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.

                   

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