Monday, January 26, 2009

The Man Verse the Boy

Total number of words: 795 Vs. 919

Total Number of Sentence:  35 Vs. 52

Longest Sentence: 54 Vs. 22

Shortest Sentence: 6 Vs. 8

Average Sentence Length: 23 Vs. 18

Number of Sentences with an average length above 10: 5 Vs. 23

Percentage of sentences with an average length above 10: 14% Vs. 44%

Number of sentences with 5 words below the average:17 Vs. 10

Percentage of sentences with 5 words below the average: 49% Vs. 19%

Longest Paragraph 8 Vs. 17

Shortest Paragraph: 2 Vs. 8

Average Paragraph: 5 Vs. 12

I believe that for my paper to actually start lifting off the ground to be well written I gotta put more of my personality in it and stop telling facts. I think once I commit to that my paper will excel exponentially.

3 comments:

Spencer Funk said...

I agree with you that emotion is very important especially in opinion editorials. Facts are nice and can be convincing but the use of rhetoric and pathos is equally as effective a lot of the time!

Jordan Brock said...

I struggle with putting my personality and emotion into my opinion editorial, but I do think that it is an important thing to do in order to get the reader to really listen to your idea.

Anu O'Neill said...

I think that to write emotion you have to practice and train yourself to do it. I have a hard time with it as well and it something that I am working to improve. I liked your take on this blog assignment. Emotion was something that I hadn't thought of and it was nice to see a different opinion.