The Two Works by Hairston and Flower

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The two works by Hairston and Flower, "What Happens When People Write," explain the respective authors views on the difference between self-expression writing and writing for an audience. In Hairston's exert she concentrates on the main points of explanatory and exploratory styles of writing. Explaining what makes each style appropriate for certain papers. Flower concentrates more on how to effectively convey ones message to the reader. Listing the key aspects of what a writer should …

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…understand what the author is trying to say. When a person writes primarily for self-expression, they are more capable of adding to deleting any ideas they feel applicable to the paper. I feel that when a person writes for an audience that they stick more to the explanatory style of writing, as opposed to exploratory. For this author however, I prefer exploratory. It allows me to express what I need to say fully and completely.