Unit 2

Lesson 5 (Inferring Meaning and Making Reasoned Judgment)

Assignment: 5.6 Making Reasoned Judgements, part 1

1)Write down three adjectives that you would use to describe Sarah Ellis. Justify your

choices with reference to details from the interview.

Three adjectives that Can describe Sarah Ellis are

Extrovert

Enjoyable

Honest

• Extrovert: She is an extrovert as it can be sensed from her interview, that how she is

open about everything she does as a writer. When her interviewer asked her about her idea for

any project she describes clearly how she is disorganized about her fiction writing and does not

for proper channeling of the outline but rather she just write down the scenes and eventually get

the plot but on the same page, she also described how it is not safe for the other but for her, it

works. She appears as an outgoing friendly person who is open about everything that is being

asked.

• Enjoyable: For Sarah Ellis, everything is there to enjoy and to love. When she is asked to

advise young writers in the last question all she was about to enjoy anything and everything.

Even the dreams. How to not worry about anything and just work on things and how writing is

enjoyable for both who are writers and who are not. Being enjoyable for herself and others is her
element how she enjoys her and other work even she enjoys lecture on how to plot, finger

crossed but that is her element.

• Honest: before jumping on to reference for being honest I think Sarah Elli's above two

qualities already showed how she felt about everything and how she is honest about it and telling

it to everyone. If we look through the first three questions in general she was open and honest

about herself and her writing and how she processes things and how all three different things are

being processed during her writing process rather than throwing some pro tips of writing and for

herself. When talking about young adults she talked about her observations clearly and bluntly

describe how she feels about “YA” becoming a genre, and when she wrote about children and

when she does, she will do it honestly.

2) Based on the interview, does Sarah Ellis follow many of the “rules “about how to plan

and write a book? Explain

She talks about different approaches for writing following her interview questions about building

an outline or planning idea and plot. When it comes to the idea of the project, she does not

follow any rules to build up situations and characters for the story she works randomly and as

things come to her mind, she wrote different scenes. If it is fiction she would not go for the

outline because she is too bored to know what she is going to conclude. But for other writings,

she would prefer the outline first and go on to writing later. She prefers research through letters

memoirs or any other for her characters and then works on them to develop a connection with

them. For the plot, she is a bit odd for it and works on it in every possible way and learns more

about it through a different medium. But to maintain momentum she linked up all the characters

and work on them. So, to conclude she does not follow any proper rules for her writing when it

comes to fiction but for another genre, she somewhat uses rules for outline and plot.
3. What would Sarah Ellis say about the need to engage young adult readers and encourage

them to read more often? (Note: Ellis does not say explicitly how authors can encourage

young adults to read, and so you must infer her advice)

During her interview, she does not directly talk about the young adult reader or giving them a

word of advice for the reader, but she does talk about how they become good writers. How they

can work on new words and how working on email, letters, tweets, and many other things may

help them develop skills. So according to my accord, I think all she wants for young readers to

focus on everything they do and enjoy it even if it is just a list of a simple word, invent words, or

language from things they read and even from their dreams they need to learn and enjoy every

bit of it so this will develop an urge in young readers.