A: Does anything else make a book harder of easier? M: I think it’s- like reading words where the print is not so fine. You know, like fine print, the small letters? I hate books like that. It scares me.
Why I Hate Writing When given a writing assignment there are many ways to go about doing it. There is the smart way and there is the not so smart way, where you procrastinate till the last moment, do not check over your work and submit what you have and hope that it’s good enough for the teacher to not call you out in the middle of class with a big old “What the hell is this crap.” From these two the one that defines my writing style would be the not so smart. When given a writing assignment I tend to procrastinate due to two, in my view, simple reasons. One being writing and being able to make up/ analyze a story comes hard to me and the second being I absolutely hate writing with a burning passion. I always try to start by making an
In all these countries, where people are oppressing or trying to oppress people, education isn’t a priority. Books and education aren’t so readily available and it makes me think if that is on purpose or just a weird coincidence. What better way to make people weak by taking away free thought and an environment where their minds can nurture and grow? I finish this paper with this thought in my head and feeling
I hate the way you were being sexist here. When people see this part of the article, many women or girls would be deranged. I know I am definitely furious. I don’t think anyone- even if they are desperate- would even sleep with their sister. As I still continue to read the ignorant article, I come towards the abusive language when you comment and say “there are so many of the bastards”.
In the article Words Don’t Mean What They Mean, there is an excerpt from the book The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker that discusses the importance people place on words, how they are said and the possible connotations. Francis Bacon wrote a paper that talked about how difficult it is to achieve proper understanding due to the many possible meanings of words and improper word choices made by humans. In his book, Steven Pinker says, “When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep shillyshally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo.” Just like in Bacons theory, Pinker says humans never go straight to the point. They concur upon the fact that humans are hypocritical in wishing for the plain and simple truth but never giving it themselves. Through time people have manipulated words and their definitions to mean what they like.
Summary of The Rhetorical Stance In Booth’s speech, The Rhetorical Stance (Booth, 1963) he argues that currently the teaching of rhetoric is ineffective. Due to the lack of information students are being taught about rhetoric and the way it is presented. Booth, in his speech, has this to say about what he believes rhetoric is: “Rhetoric is the art of finding and employing the most effective means of persuasion on any subject, considered independently of intellectual mastery of that subject” (Booth, 1963). Booth is merely saying that you need to answer a few simple questions in order to write a persuasive and effective paper. Do you engage your audience?
I find myself lost in thought of how they create ideas to generate their writings and find this to be a difficult task. I would rather “read generously, work inside someone else’s system, and see my world in someone else’s terms—read inside the grain,” as stated in “Ways of Reading.”
High School is going to be a pain no matter who your are, but for different reason; I’m frightened because of the decision I have to make to choose the perfect class, learning, and taking notes. Those are my ultimate weaknesses. I cannot decide what classes to do, which will make it harder to learn, which will require notes. One problem, I am horrible at note taking. In High School you need to think about what you might do as an adult, and there are many options with many classes.
Jenee Buchwalder Mrs. Leirssano Seminar Advanced English 1, 2 13 April 2010 The Effects of Media with Character Restrictions on the English Language Text messaging abbreviations tend to have a negative connotation to them, based on irritated English teachers who have witnessed various errors due to them. Nonetheless, there have always been people trying to “up the ante” by taking it a step further. Take IMO, for instance. These words have been transformed into IMHO, IMCO, IMHBCO, and IMNSHO (in my humble/considered/humble but considered/not so humble opinion, respectively) (Txtng 53). David Crystal indicates, “This is a form of language play... [the desire to] outdo what has been done before.” This type of minor changes of words are a prime example of the effects of text messaging media on the English language.
That weakness of mine is reading. For some reason when I have to read a book or an article of something, I seen to lose all my focus and everything goes haywire. Stuff like that makes me want to quit school but I can’t because quitting school is rubbish. Then sometimes I feel like I am wasting my time with all these classes because some never seem to satisfy my learning style. So, no matter what your personal style tends to