One of the best ways to check the continuity and tone of your story is to read it aloud to a friend or even to yourself. Today, instead of reading another short memoir, you will listen to an audio excerpt of David Sedaris's "The Drama Bug."
The Drama Bug
After you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
Response Due: Friday, January 20 by 9 pm in the "comments" section of this post.
Listening to a short story in my opinion is boring because I would rather read instead at my own pace. It changes by the fact that you can actually hear all the description being said an understand the dialogue happening more. The author uses Shakespearean language in his dialogue to help us better understand what his role in the play is about. What I learned is that the type of diction you use when writing contributes to the tone you want to set for it.
ReplyDeleteListening has its advantages because we you listen to it the way it’s supposed to be read. In this short story you are able to tell the changes she had and the problem by the way she talked and the mood. The language of the other helps emphasize what she is trying to deliver in this case the old English language. What this teaches is the dialog that you put in your writing effects how the reader understand what your trying to deliver.
ReplyDelete*After you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
ReplyDeleteI think listening to the story is easier than reading the story. Listening story is fast and it feels like the man talking is the author's tone and the voice is closer to me. The language used by the author is strict and beautiful. I learned how to write dialogue and how to describe details better than before.
In my opinion, listening to a story without having anything to read along with can make your mind wonder off. I rather read the story on my own or have an audio but at the same time have something to read along. Listening to a story also has its advantages. For example, the music they put in the background brings a little sense of where the story is taking place. The voices the reader does also lets us differ the different characters in the story. I think that being able to put the tone into writing could help the reader remember the characters in the story. I also learned that putting dialogue into the story, gives it a personal touch to it, and gives the reader a better understanding of how things happened.
ReplyDeleteAfter you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story.
ReplyDeleteListening to a story rather than reading it is not as fun because i would rather read a story instead of just listening to a narrator reading it to me.
How does it change? It is as if you are sitting in a classroom and the only person who is talking is the professor it is boring. It is someone lecturing to you rather than someone one reading it to you.
What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing? The language used by the author is a lot more intricate than the other stories we have read. When I write, I need to write the story in a way where the audience feels that i am talking directly to them so it does not become a boring story to them.
-Brian Deriquito
I feel that after i listened to the story i was able to get more of a mental picture then i would have if i read it myself. when the story is read to you with the proper pauses and emphasis on words the story comes to life, more to how a story should be read. the way the author wrote this story again had a lot of detail, form the frozen pizza thawing, to him describing his mother. What this teaches me about my own writing is that the words must be appealing to the ear as well as the eye. Overall this was a great representation of description and showing us how to focus on the readers thoughts.
ReplyDeleteAfter you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
ReplyDeleteAfter listening to the short memoir I considered that listening to a story is more difficult to focus on, than reading it. The major change is that I am accustomed to having my eyes to focus on words and process the image portrayed. Listening to a story can be another way to make the reader have an image about it, but it includes sound. As the speaker talks he shows us his emotions by the tone of voice he uses when describing what is happening. The language used in this story is colloquial or formal. He doesn’t use any slang and he uses words that give a full description of what is happening. I learned how when there is speech, dialogue, it is a very important factor when it comes to giving a story more description and it gives a more personal touch.
Listening to a story is a challenge for me because my mind wanders off. Reading the story is better because I get to reread what i don't understand. The language used by the author is somewhat of the 1600s era. The language is old fashioned and the way they talked was old English style. The author's writing is very dramatic and descriptive. This teaches me that my writing needs to be improved with descriptions and dialogue.
ReplyDeleteReading the short story compared to listening to it is a much more effective way to understand and comprehend what's going on. When listening to it, I found it hard to concentrate on the narration and picture the story in my head. I'd much rather read it myself out loud then listen to someone else read it to me. The language is very outdated. Their dialogue and grammar is much different in the narration then today's usual writings and readings. Listening to the descriptions helps me recognize details and description and how important of a role they play in papers.
