The Differences Between Telling and Showing

Showing vs. Telling

Writers are faced with a choice when they wish to explain something. They can either tell it in straight facts or they can show it by describing how it feels. Telling provides the reader with pure information that they have to process, while showing can appeal to the reader's senses describing how something appeared.
Emma Darwin writes about this on her blog. She gives detailed information about how telling or showing their audience something can have very different effects. Darwin also briefly explains how telling or showing can apply a distance between the reader and a character. For example showing can be used to make the reader feel like they are they character, and telling can explain a story in a third person perspective.

Darwin’s audience likely consists of students that are learning writing techniques, authors, or possibly teachers. They probably stumbled upon her blog while researching showing and telling.

I most like about the article that it included how showing or telling can provide a perspective. Although I use the techniques of showing and telling already, I don't typically think about perspective so that is also something new that I learned from this article, and it will be the main thing that I take away.

Overall, Emma Darwin's, article provides plenty of detail on the use of showing and telling in text. She also added a nice touch showing how these techniques also affect the perspective.