Sunday, February 21, 2016

Local Revision: Tense Usage

In this blog post, I will evaluate the tenses used throughout my project.

Banalities, "Tenses." 1/31/2009. via flickr. Attribution 2.0 Generic.
Past Tense

began
reacted
felt
beat
killed
cast
made
aimed
said
confronted
underrepresented
cast
cared
traveled
claimed
charged
charged
experienced
made
created
worked
interviewed
written
cast
heard
stated
reacted
apologized
attempted
responded
recast
heard
exposed

Present Tense

playing
casting
attacking
casting
shooting
creating
combining
casting
sees
states
discussing
casting
accusing
invalidating
casting
attempting
weighing
states
states
makes
miscasting
says
casting
working
casting
working
casting
casting
encouraging
casting

Future Tense

run
address
beat
travel
fight
address
hear
believe
work
receive
emphasize
share
show
explain
explain
understand
voice
voice
understand
react
change
share
excite
read
encourage
represent
represent
voice
voice

casting: 10
cast: 4
voice: 4
states: 3
reacted: 2
represent: 2
share: 2
understand: 2
address: 2
explain: 2
charged: 2
working: 2
made: 2
heard: 2

There is a sense of balance that my project has in terms of the tenses, as each of them are generally balanced. Though, there are a bit more in the past tense section. This gives the quality of a very fluid story, allowing the audience to read the project as a story that is occurring before them rather than as a report on what had occurred. It increases the entertainment value for the audience. The difference in tenses are not all the jarring as each section tends to use a different tense in order to describe the action, and if the tenses switch than there is an explanation that follows which allows the switch in tense to make sense. I am using present tense in my paper, as it allows the audience to follow along with the story in a much more understandable fashion in a sort of narrative perspective rather than simply looking back the entire time on what had occurred.

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