Chapter 5 Exercises
Part One
The following phrases were written by social historian Julie Charlip to distinguish the views of others:
-Marx and Engels wrote...
-Oh, it's not the middle class that's disappearing, he said...
-His definition...
-"I'm sure that's what my father would tell you."
The following phrases were written by Charlip to distinguish her views from theirs:
-I find myself...
-In my days as a newspaper reporter, I...
-But I always felt...
-"What class do I come from?"
-"What class am I in now?"
-As a historian, I seek the answers...
Part Two
a. In my persuasive essay written about mandating uniforms in all schools I engaged in only one perspective, my own and that of others who agree uniforms should be mandatory in all schools.
b. I might be able to include the other sides perspective on why students should not be forced to wear uniforms, yet still keep my foot down on my opinion.
c. I distinguished my views from the other views I summarized by using different signal phrases and different paragraphs explaining a certain author's specific opinion.
d. Yes, I did use clear voice signaling phrases because throughout my essay one can tell when I am stating my own opinion or when I am quoting another author.
e. Signaling phrases and different paragraphs regarding different subject opinions were available options for clarifying who is saying what.
f. Signaling phrases were best suited for this particular text because I tried to include as many different quotes that were for my opinion on the subject as possible, and signaling phrases made it possible to recognize who was saying what when I included quotes from many author's in the same paragraph together along with my own voice.
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I thought you did a great job on this response. I found in the passage that the author also used "it seems" as a way to show opinions of others.
ReplyDeleteWhen writing any type of essay in which someone could have an opposing opinion I have found that it is best to address that issue in order to fully convince your reader. Just a suggestion!
I found that your exercise is neat and organized and you have done a good job on answering the question. However, the author also used "The average American will tell you" in refer to others' view. From your answers for second exercice, i think you've did a good job on your persuasive essay.
ReplyDeleteYou did do an excellent job on this assignment..as mentioned in previous comment, "However, the author also used "The average American will tell you" in refer to others' view." You may have missed this when you were posting your response just as you pointed out in your response to my own blog post. I feel that the point of this exercise was to demonstrate that we understood the "And They Say" as we both did..I don't know if the requirement was to mention them all...
ReplyDeleteThe second part of the assignment was done well. I agree with you that signal phrases and quotes would be best used in your essay. Th only thing I would suggest is that in the first part of the assignment is to be consistent with using quotations. You used quotes on some examples of when the author is talking about themself and not on others.
ReplyDeleteThe only phrase distinguishing Charlip's voice that you missed I think would be "If only that were true," (right at the very beginning). Everything else is right on and I like how you interpreted the rhetorical questions as the authors opinion as well because I believe whenever an author asks rhetorical questions it always reflects, at least in part, something they believe. For your part 2 the topic of your paper caught my attention and when you mentioned using as many quotes as possible it really makes me curious to read your paper and see what people have to say about it. So good job on incorporating multiple opinion sources, even though they were all for the same side.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job on this assignment. I also chose chapter five and have similar phrases. One thing that i would change is for exercise one, i would write out the whole phrase rather than the half the phrase but other than that you did great.
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