Linguistic prescription

Having found myself in dicey debates with myself regarding commas that would satisfy the need for a mild pause or the full stop that would “totally” serve the same purpose; the fictional yearnings for an existence that would have an unbiased, yet debugging nature that would clarify and put an end to subtle, tricky-little-things have always hovered around my writing table. And here I am, many years later, looking at an opportunity to help a fellow Engineer or a burgeoning scientist shape his/her…

Module 1 had four learning objectives, understanding the rhetorical situation, considering relationships among audience, text, and purpose, Textual analysis, and developing thesis statements. By reading the assigned text, I found out how to read and analyze texts rhetorically, define rhetorical situation, connect exigence to purpose, and found effective strategies for analyzing rhetorical texts. To read text and analyze it correctly you have to first gather information. You should know whose…

DeMaster, Pathman, Lee, and Ghetti (2014) found age-related differences in volumes of the hippocampal head, body, and tail, in children and young adults. They reported that better performance on an episodic memory task in adults was related to a smaller right hippocampal head and larger hippocampal body. However, in children between the ages of 8-11 years old, performance was related to a larger left hippocampal tail, suggesting that development of hippocampal subregions contributes to…

The assignment was to write a description of my experience using Grammarly and Safe Assign. I must say that I was quite surprised by the experience. Although, I made an attempt to paraphrase Grammarly still corrected my paragraphs for grammar mistakes. I enjoyed how fast Grammarly works as oppose to Safe Assign. Safe assign takes hours for the results to post. I do my best to avoid plagiarism and take academic integrity seriously. The Walden Student Catalogue (2004) defines and reviews…

Text’s author and title/ comment? Christopher Morley’s “On Laziness” Laziness can be good in some ways and bad in others. Consider the rhetorical situation. What circumstances bring this text forward? What is its audience? Christopher Morley was a journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet. From this, we can conclude that Morley is a learned and accomplished man who has worked for a living. He uses sophisticated language to further solidify his ethos. The circumstances that brought this…

onathan Grainger, Sébastein Bouttevin, Cathy Truc, Miereille Bastein, and Johannes Ziegler wrote the article Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal reader (2003). In their hypothesis they stated how they wanted to see if dyslexic children could identify specific letters in words, nonwords, and pseudowords compared to their age mates and reading age mates. In all of the experiments that were conducted by Jonathan Grainger and colleagues…

Dead Poets Society examines important ideas about growing up. Demonstrate how Peter Weir’s film does this. An individual’s values and perspectives change as they grow up. Peter Weir’s 1989 film Dead Poets Society explores how individuality, freedom and independence shape the students’ views and behaviour as they navigate their way through a time of great change. As the boys mature they learn to overcome the expectations and pressures that have significantly impacted their lives. Mr Keating plays…

Writing Sample #1 I would guess that this child is in kindergarten. It is obvious that the student understands some concepts of words and writing because he or she puts spaces in between words. Overall, the student also understands the words he or she needed to write to convey their idea. The words are in the correct order, and with exception of the first word, the sentence can be read easily. Looking at the word "swimming," this student has not completely grasped directional principles. The…

What if the entire world spoke one language? What would that language be? In John McWhorters writing the Cosmopolitan Tongue he talks about how languages are dying and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. He claims that by 2109 ninety percent of the world’s languages will be dead. That would take us from the current 6000 languages down 600 languages for all of the world. Do you think that is a bad thing? Mcwhorter doesn’t, he feels that it is a natural progression caused by people of smaller…

Most children develop speech and language without effort, although there is considerable variation in the rate at which children acquire language with approximately 7% of children demonstrating impairments in these skills. Understanding the influences on children’s language development in the general population may indicate potential avenues for the causes of these impairments which may lead to the development of new intervention methods. Those influences could be either internal to the child or…