Running head: English Composition Final Exam English Composition Final Exam Michael J Feller Allied American University Author Note This paper was prepared for English Composition II – ENG 170‚ Final Exam‚ taught by Dr. Sally Lozada. Final Exam Directions: Using Microsoft Word to save and submit your work‚ please choose ONE of the following writing topics and write a well-developed essay (3-4 pages). As your textbook requires‚ you will present an argument based on ONE of the three
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Language of Composition Chapter 1 THESIS: Using rhetoric is sometimes difficult‚ but this chapter explains how to use rhetoric correctly and what all needs to be in a piece of writing. Appealing to ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos is the large part of using rhetoric. This chapter also explains how to organize a piece of writing when using rhetoric. I. Rhetoric often gets referred to as trickery or to be deceptive. A. Aristotle defined rhetoric as “the faculty of observing in any case the available
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helped me achieve a personal goal which is to work as a computer engineer for a multinational information technology organization like Hewlett Packard‚ Dell‚ Microsoft etc.‚ One has to be fluent in English and technically competent in order to get through the interview and also to succeed at work. English is needed in every aspect of today’s modern world to communicate with people at work irrespective of their origin. Since my teenage I wanted to become a computer engineer and
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Youssef Kamal English 250 Ashleigh Mills 3 May 2013 Reflection of English 250 After a year of focused work in English 250‚ I feel that I have developed the skill to articulate what I want to convey to the reader in multiple ways. My strengths as a reader have also definitely improved after reading the material we had this semester. We discussed several different aspects of the English language and spent a good amount of time this semester perfecting our ability to write rhetorical analyses. Doing
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area of Language Arts‚ I am most attentive in learning and progressing in this area of study. In all honesty‚ I was not as interested in this area a year ago‚ but by experiencing my AP Language and Composition class throughout my junior year‚ my perspective of the Language Arts has altered. Furthermore‚ I read‚ write‚ and try to enhance my vocabulary when I can. Throughout my English course‚ I have not received any noble awards for greatness‚ yet I do have an A in my AP Language and Composition class
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I wait for the library to open and went there and took the assessment test and also it was a lot helpful with the tool and practice also the audio they use to explain to you how it’s been done and how you use it. It’s detailed and also when you want to hear to make sure you could go back and replay. I may be rusted and forget about some of the verbs and noun. Well going through the audio‚ it helps a lot. I was surprise for my grade for the assessment I took I didn’t know I was that bad‚ but I’m
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Boroditsky asks the audience rhetorical questions to keep them engaged and to challenge their perspective. In the beginning of the article‚ Boroditsky asks “Do the languages we speak shape the way we think?” By doing this‚ Boroditsky not only sets the framework for the entirety of the article‚ but also gets the audience to think about this question as they continue to read on. At the end of the article‚ Boroditsky argues in conclusion that language constructs knowledge. Boroditsky probes further
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disturbed by the argument of the couple‚ as John couldn’t understand what Allison’s actual intentions were. The author tells an anecdote in order to explain features of women’s spoken language‚ such as indirect speech‚ in more entertaining way that would capture the reader’s attention. He implements spoken language features‚ for example non standard structuring of questions “everything OK darling?” and punctuation marks “… “ which indentifies the pause of the speaker‚ so the story would be easy to
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Eunice Lee Mrs. Hexter AP English Language - 7 5 February 2016 The Inequitable Grading System Consider a sixth grade student. He has been studying for three weeks for his final exam and hopes to receive a high grade. He gets his grade back and sees a “D” on his paper. This single letter changes‚ not only the attitude of the student‚ but also the setting of the classroom. Students begin to further segregate themselves into “smart” and “dumb” groups. These letters have defined the “intelligence”
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Samuel Johnson in his‚ Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language‚ employs a multitude of rhetorical strategies to aid the development of his argument that the English language must be standardized and that lexicographers have had their valuable positions destroyed. Johnson begins by constructing the first paragraph through the employment of anaphora‚ continually repeating “to be” at the beginning of each clause. Through this structure‚ Johnson presents to the reader how the lower class workers
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