Exigence In Ayn Rand's The Story Of English

Exigence is the motivation needed to report or write about an issue, topic, situation, even an event. A certain situation can govern how an excerpt is written in a newspaper, book, or report. The first excerpt is selected from a possible newspaper article or an online blog from Newsweek. The article’s author seems to be concerned about the integration of females in the military. Because the article’s title is “Falling out of the sky,” one would assume that the branch of military of concern is the air force. The second excerpt is selected from another possible newspaper article, an online blog, or a journal entry from The California Reader. This author seems to be concerned about the effective methods for teaching students how to read. Because the overall journal’s title is The California Reader, one would assume that this journal focuses mainly on the need for literary. The third excerpt is a paragraph selected from a book entitled The Story of English. The authors of this book seem to be concerned about the spread of English as a second language throughout the world. Because the title of this book is The Story of English, one would assume that this book incorporates the history of the English language. The audience of a specific work is the person(s) who are
The author of the first excerpt is trying to persuade the reader that women should not be integrated with men in the military. It seems that the author compares men and women to “fighting and fleeing”: men being the fighters and women being the fleers. The author of the second excerpt is trying to influence the reader about the importance of “Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)” by noting the benefits of this strategy. The authors of the third excerpt support the idea of English expanding across the world, because it allows for mass communication with almost