ReplyDeleteAfter you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
ReplyDelete- Honestly I listened to this TWICE and I still couldn't comprehend or visualize the story at all! I personally like having to read the story rather than listen to it because I'm too concentrated on what the narrator is trying to say that I miss the main point of the whole story. I did notice the type of voice changes with the narrator but it just startled me. The language they used in this short story must have been awhile back, they spoke some Old English of some sort. In my opinion, this teaches me that my writing is very important on how I describe things and how many details I should give in order to help the reader visualize what I'm describing. It also helps me recognize how important certain things in the short story are and what should be emphasized.
After listening to this story, i realized that when you listen to or read something that you are unfamilar wuth it makes the story that much harder to understand or relate to. The language almost makes you think that the author was reading this for a certain audience, that maybe this story is only pertaining to people who like this type of old english or are fascinated with an older type of old school english. it seems kind of bland, this helps me to put more emphasis on things that i write about and also use more interesting descriptions that any reader can cling on to
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ReplyDeleteAfter you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
A. Listening to the story rather than reading on print, made it much easier to visualize the author's experience of the memoir. By listening, I was able to understand the author's emotions, reaction, and description that was explained. I did find it hard to concentrate, but as I listened, I carefully imagined gradually what was going on. I learned that listening provides a more detailed and realistic form of comprehension.
After you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
ReplyDeleteI didn't like listening to it at all but I do admit I could get a better feel of the setting in the story and what was going on. The voices change in the narrator when talking casually and talking in a Shakespearean voice. The narrator talks nothing like how people talk today. It taught me that descriptive audio can go a long way just by sitting quietly and listening to all the detail.
Adolfo Aguila
ReplyDeleteAfter you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
After listening to this story I thank God I have eyes to read. I kept with the story good, but I had to concentrate and focus a lot more just to understand whats happening. I rather read at my own pace so I can visualize everything clearly. The language in the story was rather weird, did not like to much. But this helped me to think more about my writing to put details, metaphors and similes in my essays so it can be more showing and not telling as we discussed in class today.
When reading a story a reader can visualize the story depending on the way they picture or visualize the story depends on the way they read it or how good the author describes it. When you listen to it you can visualize the story by the voice expression of the narrator or how he emphasizes on words. The language of narrator sounded well educated personally i found it hard to keep up with him because it sounded to boring. At the end i learned that using an audio book or something like that can really give a different perspective than when you read.
ReplyDeleteAfter you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
ReplyDeleteWhen you hear a story you get more emotion out of it from the person who is reading it because it is being read in the way the author wants it to be. Reading a story requires more imagination and thinking. The author uses a lot of shakespearean talk in the story "Drama Bug". This teaches me that listening to a story can either make you more interested in the story if you are listening carefully but it can also be more difficult because you don't have to read it. Just listening can make people's minds drift off and start thinking about other things.
I thought the story was more entertaining because of the way the narrator change the tone of her voice throughout the story. It was very different because who have to pay close attention inorder to get the whole story where as when you read it, you can go back and read the parts that you didnt understand. It depends on the person whether they like listening or reading better. For me, this made the story come to life because of the different effects and music the is used throughout the story. It makes you want to keep listening.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the tone of the reader changes the story very much so, this is by the way people read or talk when reading. The sound of there voice may not sound right to you , you may have seen a one of the characters differently or even pictured them in anther way. Another thing that is different when reading a story aloud or reading it to yourself is that you may not get all the details as when you are reading the story aloud , when reading to yourself you might skim read or when miss all together something because you do not understand something.
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After you have listened to it, take some time to consider the difference between reading a short story and listening to it. How does it change? What do you notice about the language used by the author? What does this teach you about your own writing?
ReplyDelete* Honestly, listening to the story added so much more action and excitement to it. At first, it took some time to understand, but then, as I kept listening, I really enjoyed it, because it had different emphasis on language and culture. Yes, I would have preferred to have something in front of me, more tangible, and be able to listen to the audio as well. It helps to have something visual and auditory to follow along easier. The language used mostly by the author was Old English, but that was only used when the protagonist of the story spoke out loud about something.
This teaches me to be more detailed and creative with my stories. Show what is going on, and going a step further and using words that show what is going around me or this particular event. I tend to simply state what is going on in the event, instead of showing what is happening, and that could be boring when reading. So that's what I would need to work on mostly.