Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Grammar Post
Disruptive & Misplaced Modifiers
Limiting Modifiers include words such as almost, hardly, even, just, merely, not, only, and simply.
Limiting modifiers should always go before the word or words they modify in a work
Be careful of modifiers that seem to modify two things.
For example notice how many times the word "just" is used in this sentence
Just twenty new people just volunteered just for the sea turtle rescue program just for the spring.
When we write we sometimes don't realize that we use disruptive and misplaced modifiers, to help with this is to re read your essay and catch them.
http://wire.rutgers.edu/p_grammar_top10.html#apostrophe
Limiting Modifiers include words such as almost, hardly, even, just, merely, not, only, and simply.
Limiting modifiers should always go before the word or words they modify in a work
Be careful of modifiers that seem to modify two things.
For example notice how many times the word "just" is used in this sentence
Just twenty new people just volunteered just for the sea turtle rescue program just for the spring.
When we write we sometimes don't realize that we use disruptive and misplaced modifiers, to help with this is to re read your essay and catch them.
http://wire.rutgers.edu/p_grammar_top10.html#apostrophe
Monday, July 13, 2009
America the Beautiful
Dinesh D'souza story America the Beautiful I thought was interesting. I did notice that the essay was all in his opinion and he didn't use many sources. I am not an expert at what he talks about, but it would be nice to have sources to where I could look up and figure out exactly what he is talking about. He did have good sources when he put in examples of Rodney King and the Spanish Inquisition. I don't necessarily think that the solution he presents will work, because everyone has a different idea about what would and wouldn't work.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
I and Me
When I write my a paper I always have to make sure I am using I and me in the right way. Many people think that it is classier to use I, and they end up getting it wrong half of the time. The best way to know which is right is to eliminate the other person in the sentence, and see what you have left.
Examples:
Cindy and I went to the store. I went to the store. (correct)
Mom gave Travis and I cookies. Mom gave I cookies. (wrong)
Mom gave me cookies. (correct)
http://writingenglish.wordpress.com/
Examples:
Cindy and I went to the store. I went to the store. (correct)
Mom gave Travis and I cookies. Mom gave I cookies. (wrong)
Mom gave me cookies. (correct)
http://writingenglish.wordpress.com/
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Unbiased writing
I have found myself reading books or papers where the writer will have a biased voice.
example: A student planning on attending college needs to talk to his advisor.
An occasional he or she is all right, but after a while it becomes too demanding, and the device becomes more important than the message. When a singular pronoun is necessary, use either the masculine or feminine consistently enough to avoid confusion.
To avoid your paper from being biased you can substitute the word.
Examples:
use actor instead of actress
businessperson instead of businessman
anchor instead of anchorman
ancestors instead of forefathers
By using this way of writing your paper is more attractive to your readers and not so biased.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/unbiased.htm
example: A student planning on attending college needs to talk to his advisor.
An occasional he or she is all right, but after a while it becomes too demanding, and the device becomes more important than the message. When a singular pronoun is necessary, use either the masculine or feminine consistently enough to avoid confusion.
To avoid your paper from being biased you can substitute the word.
Examples:
use actor instead of actress
businessperson instead of businessman
anchor instead of anchorman
ancestors instead of forefathers
By using this way of writing your paper is more attractive to your readers and not so biased.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/unbiased.htm
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Media Group Breather Rough Draft
Kirstin Diroll
English 2010 M&W
Breather Assignment
300 Brave Spartans
King Leonidas a 5th century B.C. king who lead 300 hundred Spartan soldiers to war against 150, 000 Persians. They fought in the battle known as the Thermopylae. A movie was made in remembrance of this famous war. A movie starring Gerard Butler as King Leonidas called “300” came out in 2006. This movie describes the fall of the Spartans against the “God King” king Xerxes. Seeing that movies are made to entertain, they leave out certain facts, but will sometimes make the movie as real as possible.
The movie “300” is no exception, geared toward a male audience, because of violence. Viewers watch this movie expecting a phenomenal show, but also to learn a little about the history of Greece. This movie does an amazing job at pin pointing most of what happened in the battle. With the movie not entirely in color, but more of a grayish makes the color red stand out completely. The battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C. when King Xerxes decided he wanted to take over Sparta.
King Leonidas was aware of this and decided to block them for the Thermopylae trial, aka “hot gates”. His warriors were more than men they are Spartans (Miller). The movie shows a great example of this when King Leonidas asks of an Arcadian soldier, “you there what is your profession?” and the soldier replies, “I am a potter-sir.” Then he turns to his warriors and yells “Spartans what is your profession?” and they answer back, “Hoo-Ah, Hoo-Ah.” Finally King Leonidas looks at the Arcadian leader and says “You see old friend? I brought more soldiers than you did.” The makers of this movie did exactly what they need to, they are keeping the movie as close to history as possible, but without boring viewers.
People engulf themselves in the media it can take over lives. Frank Miller originally made a comic book of 300, and that is the reason for the movie make.
English 2010 M&W
Breather Assignment
300 Brave Spartans
King Leonidas a 5th century B.C. king who lead 300 hundred Spartan soldiers to war against 150, 000 Persians. They fought in the battle known as the Thermopylae. A movie was made in remembrance of this famous war. A movie starring Gerard Butler as King Leonidas called “300” came out in 2006. This movie describes the fall of the Spartans against the “God King” king Xerxes. Seeing that movies are made to entertain, they leave out certain facts, but will sometimes make the movie as real as possible.
The movie “300” is no exception, geared toward a male audience, because of violence. Viewers watch this movie expecting a phenomenal show, but also to learn a little about the history of Greece. This movie does an amazing job at pin pointing most of what happened in the battle. With the movie not entirely in color, but more of a grayish makes the color red stand out completely. The battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 B.C. when King Xerxes decided he wanted to take over Sparta.
King Leonidas was aware of this and decided to block them for the Thermopylae trial, aka “hot gates”. His warriors were more than men they are Spartans (Miller). The movie shows a great example of this when King Leonidas asks of an Arcadian soldier, “you there what is your profession?” and the soldier replies, “I am a potter-sir.” Then he turns to his warriors and yells “Spartans what is your profession?” and they answer back, “Hoo-Ah, Hoo-Ah.” Finally King Leonidas looks at the Arcadian leader and says “You see old friend? I brought more soldiers than you did.” The makers of this movie did exactly what they need to, they are keeping the movie as close to history as possible, but without boring viewers.
People engulf themselves in the media it can take over lives. Frank Miller originally made a comic book of 300, and that is the reason for the movie make.
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