9/11 Attacks
ENC 1101
Assignment #2
1. Narration tells a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical sequence. 2. Description tells readers about the physical characteristics of a person, place, or thing. 3. Exemplification uses examples to illustrate or explain a general point or an abstract concept. 4. Process essay explains how to do something or how something occurs. 5. Cause and effect analyzes why something happens. 6. Comparison and contrast; comparison shows how two or more things are similar, and contrast shows how they are different. 7. Division is the process of breaking a whole into parts; classification is the process of sorting individual items into categories. 8. Definition tells what a term means and how it differs from other terms in its class. 9. Argumentation is a process of reasoning that asserts the soundness of a debatable position, belief, or conclusion. * Purpose and Audience
2. What is Berne’s purpose in writing her essay?
Berne’s purpose is to make us imagine ourselves being right there but seeing nothing, only the thought of what was there before. The author uses words that are very descriptive and paints a picture of what is actually being seen. Suzanne Berne says, “Ground zero is a great bowl of light, and emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand, like a vast plaza amid the dense tangle of streets in lower Manhattan.” She also writes of the absence of the Twin Towers, she exclaims “this is the moment when absence begins to assume a material form, when what is not there becomes visible.
-What is Berne’s thesis? Berne’s thesis captures the reader with the notion that they are actually there on this trip to ground zero. * Style and Structure
3. Why do you think Berne describes ground zero in so many different ways?
I think that Berne describes ground zero in so many different ways because as she moved around and had different views of ground zero, she experienced different
Assignment #2
1. Narration tells a story by presenting events in an orderly, logical sequence. 2. Description tells readers about the physical characteristics of a person, place, or thing. 3. Exemplification uses examples to illustrate or explain a general point or an abstract concept. 4. Process essay explains how to do something or how something occurs. 5. Cause and effect analyzes why something happens. 6. Comparison and contrast; comparison shows how two or more things are similar, and contrast shows how they are different. 7. Division is the process of breaking a whole into parts; classification is the process of sorting individual items into categories. 8. Definition tells what a term means and how it differs from other terms in its class. 9. Argumentation is a process of reasoning that asserts the soundness of a debatable position, belief, or conclusion. * Purpose and Audience
2. What is Berne’s purpose in writing her essay?
Berne’s purpose is to make us imagine ourselves being right there but seeing nothing, only the thought of what was there before. The author uses words that are very descriptive and paints a picture of what is actually being seen. Suzanne Berne says, “Ground zero is a great bowl of light, and emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand, like a vast plaza amid the dense tangle of streets in lower Manhattan.” She also writes of the absence of the Twin Towers, she exclaims “this is the moment when absence begins to assume a material form, when what is not there becomes visible.
-What is Berne’s thesis? Berne’s thesis captures the reader with the notion that they are actually there on this trip to ground zero. * Style and Structure
3. Why do you think Berne describes ground zero in so many different ways?
I think that Berne describes ground zero in so many different ways because as she moved around and had different views of ground zero, she experienced different