Generative linguistics

Studying in Perugia will stimulate my college experience in many ways that residing at Hollins cannot. While abroad, I will learn a new language and practice it with native Italian speakers. This will promote both my linguistic and cultural skills. While I could learn a language in a classroom setting, being able to speak fluently in a public setting will solidify the language and allow me to communicate effectively; I can’t just translate small passages on paper. This experience will also…

Sight Essay Have you ever interpreted something in a literal way? Poetry can be understood on two levels--a literal level, and a metaphorical level. In Emily Dickinson’s poems, things are taken in the way it is only written. In Dickinson’s “We Grow Accustomed To The Dark”, sight is obviously known and viewed as the ability to see things. However, on a metaphorical level, it is talking about how even in dark times, perhaps when you are struggling with depression and there is no light to guide…

Robert Burns, a Scottish poet and lyricist was born January 25 of 1759 and died July 21 of 1796. He is known for his writing on Romanticism poetry and his way of portraying feeling and emotion throughout his writings. Two of his famous poems A Red, Red Rose and Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon) are examples of romanticism, which was an intellectual movement that originating Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Burns’s poems are full of emotion such as happiness, sadness, anger and despair.…

For some people, writing is difficult and it can become stressful to write about topics you have no interest about; for me it’s the contrary, I have always had good fluency when it comes to write about any topic, even if it doesn’t interest me, this is mainly because I take it as a new challenge or an opportunity to have a more in deep look about the certain topic; I use this not only for writing but every time I get tasked with something new, for example back when I was in the marine…

The poem, “Undefined” by Melanie Kelly talks about someone who is judged by society, and because the speaker was judged they felt emotions and feelings that made them into someone who was not really there. At the end, the speaker learned that they shouldn’t follow societies rules for being accepted and they became someone who they could live with. The author uses metaphors and personification to portray that people mustn't hesitate to be themselves. The speaker tells people have to be someone…

oftentimes halted by the misusage and erroneously categorization of words, denotations, and connotations. Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Stanford University Lera Boroditsky attempts to find a correlation between one’s thoughts and linguistic abilities in her research “How Language Shapes Thought.” Boroditsky conveys her study through an employment of the three rhetorical appeals: ethos, logos, and pathos. In order to achieve a status of credibility, the examiner principal…

Writing a rhetorical analysis for my article in my opinion had truly made me capable of picking apart the strategies the authors used to construct the article effectively. I was able to recognize what type of strategy the authors used to effectively persuade the readers to lower the temperature of hot beverages. Some other strong points in my paper were the straightforwardness of my paragraphs. I was able to get right to the point without adding and fluff to make my paragraphs flow better.…

About a month ago, I was carrying out my plan of my research project of my writing class. As an international student, I spend most of time on this course because I need to improve my writing and reading abilities to a great extent. In my coming four years college life, hundreds of papers are waiting for me. I must master the ability to deal with all kinds of papers. Before last month, I never wrote this kind of essay which tell your thesis statement based on your research. You need to have…

Revision of Beowulf Essay 1 The changes that I made in my original essay on Beowulf was abundant. As a matter of fact, I realized that the original format of my essay, before the corrections, enhance a reader to be confused. The original version had many comma splices, grammatical errors, and incorrect word tenses. Moreover, wrong word tenses were present like the word envious was uses when it should have been envy. Furthermore, the current changes will help a reader understand the juxtaposition…

1. Re-read your selected article and take careful notes, using analysis techniques described in Module Two as guidance. For a review of these techniques, please click here. Then, revisit your original interpretation of the author's goal and re-state the claim to be addressed in your analysis essay. Has the author's goal changed with this analytical reading of the text? If so, how? If not, why not? In a literal analysis of the article, Tan states in her subtitle that "Mother Tongue" is about…