In this passage, I am going to compare and contrast two different kinds of text, namely my CSR academic essay and a journal article from Newsweek. There are several differences between the writing.
First of all, the complexity of my essay is higher. In the CSR essay, I often used complex noun phrases. For example, in sentences like “Corporate social responsibility (CSR), which was first suggested in the late 1960s, is an idea to urge companies not only to focus on maximizing the profits of shareholders, but also the interests of other stakeholders like suppliers and employees”, I have used “is an idea to urge companies not only to focus on maximizing the profits of shareholders, but also the interests of other stakeholders like suppliers and employees” to make the noun phrase “CSR” become complex. While in the journal article, complex sentences like “Buoyed by the wealth of Russian oligarchs and Arab and Chinese tycoons, London has become one of the world's most expensive markets, raising concerns ahead of national elections in 2015 that locals are being squeezed out of the market” can still be found but are less frequently used. The reason behind shall be attributed to the difference in the target audience of the writing. The target readers of my essay are professors and people with certain professional knowledge about business. Therefore the use of complex noun phrases can make my essay look more professional. In contrast, the readers of the journal article are general public. They probably do not possess the knowledge and interest required to read complex phrases. Hence, the journal possesses lower level of complexity.
Secondly, my essay has a higher formality. In my essay, the word choices are generally plain. Colloquial ...
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...te”. While in the article, sentences including “House prices across Britain have not recovered their levels from before the financial crisis struck in 2008, but they are rising at about 10 percent a year” and “London's red-hot property market has struck a new record with the sale of a 140 million pound unfurnished apartment, but even the developer of the opulent building warned that some asking prices in Britain were unsustainable” also showed the use of “but” as signaling word. I believe the reason behind is that signposting words can guide readers to read effectively. These words are capable of showing the relationships between sentences, for example, when we want to show two sentences have similar ideas, we use “alongside”. When we want to show they have contradictory ideas, we use “but”. The use of signposting words allows readers to follow the passages easily.
Writing with Readings and Handbook. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013. 52-57. Print.
One of the most important aspects of writing, according to the AACU writing rubric, concerns sources and evidence (“Writing Rubric” 2015). The rubric clearly states that an author must use “sources to support ideas in the writing…quotes, if applicable, are generally accurately placed. Citations are correctly formatted in MLA or APA” (2015). The Visual Rhetorical Analysis assignment, for English 1002, demonstrates the trouble I experienced with this significant area in writing (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). Therefore, the revised version of the Visual Rhetorical Analysis demonstrates improvement in the use of sources and evidence as well as in citations, an essential are of writing, because the revisions illustrate proper citations as well as a stronger use of sources, as required by the writing rubric (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015; Brizek, “Revision” 2015; “Writing Rubric 2015).
With theses, I never knew how to properly tie together my entire idea of the essay into a sentence or two. In my first essay titled
Providing a specific example immensely heightened my position while my improvements also made an effective use of sentence variety. This kind of writing (a persuasive essay) is relatively easy for me to write because I have strong opinions to express yet I’m happy to recognize the importance of every factor. For example, in this particular essay the prompt was to choose which truth (artistic, religious, or scientific) is the most important in the novel and since I clearly saw the religious and scientific to be stemmed from the artistic, the essay seemed to write itself.
The grammatical delivery of the essay is clear just like the argument. The delivery of the essay actually improves the argument. If the grammatical delivery was not as clear as it is then the audience might not understand the argument.
The story I chose for this analysis is “Why, you reckon?” by Langston Hughes. IN this analysis I will be focusing on how the great depression in Harlem had effect on the story, how racism played a part, and how or if the characters were justifyied in their actions. During this time period the intense racial divide combined with the economic harships that plagued the U.S. during the 1923’s makes for an interesting story that makes you think if the charaters were really justified.
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former CIA technician, Booz Allen Hamilton's former employee, and a former NSA defense contractor. Edward Snowden had leaked a secret of NSA through an interview with Glenn Greenwald from The Guardian which startled the world. In his disclosure, Snowden revealed about NSA that they are mining data works all along and secretly monitoring U.S. citizens' personal information by accessing through different servers.
Culture Centers in Higher Education: Perspectives on Identity, Theory, and Practice is a powerful and enlightening book by Lori D. Patton. Patton is a higher education scholar who focuses on issues of race theories, African American experiences on college campuses, student development theories, campus environments, inclusion, and multicultural resources centers at higher education institutions. She has a variety of publications and was one of the first doctoral students to complete a dissertation that focused exclusively on Black culture centers entitled, “From Protest to Progress: An Examination of the Relevance, Relationships and Roles of Black Culture Centers.” In Campus Culture Centers in Higher Education Patton collaborates with many higher education scholars and faculty members to discuss various types of racial and ethnic culture centers in higher education, their overall effectiveness, relevance, and implications for improvement in relation to student retention and success. Diversity, inclusion and social justice have become prevalent issues on all college campuses, and this piece of literature gives a basic introduction for individuals unfamiliar with cultural resource centers. This book successfully highlights contributions of culture centers and suggestions for how centers can be reevaluated and structured more efficiently. For many faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals unfamiliar with the missions and goals of culture centers, Patton’s text provides a concrete introduction and outline for the functionality of these resources and also offers recommendations and improvements for administrators managing multicultural centers.
