am given a topic to write about I think 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…
was able to successfully engage the audience by using simple words and short sentences. His calculated grade level was an 8.2, compared to Bill Gates whose speech achieved a grade level of 9.7. At first, this different doesn 't seem that great but after reading Bill Gates’ statement, it was clearly more complex than Jobs’. He doubled the average word count for sentences and used more complex language. In the four sentence stump speech it was successful in this aspect of speech giving. It is…
access to all white house events. According to Orwell the author can remove enjoyed and change has to had. This will make the sentence less bias towards Eric Schmidt also. In the same sentence it is stated “not counting large meetings and social events like state dinners.”, this is a redundant statement for as we do not need to know that he also attended these events. The sentence will then read “Eric Schmidt had virtual open door access to the white house during the Obama administration,…
and they ignore you. But you pick up a crowbar and break the pictures of their children, and all of a sudden they listen real fast.” By explicit consent, author enforces her view on change and the powerless through word choice, direct meaning, and sentence structures. With these lines, Viramontes relays to the reader the idea that the more a voice is ignored the greater chance that the seemingly voiceless will take matters into their own hands. The first line repeats the phrase “and talks” to…
books), the red rose in Beauty and the Beast, the clothing colors in Divergent and the Bliss in The Maze Runner series. Option 2: Anaphora Anaphora, pronounced “a-NAFF-ra,” is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of sentences or phrases within a sentence,” (Myers, 95). The purpose of this technique is to reiterate the surrounding idea. An (overly-exaggerated) example anaphora might be something like this: It was then that they realized Sarah would always be wild. She would…
class experiment was how attractiveness affected the sentence length of a crime. This is important since it directly affects the lives of defendants in court room situations. Judges should be aware of this potential bias as they are deciding ruling. Sigall and Ostrove, conducted a study focusing on the same topic. The independent variable was the level of attractiveness with the crime committed. The dependent variable was how long the sentence was that the participant determined. “An…
final lab grade in return for their participation. Materials Research Methods’ students participated in a study and half the students on one side of the classroom simply imagined the sentences, and the other half of the other side of the classroom listened to the sentences, and imagined the pronunciation of those sentences. Students took a Levels of Processing and Recall survey consisting of twenty questions on a Likert scale of 1 – 5, with 5 being easy to imagine or pronounce, and 1 being…
argue that this not true, statistic that we will get into later have proven that this is not a deterrent to crime. Daily our prison population continues to grow soon, there will not be enough room for prisoners to go. This law has put a blanket sentence on people in specific crimes, crimes are crimes however, there are crimes committed without the intention of the crime being permitted, often people that do this heinous crime are no in their right minds when they are done. Unless…
has risen drastically in the last ten years. Men, women, boys, and girls are being convicted; for a numerous amount of reasons. With this being stated, I raise the question of: How many out of those who were and are convicted actually deserved the sentence received? In 2006, a man was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for being an enforcer for a gang called the Terminators in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This man brutally fought with competitor gangs, sold heroin, and killed a potential witness.…
2. Analysis 2.1 Politeness 2.1.1 Polite Ending and Confirmation Questions Generally to say about the background about the video, speaker M is a famous singer and speaker F is a famous actress. The conversation was started when they met at the first time. They were unknown each other before; so, the relationship looks like unfamiliar and unfriendly. However, after they had honest talk more and more, they started to be turned in favor of each other and be familiar. By communicating, I can find…