Critiquing an Essay with George Orwell’s six rules In Orwell’s essay he states that it is easy to slip into the bad writing that people have become accustomed to. It is difficult to go against the temptation of using the easy way out with meaningless words or hackneyed phrases that make things easier and require less thought. Orwell concludes that the progressive decline of the English language is reversible and he offers six rules which can help avoid most of the errors in poor writing. In Brenda Chow’s essay The Writer at Work, she breaks many of the six rules that Orwell wrote to avoid the continuation of our language decline. Chow breaks the following 3 rules: never use a long word when a short one will do, never use a simile, metaphor, or other figure of speech which you are seeing in print, and never use a foreign phrase, a scientific or jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Shame Analysis Dan M. Kahan argues in his piece “Shame Is worth a Try’ that shame should be used because “it’s an effective, cheap, and humane alternative to imprisonment” (574). If you are the kind of person who searches for articles with just emotional appeals, than look no further this is the article for you. When it comes to logical and ethnical appeals, Kahan falls short on the totem pole. He fails to prove his points because his examples are misused. He does not acknowledge that shaming sentences could also have effect on the offender’s family.
Is spelling and grammar always reliable? Spell check and grammar isn’t always reliable. When you make a spelling mistake in spelling and grammar you look for the correction straight away and you don’t learn how to spell it. You can also spell the word the correct way, however a different meaning. For example that piece of work was Wright, it should be that work was right, and spelling and grammar does not identify that mistake.
Although Sullivan feels that this definition is not the final definition of hate, but it serves to better define the word and helps understand the true meaning behind the word. Sullivan has more of a problem with hate crimes than he does with the word hate. He feels that hate serves as a “blanket” since it does not refer to the acts of an individual but it serves to make it refer to a general group of people instead (Sullivan 315). He provides the interesting insight that any “sense of belonging is followed by an unequal sense of unbelonging” (Sullivan 309). This seems to be a direct result of our strange tendency to classify people, objects, and even ourselves.
Margaret Atwood’s speech “Spotty Handed Villainesses” explores Patriarchy, feminism and “bad” women in literature. She uses wit and humour to disarm the audience and often uses anti-climatic statements to grab the audience’s attention. Margaret Atwood’s speech resonates through time with her critical study of feminism in a social context and the impact that feminism has had on literature. In the speech Atwood explores the moral dichotomy that exists in Women at the time. She shows how women can only be categorised as either an angel or a whore.
Second, he argues that it is only by virtue of something being sentient that it can be said to have interests at all, so this places sentience in a different category than the other criteria: "The capacity for suffering and enjoying things is a prerequisite for having interests at all, a condition that must be satisfied before we can speak of interests in any meaningful way" (175). That is, Singer is trying to establish that if a being is not sentient, the idea of extending moral consideration to it makes no sense. This negative argument is important, because one common criticism of Singer is that his criterion ends up excluding humans who are no longer sentient (like those in an irreversible coma); Singer is content to accept that consequence, but it is important that he show why the exclusion of some humans by his criterion is not problematic, given that he has criticized other criteria
Assignment 2: " Figurative Language versus Literal Language " Angie H. Dr. C.K. PHI210– Critical Thinking January 24, 2013 Figurative language is an important part of the English language and it allows a person to better express their thoughts. Although, there are some people who are quite thoughtless in using figurative language and they cause confusion and misunderstandings. That is probably the reason why so many non-English speakers say that the English language is one of the most difficult languages to learn. Why, because we would rather use figurative language to explain something INSTEAD of using the literal language to explain themselves.
Dissoi Logoi contains opposing arguments that can be argued either way. Its relevance to Rhetoric is that it allows us as readers to see that no argument can be made both bad and good, just and unjust, seemly and shameless. In our own minds we know right versus wrong, but not everyone has the same vision of what is right and what is wrong. What is wrong to one can be right to another and vice versa which appeals to the logos aspect of rhetoric. These notion of contradiction within this writing are rhetoric.
There are arguments that say it is detrimental to the learning of the English language, while others argue that it helps people with literacy. In the article “2b, or not 2b”, David Crystal argues that texting does help. I disagree with Crystal’s idea; I believe that it negatively affects people’s literacy. In David Crystals “2b or not 2b” he starts off by giving several points of views that argue against the idea of texting. In all of these points of views, the same idea persists, that texting is destroying the English language.
Cheating and plagiarism are two different concepts. Plagiarism is a common form of cheating. It is a kind of violation of someone else's copyright and it mostly applies to article writing, especially in term papers and research papers. According to “Rules for Writers” written by Diana Hacker, “failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas”; “failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks” and “failing to put summaries and paraphrase in your own words” are considered as plagiarism (415). There are a lot reasons for people to cheat, but that doesn't mean we have to cheat; instead, we need to make efforts to stop cheating.