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    persuasiveness, on improving self-confidence. Due to people are willing to focus on good writers or people have good verbal skills, their speeches or statements are more persuasiveness. When people use proper words to express their opinion especially in a tense atmosphere, shows their tolerance and courtesy. For example, when people argue with someone, but he is so rude to use the irritating words to the other people. It makes other people only angry about it. Instead, when people use the proper…

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    Amy Tan Ethos Pathos Logos

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    There are many people who can’t speak proper English, maybe because English wasn’t their first language. Or simply because they didn’t grow up around it. In the passage Mother-Tongue by Amy Tan, Amy wants to let the audience know about another language. This is another language that she speaks people refer it to as “broken” english. In her passage she uses some rhetorical strategies such as pathos, logos, and ethos. Amy Tan only speaks from personal experience. Her mother is a Chinese, Native.…

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    noticed about Joe’s War is that it contained many instances of actual reporting of verbs. This partly because the whole novel is made up of dialogue. Hence, it does not come as a surprise that the single most used verb is ‘said’, which is the past tense of said. In virtually two thirds of the whole book this was the most used…

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    cage" Her morphological structure in the language sample under Grammatical Structures included Present Progressives words like “crying” “working” and “matching” which can be heard in the sample. She used prepositions like “in” seven times. She uses a lot of Articles constantly throughout the sample. There was use of regular plurals, for example, shoes, guys and babies were used a few times. She used Irregular and Regular Past Tense, Uncontractible and Contractible Auxiliary and Contractible…

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    Language Development: Maddy looked at the print in the environment and tried to read it to her friend; “curious about print in the environment” (G&E, 2001, p.41) 13. Language development: Maddy said the past tense of go incorrectly; “Overgeneralization of grammatical rules” (Santrock, 2013, p. 28). 14. Language Development: Maddy was able to follow the teacher commands; “follows two step commands”(C&A, 2003, p. 275) 15. Language Development: Maddy delivered a verbal message to her friend;…

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    Making up more 13% of the entire population of the United States, African Americans therefore, play a significant role in shaping the American life style. Although the days of slavery and racism against black people is considered history, African Americans are still experiencing some type of discrimination against them. The most important type to discuss here is the overrepresentation of African Americans students in special education classes as a result of faulty assessment (Roseberry-McKibbin,…

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    March 22, 2016, I provided comments on a draft document you prepared, SP100081, Vending Machine Services, which included feedback on your inconsistent use of singular and plural nouns. (NOTE: On 3/18/16, I ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO THESE AS ERRORS IN TENSE, BEFORE CORRECTING on…

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    Boroditsky uses her informant and explanatory tone to relay her enticing perspective on the benefits and positive aspects of the world view through the eyes of foreign language speaking communities. The audience consists of educated, business career individuals all of whom read the Wall Street Journal. The author, Lera Boroditsky, is a professor of psychology, neuroscience, and symbolic systems at Stanford University. Furthermore, the purpose of the article is to persuade the business careered…

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    “therefore”, “what is more”, can also help people with constructing long sentences. Third, Chinese grammar and English grammar are different. Chinese uses less grammar than English does. “Chinese depends mainly on its characters to realize its grammatical functions”. (tecfaetu.unige.ch) Unlike English, Chinese’s grammar is a rule the speakers come up with without having to get together and discuss. The language has more free space for speakers to create and look for the beauty in language. In…

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    I believe these areas are the most difficult for me because I can’t grasp the habit of correcting these mistakes. The most difficult for me are both tenses and mixed sentences. I believe I will be able to improve on these areas by the time my next english class begins. Before I would approach an in-class essay very leisurely. I wouldn’t have someone revise my work before turning it in nor would I pay…

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