Graduation
I looked up the word rite from page 16, paragraph 1 which means “a religious or other solemn ceremony or act” in this case a graduation. It is hard for me to relate to my highschool class as extended family because my class is 500 students strong, with 2000 kids in total in my school. I don’t even know the names of a good deal of them because I have never even met them. I don’t know who they are or even if they do well or not, so calling them extended family is a foreign concept to me. The idea on page 16 that says “only a small percentage would be continuing on to college” is not something that happens in the area I currently live. Sure, not everyone is making it to college, but a good deal are. I enjoy that on page 18, the narrator …show more content…
With a combination of colons, semi-colons, commas, and parentheses he was able to do so. I agree that the comma can be easily overused, but I also know that in some cases I use them way too often. Now that I look back on my past essays I rarely use the semicolon. As Lewis said that periods “tells you that is that”, but with semicolons you can add more. The word banality and banal were in the used and they respectively mean “lacking in originality.” With exclamation points I don’t find myself using them in essays, only in …show more content…
At this point I saw that he wasn’t closing the parentheses either, just leaving them open. Thus making everything in the first paragraph except the first few words in parentheses. I don’t think people often play games with punctuation purposely, they just overuse or incorrectly use it. I don’t believe punctuation is as common knowledge as it used to be. People sometimes even just use it as a filler to make it appear as if there essay is longer than it actually is.
Purpose
No matter what your writing, you are writing for some given purpose. Paul Krugman’s essay “Money and Morals” he gives information, creates a valid argument, and he has his own specific style. All of these together help support the purpose of his essay, which is the sole reason it was written in the first place. Purpose also appeals to the group you want to appeal to, and the genre you 're writing. On page 4 it says that finding the purpose of your essay can improve it.
I looked up the word rite from page 16, paragraph 1 which means “a religious or other solemn ceremony or act” in this case a graduation. It is hard for me to relate to my highschool class as extended family because my class is 500 students strong, with 2000 kids in total in my school. I don’t even know the names of a good deal of them because I have never even met them. I don’t know who they are or even if they do well or not, so calling them extended family is a foreign concept to me. The idea on page 16 that says “only a small percentage would be continuing on to college” is not something that happens in the area I currently live. Sure, not everyone is making it to college, but a good deal are. I enjoy that on page 18, the narrator …show more content…
With a combination of colons, semi-colons, commas, and parentheses he was able to do so. I agree that the comma can be easily overused, but I also know that in some cases I use them way too often. Now that I look back on my past essays I rarely use the semicolon. As Lewis said that periods “tells you that is that”, but with semicolons you can add more. The word banality and banal were in the used and they respectively mean “lacking in originality.” With exclamation points I don’t find myself using them in essays, only in …show more content…
At this point I saw that he wasn’t closing the parentheses either, just leaving them open. Thus making everything in the first paragraph except the first few words in parentheses. I don’t think people often play games with punctuation purposely, they just overuse or incorrectly use it. I don’t believe punctuation is as common knowledge as it used to be. People sometimes even just use it as a filler to make it appear as if there essay is longer than it actually is.
Purpose
No matter what your writing, you are writing for some given purpose. Paul Krugman’s essay “Money and Morals” he gives information, creates a valid argument, and he has his own specific style. All of these together help support the purpose of his essay, which is the sole reason it was written in the first place. Purpose also appeals to the group you want to appeal to, and the genre you 're writing. On page 4 it says that finding the purpose of your essay can improve it.