Students said they struggled with questions that asked them to discuss how a writer constructed a story rather than about the content of the passage itself.
As Hultcrantz sees it, her most important task as a doctor is to be a good writer, constructing a coherent narrative from her patients' physical symptoms, which she interprets as metaphors for psychic distress.
"Some people may never stop believing that Carson, the recognized writer, constructed her works on a foundation of fakery, compromise, and broken promises," she writes, "whereas the man whose compositions dazzled 10th-graders and who never wrote another word must have endured some sort of personal or social oppression that erased any chance of success.
Notice how the writer constructed the sentences, where s/he inserted that comma, where and why each new paragraph was made, and so on.
In works like Jarcho's "Nomads" and Kempson's "Bad Girls, Good Writers," they construct worlds that are explicitly feminist and story-driven.
The flexibility of Aristotle's ethics, which Thomas himself acknowledges, did not lead medieval writers to construct a moral theory which, like Aristotle's, is based on societal norms, tradition and human actions.
Consequently, it is easier for writers to construct solutions based on a wealthy culprit rather than one involving a Whitechapel resident.
Ignorance of PBL as a whole curriculum strategy may lead writers to construct problems as independent entities, disregarding content overlap with the week's scheduled classes or duplication of the preceding problems' learning objectives.
For the better part of the book, Ms. Byatt inexplicably renounces her copious gifts as a writer to construct a dry, tendentious and thoroughly irritating narrative designed to hammer home a single philosophical point, namely the familiar notion that historical truth often eludes the human rage for order.
