The Guide

The very most important thing in a paper I believe is making sure you address your target audience on their level or use information that is relevant to them to keep them interested.  Starting your paper with an intro that contains information that is not obvious to the reader is important.  Sometimes I like to use a catchy quote or give vivid description of the surroundings if it is a story to catch the reader’s attention.  If you lose the readers attention in the intro it is very hard to get them interested in the middle of the essay because they have already lost interest, even though they are reading the words they are thinking about what they are going to do over the weekend and are not processing what you have spent so much time on.  Contain all the pertinent info in the body.  And in the conclusion tie in the significance of the info and summarize your paper to get your point across. 

When revising your paper it’s sometimes hard to do if you have been starring at your monitor for hours.  The Guide uses the term fresh eyes, they are referring to taking a break so when you come back to revise your paper, you revise it as if it was your first time reading it.  Sometimes when I revise my paper I will just read it and instead of adding/subtracting info right away I will just write one or two words in capital letters of what my ideas are.  That way I don’t get trapped into spending ten minutes revising a paragraph and I can continue revising productively.  After I have revised the paper I then go back and add/subtract info or rearrange sentences.  I know everyone has there own way but if you ever wanted to try this it works pretty well.   

McCloud

We as humans perceive because we require closure.  Whether we use our imagination or assume or if it’s voluntary or involuntary, we need closure.  That’s why we get addicted to TV shows.  For example with 24, I know it’s going to end and I’m going to be upset cause its to be cont…., but when they show scenes for the next week, you get some type of closure because you can imagine how or assume Jack escapes from whatever situation he is in.    

McCloud discusses different transition phases used from one panel to the next:

Moment to moment requires little closure.

Action to action focuses on single subject with 2 actions.

Subject to subject shows 2 panels within the same scene but different subjects.

Scene to scene great leaps in time or space, provides a lot of closure.

Aspect to aspect bypasses time.

Non-sequitur has no relationship between panels.

However, I’m still trying to figure out what this quote means “closure for blood, gutters for veins…”  Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on what this means?