Person Perspective
Introduction
In Unit 1 so far you have practiced run-on sentences and comma use, parallelism, misplaced and/or dangling modifiers, and punctuation. Please continue to use those features and skills in your current writing, and in this module’s assignment.
In this module, you will look at person perspective or point of view in writing. It is important to remember that some styles of writing allow for any kind of perspective, but formal, argumentative writing, such as research papers, only suit third person perspective, as the writer is ‘removed’ from the writing and refrains from giving personal perspectives to remain objective.
Learning Objectives
- Differentiate different person perspectives in writing.
- Change the person perspective in a piece of writing.
To Do List
- Read “Putting the Pieces Together” in Putting the Pieces Together to learn about pronouns and point of view.
- Watch the video “First Person vs. Second Person vs. Third Person.”
- Read “Point of View in Advanced English.
- Complete the Person Perspective Quiz in Blackboard.
Attribution & References
Except where otherwise noted, “Person Perspective” by Academic and Career Preparation, Georgian College, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