The Criminal Justice System is made up of several different process law enforcement, judiciary, and corrections this system is where the accused individual are tried and punished for the crime they are charged with. The depiction of criminal justice system in throughout each process (police, courts, and correctional) has become ubiquitous on television today. Shows that give a visual of the arresting and investigation process (law enforcement) are the televisions shows “Cops” and “The First 48 Hours”. The show “Cops” is a television series that follows police officers, constables and sheriff deputies around during their patrol and other policing activity (Cops, n.d). Showing the officer enforcing the laws of the land, apprehend offenders, reducing and prevent crimes, maintain public order, provide emergency and related community services and more” (Schmalleger F., 2014). The “Cops” show conveys the initial stage of the law enforcement. The images or positive (in my opinion) when it comes to showing the actual community services the law enforcers provide. This allow police to become more integrated in to the communities. Reducing the amount of fear toward the particular criminal justice profession. It has change the outlook on policing in the communities and enhances the level of trust from the communities for law enforcement. This allows for a sufficient reduction and prevent crimes when law enforcement and the people of the community come together. “The First 48 Hour” is a show that shows the criminal justice process from the crime, arrest, to the investigation stages in the criminal justice process. This show follows detectives around from the state of their investigation (right after a crime occurs...
Here I have a comparison of my quotation using in my prior essay and recent one, between final draft of Singer Position paper and my rewritten of it. It can clearly show us the difference between them and the improvement I have made. First, in the final draft of Singer Position paper, I did not do well in the organization, format and explanation of a quotation. I wrote，“ What’s more, Singer holds an opinion which is that living high and letting die. As what the end of the story Bob says, ' The child is killed. For many years to come, Bob enjoys owning his Bugatti and the financial security it represents.' In such short words, Singer greatly satirizes Bob’s behavior which is heinous. It is possible to say that Singer feels a little bit helpless about human’s nature. He pointed out that selfish gradually change and control people’s mind.” I show the original sentence and analyze that Bob who is character in the reading material did a wrong decision for his selfish. However, the most important thing I lost is to rephrase the original sentence. Also, the format is terrible. I even forgot write down the page number. On the other hand, I decided to ask my instructor if I can rewrite it, I began to write a quotati...
Sophocles wrote the classic tragedy Antigone in 496-406 BC this play dramatizes the conflict between self-morality versus human law by representing each conflict by two characters; Antigone and Creon. In this play Antigone decides to bury her brother Polyneices regardless of the king Creon’s decree. After Antigone is caught Creon decides that the punishment of death will be enforced. This sets of a chain reaction of conflicts between Antigone and Creon, both filled with pride and will. The chorus states that the gods vigorously punish the proud, yet punishment brings wisdom. ( )
...ay writers have to be honest to people who initiate ideas for them. Moreover, quotations can be useless if the writers do not explain the importance of those quotations themselves. This notion can be remembered as “double your explanation length for each quotation” that means writer should spend double amount of quotation describing it. An essay writer should aware that they have to communicate with readers so it is ordinary that readers cannot understand the whole idea of the essay because of communication complications.
In this essay, I attempted to combine two sources and analyze them each by itself first and then combine it at the end. I think I did a good job analyzing and interpreting what Ellen DeGeneres was saying in her article. This essay was more difficult than the other essays for me because it is hard to apply the examples and try to combine two different sources to make a compare and contrast paper make sense.
Regardless of the fact that when you compare two articles that discuss two different topics, it is imperative to note that, they may share rhetorical features and strategies which work towards the goal of conveying information to a specific audience. For example, the articles, Creative Rights for Writers of Theatrical and Long-Form Television Motion Pictures explains the basic laws and rights for writers working in the film industry. A fresh perspective from immunologists and vaccine researchers: Active vaccination strategies to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s disease is an article that discusses about possible cures for Alzheimer's Disease. The article Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure is more of an argumentative essay that discusses
For instance, in one article, the newspaper reported that "The son of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is accused of funding an attempted coup by mercenaries to overthrow the ruler of an African nation and replace him with an exiled opposition leader, in return for a lucrative oil contract. " The use of the discursive marker allows the text to flow, making the sentence long, detailed, and complex. These key facts indicate that the article is aimed at capable readers. There is hardly any controversial language due to the informative focus. It is obvious that there will be more technical jargon like 'lucrative', 'coup', 'mercenaries', and 'exiled' due to the newspaper's complex sentence structure.