story consists of 1428 running words) for students who have mastered the most frequent 2000 words, but have not reached higher levels. Apart from that, modifications based on the data from “Vocabprofiler” are given in order to reach the 98% text coverage or more, so that students can get ideal comprehension. “Vocabprofiler” (Cobb, 2002), a software for lexical text analysis, classifies the words by their frequency bands. Meanwhile, you can also see the number of words that are likely to be…
The community is the words you hear most often when talking about an environment. It’s one of those words we are all taught when we were younger about what an environment is. Equality 72521 lives in a community where there are many things he can and cannot do. He has grown up with one hundred brothers and each of them from the ages of fifteen have a job they are assigned. With this job they will have…
and exciting to tell someone about everything I love back home. I received some very helpful notes to improve the piece and I hope that I was able to convey them in the finished essay. A few of the correction that I implied were missed hyphens in words like drive-thru, sit-down, wave-free, and must-visit. I have to admit I still…
psyche into conjunction with one another. My essay will dissect and analyze Richards’ writing and use of diction to demonstrate how she treats “centering” as a never-ending journey rather than a destination to be reached. The title, “Centering”, is one word foreshadowing the theme of becoming “one with oneself.” Throughout the article, the use of run-on, prolonged sentences and verbosity can be read as mirroring Richards’ conceptualization of the process of “centering”; that it goes on longer…
respond with the ink colour on condition 1, where the words had colour connotations. Using the paired samples t-test against this data (t(19) = 4.937; p = .0; d = .1.104) we can conclude the null hypothesis was rejected and that the results were statically significant. Discussion The results of the present experiment showed that there was an increase in the time taken to read the words with colour connotations compared with the colour-neutral words. Response times in condition 1 were…
The media has years of experience in shaping their reader’s mentality without any one of them realizing what is being done. Not just media but just about every author falls guilty when it comes to the spreading of information. Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk worked together in writing a book called Understanding and Using English. In it, the topic of charged and slanted language is defined and discussed in great detail alongside examples. It is important to be aware of slanted and charged…
very formal words that might be strange in our life. The words are words that is not what maybe an American or someone else would use a whole lot of times. We put a lot of slang into our words. They have a lot of different words, but they are all still words. So let’s start off with some of the strange words that they might use in the community. One of the first words in The Giver birthmother. Most people use the word birth mother still to this day, but most of us people use the word…
Name your favorite books, authors, films, and/or artists. (50 word limit) My favorite book is Niccolò Machiavelli 's The Prince. Originally, this was a reading assignment, but I read the book out of personal interest. The author introduced me to rhetorical devices such as logos. Also, the author kick started my interest in society and politics. Words entered: 44 What newspapers, magazines, and/or websites do you enjoy? (50 word limit) A magazine I enjoy is Discover Magazine. This is what keeps…
basis for work, research, shopping (frequently), and for a host of other things. 10. Do you have consistent access to the internet? Yes, I do have consistent access to the internet. 11. What word processing software do you use? We have Microsoft Word installed on our home computer. I also use Microsoft Word for my job. 12. Do you know how…
the ending skills that developed my writing. 11th grade was also the year I took my first AP test for writing. When I was in high school, my freshman year to be exact, I learned how to not always repeat words such as “me” and “I”. This made my writing sound more mature when I used less of these words. In sophomore year of high school I started learning how to use spark notes. Spark notes was very helpful when I read a book and I didn’t understand a specific section of the book. My teacher…