...actually write your essay. Often, papers will take on minds of their own, and you’ll end up writing on a different subject than you had planned. If you create the title first, it will mean spending more time revising the title once the paper is completed. | |Idea 1 |Idea 2 |Idea 3 | |Theme | | | | |Audience | | | | |Language | | | | |Phrases | | | | Theme: Your specific argument Ideas: Adjectives that describe that argument Audience: The target group you are trying to reach Ideas: Adjectives that describe that group Language: The words you use to refer to your main idea Ideas: Words pulled from your essay (often the concluding paragraph) that refer to your main idea Phrases: Quotations from sources you’ve used Ideas: Key phrases pulled from quotations in your essay that capture your main idea Let’s say you are writing an essay about The Hunger...
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...Can language be said to hinder thought? What is language? It is a mean of communication. It must involve someone to communicate, and someone to receive the communication. What is thought? It is an idea, result or cause of the process of thinking. (Try to structure your writing as a proper essay, not as a question and answer session.) I think that spoken language is the important focus point, because other type of language are either with the same construction and structure than spoken language, either fully linked to the culture in which their being used. The effects of culture upon thought are obviously present and important no one would discuss it.( I’m not really clear about what you mean here… are you arguing against the Sapir-Whorf position, that what determines our worldview is not so much the language itself but rather the cultural associations that go with it? ) I think that the relationship between thinking (thought) and language is to be seen as a cycle rather than one coming before the other. (Interesting. But you need to demonstrate this, not just take it for granted.) Therefore, any concern in language should have an effect on though. We are used to express our self with language. But can language describe what we mean with perfection? We are limited to our vocabulary and grammatical construction since we do need language to think, in depth at least: whatever you think, there is a word; whatever you conceive there is reason. You must speak it...
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...------------------------------------------------- Poverty is a state of mind “If you think you’re poor, you’re poor. If you think you’re rich, you’re rich. No-one is ever going to come along to cure your poverty. The only solution is to do it yourself.” These words are incisive. But is this the naked truth? “Poverty is a state of mind” (2012), written by Bernard Hare, deals with the idea of poverty as a mind-set. In this essay I will analyse and comment on Bernard Hare’s essay, based on a study of the writer’s use of contrasts and the use of his own experiences during the essay – lastly with an investigation of the writer’s intention. (115) Bernard Hare’s essay was originally broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 as a radio essay in 2012, later on, it was reprinted on BBC’s website. The story basically takes place in Leeds, in the North of Britain. We are following Hage through his upbringing in a poor environment. His father worked as a coal miner, and his mother was a shop worker in a department store. The events of the story are listed in chronological order - from back in the days where Hare was a child, spending his days among the cobbled terraces of east Leeds, to 1968 when his family got their first black and white television, and lastly he is taking us to the present, through his experiences as an alcoholic...
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...Lecture 2 Investigative Essay: Anti-Communist Propaganda Part of the Cold War was fighting communism at home in the United States. As we’ve discussed in class, much of the anti-communism sentiment was fanned into a flame of hysteria. Much of what fanned these flames was propaganda distributed by the government and other organizations. This propaganda grossly exaggerated the threat of communism by using images and inflated language. For this essay, choose one of the posters or pieces of propaganda found at the following websites and write an analysis of it. For your analysis be sure to include what piece you are writing about, what kinds of images or language does it use, and how it uses images and language to manipulate fear toward communism. How does this piece of propaganda exaggerate the threat of communism in the country. The essay is worth 25 points and is due on Monday February 9. The essay should be at least a page to a page and a half long and written in essay format. Use the following websites for your search. They are also up on moodle. The Red Menace: 15 Vintage Anti-Communist Ads & Propaganda: http://weburbanist.com/2013/06/12/the-red-menace-15-vintage-anti-communist-ads-propaganda/ The Red Menace: Anti-Communist Propaganda of the Cold War http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-red-menace-anti-communist.html Writing in an Essay Format: Since this class is part of the writing requirements for your general education core, writing will be an essential...
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...2012-13 essay questions: ESSAY OPTION 1. "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." –Oscar Wilde. Othello and Iago. Dorothy and the Wicked Witch. Autobots and Decepticons. History and art are full of heroes and their enemies. Tell us about the relationship between you and your arch-nemesis (either real or imagined). Inspired by Martin Krzywy, admitted student Class of 2016. ESSAY OPTION 2. Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the position and momentum of an electron with total certainty. Choose two other concepts that cannot be known simultaneously and discuss the implications. (Do not consider yourself limited to the field of physics). Inspired by Doran Bennett, BS'07 Chemistry and Mathematics. ESSAY OPTION 3. Susan Sontag, AB'51, wrote that "[s]ilence remains, inescapably, a form of speech." Write about an issue or a situation when you remained silent, and explain how silence may speak in ways that you did or did not intend. The Aesthetics of Silence, 1967. Anonymous submission. ESSAY OPTION 4. “...I [was] eager to escape backward again, to be off to invent a past for the present." –The Rose Rabbi by Daniel Stern Present: pres·ent 1. Something that is offered, presented, or given as a gift. Let’s stick with this definition. Unusual presents, accidental presents, metaphorical presents, re-gifted presents, etc. — pick any present you have ever received and invent a past for it. Inspired by Jennifer Qin, admitted student Class of 2016. ESSAY...
