How are the
people of the Shenandoah National Park writers? Or not writers? Who counts as
being a writer? What does it mean to be a writer?
Depending
on what your definition of a writer is or does determines if the people of the
Shenandoah National Park are writers or not. I personally define a writer as
anyone who writes for a purpose. That purpose can be personal, business or
public; the content of the writing does not necessarily have to be
grammatically correct or even structured in a traditional way. Using this
definition I would say that the people of the Shenandoah National Park are
writers. They are writing for a purpose and are using what literary knowledge
they have to communicate to others for a personal business purpose. Though many
of them are not formally educated and lack the commonly acceptable writing
style they still are able to communicate their intention to the recipient of
the letter. The letters all have motivation to behind the writing of them and
an intended audience for the writing.
To me anyone who writes with intent
to have it read by an audience even if that audience is just themselves in the
future or one specific person. To be a writer means that you write with intent
and purpose and a motivation. When you write you are expressing something that
you are concerned about and care about in some way.
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