Writing Well, by Donald Hall, is an amazingly interesting textbook. I cannot remember reading an instructional manual with such brilliant imagery, flowing style, and amazing concepts. This is what education should be – interesting, provocative, and natural. However, in the first eleven pages of the text, I do not agree with two of the three analyses of Hall’s examples.
In the comparison of the college student’s two expressions of his first impression of his dorm, Hall disregards the first passage as “sloppy – slangy and fragmentary.” He praises the second passage as suspenseful and detailed and suggests that the author has “made great strides” and has “put some thought into creating a scene.” I, however, find the second passage to be dull and watered-down, over-edited, and false sounding. Although the first passage could be improved by explaining where he was, what the disaster entailed, and who the funny-looking......

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Title: Writing Well Chapter 1 Respons
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