Evolutionary linguistics

Once I began English 101 I will admit that I was worried that I wouldn 't meet the expectations of college writing. In my past high school career I did well as a writer but many times have I been told that I lack a handful of writing skills. Such as grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and as we called it flow. I wasn’t able to keep my readers attention and I felt as if my writing skills were below average. As I began my first semester of college I was anxious about how I would turn out in…

1: Reading and writing are basic skills for every college students. These two skills are so important that every universities have composition courses for its students. College students are expected to read hundreds of pages long reading materials and write highly professional research papers. Every college students would say they know how to read and write. However, few of them knows how to read and write effectively. Everyone feel overwhelmed when they face hundreds of pages reading at a…

Poetry is special for some people because it brings out their vulnerability and emotions. A poem is usually filled with certain thoughts and feelings dreams that come from one’s heart. Each poem will have a different meaning to each person, but their message is left to the reader's own interpretation. In poems, there are philosophical snapshots that are poet captured to showcase life, love, experiences, and lessons that help view the world in which we live. Many of these philosophical snapshots…

I am exploring, in a group of college students with learning difficulties the following questions: 1) What do these students do when they read? 2) What are their beliefs about reading as a tool for academic success? and 3) What they belief about themselves as readers. These questions are based on the understanding that reading is an active search for meaning that requires studying the relationships between the reader's thought process, language, and sociocultural settings in which both the…

Is wrighting in cursive an important tool that you think is required in school or is it used just as a fancy way of wrighting? In the two articles that's located in the education section in the local newspaper argues whether cursive wrighting should be taught in school or whether cursive wrighting is obsolete. There are many pros to wrighting in cursive and just simply typing on an computer. In the first article " cursive is a powerful brain tool," it states that cursive wrighting is…

Does the language unite or separate people? This issue is very complicated, I think. There are many countries and nations throughout the world. The world speaks different languages. Even in one country there may be many different languages, for example in Russia. There are accents, which are blurred depending on the region. Or even several official languages can exist in one country, for example, in Switzerland people speak three different languages - Italian, German and French. People often say…

Throughout this article, Jason will be going over how concrete poetry can be an interesting genre to analyze and what makes concrete poetry an authentic genre. By looking at concrete poetry through the lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), Jason focuses on how the content blends together with the visual appearance to create a deeper meaning. Going back to 7th grade, my english class was learning about the broad genre of poetry. At first, I thought “Oh boy. . . another writing…

The sequence of development is the development is the guidelines we follow to monitor children’s overall development. For example the chart above shows expected milestones as such that a child should be achieving at that age and stage. However every child learns and grows differently as they are all individuals and no two children will be exactly the same or learn at the exact same time this is the rate of development. The rate of development is different for every child for example a baby at…

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis When initially reading about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, I actually felt somewhat overwhelmed with interesting information. From prior knowledge of language and culture relations, I fully recognized that it has simply always been understood that the culture of each human being influences his or her own language. I have studied this in several different classes and areas of the curriculum; however, I had honestly never thought about how language had absolutely anything to…

A Summary of Lesson 3 Actions In his previous two lessons, Joseph Williams stressed the importance of writing with clarity, correctness, and style. In Actions, he makes two important points: make the main characters the subject of a sentence and make the main action the verbs of a sentence (Williams, 44). Writers create clearer and more understandable prose for their readers when they revise a "revision" and turn a nominalization back into a verb. He identifies common problems, offers helpful…