Coming Due: Accounting For Debt, Counting On Crisis

When deciding to publicly write, an author must choose one of three different writing styles. Literary is the most common when the goal is to entertain the audience as well as teach universal life lessons. News writing is used when the author wants to inform the public about real current issues. Technical writing is used to educate or inform a reader on a specific topic. In this essay we will compare two pieces of writing in both the technical and literary writing styles. The first piece is a technical writing piece written by Annie McClanahan named Coming Due: Accounting for Debt, Counting on Crisis, which is an essay about the increasing of college tuition in California and its effects on students around the country. The second piece is a

In Coming Due: Accounting for Debt, Counting on Crisis, McClanahan focuses on using facts and statistics in an effort to inform the reader of how student tuition has increased over the years. She discuses university proposals regarding the raise of student fees by 32 percent and what that means for both the university’s faculty as wells as its students. She incorporated interviews into the piece to further show how student debt is a serious and growing problem with little solution as fees continue to increase. She helps the reader to understand the ways college tuition has changed and the correlating effects it has on student debt by stating facts on average student loans and the implications of those loans. In contrast, in The Student, Chekhov tries to capture the readers’ imagination by incorporating descriptive phrases and great detail to make the reader feel like they are sitting right beside the main character. He does this to keep the reader engaged and help further expand the readers’ emotional connection to the message. He does not use facts to convey the message but instead relies on symbolism and stories to help support his ideas. When finding the differences in the two writing styles we see the use of two completely different techniques, both with the intent of conveying a message the authors deems important. Technical writing uses facts and statistics to inform the reader. Literary writing engages

In both pieces, the writers had a clear point they wanted to get across and used their styles to help convey their thoughts. They used facts and stories to help the reader see things from a different perspective, which allowed the reader to open up their mind to these topics. Both writers were very good at getting the reader to examine the topic from a fresh perspective and ultimately inform the reader to a new way of thinking. Whether they used facts and statistics or symbolisms and metaphors, both writers were able to get the reader to understand where they were coming from and assist the reader in finding the message in the text. By examining the similarities in writing we see that there is a common goal between the authors and now have a better understanding on why they chose the style they did and how it was