“Probably one of the best portraits I’ve ever taken. He’s an Irishman with blue eyes and has some funny marks on him. He was lying every night by a bonfire near a vegetable market. Some Hare Krishna types would come around at night giving these people soup, then they’d daub their faces with that absurd kind of religious sign. So he had to put up with that to get that bowl of soup. You can see he’s a man whose soul has been destroyed or possibly didn’t exist even. It’s a picture I call Neptune because he looks like that Roman god under the sea with his spiky hair rising with the undercurrents of the ocean. Sometimes I get carried away and romanticize about things because I need to indulge myself in some journey into fantasy because I’ve seen so much ugliness.”
Homeless Irishman, Aldgate, East End, London, 1970. Gelatin silver print.
(Don McCullin /Contact Press Images)
source: Adams, James. "Don McCullin: A photographer goes back to the war zone at age 77." The Globe and Mail. January 30, 2013
Homeless Irishman, Aldgate, East End, London, 1970. Gelatin silver print.
(Don McCullin /Contact Press Images)
source: Adams, James. "Don McCullin: A photographer goes back to the war zone at age 77." The Globe and Mail. January 30, 2013
The following are "definitions" of the various types of prose writing/paragraphs. Each type is used for a different purpose. Writers will often use multiple paragraph types in their writing to communicate different ideas (i.e. in a persuasive piece of prose, writers might use narrative prose - anecdotes - to highlight an important point).
The definitions are referenced from the following link .
The definitions are referenced from the following link .
Expository Writing:Expository writing is a subject-oriented writing style, in which the main focus of the author is to tell you about a given topic or subject, and leave out his personal opinions. He furnishes you with relevant facts and figures and does not include his opinions. This is one of the most common type of writing styles, which you always see in text books and usually “How – to” articles, in which the author tells you about a given subject, as how to do something.
Descriptive writing:Descriptive writing is a style of writing which focuses on describing a character, an event or a place in great details. It is sometimes poetic in nature in which the author is specifying the details of the event rather than just the information of that event happened.
Persuasive Writing:Persuasive writing, unlike ‘Expository Writing’, contains the opinions, bias and justification of the author. Persuasive writing is a type of writing which contains justifications and reasons to make someone believe on the point the writer is talking about. Persuasive writing is for persuading and convincing on your point of view. It is often used in complain letters, when you provide reasons and justifications for your complaint; other copy-writing texts, T.V commercials, affiliate marketing pitches etc. are all different types of persuasive writing, where author is persuading and convincing you on something he wants you to do and/or believe.
Narrative writing is a type of writing in which the author places himself as the character and narrates you to the story. Novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, biographies can all fall in the narrative writing style. Simply, narrative writing is an art to describe a story. It answers the question: “What happened then?”
News Lead/Summary Lead: the summary lead is the most traditional lead in a journalism article. It is to the point and factual. It's meant to give a reader a quick summary of the story in as few words as possible (should be 30 words or less), usually in one sentence. It contains the essence of the story (i.e. the most important, but not necessarily all, of the 5 Ws and H -- who, what, when, where, why and how). It cites the source of any opinions.
PART A
PART B: GROUP WRITING
PART C: INDIVIDUAL WRITING
3. Your paragraph must:
- Match the various paragraphs to the appropriate TYPE OF WRITING. Use the definitions above.
- Write a title for each paragraph.
- Discuss why the paragraph fits the definition above.
PART B: GROUP WRITING
- Find an image - in groups - that has "the potential to be written about".
- Write a paragraph, based on the image, that follows the type your group has been assigned.
- Pass the image and paragraph to another group. Write another paragraph - using a different type - based on the image.
- By the end, your group will have written five paragraphs using five different types of writing.
PART C: INDIVIDUAL WRITING
- Find an image that has the potential to be written about from multiple perspectives.
- Construct/write the following paragraphs based on the image:
- narrative paragraph
- persuasive paragraph
- descriptive paragraph
- expository paragraph
- news lead paragraph
3. Your paragraph must:
- effectively and creatively use the basic sentence patterns
- effectively and creatively use at least two rhetorical sentence patterns
- effectively and creatively use metaphor, personification, allusion, alliteration
- effectively, creatively and accurately use diction (i.e. strong vocabulary)
- effectively construct/write organized and grammatically sound paragraph