...police activity. The water is usually freezing cold, filled with mounds of kelp, and if you are not careful an ignorant surfer can take your head off with his board. It is nearly impossible to sunbathe and relax on the shore. There are too many loud, obnoxious and usually intoxicated college kids running around and causing a scene. Since you can no longer sip on your own beer on the beach, you can get one at the overpriced establishments surrounding the beach. One can always get lost on the boardwalk as well, the crowds of people and all of the pan handling bums can be overwhelming just to look at some cheesy San Diego souvenirs. If you are looking for fun and relaxation in the sun, Pacific Beach is not the beach for that. In my two above paragraphs, I described Pacific Beach as place that someone would want to check out and enjoy, and in the other paragraph I simply made this a place to avoid. In my positive paragraph I tried to tell the reader how nice the ocean beach were. In my...
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...I sit on the old courthouse steps in the town square of Denton in the great state of Texas. The square is filled with people from all walks of life. Nestled between two universities and surrounded by residential neighborhoods, this place is constantly alive with people coming and going. I find myself humming along to the sounds of music coming from a group of young college kids who have set up their instruments and are performing on the courthouse lawn for all to enjoy. A gentle breeze picks up and with it is carried a glorious scent of bbq wafting over from one of the local restaurants. This place plays host to many festivals throughout the year. From where I am seated I can see the strings of white LED lights strung throughout the trees on the courthouse lawn. In the evening these lights are turned on creating a lovely ambiance. This is the type of place where the waitress at the diner knows your name and order as soon as you walk in the door. This is that small town America that for so many years I looked for and finally have found. I sit on the steps of the old courthouse here in Denton, Texas. The courthouse square is packed with all sorts of people. Many have walked here from a few blocks away due to the limited parking options. Just a few feet from me, an amateur band of college kids have set up and are using the courthouse lawn as an open air practice studio. Walking about the square, darting in and out of the waves of people, I duck into a diner. The waitress...
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...Two Descriptions Paper English Composition Jesse R. Guy Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Description #1 The cold, dense air is filled with the ever increasing sounds of whirring engines and the dull roar of never-ending road traffic. The potent smells of fuel and exhaust blow across my position followed by the putrid smells of burning rubber and hot brake material. It is night and the stars are as bright, making the world seem like such a small and insignificant place. Aircraft pass over, giving off their locations with small flashing lights and harsh, powerful noise. Condensation collects on the grass, wetting my shoes with its moisture, making things slippery and cold. The wind can be heard rustling over the large, towing concrete and metal building behind me. The sounds of shuffling feet and objects being carried or dragged are heard in the slight silence. I cannot place the location of the shuffling as it is off in the darkness, too far away to scale its distance or direction or if it is something to be concerned with. Description #2 As the cool air is brought in with the night, sounds of aircraft wafting through the air and automobiles scurrying their way along their paths fill the air. The day’s operations are ceasing and the smells of equipment being shut down and vehicles coming to a halt are dwindling with time. The night begins to offer its nightly starlight show, with millions of quaint, twinkling stars like a distant fireworks show happening so far away...
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...DESCRIPTION is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions. Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Description as a fiction-writing mode Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms of expression, or modes, each with its own purposes and conventions. Agent and author Evan Marshall (agent) identifies five fiction-writing modes: action, summary, dialogue, feelings/thoughts, and background (Marshall 1988, pp. 143–165). Author and writing-instructor Jessica Page Morrell lists six delivery modes for fiction-writing: action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition (Morrell 2006, p. 127). Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scene, and description (Selgin 2007, p. 38). Currently, there is no consensus within the writing community regarding the number and composition of fiction-writing modes and their uses. Description is the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Together with dialogue, narration, exposition, and summarization, description is one of the most widely recognized of the fiction-writing modes. As stated in Writing from A to Z, edited by Kirk...
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...Chapter 5 Questions 1. What is a job analysis? Why should a company perform job analysis for the organization's jobs? Job Analysis refers to the various methods that are used to analyze the requirements of the job. Two tools used for this include the job description and mission statement of an organization. Organizations should always perform job analysis for their jobs to ensure their employee selection is valid and defensible; thus accurately measuring the requirements of the job itself in a fair and reliable way. Essentially, a valid selection procedure should effectively measure whether or not the applicant’s qualifications match those that are needed for the job, and not much more or less. 2. Describe three major methods or techniques that organizations use for job analysis process. Three major techniques utilized by organizations and companies in the job analysis process include Narrative Job Analysis, Task-Analysis Inventory, and the Position Analysis Questionnaire. Narrative Job Analysis is a narrative or descriptive set of information about a particular job or position within an organization. The quality of the information contained in the description typically depends on the writing skills of the analyst. Task-Analysis Inventory refers to a set of methods with the goal of analyzing all the tasks performed in the focal job. Once a list of tasks is developed for the job, an analyst will evaluate each task on things such as amount of time spent, frequency, etc...
