The Bryson Essays

The Bryson essays for unit 2 are not directional process but they still contain process-based writing. The difference is informative writing, which is a process based writing rather than directional. The target audience for informative is learning a specific task but is not asked or expected to perform the steps like a directional essay. Informative essays tell the audience/reader how to do something that is being done by other people. In "A Visit to the Barber Shop," Bryson talks us through each task the barber does from the beginning to the end of the hair cut. Another example is in the reading "Deck the Halls," each procedure that Bryson does, he lets the reader know every little thing he does. Such as climbing into the attic which terrifies him and then rembers that the Christmas decorations are not up there. Bryson talks us through every step he goes through when trying finding the decorations and while hanging them up. Though it was a painful task to perform, Bryson puts on a smile and puts up decorations despite the bumps on the way, he does it because it is a ritual. It's Christmas!

I personally think Bryson's purpose is to show the audience a different type of process writing in his own way. A lot of people know more about and see more directional process, and this way, Bryson allos us to see a different version of a process.