Linguistic prescription

According to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compare and contrast essays are the most common essay requirements. Being able to make connections between various texts and ideas is crucial to fresh thoughts and a better understanding of the works you are comparing and their relationship to one another. Out of the nine given articles, the warnings written by the Michigan Attorney Generals Office on gang initiation as well as the Tapeworm warning by a Hospital in Guangdong, a…

There are many differences between writing styles and techniques. Some writers use different techniques to show different emotions or to compel their audiences to feel a certain way. Authors choose word choices, sentence length, and sentence structure to get their message to their audience. By using these different styles, they may have a different interpretation because of the vast diversity of the audience they are aiming for. In addition, many texts are not emotion based, some are just…

Bias #1, Page 171: “However, a CI can enable strong spoken language only when used with intensive auditory- oral exposure in extended, salient, and child-initiated interactions.6 Without a full linguistic and auditory experience, the effects of deafness- associated deprivation can derail the spoken language learning process before it begins.” (Mellon, N. K.) Author Nancy Mellon is currently the executive director at a non-profit agency providing several services for children who are deaf and…

ENGL 1113 Student: ________________________ Grammar Assignment #2 Before beginning this assignment, log on to the grammar web site: http://www.niu.edu/writingtutorial/index.html . Some of the words in the grammar exercise can be found on the web site; the others you will have to find in a dictionary. Log onto the grammar web site; go to the Home page; click on Get Started. Then click on Grammar at the top of the page; click on Review Grammar at the bottom of the page. Click on Commonly…

In Julia Alvarez’s “Bilingual Sestina” demonstrates the difficulty in being bilingual and having to adapt to a whole new language or culture. To get this point across Julia Alvarez structures her poem in a sestina pattern, however giving her own spin off to it by incorporating Spanish words. In order for the message to be understood, Julia Alvarez places the audience in her shoes in order to recognize the difficulty of having English as a second language. Although most of the poem is English,…

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair’s “The Power of Dirty Waters: Indigenous Poetics” exemplifies the importance of language to Indigenous culture and how language is used to relate to the world. This is ultimately what he strives for as his thesis; he tries to argue the idea that language is the most important power for relation to the Earth and its inhabitants. Sinclair begins strongly by discussing the history of Lake Winnipeg, and how the name “Winnipeg” embodies the ecology of the lake. This…

Ursula Recarte Professor Daly SPA 3472 Paper 2 10/27/15 Fast ForWord Tallal is a cognitive neuroscientist, board-certified clinical psychologist, and a founder of Fast ForWord Language intervention program. In 1997, Fa st ForWord Language was first introduced. This intervention program was built on three theories. First theory, that the processing constraints associated with language impairment could be improved by honing the attention, sequencing, discrimination, and memory of the auditory…

Although it is true that there are downsides to being a bilingual child, the effect can in fact be made less severe. Bilingual children are more likely to develop a stutter, but a study conducted by Howell, Davis, and Williams suggests that “if a child uses a language other than English in the home, deferring the time when they learn English reduces the chance of starting to stutter and aids the chances of recovery later in childhood.” They added that “school performance was not affected with…

According to Shattuck's(1994) his explanation of what could have happened to Victor's mind, is, as he compares Victor with the more recent case of Genie: “In recent years, scientists have worked out a theory that sounds like a refinement of Locke's and Condillac's tabula rasa or wax-tablet figure. Many experiments show that right-handed people learn language, mathematics, and logic with the left hemisphere of their brains, and do other kinds of thinking related to space, vision, and touch with…

Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Whoopi Goldberg, Jim Carrey, and Bella Thorne are all great athletes, inventors, and actors/actress but did you know all of them has/had dyslexia? (“Famous”). Caitlyn Jenner describes dyslexia this way “The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem. It is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem” (“Alternative”). Just because someone has dyslexia doesn’t mean they are different from anyone else it just means…