Week Seven

Tone in Academic Writing

Trial 3 new ways of using tone in your academic writing and document these on your blog, reflecting on which approach/es work better for you and why. Be prepared to discuss these in class next week

The living room in the game is a place you haven't been before, and yet it is familiar from the wooden floors to the plain walls and the transparent windows looking out into the field of grass and trees. It isn't a big space, but it is safe and has a strange sense of comfort. The feeling of it being lived in, but by who? Whoever it is doesn't have much, but they have enough. All you really need is a couch to view the tv and laze around and a kitchen that probably gets used. It is the players' space that they recognise as their home; the only difference is real life. The days feel the same here with nowhere to go, watching the shadows move as the sun goes from rise to set.

I have only written out one way of using tone in my academic writing as I was unsure how to go about the other two. I find myself being a very descriptive person so that is where I find my writing tends to situate itself. I also like to have personal thoughts in writing rather than only being in technical terms or talking about others work as it helps for me to situate myself within my contexts and practice. When writing academically in papers, I still come at it with a more narrative approach as I find that it helps me to best understand the different thoughts I am trying to portray and I believe makes my work more understandable as a whole and relates back to my world views.