In Class Project

Similarities:

1)Authors share information in a medium accessible by the public.

2)They are different levels of author.

3)Everyone with access to a public medium has the potential to be an author.

Differences:

1)Some consider everyone an author whereas I qualify it so that not everyone is an author.

2)Some think that Facebook posts and texts always make an author whereas I think that it depends on the intent and consideration behind the post.

Writers:	Authors:
Writing stays private.	Some writing becomes public.
Only need to know themselves.	Must consider audience.
Write for themselves.	Write to communicate with others.
Don’t always need citations.	Always need citations.
Can skip pro-nouns and make obscure references to their own life.	Must explain things the audience might not get.

Type of Writing:	Why I Enjoy/Despise it:
Poetry	I love to play with words.
Texts	Tedious and inclined towards the mangling of writing conventions.
Essays	They are enjoyably easy and despicably formatted.

(By Ælfhild Wiklund)

Friend of mine, friend dear

Please help me with the party on the darkest day of the year,

Follow me to fetch pumpkins from the squash field

Several stalks of corn from this year’s yield

The wood to build the bonfire bright

And help me fill the cider jug to pour the toasts of the night,

Then dance with me around the burning fire

That our combined efforts have built higher.

(By Tori revised by Ælf)

To-Do list

Please help me get ready for our costume party by joining me to do these things

1) Buy cake, napkins, décor, candy and CD’s

2) Create and send invitations

3) Decorate the interior of the apartment

4. Set up candy for the trick-or-treaters

(By Jacob, revised by Ælf)

Letter

Dear Bob Saget,

I am of need of your assistance. There is party coming late this October, and the event is a costume gathering, but there’s a problem. The supplies we currently hold aren’t enough to provide to the people who are attending. What I need is for you to help me gather food, and hire a DJ for some hot jams. Also I need you to help me select candy for the children who happen to approach the door that late night, but before all that I really need you to help me obtain and send out invitations to everyone in the state. If you can help with all this, I would be very much if your debt. Thank you.

-Jacob

Shopping list is simple and to the point, the letter is friendly and the poem is focused on the words lending its form to tell a story.