In the article Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision Barbara Tomlinson discusses eight different types of metaphors and how she uses them to explain her revising process. I think she shows us all these metaphors to show us that is important to try and pick at least one metaphor and try and tie it into our papers.
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1. During the research they are having an interview so it may be easier to tell if they are telling you false information where as the former they have had time to make up an answer.
2. If you turn all your focus to having a metaphor in your paper to compare 2 things than you may miss out on all the other important information that you should have in your paper. A way of getting around this problem would be to consider tying in a metaphor in just a paragraph and avoid turning all your focus to it.
3. The only metaphor that I can somewhat connect with is the refining the ore one because I have a tendency once I get my paper edited I have a tendency to re work a lot of things which may turn my paper into a better paper than it was before.
4. Tomlinson hasn't gone to far because it is possible that all 8 of these metaphors can come into play at different times I think it depends on what you are writing.
5. The metaphors for revision are similar to the way that I revise my papers.
Response
I found this article helpful because it showed the many ways to tie in metaphors into your paper. Some of the metaphors were a little difficult to understand but for the most part it went well together.
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