I am not entirely sure that I accomplished it correctly but attempted to. My understanding of the work changed as I started to think critically about what the story meant. There were many underling or hidden meanings within that one could consider. Thinking critically about something that does not interest, such as poems, seems to be the biggest challenge about the writing process for me. In my opinion, the strength of the essay is within the introduction and conclusion.
Grade Inflation: Misnomer One of the most controversial and most widely argued academic ethics issues throughout the past half century has been grade inflation. Educators, students, journalists, and analysts widely differ. Some argue that grade inflation is a serious and universal issue and needs to be addressed at a national level; others believe that grade inflation is nonsense and that what needs to be addressed are grading problems that exist at particular schools at given times. First of all, this paper intends to demonstrate that grade inflation, as applied by its proponents, is a misnomer, a mistaken way of viewing and addressing grading problems that exist in certain educational institutes at given times. Secondly, grade inflation is founded on an improperly formulated and erroneous assumption that students’ achievements can be empirically calculated, at least with currently used methods.
This is the process operating when the tutor explains the assignment. • Depending on student's previous experiences and expectations, their perceptual filters will interfere with the message that they receive. • Both the tutor's verbal and non-verbal communication – in particular, aspects of paralanguage such as emphasis – will communicate which bits of the instructions are most important. Verbal communication varies in its accessibility for students, as they may have different levels of understanding of the instructions (especially if English is not their first language). Non-verbal language may support or contradict verbal messages.
Matt Sotl 3/28/08 Quarterly Reading Essay Period 1-2 Mr.S Comparison of 2 tragedies’ In books and novels, there is a predominate theme that plays a large toll on the books purpose. When two books are similar like these two books, it is hard to figure out why it is that he books are alike but it takes so long to figure out the plot differences. That is why you actually have to analyze the books afterwards. The author of The Things They Carried has very good ways of showing us what the true reason of the books should be. He put in the fact in one of the paragraphs that he was “unclear” about whether or not he actually threw a grenade and killed a man out side” said O’Brien.
Raymond Williams argues that ‘Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’ (1983: 87). With reference to at least one of the key readings that you’ve studied in weeks 1-3, discuss (1) why Williams argues this and (2) some of the different ways in which culture has been defined. Williams once presented his frustration of the complexity of the word ‘culture’ by saying: “I don’t know how many times I’ve wished that I’d never heard the damned word” (R. Williams, 1979: 154). But is the word ‘culture’ really one of the two or three most complicated words in the English Language as Williams argues? One of the reasons that makes him think that the word ‘culture’ is so difficult to be understood and analysed is partly because of the fact that the word itself has developed during different stages of human history as well as in several different languages.
Running Head: VAGUENESS, AMBIGUITY AND CLARITY IN WRITING Vagueness, Ambiguity, and Clarity in Writing CRT/205 – Critical Thinking November 14, 2012 Instructor: Gina Feist Vagueness, Ambiguity, and Clarity in Writing Clarity in writing is very important for both the reader and the writer. However, it is not as easy as one would think to accomplish. According to Moore & Parker (2012) obscure writing that has vagueness, ambiguity, excessive generality, and undefined terms can cause confusion for the reader (p. 71). Analyzing writing for obscurities like vagueness and ambiguity requires one to look for places in the writing that can be interpreted more than one way or areas that need more elaborating on to be understandable. For example, Example 3 from University of Phoenix Writing Samples says: Next Sunday a collection will be taken to help with the cost of the new altar.
Vanessa Lopez Our Challenges We all have faced many challenges in our lives. A challenge is not only an obstacle in our lives; it’s also a situation where we can learn a lot from. Challenges should be faced with determination, hard work, and perseverance. A great example is the story of “A Homemade Education.” by Malcolm X, in which his first language was English but he recognizes his lack of efficiency in the language due to the need of education. Even though Malcolm was in jail he found the way to educate himself.
Ankhtur Bolor-Erdene Professor Melissa Qualls EPP 150.05 Sep/03/14 Journal #2 Number #1 According to the “Barriers” which was written by Rolando Niella, it tells us about it is so difficult to talk to a person whose level is higher than you in their own language even though you have experienced or not. Especially, there is a big difference of talking in your first language and speaking in your second and learning language. Also, the level of native speaker will be in more advanced level comparing to your learning language. The most interesting part from the reading for me was the author related his experience to a sport that most of the people like and they know it is tough to start it from the beginning. Plus, when he said “I know how to hold the racket and basically hot to hit the ball; however, I still cannot say that I actually play tennis”, the content of this sentence expresses that foreign people know how to communicate them by their language, but they cannot
Power in the Education System Students in today’s education system find themselves caught in the middle of an ongoing struggle over power. The power to directly influence the young minds of future adults holds great value to those inside and outside of the education system. In C.H. Knoblauch’s “Literacy and the Politics of Education”, Benjamin R. Barber’s “The Educated Student”, and Deborah Tannen’s “The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue”, the corrupt relationship between power and educational institutions is discussed by expressing their personal views on who holds the power, how they maintain power, and how this power affects the students. All of the authors provide different viewpoints on who holds the power in education by exploring specific parts of the educational system.
Figurative Language versus Literal Language Kimberly Mathis Critical Thinking 11/24/12 English is said to be the hardest language to learn. Due to the many types of slang, different words having the same meaning, and other words having different meanings. In this paper, I will be comparing figurative language to literal language. In linguistics, idioms are usually presumed to be figures of speech contradicting the principle of compositionality. An Idiom is an expression consisting of a combination of words that have a figurative meaning.