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...author grabs his reader’s attention and how he plays the story throughout the book. When I find a book that I’m interested in, I will read the entire novel. Or even something that is scary will keep hooked on the story. Scary stories are my favorites because the story just keeps my suspense in play. Celebrity gossip is definitely something that I get into reading. There is always something new with these celebrities. Since these celebrities are well known, their lives are somehow interesting to us. We love the celebrity gossip because they’re famous and any juicy story about a celebrity will catch our attention. The writers of these magazine articles know how to grab my attention. It’s almost like they just suck all your attention into the story to where your face is only an inch from touching the magazine. In order for these writers to...
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...Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Advanced Placement English III First Six Weeks – Introductory Activities: ▪ Class rules, expectations, procedures ▪ Students review patterns of writing, which they will imitate throughout the course: reflection, narration and description, critical analysis, comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and persuasion and argument. ▪ Students review annotation acronyms, how to do a close reading, literary elements and rhetorical devices. Students also review the SOAPSTONE (subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker, tone, organization, narrative style and evidence) strategy for use in analyzing prose and visual texts along with three of the five cannons of rhetoric: invention, arrangement and style. ▪ Students learn the format of the AP test, essay rubric and essay structure. ▪ Students take a full-length AP test for comparison purposes in the spring. Reading: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing: Answer the following question in one paragraph. Use quotes from the novel as evidence. Some readers believe that the elaborate decoration that Hester embroiders on the scarlet letter indicates her rejection of the community’s view of her act. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your position using evidence from the text. (test grade) Writing: Write a well-developed essay addressing the following prompt. Document all sources using MLA citation. Compare Hester to a modern...
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...TEXT ANALYSIS ESSAY WRITING THE QUESTION / TASK The most important thing is that you answer the question or task requirements. This requires remaining on point and ensuring that everything you include in your essay contributes to your reader’s/marker’s understanding of your main point/thesis. In every text analysis essay you are essentially being asked to comment on the literary techniques that are used to portray a theme/idea in a certain way. This means analysing the stylistic language choices that the author made to establish a particular tone and present the theme(s)/idea(s) to impact the audience in a particular way. Thus, the inter-relationship between author, text, and reader is what you need to look at. You need to read your question carefully in order to determine how to pull apart and include everything required of you. Highlight the important parts. ‘How’ in a text analysis essay means that you need to refer to technique. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION The difference between producing an essay that passes and one that doesn’t comes down to your analytical skills. If you find yourself taking about the characters as though they are people and recounting the plot. Stop. Wrong Way. Go Back. Do not collect $200. Think about what language choices the author made in order to portray or construct the text in a particular way. The language choices of a text establish its tone which can be serious, humorous, satirical, ironic...
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...Complex Systems in Education CSE ESSAYS COURSE Complex Course on Writing English and American Essays for Advanced Students English Language Programs Division Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Writing 2 United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C. 1999 2 3 How to Use this Complex Course Частные уроки Английского Языка 387-1231 MIND Speaks to MIND – Selected American Essays 4 Preface Some years ago, a visitor to our office, a professor of English at a large foreign university, asked if the English Language Programs Division had published a book of American essays for foreign students – especially students at the advanced level. Having to respond in the negative, I was, nonetheless, “intrigued” by the idea of a collection of essays that would form a source of stimulating ideas or thoughts that could be thoroughly examined in the EFL classroom, discussed and debated in free conversation, and perhaps, ultimately, lead to a significant growth in the exchange of information between cultures – via the printed page. From this rationale, then, there issues an explanation for the title, Mind Speaks to Mind, which itself is an “exchange of information” between the editor and Edward Hoagland in his essay, “On Essays”! And, readers are encouraged to study this essay first as a type of guideline concerning the nature/purpose of the essay. It is found on page 26. For ease of reference, the essays are presented in alphabetical order according...
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...CSM 104 Research Essay Why you should learn Spanish before you learn French? Speaking a new language helps you to get to know another people and culture, as language and culture go hand in hand. Because language simultaneously is defined by the world around us, learning another language opens one's mind to new ideas and new ways of looking at the world. While most of us can't hope to learn the languages of more than one or two cultures other than that of our own, those that we can learn help us to learn how other people learn and think. In North American, most people choose French and Spanish as their second or third language. Many people believe that Spanish is actually more useful than French, and obviously the foreign language most spoken and studied--by far--in the North America is Spanish. Compare with French, Spanish can offer a wealth of literature of Latin language, both modern and traditional. For example, when you are reading a Latin American websites, you may find that you could gain a sense of how other people think and fee if you know Spanish. As a matter of fact, both of the languages belong to the Latin group of languages. Hence, they show some similarities too. On the one hand, French is spoken by the country of France in the continent of Europe. On the other hand, Spanish is spoken in the country of Spain in the continent of Europe. However, French and Spanish are two languages that show enormous differences between them when it comes to the pronunciation...
