The Mimic Essay Tips Posted on: Monday, March 14, 2016 12:46:40 PM EDT The Mimic Essay – some tips First, choose a famous writer or speaker whose work you admire: (Hemingway, Faulkner, Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King, etc.) Read one of the essays, speeches, short stories by that author to familiarize yourself with his/her speaking or writing style See if you can find a literary analysis of that speech, essay, or short story that talks about the writer’s use of various writing techniques (repetition, long sentences, short sentences, ethos, pathos, symbolism, anaphora, etc.). Create a topic for your figure to speak or write on. Using what you know of his/her style, develop an essay . Write in the voice of the speaker, but use your own words. At the beginning of your essay, state the speaker, setting, and topic. Analyze: In a paragraph or two, defend your imitation of the speaker’s style. What techniques did you use that were similar to ones the speaker uses?
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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that examines the purpose and history of penitentiaries. Include the following: History of punishment History of prison development Comparison of the Pennsylvania system and the Auburn system Impact and involvement of prison labor over...