1. Suzanne Lucas knows we are smart enough to run our paper through a spell check. There are so many spell checkers in this era, that there is no excuse in having such small grammars errors that even a third grader should know not to make. We are adults now, we need to know that every sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. The only reason a person can be making this type of error is when they do not care about getting their point across. The example provided by Lucas made me focus in his/her errors rather than me focusing on the information he/she was providing. I had to read it twice to focus on what he was saying, not because I could not understand but because I was in shock of his errors. The way he delivers the letter,
shows how lazy and not adequately prepared to handle business communications with others. When writing, we represent our self, and the attention we give to our writing will appear on our grammar. Lucas, knows that business professionals will be harder than an English teacher in the way that with a teacher we are learning, and in the business environment we are competing and need to show responsibility for our work (communication skills). There is a reason why we’re been taught since a small age how to properly use grammar and why we continue it through college. Just by missing a period or a comma in a sentence you could mean something completely different. The reader needs to be able to understand without re-reading the same sentence over and over. When working for a company where you are in charge of sending correspondence, by email, letters and any other source your professional writing will also represent the whole company. That is why it is extremely important for companies to have employees with etiquette grammar. In the example used in this article, the writer did not even care to write out the words instead he abbreviated, ive and hr. He forgot the “e” on “the” and did not capitalize his “I”’s. I agree with Lucas when she mentioned that the way you write even to your friends and social medial becomes a habit that would be hard to get rid of. With the simple effort of using proper writing techniques when chatting with everybody, you will get accustomed on the proper grammar style. When you need to write a letter of importance either to get a job or to get someone’s attention, you will see that the habit you fixed with your everyday chatting has improve.
As the history of the United States has progressed, the motivation for starting a war has varied over the years. Something that has been consistent throughout every war are the emotions behind the soldiers fighting it. This can be seen in the books Gone with the Wind and The Things They Carried, and the document Letter to Elmer J. Sutters.
In the 2013 NBC news article, “Johnny Can’t Write, and Why Employers Are Mad”, written by CNBC’s Kelley Holland, she introduces the substandard state of lack of responsibility taken for writing and communication problems in schools of all grade levels. Holland explains according to the “Association of American Colleges and Universities conducted by Hart Research Associates 80 percent said colleges should focus more on written and oral communications”. Holland points out that “Nobody takes responsibility for writing instruction”. Holland implies that this problem affects not only job seekers and college students, but school districts also. Holland notes that this problem starts early on she reports according to William Elliot “an adjunct professor
A. What is Talia’s purpose in writing this letter? Do you believe she achieves her purpose
People would reflect their education in their grammar. Some people might not know how to spell something and there is the problem, they could be a misunderstanding on what they were trying to say. It is important to fix any mistakes that all people was basically used to do because it would be words that sound the same but they are not spelled the same. All people who have this problem should fix it and everyone should not let the laziness take control.
This will impact his reading if this does not get fixed because he will always put a word to fill in the spot. This will also change the meaning of the sentence, they will have misinformation on what is going on in the story because the miscue altered the entire sentence.
In this paper I will talk about some information that I have obtained from reading Mary Piphers, Reviving Ophelia, Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and give my view on some of her main points and arguments. I also will discuss why I feel Mary Pipher’s views on the toxic influence of media are accurate, and that it does affect adolescent girls. This paper will also point out the importance of Mary Pipher’s studies on the problems that today’s female teens are facing and why I feel they are important and cannot be ignored.
The first essay given in this course was about our whole composing process. This essay was hard to write about and I remember having several grammar mistakes. Sitting down and writing my process on paper,
The style in which it is written is another interesting aspect of the letter. The words used and the forms in which they are used are different from what we are used to seeing today. I found that when I was reading the letter I had to read it very slowly and over a few times. The letter is written in a very formal business-like manner, and that adds even another aspect to confuse a student. I personally, and I would assume most students my age have had little or no experience in the business world and with formal writing and reading. It is a different and many times difficult thing for me and others to deal with.
Daughters have always had a special bond with their fathers, even at the time where women did not have the same rights as men, and were seen as the weaker sex. This father is no different, in wanting the best for his little girl. The father in this letter wants the daughter to accomplish her roles differently than the women before her because he knows that women are capable of accomplishing “male” tasks. The letter also addresses how women were seen and treated by men and the changes that were occurring in order to gain a status quo for both men and women.
This harsh reality of the news writing industry provoked the thought process behind the Newhouse School’s spelling/grammatical/factual error grading policy in news writing and editing classes.
In “Letter to Ma”, Merle Woo writes mostly about her parents learned helplessness; however, Woo also touches on other learned behaviors such as, racism, sexism, and feminism. There are two types of known behaviors, innate and learned. Innate behaviors are reflexes that people are born with and learn behaviors are directly taught or learned from experience. When babies are born they have the innate behavior to close their hands when their palms are touched. People are not born with learned behaviors such as believing in the equality or inequality between genders or races. “Letter to Ma” does a remarkable job of explaining how people are taught to be racist, sexist, or feminist.
In her speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Florence Kelley highlights the truth about child labor. Throughout her speech, Kelley uses many strategies to persuade her audience. First, Kelley uses facts to convince her audience that she is credible. Second, she uses facts to show her audience how serious she is about the topic. Lastly, she uses guilt to appeal to the reader’s emotions.
n Prelude, Katherine Mansfield explores issues of sexual frustration and the restrictions on female identity in a patriarchal society, as experienced by three generations of Burnell women. Linda Burnells responses to male sexuality are tainted by their inevitable association to her obligations in fulfilling her role as a wife and a mother, both of which Linda has shown indifference towards. As a result, Linda's own sexuality suffers under feelings of oppression.
When I was in middle school, we were taught to proofread assignments as well as running them through spell check in Word. At the time, I had no idea that spell check was not a proper fix for determining spelling or grammatical errors, homophonic errors, sentence fragments, as well as the suggestions provided, are not always as helpful to the piece overall. I remember submitting an English assignment where we were to choose a nursery rhyme, research the history behind it, and create a fictional essay based off the song. The nursery rhyme I had chosen was “London Bridge”, and my essay was about a family who lived in a bakery and their stories as their local bridge burnt down. Towards the end of the essay there was a glimmer of hope among the
Stojkovic, S., & Lovell, R. (2013). Corrections: An introduction. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc