In this lesson, you will encounter a writing style that is quite different from the styles you may have studied up to this point. Guy de Maupassant writes in a very concise manner, without a huge amount of extra detail. In his story, there are a number of underlying assumptions being made as well as an intriguing tension between perception and reality. These are the kinds of stories that you are going to remember and try to tell your friends about years later because the messages will stick with you. Just try to remember the author’s name, because there is nothing worse than telling someone about that “one story” by that “one lady” with that “one thing” that turned out so weird!
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“THE FALSE GEMS”: TASK, PURPOSE, AND AUDIENCE IN WRITING
In this lesson, you will encounter a writing style that is quite different from the styles you may have studied up to this point. Guy de Maupassant writes in a very concise manner, without a huge amount of extra detail. In his story, there are a number of underlying assumptions being made as well as an intriguing tension between perception and reality. These are the kinds of stories that you are going to remember and try to tell your friends about years later because the messages will stick with you. Just try to remember the author’s name, because there is nothing worse than telling someone about that “one story” by that “one lady” with that “one thing” that turned out so weird!
OBJECTIVES
“THE FALSE GEMS”: TASK, PURPOSE, AND AUDIENCE IN WRITING
In this lesson, you will encounter a writing style that is quite different from the styles you may have studied up to this point. Guy de Maupassant writes in a very concise manner, without a huge amount of extra detail. In his story, there are a number of underlying assumptions being made as well as an intriguing tension between perception and reality. These are the kinds of stories that you are going to remember and try to tell your friends about years later because the messages will stick with you. Just try to remember the author’s name, because there is nothing worse than telling someone about that “one story” by that “one lady” with that “one thing” that turned out so weird!
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