Writing to Move Others

    The purpose of writing to move is to fill the audience with emotion. The writer does not need to attempt to persuade his audience because the audiences already agree in what the writer believes. The style must be appropriate in writing to move; otherwise the writer can not fulfill his purpose so style is linked with the effectiveness of the essay. A writer can write in his or her own method. Yet the following methods can help in writing to move.
Use of:

1) Anaphora 2) Repetition 3) Details 4) Simple direct and bold language 5) Parallel construction 6) Metaphor

1) The very powerful rhetorical device in writing to move is the use of anaphora, anaphora refers to deliberate repetition at the beginning of sentence or clauses. Judy Syfers in “I Want a Wife” and Martin Luther King Jr. in “I Have a Dream” have used this device heavily.
2) The use of supporting details is very important in writing to move. The details must include emotional appeal. In “Daddy Tucked the Blanked” Randall Williams has used various details that help to move the audience.
3) The writers must be very conscious in the use of language in writing to move. They must use simple, direct and bold language. If they use tough kind of diction and tough kind of sentence structure then the readers may not understand. The readers can not be moved with what they do not understand.
4) Parallel construction refers to the act of putting similar ideas in similar form for the sake of balance. The balance structure produces emotion on the part of audience. In parallel construction the writing can use rhythmic form as well, which helps to make the essay more effective. Martin Luther King Jr. in “I Have a Dream” has exploited the strategies.
5) Metaphorical writing often becomes weighty short of writing. As a result it produces a sense of urgency. So the metaphorical language is useful in writing to move.
6) The rhetorical use of repetition in writing to move is for the sake of emphasis. The writers say something again and again to create focus up on the material. So we can exploit the use of repetition in writing to move that helps to make the writing more effective.
7) Despite these, a writer can also address his or her audience directly so that they feel being touched. As a result, they take the things seriously. When they become serious then the writing captures the attention as well. When somebody reads very attentively then the writers becomes able to implement his purpose on him or her.

Writing Tips
    Hugh Blair describes seven principles that determine what makes language moving:
1) Choose a topic that is suitable for writing to move.
2) The writer should get right in to the topic without warning the readers about the purpose.
3) Include details that can evoke the response you intend.
4) Be moved yourself
5) Writer simple and directly
6) The writer should be faithful to the purpose
7) The writer should know when to stop

1) Choose a topic that is suitable for writing to move:-

    Topics can inspire a number of emotions including anger, indignation, pity or grief. There are many topics like social injustice, execution, racial discrimination, suppression that can be used in writing to move. Whatever the topic is, it must be appropriate to inspire emotion. If these two things (topic and purpose) do not match then the writing may seem overwrought rather than moving. If we examine the essays under the topic, from this perspective:
-Martin Luther King in “I Have a Dream” addresses the subject of social in justice
-Judy Syfers in “I Want a Wife” protest against the exploitation of women
-Alice Walker in “Am I Blue”? reflects up on the treatment of an animal.
- Both Randall Williams in “Daddy Tucked the Blanket” and Jonathan Swift in “A Modest Proposal” write about social injustice.

2) The writer should get right in to the topic without warning the readers about the purpose:-

    Writers should not begin by writing I am going to tell you a sad story because it weakens the work in at least two ways
- If the writer tells the readers how he or she wants them to respond without letting the response grow naturally out of the work then they (writers) give a ready made standard for evaluation. But the readers may not agree with the writer’s standard.
- Secondly by putting the readers on guard the writing loses the strategic advantage of a surprise attack. So the writer should not put the standard directly.

3) Including details that can evoke the response: -

    Although supporting details is important in almost all types of writing, it is especially important in writing to move. The writers must include emotional appeal.

4) Be moved yourself: -

    Although there are many rhetorical situations in which writers need to keep their feeling to themselves, writing to move requires the emotion to share with readers. The writer, for this purpose must keep the focus up on the subject matter rather than upon himself or herself. So the writer must avoid insincerity.

5) Simple and Direct:-
    When there is strong feeling about the subject matter then he or she should write in simple, direct and bold language. The writer should not include formal diction and long, complicated sentences because they make the writing artful rather than direct.

6) The writers should be faithful to the purpose: -
    In writing to move, the writers need to avoid any digression that interrupts the flow of feeling of the audience. They should not include the sentences that seem too fancy.

7) The writer should know when to stop: -
    As a general rule, writing designed to move needs to be kept fairly short. Because it is difficult to sustain intensity of feeling at any great length and if we write too much about the subject then there will be a danger. The danger is the writers may decide to leave the reading thinking the writing as an unnecessary fuss. To eliminate the danger there are two possibilities. One is the writer can give full of details that moves readers because of the details provided by the writer. Secondly the writer can make the readers move themselves where the things are given fairly short.