Expository writing uses a thesis; descriptive writing, a motif.

In Senior English the mid-term examination included a descriptive 

writing assignment.  I started, "Once a man passed by and saw a 

field of weeds, then I passed by and said, 'Yesterday's flowers 

am I', for what is a weed but a flower that no one loves."  I 

continued in the same motif.  It may sound silly today but it was 

genuine when I wrote it.  No thesis needed.  

 

N. Scott Catledge

P.S.  The longest string of garbage in the posting to which I am replying

was my previous post--almost 20 pages.

I wonder about dropping digest and getting them one at a time.

                    

*************************************************************************


To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
and select "Join or leave the list"

Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/