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...Number: 4079-243-9 Assignment number: 1 Unique Number: 827947 Question 1: Illustrate your thinking about assessment by describing three separate assessment tasks/activities your learners have to do in your subject/learning area and which you or your learners have to assess. Your descriptions must be in response to 14 very specific aspects/strategies of assessment. These 14 aspects/strategies are included below as 14 questions. 1. Subject/learning area, lesson topic, and grade to be assessed: Subject/learning area: English – Home Language Lesson topic: The lesson topic is types of writing texts: write a narrative essay. Learners are to plan, prepare and write a narrative essay. The topic will be given in both writing and as a corresponding pictorial representation. Grade: 8 2. Learning outcome to be assessed In accordance with the CAPS document, the learning outcome for this assessment is imaginative formulation, writing and presenting a written essay. To complete this task the learner will need to do/demonstrate the following: • Use language to think and reason out creative ideas • Apply the reasoning process to capturing ideas and transfer them to written words • Write and present a mixed variety of factual and creative texts to suit a variety of purposes. • The learner will know and be able to use the sounds, words and grammar of the English language to complete the task. 3. Assessment standards to be used in this task: • Individual assessment...
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...University of Phoenix Material Completing the Essay Worksheet Answer the following questions to help complete your final essay: 1. Draft an introduction for your essay based on the best practices you studied this week. Your introductory paragraph should be 5 to 7 sentences. Remember: Your introduction should include a hook to capture the attention of your audience and the last sentence of your introductory paragraph must be your thesis statement. How do you learn? Do you learn by visual representation? Can you hear something one time and lock it into your memory forever? After I did some research I was in awe over a study done by T. Bahrani and T. Sim. The title of this study is Informal Language Learning Setting: Technology or Social interaction. These authors took 100 students from Iran and Malaysia and put it to the test. Both male and female students were studied and observed, they were asked to do multiple things to see the growth or the lack there of. 2. Draft a conclusion for your essay based on the best practices you studied this week. Your paragraph should be 5 to 7 sentences. The findings of this study were eye opening. The results of the study proved that language-learning students could improve their English speaking minds by being exposed to audiovisual mass media paraphernalia in an informal environment. With all of the technological advances in our society today, I felt like this is the only way to learn, and all other...
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...Locke, 1632-1704, Essay on Human Understanding • a British philosopher • Oxford academic and medical researcher • his association with Anthony Ashley Cooper (later the First Earl of Shaftesbury) led him to become o a government official charged with collecting information about trade and colonies, o An economic writer, opposition political activist, and o finally a revolutionary whose cause ultimately triumphed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. • Much of his work is characterized by opposition to authoritarianism. • This opposition is both on the level of the individual person and on the level of institutions such as government and church. • Locke's monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding concerns itself with determining the limits of human understanding in respect to God, the self, natural kinds and artifacts, as well as a variety of different kinds of ideas. • It thus tells us in some detail what one can legitimately claim to know and what one cannot. • Locke also wrote a variety of important political, religious and educational works including the Two Treatises of Government, the Letters Concerning Toleration, The Reasonableness of Christianity and Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Essay on Human Understanding • Locke is often classified as the first of the great English empiricists (ignoring the claims of Bacon and Hobbes). • This reputation rests on An Essay Concerning Human...
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...of a text you have to keep the following 8 points in mind: 1 You are supposed to write a coherent text including only the main points or events and showing that you have grasped the essence of the text. Your summary should not include examples, details, lists, direct speech or elaborate descriptions. You should cover only the questions of who, where, when and what, whereas questions of how and why belong to analysis and interpretation (the essay). 2 Use the most economical wording possible, and remember that the most important requirements of the genre are brevity, precision and concentration. Do not exeed the word limit - you will be punished for doing so! But neither should you write too short a summary as this will put you in danger of leaving out essential points. 3 Your reader is not familiar with the text. Therefore you need to be explicit and introduce characters, situations, subjects, backgrounds etc. No in medias res openings: you have to write an introductory passage (as well as a closing one). Always remember: your summary has to make sense on its own. 4 A summary must be loyal to the text and as objective as possible. You are not allowed to state your own points or personal views here. Only your own ordering of the material - chronology is no necessity! - and your statement of what the text is about are allowed. Analysis and interpreta-tion should be given only in the essay. 5 Use your own language. Take care that you do not borrow words, phrases or sentences...
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