Analyzing Writer’s Craft Presented by: Kelly Philbeck.

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Analyzing Writer’s Craft Presented by: Kelly Philbeck

Craft of Artists Look following two paintings and jot down some similarities and some differences that you see. What do you notice about the artists’ techniques? What differences do you see?

Compare and Contrast Edvard Munch’s The Scream Grant Wood’s American Gothic

Writer’s Craft…Words Paint a Thousand Pictures

What is Writer’s Craft? Craft is the art of writing. It is the writer’s intentional use of the following to create an effect on the reader: – figurative language – snapshots/imagery/details – thoughtshots – word choice/word placement – sound/dialogue – sentence structure/stylistic devices – text features – text structure

Writer’s Craft Encompasses: Style Tone Voice Audience Awareness Structure/Organization Technique

Categories of Craft Word Craft—careful, deliberate word choice Structural Craft—organizational features Audible Craft—sound choices Visual Craft—print features » Laminack & Ray

Word Craft Deliberate, artful choice of words [Ray 1999] – Figurative language – Word Choice – Vivid verbs – Imagery – Details

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