How Does a Writer Engage a Reader? :: Teaching Writing

How Does a Writer Engage a Reader?Its still snowing. The wind is so strong it is hard to stay upright. Im lost in a blizzard. Ahead of me, I see a faint glow. Is it a lamp in my house? I tell myself, Keep moving toward the light. Left, right, left, right, up, down, I accompaniment walking. Im so cold. I press on, but the light remains just out of range. Left, right, left, right, up, down. The light grows brighter. Now it dims. I suddenly realize that Im walking in circles.Where do I go with this paper? How do I get beyond the theme? Why is this assignment so difficult for me to grasp? intellectually I understand the assignment, at least the right side of my brain does. The left side of my brain seems to be disengaged. Every time I touch like Ive nearly got it,it vanishes, eluding me once more.I never realized how difficult it was to break the writing habits learned throughout life. Themewriting may not be good writing, but I fear it is the only kind of writing Ive ever done. I beli eve that theme writing may still deem value and that themewriting is undesirable because it fails to engage the reader and to communicate anything of substance.How does a writer communicate and engage a reader? Is it by using a dissever of enlarge? The author of The Innocent Nihilist used a lot of details. Those details didnt help me understand it any better. I still am intricate about what he was trying to communicate to me. Did Lee really dislike his dog? Was he happy when the dog was killed? Or, was Lee just happy that he wasnt the one hit by the car. The author caught my attention initially by his use of dialogue, much as Mikes attention was held by Lees story. A lot of details were present, but they didnt help me any with this story. Another paper, Martin Luther King, also used details. It told me where Martin Luther King was educated and what some of his religious convictions were, but it failed to reveal the whole man. It didnt develop his showcase or reveal his passions . The paper had some details, but it fell short of my expectations.Its still snowing. Its been snowing since noon. The wind is howling it must be at least 30 m.p.h.