Editorial Report

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS

1. I attempted to spice up the content of my introductory paragraph because I belief that it wasn't gripping enough at the beginning. Also I removed many of the uses of the word, 'American', because I thought it was used too frequently and that it distracted from the true purpose of the essay.

2.I did not have to make too many alterations to the form of this essay because the standard college essay is a genre I am very familiar with writing. I did try to strengthen my thesis though.

AUTHOR RESPONSE

ROUGH DRAFT SELECTION

In 1856, the New England-born, Harvard graduate, Horatio Alger Jr., published his first in a series of books that detailed successful pursuits of the American dream by American teenagers that validated the American dream for many. Inspired by the genre known as the “Horatio Alger myth”, a Jazz-era, social-climber named F. Scott Fitzgerald came to publish various works (i.e. The Great Gatsby) to question the reputable belief in upwards social mobility. Then on November 11, 1971, after having copied various works of Fitzgerald, Hunter S. Thompson would write his magnum opus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to document the American dream’s demise. The occupation of creative writing—whether it be nonfiction, fiction, or combinant of the two—has always relied on the artful communication between writers and their readers, writers and their peers, and, as is the case the aforementioned “passing of the torch”, writers and their successors. This essential back and forth between creative writers and their various audiences relies on rhetorical strategies to communicate ideas to general audiences.

RE-EDITED SELECTION

In midst of the Gilded era, the New England-born Harvard graduate, Horatio Alger Jr., published a series of books that detailed successful pursuits of the American dream by immigrant teenagers that validated the dream of fame and fortune for youths across the nation. Inspired by the genre known as the “Horatio Alger myth”, a Jazz-era, social-climber named F. Scott Fitzgerald came to publish various works (i.e. The Great Gatsby) to question the reputable belief in upwards social mobility. Then on November 11, 1971, after having copied various works of Fitzgerald, Hunter S. Thompson would write his magnum opus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to document the American dream’s demise. The occupation of creative writing—whether it be nonfiction, fiction, or combinant of the two—has always relied on the artful communication between writers and their readers, writers and their peers, and, as is the case the aforementioned “passing of the torch”, writers and their successors which is reliant on various rhetorical strategies to articulate ideas to the world.