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...communicating through language and writing. Complete the following chart to identify the purpose and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. NOTE: You may not copy and paste anything directly from the textbook or a web site. All information included in this assignment must be written in your own words. Rhetorical Mode | * Purpose – Explain when or why each rhetorical mode is used. | Structure – Identify the organizational method that works best with each rhetorical mode. | Tips – Provide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. | Narration | The purpose is to tell the reader a story. | You need to understand the four basic components to all narratives which are the plot, character, conflict, and theme. | -It must be fact or fiction.-You are telling the reader a series of events in an exciting way. | Illustration | The purpose is to show the reader a clear picture. | You need to use specific details. | -You want to keep your introduction very interesting to the reader is excited.-Make sure to use clear supporting details so the reader is able to visualize what you are saying. | Description | The purpose is to be able to understand a person, place, or object using sensory details. | Using description you will set the tone and point of your essay. | -You must first chose a subject.-Give a full impression of the chosen subject. | Classification | The purpose is to reduce...
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... |factual or fictional and use | | | | |transitional words or phrases.| | |Is to show a point to the reader|Organize the evidence in terms of importance,|Vary the phrases of | |Illustration |and uses evidence to support it |either from least important to most important|illustration you use. | | | |and vice versa |Use the time transitions to | | | | |order evidence | |Description |To make sure their audience is |The organization of description may best |Should set a tone and a point.| | |fully immersed in the words on |follow spatial...
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...Childhood” suggest that the author is retelling the events of an early childhood experience from the viewpoints of herself as an adult. Ms. Dillard’s essay uncovers the differences between how adults and children view the world and seek happiness. However, there are a couple points to this essay. It seems as though, one of the author’s main points was to convey the message that some of the simplest moments in her life were also the happiest and most memorable. For example, she says, “I got in trouble throwing snowballs, and have seldom been happier since”. Also, I noticed that the author seemed to be motivated to inspire readers to chase life’s experiences passionately until one is satisfied. In the essay the author uses two rhetorical modes: narration and description. Ms. Dillard uses narration to describe her perspective of what it was like to be a child in America. In addition to using narration she also describes the intricate details of that particular winter day “Six inches of new snow had just fallen. We were standing up to our boot tops in snow on a front yard trafficked Reynolds Street slowly and evenly; they were targets all but wrapped in red ribbons, cream puffs.” (91). In relation to the unit theme: The shaping of Identity this writing piece uses an autobiographical narrative and flashback writing techniques to portray the American Childhood. Ms. Dillard’s perspective of an American childhood was quite accurate and helped me to remember my own childhood. I really enjoyed...
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...Narration Around 2 a.m. something woke Charles Hanson up. He lay in the dark listening. Something felt wrong. Outside, crickets sang, tree-frogs chirruped. Across the distant forest floated two muffled hoots from a barred owl. It was too quiet. At home in New Jersey, the nights are filled with the busy, comforting sounds of traffic. You always have the comforting knowledge that other people are all around you. And light: At home he can read in bed by the glow of the streetlight. It was too quiet. And much too dark. Even starlight failed to penetrate the 80-foot canopy of trees the camper was parked beneath. It was the darkest dark he had ever seen. He felt for the flashlight beside his bunk. It was gone. He found where his pants were hanging and, as he felt the pockets for a box of matches, something rustled in the leaves right outside the window, inches from his face. He heard his wife, Wanda, hold her breath; she was awake, too. Then, whatever, was outside in the darkness also breathed, and the huge silence of the night seemed to come inside the camper, stifling them. It was then he decided to pack up and move to a motel. Comments on narration: • Normally chronological (though sometimes uses flashbacks) • A sequential presentation of the events that add up to a story. • A narrative differs from a mere listing of events. Narration usually contains characters, a setting, a conflict, and a resolution. Time and place and person...
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...Rhetorical Modes Matrix Rhetorical modes are various methods for effectively communicating through language and writing. Complete the following chart to identify the purpose and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. | |Purpose |Structure |Tips | |Rhetorical mode |Explain when or why each |Explain what organizational method works |Provide two tips for writing | | |rhetorical mode is used. |best with each rhetorical mode. |in each rhetorical mode. | |Narration |The purpose of narrative writing |A strong narrative essay, containing |--Phrases and words related to| | |is an extensive form or |details of the setting, characters, and |the human senses attract the | | |storytelling. It can either be |situations relevant to the conflict of the|audience’s attention. | | |factual or fictional; it depends |story to engage the audience. It gives the| | | |on the purpose of the author, such|audience a vivid illustration of what is |--Minor characters help | | |as biographies or memoirs. |occurring. An essay of this nature is...
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...between two or more people, someone in conflict with themselves (making a decision, perhaps), conflict between a person and society, or a person and nature. • Simple and personal ideas work well • Start from what you know and build/ elaborate on this. • Avoid fantasy fiction, ghost stories and complicated adventure stories. • Avoid a plot which ends with : ‘I woke up and it was all a dream/nightmare’ (although a dream might happen inside the story, in a paragraph, perhaps). • Decide whether to use a linear (chronological) structure- • Or a structure using temporal shifts/ time changes such as flashbacks. • Choose third or first person according to task and STICK WITH IT (although there might be an opportunity for selective use of embedded narrative- another voice telling the story). • Try to use narrative hooks- intrigue your readers, perhaps keep them in suspense or keep them guessing! • Plan a definite opening and ending. Task : plan a story using this classic five part structure- • Exposition (opening- it sets the scene and kick off the action) • Encounter – a meeting or key event involving two or more characters. • Complication or conflict- the difficulty. • Climax- the most intense moment of the story. • Resolution- the ending- sad, happy, mixed, open ending, surprise ending or ‘twist in the tail of the tale. [pic] CHARACTERISATION AND POINT OF VIEW. • Focus on two or three...
