Elbow Responses

Summary
In his article "Voice in Writing Again", Peter Elbow attempts to tell his audience that using voice in one's writing can either be beneficial or harmful to the writing. He argues that voice is a good thing because some of the writer's personality comes out in the writing that way, therefore making their writing more effective. At the same time, he argues that using voice can be bad because it would affect the way we look at the writing of others.

Synthesis
1. This applies to Kleine because both articles say that if you put a little bit of personality into your writing, that it will make it more interesting to the reader, and voice is a big part of that.

2. I think that it is not what Allen fights against, but is rather what Elbow describes because voice and inspiration are two different things. Voice is, from what I understood, the way you choose to make your paper sound, not the inspiration for that paper.

Pre-reading
1. On my facebook profile, my identity is displayed as how my peers know me, not so much by how my family knows me. I construct this identity by adding pictures that include my life with my friends and posting statuses.

2. Well, first of all I already am using I in this assignment, I thought this was informal writing. So, that makes this writing different from my formal writing because it is more personal and reflects my own personal thoughts in a way that would be difficult to do in a formal paper without using "I".

QD
1. I define voice as the personality and feeling that goes into a person's writing. Yes, I have encountered different definitions of voice, and they were near the same definition as Elbow's, however they varied slightly depending on the person.

4. It does seem to me that he is playing that game. the effect of that however is that the reader sees both sides of the argument and therefore can form their own opinion on the subject.

AE
1. Sincerity is the truth of the writer in their work. What I mean by that is that if a piece of writing is sincere it is what the author truly feels is right. Resonance is how the point, or argument, of the piece comes across to the reader and how it stays with them after they read it.

2. When I listen to a passage, I lose interest in it a lot quicker than if I read it silently, which also means that I don't pick up on all of the details. However, if I do listen to it, I can hear the tone of it, which can sometimes be difficult if I just read it silently.  If I read it silently, I can go back and read it again, which usually helps me understand a piece more than listening to it does.

Meta Moment
Yes I believe this to be possible because in order for a piece of writing to have a point It has to be seriously written, however it has to have some personality and voice in it or it would just be flat out boring.

My Thoughts
I thought this article was helpful. It gave very useful information about voice and its use, and let me see the topic of voice in a light that I had never seen it in before.