Unit 1 Post Write

My essay is in the dialogue style, and it describes an interview/discussion between: Quentin Tarantino a violent movie director, Mike LaSalle a movie critic, and Harvey Weinstein a movie producer who has produced violent films, but lately has took a stance against them. I act as the moderator/interviewer. During this discussion we go over issues relating violence in media and violence in the real world. The real question is, does violence in the media have an effect on violence in the real world?

Writing dialogue essays differ from writing traditional essays in the since that the speech is more informal than the traditional essay. For example you want complication in a dialogue essay with interruptions and a lot of emotions, whereas with a traditional essay you don't want a lot of that, you want more of a informative style of writing with more emphasis on grammar. I found writing a dialogue essay a little more difficult than writing a traditional essay, based on the fact that for me it was hard to really capture the voice of the characters and what they would truly say when responding to questions and statements. Also because I have never wrote a dialogue essay before and it took me a while to get used to the style and how to write it.

I used agree, disagree, and complicate in my essay by when I as the moderator would pose a question to the speakers they would respond with their respective opinions and based off their responses other speakers would say if the agreed with the persons statement or if the disagreed with it. Also I incorporated complication whenever two speakers would get into a argument based on who's right, they would become frustrated and act out on those frustrations.

The best piece of constructive feedback I got was from my instructor and my peers. The piece of feedback I got from my instructor was that I should take out one of my original speakers who was Marilyn Manson, at first I didn't see why I needed to do so, but then I realized that it made no sense to incorporate him, when he is music based and all the other characters were movie based. Subsequently I replaced him with Harvey Weinstein. The piece of feedback I got from my peer was that I needed more emotion, I found that to be very helpful because when I added the emotion I founded that not only did it add more length to my essay, it made my essay have a better flow.

One strength of my essay I feel is my representation of Quentin Tarantino. The reason I feel this is I read all the articles and watched the previous interviews of him and tried my best to accurately voice his opinion and what his responses would be to the statements of others.

One area of my essay that I feel could have been improved is I could have used more emotion in my essay. I used some emotion, but I feel if I had used just a bit more it would have pushed my essay over the top.

My instructor could help me most by specifically stating the areas that need to be improved. Also I would like for your opinion on my conclusion, I had a little trouble because I don't  really know how to end a dialogue essay without making it sound a little abrupt.