Fulkerson 4 Philosophies

OUTLINE:
Fulkerson touches on his four different philosophies of composition style. He has broken his philosophy into mimetic, expressive, rhetorical, and formalist. Fulkerson's mimetic style is writing on "reality". This basically includes writings where the facts and style of the piece is kept in focus. Another type of writing that Fulkerson's philosophy includes is expressive. The expressive writing style is a style of writing that a typical "writer" might use. This is a very creative form of writing and gives the writer free reign over his or her ideas. The rhetorical philosophy includes putting more emphasis into persuading the reader and using more personal input into a piece. Last but certainly not least is the Formalist style, which Fulkerson said was a way to focus more on the actual structure of the work. Fulkerson goes on to give writing example of these styles to show the reader just how these philosophies are put into work. Fulkerson also says that each one of these styles should only be focused on one at a time to make sure each style is used to its full potential.
RESPONSE:
Personally I founnd the chapter interesting but more wordy than anything. Fulkerson put very simple concepts and stretched them out into something that lost my attention. Although I did enjoy seeing the writing examples and seeing how each part of his philosophy worked, by the time I got to the example I was already tired of reading about the concept itself. Overall it was a decent chapter. Maybe its just the fact that I hate reading, but the chapter just seemed to go on forever. Fulkerson has great ideas in the chapter and I agree with many of the things he says although I might not like the fact that the writer is only supposed to focus on one at a time. I feel that formalist is an important part in any paper and should be looked at all the time.