Response to ‘Structuring Your Writing: Some Points From Brain Research’
I found many instructive tips and valuable things to take into consideration when writing in the future in this article about structuring one’s writing. Several different sections taught me about getting the reader’s attention, – and keeping it – helping your reader to recognize what you might actually be trying to say, the amount of facts a reader can consume and retain in one sitting, and the importance of using stories to get your point across. Personally – and rather ironically –, I found the segment on using the narrative in writing and how much more readily a reader will recall a story rather than a series of facts the most eye-catching and thought-provoking. The fact that Jesus used storytelling as one of his main teaching approaches really began the wheels of my mind turning on the similarities and differences between God’s writing and this article’s suggestions. Long after many adults have left the church, you may find that, if they learned the stories of the Bible as children – either Jesus’ teachings or Old Testament tales like Jonah and the whale – they will still recall many details and important fact about those stories. In that way I feel that God, the ultimate Creator and best-selling author, knows exactly how to captivate an audience. Merely the fact that God’s word and commandments had, for many hundreds of years, been passed on by word of mouth shows that people will remember a story like nothing else. In conclusion, I want to recognize God’s wondrous ingenuity in knowing just how to capture – and keep – an audience, from start to finish.
Betwixt and Between 