How Many Words

style. His passage “Politics and the English Language” in his book “Why I Write” explain how to “avoid ugliness” in ones’ writing. Orwell writes about four ways to identify these pre-constructed passages or phrases. The four ways are Dying Metaphors, Operators or verbal false limbs, Pretentious diction, and Meaningless words. Dying Metaphors are prefabricated metaphors that have been used many times in many different contexts. It can also be metaphors that have been switched from their original…

concepts to support audience and purpose. I will split the memo in four main segments and explaining each. How to be concise, be precise, be direct, and stress emphasis. Be concise: To be concise is to write only the words that meet your purpose of writing and the needs of your audience to understand the purpose. That every word in a sentence is necessary in it place. I found many unnecessary used words through my paper. For example, in this sentence I don’t need “on the other hand”. This…

location of the word. Show students a concrete object and provide the name of the object. Let students select the correct letter card that will spell the word of the object shown. • Play stretch and snap. Teach students to s—tr—e—t—ch a word out by its sounds and then to snap the word back together to aide them in oral recognition of the word. Frequent practice of this technique will help students identify words that stump them while reading. Teacher may use a slinky to show the students how…

it is harder to make the paper interesting and enjoyable to read. When it comes writing I have a few of struggles that one day I wish I could improve on. The three writing areas I struggle with the most are sentence fluency, grammatical errors, and word choice. To make my writing better I will continue revise and edit my papers. Grammar is something that you need to repeatedly practice and I believe that should help with fixing grammatical errors. To…

Wordiness Passive voice Misplaced modifier Stylistic inconsistency Question 14 What word or phrase best characterizes the problem affecting the following passage? Conaster goes on to discuss the famous ill-fated excursion by Adolph Ruth that ended six months later with the discovery of Ruth’s decapitated head. Tense error Usage error Spelling error Apostrophe error Question 15 What word or phrase best characterizes the problem affecting the following passage? With the help of…

working hard to make sure they learn and enjoy their time in my classroom. I put an unprecedented amount of time in preparing special types of lessons for your children. I try to speak slowly and clearly, with extra explanations and repetitions of new words. I try to make the classroom a welcoming and warm place for your children where they can open their mouths and speak a new language…

Pride, a simple word, yet a variety of meanings to different people. Pride seems to encompass our daily lives, impacting our decisions. For many pride runs their lives because they care too much about how others view them, instead of what’s right. Correspondingly, with this idea, Sophocles asserts that the only crime is pride and that we must stop our wrong and fix it. This idea by Sophocles is valid due to the fact that for various people pride runs their life and influences their decisions.…

weaknesses. Student A excels at being able to tap out sounds within a three sound word, as student B is able to tap out the individual sounds of words with 4-5 sounds in them. These activities however acted as review for the students being as they were exposed to these concepts in kindergarten. During whole class instruction I have noticed that student A lacks in properly matching sounds to letters within the words, often getting confused with o, a, u. On the other hand, student B is right on…

1. Introduction In the article Polysemy Advantage with Abstract But Not Concrete Words Jager and Cleland discuss that related senses cause a polysemy advantage on abstract words. According to this study, the role of ambiguous words seems more important as compared to unambiguous words. These ambiguous words role is taken as advantageous that is peculiarly termed as polysemy. This specific term caters many meanings and certain aspects of language in it. In Jager and Clelands’ paper, the research…

Different styles of writing can be created but you cannot change the grammar. In his essay “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words”, Paul Roberts shows us we can correctly use the English language in our writings. He believes “the principles of good writing should remain constant”. (Roberts). In most colleges, most students do not possess the level of writing and…