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...University of Phoenix Material Rhetorical Modes Quiz Complete the following chart to identify the purpose and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. Rhetorical mode Purpose Explain when or why each rhetorical mode is used. Structure Explain what organizational method works best with each rhetorical mode. Tips Provide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. Narration Narration is used to tall a story. The best organizational method is to place examples in chronligical order. 1. Focus on a single event and elinate unimportant details. 2. Use reporters questions such as; Who? What? Where? When? Why? And How? Illustration Illustration demonstrates a point using examples. Use examples to make your point in the strongest and clearest way possible. 1. You should use evidence to support your examples. 2. Make sure concepts that readers are already familiar with are not overly explained. Description Description is creating a picture in words for you reader using sensory details. Organize from specific to general – working from details up to the main idea. 1. You should try yo use all five senses. 2. You should use as many details as possible. Classification Classification is dividing topics into smaller subgroups. You can organize by placing items from important to least important. 1. You should divide topics into categories that do not overlap. 2. Always...
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...and structure of the various rhetorical modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. NOTE: You may not copy and paste anything directly from the textbook or a web site. All information included in this assignment must be written in your own words. Rhetorical Mode Purpose – Explain when or why each rhetorical mode is used. Structure – Identify the organizational method that works best with each rhetorical mode. Tips – Provide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. Narration The purpose of narration is to tell a story. putting it in the arrangement of things one after another which is Chronological order. Decide if the story is fact or fiction and to use transitional words and phrases Illustration The purpose of an illustration essay is to show or demonstrate a point to your reader. Order of importance is the best way to organize an illustration essay. Differentiate the kinds of arguments and expressions used in order to keep the reader’s attention and use transitional words so the reader can follow the evidence being presented. Description The purpose of a descriptive essay is to describe something using sensual details Spatial order is the best organizational method the structure order is top to bottom, center, or left to right. The author should use sharp and brief details in the description and when describing things the author needs to include the five senses. Classification...
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...Title: “The Necklace” Author: Guy de Mauppassant Point of View: Third Person Setting Time: 18th century, over ten years’ time. Place: France Mood: Depressing Conflict: Man vs. Self – a woman’s struggle with wanting what she can’t have, and what she goes through after she tries to be something she’s not. Theme: Don’t be greedy, jealousy/greed can lead to your downfall, Things aren’t always as they seem, be happy with what you’ve got, character is shown through actions and not fancy apparel. Characters: 1. Name: Madame Mathilde Loisel Personality description: Charming, selfish, jealous Physical description: Pretty 2. Name: Monsieur Loisel Personality description: unselfish, wimpy/pushed around, generous, hardworking, loves his wife, likes to hunt 3. Name: Madame Jeanne Forrestier Personality description: Mathilde’s friend, kind, generous, trusting, wealthy Plot Details: Exposition – Learning about Madame and Monsieur Loisel and their background Rising action – Receiving an invitation to the ball, buys a dress and borrows the necklace, has a wonderful time at the ball Climax – Discovers the loss of the necklace, looks everywhere and cannot find it Falling action – They buy a matching replacement and spend 10 years paying it off Resolution – Madame Loisel comes clean to Madame Forrestier and finds out it was a fake. Identify at least five literary elements used and cite examples from the text. Alliteration – “Every possible...
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...specific details, descriptions, and perhaps even dialogue. A narrative is a story told from your perspective that includes not only a narration of the event, but also an evaluation of this event. For this essay, I want you to focus on food as the guiding theme behind your narrative. In order to write this essay, please consider some of the following questions: 1) What is your food story? 2) What role does food play in your gatherings with family and friends? 3) How much does your culture influence what/how you eat? 4) Are there recipes that are particularly significant to you? Why? Where did you get them? 5) What is your most significant memory involving food? 6) How does food affect other aspects of your life? The essay will be graded on the following criteria: 1. ASSIGNMENT FULFILLMENT (Basic Elements): Is the essay 2-4 typed, double-spaced pages? Does the title introduce the subject of the narrative? Is this work a clear-cut narrative with a proper timeline? Is it formatted properly (page numbers, MLA manuscript form)? 2. CONTENT (Hook, pacing, conclusion): Does the introduction have a good hook, one that captures the reader's interest? Is the essay's narrative pacing o.k.- neither too fast nor excessively slow? Does the conclusion wrap-up the essay effectively, providing a revelation or a moral? 3. MORAL: Was the moral lesson (established in the conclusion or throughout the essay) clear? Was it well-expressed? 4. DESCRIPTION: Did you include...
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