As a student myself, I understand the dislike for writing and the idea that it's not as useful as other things. This piece shows students that writing is so much more than that, but you can only see this if you understand the purpose and
Spearman provides the student learning outcomes which state that students will learn various strategies of reading and writing that connects sources to their ideas to various topics. Some of the lessons she will be teaching includes synthesizing sources, demonstrating appropriate tone and structure of a paper, in addition to using rhetorical devices to analyze texts. In the middle of explaining what the students will learn from her class, Ms. Spearman makes sure that her students know a grade of a C at the least is needed to earn credit and to pass the course and later explains what is needed to pass her
Beah writes, "I had grown accustomed to living a life without much communication, and now that I was back in a place where communication was necessary, I didn't know how to do
This forced me to begin to think outside of the box and greatly expanded my knowledge of deep thought. Soon I watched as my grades steadily rose with valiance, and as a reader I became part of the text that came into my path. Haas and Flowers’ rhetorical reading strategies make sense to me in a way that has been familiar for a long time. From this reading, I felt that though I have never read Haas and Flowers’ exert, I have experienced it through the teachings of others.
As I was reading Melissa Duffy’s “Inspiration, and Craig Vetter’s “Bonehead Writing,” I found myself connecting with Vetter’s paper more than Duffy’s. I found that the presentation in “Bonehead Writing” to capture my attention, and that Vetter’s feelings about writing was similar to my opinion on writing. Through his wording and humor, I think Craig Vetter wrote the best essay. I find that the wording and presentation of an article or essay influences my opinion of the writer, and it affects how I receive the idea they are trying to present to me. Craig Vetter uses a blunt approach to convey his idea that writing is nearly impossible to teach, and describes writing as “A blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out.”
The flow of the conversation was an ongoing debate about technology where he let others talk and then he responded by using his own experiences. He used voice markers such as “I” when he was talking and using other fist and last name when it was their turn to talk or when he was summarizing their information. This helped the readers to keep track who was saying what on the debate. All the information that was presented was really clear for the reader to see “who care” he specifies the group of people that had an objection on the issue “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” (324). At the same time, he took care of answering “so what” by getting information from the real-world application and consequences of the issue that was being presented, he even used his own experience, friends, and acquaintances.
The newspaper editorial “Someone has to stand up for the gifted students” Heather Mallick’s October 2017 article for the Toronto Star, takes a stance on the topic on gifted programs for students. The author seeks to convince readers that gifted programs should be implemented in schools. Based on ideas and key writing concepts from the reading “Mind Wide Open” by Jean Prinsen, it is clear that Mallick words the article in a way that is easy for the average person to understand. However, it ultimately lacks sufficient evidence, and uses threatening condescending language to make up for her lack of sufficient evidence.
Life can really suck sometimes. It can give us the illusion that everything is going to go smoothly as planned, but then it surprises us with tragedy or rough, unexpected circumstances. It is during these times that we just don’t know what to do and feel hopeless. But hope is always there. Sometimes it’s obvious, and sometimes it seems impossible to find, but there is always hope for any situation or circumstance.
At the end of the article, he mentions the dark side of B.A. where the social system and our educators are in play and students are merely led by the nose. Such arrangement is wise, since the author arranges supporting ideas in a progressive way, rather than juxtaposition way, leading audience to follow him and being persuaded by degree. Apart from that, his delivery is logical, coherent and nearly covers all aspects so that it is made to be a persuasive
Amir is faced with a difficult task and he’s not willing to occupy. He use excuses, such as his life in San Francisco to make Rahim Khan understand that he can’t redeem himself. My reaction throughout the book is feeling entirely operated or manipulated. Reasons for my saying is the author's attempts at metaphor, symbolism, and foreshadowing are inelegant.
Rhetorical Analysis of "How to Read and Write" (Frederick Douglass) During an era of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and no hopes of abolition, Frederick Douglass invites his audience into a world where slavery enters the kindest of souls, and purifies the soul to have nothing but hatred and anger. In the empowering narrative, “Learning to Read and Write”, Douglass enunciates the cruelty of slavery and its pervasive impacts, with the help of Douglass’ vast journey to ultimately gain his thinking skills through reading and writing. Douglass expresses these actions with elaborate metaphors and immaculate details that keeps the audience on their toes to witness what happens next. Growing up as a slave, Douglass became curious about the art of reading
Ray Bradbury is a good writer because he comes up with a well-developed theme/setting with the use of different things. For example in the short story “The Pedestrian” he uses a bunch of literary devices such as internal conflict, static character and more. In “The Pedestrian” leonard mead who is fighting his loneliness by walking but when a copcar sees him it takes him to a psychiatric center but before this happened he despised technology because he said that it ruins people's lives and makes them depreciate the world around them. The author of “the pedestrian“ Ray Bradbury uses many writing techniques to better his story by using them to develop his theme and mood. Furthermore these, examples show that Ray Bradbury is a good writer because he comes up with a well-developed theme/setting with the use of different things.
A transition from cottage industries to new manufacturing processes in the early 1800’s caused a significant uproar in America’s Literature. As Capitalism grew, many socialist authors wrote novels to address the situation. As a result, readers argued whether the author wrote these novels for money, to discuss the situation, or to simply expose capitalism and shock the reader. An initial reading of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair might appear to be literary fiction, further analysis suggest that it is primarily a work of commercial fiction. Upton Sinclair effectively uses extended-metaphors to explain the cruelty the people at the time had to go through.
Communicators… discover meaning from the context in which a message is delivered” (Adler & Elmhorst, 2008). In the movie, Ian represents to a straight-talking style reflecting
Writing has always been an issue but yet interesting subject of mine. As hard as I try and write essays, and papers I just can’t get the hang of writing. But after taking this class, I did learn different writing technique and improved my writing proficiency, material body of formatting, and how to uncovering and properly use sources. Through class exams, essays, and a research paper, I was able to learn new writing skills. Although I have learned a variety of things, my writing still needs improvement.
