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An 11 page paper which examines British author J.B. Priestley’s assessment of the two types of authors within the context of knowledge telling and knowledge transforming. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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they have written it and those who have already set down what they want to write in their heads. While this may, upon first glance, appear to be an
oversimplification, Priestleys observation is accurate. Like all other forms of artistic expression, writing is a process that can be achieved two different ways. There are those who prefer
to articulate their ideas by way of the knowledge telling approach, while there are others that prefer to espouse the knowledge transforming method. What is important to understand is
that there is no right or wrong way to write. It simply depends on which technique works best in transferring the idea onto the page. Levy and Ransdell (1996)
contend, "Knowledge telling is where the writer creates ideas by a process of association" (p. 132). Knowledge telling is particularly effective in writing narrative fiction, in which the writer
endeavors to retell events or scenes and creates characters to act them out (Levy and Ransdell, 1996). It begins with a single idea that contains certain characteristics that enable
another idea to recall in kind of a chain of events fashion (Levy and Ransdell, 1996). While in the mental state, this might be referred to as either daydreaming
or free association, when the knowledge is finally told it often resembles what is referred to as either a "stream of consciousness" or an interior monologue (Levy and Ransdell, 1996;
Heaney, 1994). Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941) pioneered the stream of consciousness technique in such works as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake, and
Ulysses, the most celebrated and influential novel of the twentieth century. In each of these works, "Joyce presents, in rapid succession, the thoughts, impressions, emotions and reminiscences of his
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