A New Writing Experience George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” offers an array of insight on overcoming poor writing habits. Orwell suggests modern English writing has become corrupt with many avoidable mistakes. As these mistakes continue to inhabit writing‚ the writer’s purpose continues to be vague and often meaningless to the reader. As a result‚ Orwell introduced six rules every writer should follow. In an effort to achieve precision‚ one must be willing to apply rules to writing
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styled according to his teachings of eliciting critical thinking skills through questioning and open dialogue. This article focuses on this method as a way to teach critical thinking skills not only to native speakers‚ but just as importantly‚ to English Language Learners. Since acquisition is often at the forefront of teaching ELLs‚ this important critical thinking skill can be overlooked if not directly considered. The article discusses both Socratic Questioning‚ often teacher-led‚ as well as Socratic
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Work : Essays : Politics and the English Language (May 1945) Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way‚ but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism‚ like preferring candles to electric light or
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English Controlled Assessment The English language‚ although used by almost all across the United Kingdom‚ has been mutated and altered in so many ways that sometimes we cannot even understand it ourselves. One of the main factors that affects our understanding of the language is one’s regional accent. Although most words and phrases will be comprehensible some phonetics may have changed so much that all we can do is hope that the context of what has been said makes sense in order for us to ‘fill
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Education in the Philippines Education in the Philippines is based on the education system of the United States‚ with some variations. Generally‚ compulsory elementary education runs for 6 years‚ while secondary education takes 4 years. After high school there are vocational courses or colleges which offer courses for a varying number of years depending on the course. University courses leading to a bachelor’s degree are usually 4 years long. The school year‚ which is at least 200 days or 40 weeks
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Pencil Long ago I lived with my family and friends in a beautiful deep dark forest…Oh! what fun we had..The wind would whistle through our branches where birds built their nests.Squirrels hid their nuts in the holes in our barks‚while small animals and snakes wound in and out at the base…But in the name of civilization‚wood cutters came and began clearing the forest…They began at the outskirts..We could hear the screams of our friends and relatives..Soon it was our day..The lumbermen came and hacked
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2141484_daimler_mbc_day_20120329_02_schmidt_sales_marketing From http://www.daimler.com/Projects/c2c/channel/documents/2141484_daimler_mbc_day_20120329_02_schmidt_sales_marketing.pdf Average Age of Mercedes Customer Drops: A Younger‚ Sportier Look for Mercedes-Benz Pays off with U.S. Customers From http://daveknowscars.com/2010/12/14/average-age-of-mercedes-customer-drops-a-younger-sportier-look-for-mercedes-benz-pays-off-with-u-s-customers/ A younger‚ sportier look for Mercedes-Benz pays off with
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identity to language‚ identity to culture and identity to being a Filipino‚ my answer is Nationalism. The essay of Vicente L. Rafael talks about these issues and tends to awaken the Filipino. In the essay‚ the closely related issues of identity and language have proved us that we are indeed cultureless and left without identity. The essay talks about the hierarchy of English‚ Spanish‚ Tagalog and “Taglish”. Today‚ you can no longer distinguish the class of a person by the language he uses. You
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Dylan Baur Mrs. Passarella AP Lang January 27 2014 Politics and the English Language: Questions on Rhetoric and Style 1: Orwell’s thesis is somewhat stated‚ but also implied. His thesis is that any effect can become a cause‚ such that something that starts as an aid for a different ailment may eventually become detrimental. 2: Orwell’s analogy of the cause and effect of alcohol abuse to the demise of lanuage in paragraph two is very effective. It shows a chain reaction‚ where the person starts
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Unit 1: Resource for advanced English language learners http://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardBusiness/videos Youtube HBR videos—look for other business-related channels This source of materials seems amazing to me. After a quick review on the material‚ I may admit that it is a good tool for me to develop my English learning in the long term. Harvard Business Review is a prestigious organization that can provide us intensive academic research on a variety of different topics. From this source
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