Category: Writing

6. Write the ordinary English spelling for the following words given in phonetic transcription.  Be sure to look at the words carefully and try sounding them out to yourself before deciding on your answer. (This question continues at the top of the next page.)
[ta?m]
[red]
[sak]
[spun]
[mæn?n?]
[jusi?le]
7. Write the following words in phonetic transcription; if there is more than one possible pronunciation, transcribe the word as you would ordinarily pronounce it in your own speech.
For your convenience: here are the IPA symbols used in this course that do not correspond to ordinary letters of the English alphabet:
vowels and diphthongs: [?  ?  æ  ?  ?  ?  ?  a?  a?  ??]
consonants: [?  ð  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?]
vertical stroke to place under syllabic liquids and nasals: [ ? ] (if it comes out slightly to the right or left, don’t worry about it)
match
style
better
quick
aloud

Consider an argument in which the authors use statistics about population and rates of homelessness to help prove their point that the increasing population of a city has contributed to rising homelessness. What kinds of persuasive appeals are these authors using?

Do you think nature or nurture had a larger impact on belle gunness life? What do you think led her to commit those crimes? Why? Do you think these crimes could have been prevented? How?

What does “post-truth” mean, according to the speaker? Explain . Then Google the phrase. Summarize what the phrase means and why it might impact our society.
?      Explain, the study that the speaker discusses regarding people’s willingness to conform, despite objective truth. What did the study find? What does this suggest about humans’ ability to identify the truth, when they may be surrounded by people who do not recognize that truth?
?      Maoret gives an example to illustrate how the news media helped “broadcast” information from the east coast to the west coast. Explain how the media used to work, in theory. How did social media complicate that relationship?
?      According to Maoret, what is the solution to isolating the truth from the “noise”? And why is this hard?
?      After discussing some “red flags” that might indicate an article is not factually accurate, Maoret discusses the things we can do to figure out where the truth lies. What are these? (Hint: there are 3 things we can do.)
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The following words from Chamorro, spoken in Guam and the Mariana Islands, all involve derivation. (Data are presented in Chamorro orthography.) I. Root Derived word a) adda ‘mimic’ b) kanno ‘eat’ c) tuge ‘write’ aadda ‘mimicker’ kakanno ‘eater’ tutuge ‘writer’ II. Root Derived word d) atan ‘look at’ e) sangan ‘tell’ f) guaiya ‘love’ g) tulaika ‘exchange’ h) chalek ‘laugh’ i) ngangas ‘chew’ atanon ‘nice to look at’ sanganon ‘tellable’ guaiyayon ‘lovable’ tulaikayon ‘exchangeable’ chalekon ‘laughable’ ngangason ‘chewable’ III. Root Derived word j) nalang ‘hungry’ k) dankolo ‘big’ l) metgot ‘strong’ m) bunita ‘pretty’ nalalang ‘very hungry’ dankololo ‘very big’ metgogot ‘very strong’ bunitata ‘very pretty’ Like inflection, derivation can be expressed in a variety of ways—including by affixation of various types (prefixation, suffixation, infixation) and by reduplication.
i) What morphological process is manifested in I? in II? in III? ii) Formulate a general statement that describes how the derived words in I are formed. Do the same for II and III. iii) One of these derivational processes consists of affixation involving allomorphs. What is the distribution of the allomorphs?

Discussion Task: Respond to the questions listed below.
Why do you think the active voice is called the voice of business?
Why should most writing be done using active-voice verbs?
When would passive voice, or the voice of tact, be more appropriate?
Think of two workplace examples in which the passive voice would be preferred, and share these examples with your classmates.

Rubrics for the Color-coded Map Criteria 4 3 2 1 Used different Used different Used limited Used no colour and appropriate | and appropriate | colours for for all the Style colours for all colours for some of the branches. branches. some of the branches. branches. The map The map The map The map didn’t included all the included most included some Content include any of concepts in the of the concepts of the concepts the concepts in lesson. in the lesson. in the lesson. the lesson. All the ideas Most of the Some of the All the ideas presented are Organization ideas presented ideas presented presented are clear and are clear and are clear and not clear and readable. readable. readable. not readable. Included Included some Included few Didn’t include various relevant relevant relevant relevant Illustration illustrations to illustrations to illustrations to illustrations to make the map make the map make the map make the map significant. significant. significant. significant.

I need some sentences integrating a quote from any of the articles, also to connect the picked quote to the rest of your sentences. Via signal phrases (“Smith argues” OR “According to Smith,” etc) or by integrating your quote as it grammatically fits into your sentence.
John:          Hi everyone,
Here is my paragraph with the quotes I integrated into it:
On Sula’s deathbed, she expresses to Nel her thoughts about the lifestyles and conditions of the women in Medallion. “You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I am not living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.” Even though Nel wants Sula to settle down and have children, Sula takes pride in her choice not to conform. “Dying just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump and I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.” Sula says everybody’s life is a journey to death, yet she believes her course to be nobler than that of her peers. She knows she is living her authentic self, and she does not live for appearances.
Emily:         Hello, John. I think you did a great job on your paragraph. I think the quote can be put into the sentence by using commas and introductory phrases. This can help tie together your argument and the quote so that it flows. Also cite the author and let the reader know what page you are talking about. Your essay seems like it is going to be very good!
Professor:    John, this is a good point about Sula and her desire to live authentically. Emily makes a good observation. You haven’t integrated your quote into your discussion, and you haven’t cited the page numbers from the novel. To integrate the quote, you need punctuation and signal phrases. Here is an example of how to integrate and cite from the novel:
On Sula’s deathbed, she expresses to Nel her thoughts about the lifestyles and conditions of the women in Medallion: “You think I don’t know what your life is like just because I am not living it? I know what every colored woman in this country is doing” (Morrison 93).  Even though Nel wants Sula to settle down and have children, Sula takes pride in her choice not to conform. She continues by telling Nel that the women of Medallion are “[d]ying just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump and I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world” (Morrison 93). Sula says everybody’s life is a journey to death, yet she believes her course to be nobler than that of her peers. She knows she is living her authentic self, and she does not live for appearances.

Transcribe the General American English pronunciation for each of the following words using appropriate IPA symbols
chest
sweet
lake
through
bush
club
shout
ridge
light
rolled
youth

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Figures of Speech Worksheet
Identify and clearly label as many poetic/figurative language techniques as you can for each phrase.
Through the whistling wind and snow, like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept.
We have a Jonah among us; our luck has changed.
The trees whispered in the night.
Roll on, thou deep blue ocean.
The thunder boomed and cracked around us.
Betty Botter bought a batch of bitter butter.
The more you learn, the less you know.
The huge rock sat contentedly on the mountain top.
He watches from his mountain wall, and like a thunderbolt he falls.
He is the most honest lawyer since Atticus Finch.
He is a dancer of no little ability.
I wouldn’t marry you if you were the last man on earth!
He had Herculean strength.
The clanging of the bell awakened us all.
The diminutive Eastern European fugitive from the law pleaded with the farmer, “Please sir, can you cache a small Czech?”
She resembled a small giant.
If I don’t get home by nine o’clock, my mom will kill me!
The buzzing of the bees was a pleasant sound.
Our parting was bittersweet.
The stars danced through the sky.
Our boating expedition was not unlike the maiden voyage of the Titanic.
In June the clouds are cushions in the noon day heat.
Life is like licking honey from a thorn.
These words are razors to my wounded heart.
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.