies as mentioned in They Say I Say, I noticed that I had been utilizing devises and strategies that I had not been aware of. Including, addition words, example words, comparison words and, contrast words. I was also able to take note of the devises that I had been aware that I was using, to evaluate my use of them, such as transitions and of course, metaphors. In response to the questions at the end of the chapter, a pattern that I noticed in my writing that is not necessarily a good thing is that I tend to shift pronouns throughout my thought process, which is rather confusing to the reader. Another thing I noticed was that I tend to rely on both analogies and personal experiences the most. I think the reason I tend to do this is that my strongest genre of writing is creative writing and in creative writing analogies are used rather heavily. Now, on to something I noticed was pretty weak, and that is my transitions and in this particular essay, my thesis statement. I realize in this essay that my transitions were defiantly on the weaker side, which in turn, made what should have been transition sentences, rather heard to follow. Which by default, got the paragraphs to follow, off to a rough start. I think that if my transitions, and my initial thesis statement for this particular piece of writing, were cleaned up a bit; it could be a much stronger essay.