Vocabulary Notebook INEPT a. "The most inept writing has an inadvertent element of suspense: the reader constantly asks himself‚ where on earth is this going?)" -How I Wrote the Moth Essay-and Why‚ Annie Dillard b. having‚ or showing no skill; displaying a lack of reason. (adj.) c. This word is creating a more accurate description of the type of writing most people use‚ and demonstrating that there writing has no meaning or skill. d. Sarah tried out for the musical to be
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example‚ in Annie Dillard’s "Hitting Pay Dirt" she describes the time she received a microscope kit‚ as a Christmas present‚ which she played with constantly in her basement. In the beginning‚ Dillard is unable to use her microscope properly‚ but ultimately succeeds as she sees an amoeba. Excited about what she had discovered‚ she immediately runs upstairs to show her parents; however‚ both of her parents are uninterested to what had seemed like "..a chance of a lifetime."(95 Dillard) to Dillard. As a
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had‚ where as we don’t exactly find out what killed the male moth in Woolf’s essay. Both writers are sitting in places where they can see and experience the nature and the elements around them first hand although Woolf is on a farm house where as Dillard‚ is camping by herself. The parts like “ After a pause.. Fluttered again” and “the body relaxed … struggle was over” in Woolf’s essay and the phrases like “one night … and held”; “ her head jerked.. Pistol fire” in Dillard’s essay shows in detail
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Bill-Zhyad Amadou Professor Minnich ANG 111 12 February 2018 Annie Dillard’s Living like Weasals We all may ask oursalvas many quastions‚ soma sarious‚ soma lass important‚ in our lifatima. But at soma point‚ along tha way‚ wa all will taka a stap back and look at tha way wa ara living our livas‚ and wondar if wa ara living tham corractly. Unfortunataly‚ thara is no solid bluaprint for tha way to liva our livas. Aach parson is diffarant‚ faaling diffarant amotions and raacting to diffarant stimuli
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WRITER’S NOTEBOOK WEEK1 This is my first week of ENG 105 and so far I’m nervous that how am I going to be able to balance my two classes with my work in the Marine Corps‚ this week it was ok keeping in mind my personal opinion about writing/reading‚ the reading for this week somewhat showed me what to expect for the 7 weeks left with this class and since this is an English class I’m sure there will be a lot of essays involved. We had some reading to do for this week for an introduction to writing
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The five readings this week demonstrates the concepts that I have chosen to work on for a successful essay. First‚ in "The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard‚ he uses appropriate language for each character in her story. In the passage‚ the main character is listening to her voicemails from her husband Chris. "I have to talk to you right now‚" he says grimly. "Where are you? I can never find you." "Try calling your own house‚" I say to the machine. In his second message he has composed himself
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up-to-date‚ but the contents—descriptive‚ narrative‚ and argumentative essays‚ as represented by George Orwell‚ Joan Didion‚ James Baldwin‚ Annie Dillard‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ and E. B. White—have the sleepy timelessness of a bayou. John D’Agata’s anthology The Next American Essay cannonballed into these long-quiet waters in 2003. Alongside essays by Didion and Dillard were much less familiar pieces by David Foster Wallace‚ Anne Carson‚ and Harry Mathews. Instead of a typology of essays‚ there were unclassifiable
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“In Praise of Margins” -Argument In the essay “In Praise of Margins‚” Ian Frazier elaborates on the idea that margins are needed for the purpose of our own sanity. Frazier believes that “as the world gets more jammed up‚ we need margins . . . where you can try out odd ideas that you might be afraid to admit to with people looking on.” He believes that by engaging in marginal activities we can manage to avoid most of the stresses this “jammed up” world has to offer. As a child‚ Frazier’s marginal
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Of Studies: Bacon‚ Francis. Bacon’s “Of Studies” is not written like the typical essay you find today. We are taught that an essay must have an introduction paragraph‚ body paragraphs‚ and a conclusion paragraph‚ but Of Studies has only one. Instead we find a variety of statements about how studies can be used. The first thing he argues is that “Studies serve for delight‚ for ornament‚ and for ability.”‚ and then gives an explanation for each one. There is also quite a bit of parallelism in the
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In modern day‚ man does not truly think about how much the earth means to life. On the contrary‚ humans aspire to cease Mother Nature’s beauty with the replacement of modern day cities made up of synthetic nature. Since the dawn of the twentieth century‚ a major theme in the American Arts has been the protest against man’s destruction of the natural world. With this in mind‚ as very well argued in Chief Seattle’s article “Respect”‚ humans fail to be conscious of the physical and sentimental value
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