Personally significant
Read the “The Secret Power of Things We Hold Dear” (2007) by Sherry Turkle (search for this online or in the EBSCO database).
Read Writing Elements: A Quick Guide to Grammar and Usage (2012) by Goss and Goss (find this in this week’s readings or in the Course Resources folder located under the Lessons tab).
Read and respond to each of the following writing prompts. Submit them as a single document.
Descriptive Writing
In her 2007 article, “The Secret Power of Things We Hold Dear,” Sherry Turkle discusses the importance of objects on a personal level. She describes her weekends spent at her grandparents’ apartment in Brooklyn, looking through the items that her grandparents saved, and using the information she gleaned from these items, gains a deeper understanding of her mother and her aunt. In her article, Turkle explains that the items that she looked at again and again “had a high emotional intensity” because they made her think about the father she never met (Turkle, 2007, para. 6).
For this writing assignment, choose one item from your own life that you consider personally significant. Write a one-paragraph (five to seven sentences) physical description of this object using specific details so that the reader can imagine what the object looks like (remember to use sensory images–how did it taste, feel, sound, look, smell?).
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I grew up brought up by a single parent ever since my mother parted ways with my father. It was so hard for me to realize this since my mother never told me whereabouts of my father. My father was an army officer, he had gone for a peacekeeping mission and he never came back. He died there and I was never told about it since I was too young…………………………
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