Why Good English Is Good for You (333-341) The audience is towards an educated class of individuals. The purpose for this writing is to reason that proper English is valuable.
If one were to read the essay, one would soon discover that the essay is written in a scholarly manner. John Simon, the author, utilizes a higher than standard way of writing which comprises of vocabulary and sentence structure. The use of both of these led me to the conclusion that the audience is directed for an educated class. The essay argues that true English has values. The paper goes on to state that proper English makes one appear proper and also benefits the brain. Anything beneficial to the brain and appearing proper are values in my own view. Due to these two examples, I was capable in writing that the purpose is that English has values. John Simon uses …show more content…
The tone may be described as annoyed. An example of this tone may be found on page 341 with the sentence, “Well, it seems to me that the same spirit prevails in our approach to linguistics, with every newfangled, ill-informed, know-nothing construction, definition, pronunciation enshrined by the joint efforts of structural linguists, permissive dictionaries, and allegedly democratic but actually demagogic educators”(31). That example is full of high vocabulary words, so that would interest someone educated. Another device used is repetition of the correct versus the incorrect way. An example of this usage is found on page 333 where he writes, “If you only have a thousand words in which to convey an important message it helps to know that “overcomplicated” is correct and “overly complicated” is incorrect”(3). If one has an education, then the difference between proper and improper word usage would be important to that individual. Next, John Simon uses high class sources. Remaining on page 333, he quotes Charles G. Walcutt “a graduate professor of English at CUNY...” (3). This would appeal to someone with an education
If one were to read the essay, one would soon discover that the essay is written in a scholarly manner. John Simon, the author, utilizes a higher than standard way of writing which comprises of vocabulary and sentence structure. The use of both of these led me to the conclusion that the audience is directed for an educated class. The essay argues that true English has values. The paper goes on to state that proper English makes one appear proper and also benefits the brain. Anything beneficial to the brain and appearing proper are values in my own view. Due to these two examples, I was capable in writing that the purpose is that English has values. John Simon uses …show more content…
The tone may be described as annoyed. An example of this tone may be found on page 341 with the sentence, “Well, it seems to me that the same spirit prevails in our approach to linguistics, with every newfangled, ill-informed, know-nothing construction, definition, pronunciation enshrined by the joint efforts of structural linguists, permissive dictionaries, and allegedly democratic but actually demagogic educators”(31). That example is full of high vocabulary words, so that would interest someone educated. Another device used is repetition of the correct versus the incorrect way. An example of this usage is found on page 333 where he writes, “If you only have a thousand words in which to convey an important message it helps to know that “overcomplicated” is correct and “overly complicated” is incorrect”(3). If one has an education, then the difference between proper and improper word usage would be important to that individual. Next, John Simon uses high class sources. Remaining on page 333, he quotes Charles G. Walcutt “a graduate professor of English at CUNY...” (3). This would appeal to someone with an education