What Is Writing? An Introduction to College Writing in the 21st Century

I have to be honest I wasn’t going to read anything that had to do with Amy Tan and her Mother Tongue mumbo jumbo especially because I was behind in other classes and I was trying to get in some good studying but here we go English  has prevailed yet another time. I think she describes to us what thinking out the box is and to back my theory up I think we should pay attention to paragraph 16. Of course this is a story about the way her mother spoke in her definition of English but whose to say it isn’t correct. I think if we take the time out to understand we will. We all know the English language meaning we know the words that are related and we know which words identify with others so we should be able to pick up on broken sentences if we take our time an gather the information and I think my theory is supported throughout this piece. I think she gives a description of inspiration and setbacks and all has to do with broken language, it is not just about her mother , its about the people that may lack what America today view as having proper grammar.

2.   Even though I spoke about paragraph 16 I would like to look at the first 2 paragraphs

3.   I think she wrote in perfect form because she broke down why things were happening on both sides of the broken English she was describing. While these things were happening she begun to understand more and more so she was able to break it down to her audience

This essay is about a Chinese-American women, who realizes that when speaking to large groups her dialect was in proper english, but at home with her husband  and her mother she would speak “broken english”. She descibed “broken english as Imperfect non-native speaking, as by a foreigner. In time, she realized that when people spoke to her mother, they would hardly understand what she says; even though her mother reads the Forbes reports, Shirley Mc Clain books and listen to the wall street week with ease. Although people couldn’t understand her, she felt her mothers english was full observation and vivid. In this essay Tan quoted a story her mother told and it was hard to understand in my perceptive, but I was able to interpret it. She also noticed people would treat her mother rude or differently, due to the fact: her english wasn’t good. When Tan was young she had to help her mother socially, she used to pretend she was her mother on the phone and in certain situations where her mother couldn’t communicate efficiently. She also explains how english wasn’t her favorite subject in school; math and science was. She felt her writing in english was judged on a matter of opinion and personal experiences. Unlike math where there’s only one correct answer for everything. After her experiences with writing and speaking with different dialect; she decided to write more like her mother tongue.

After reading the preface to Mythologies, I got a sense that it would be a slightly entertaining collection of French literature on various topics.

A myth to me is something that could or could not be true. The wikipedia definition of myth is “any traditional story.” The definition I found is similar to the one that I wrote.

I am interested in the short essays “Nothing” and “Wine and Milk”

What is descriptive grammar?

Does grammar matter in an unformal letter?

Does grammar mean the same thing as linguistics?

1 Where did grammar originate from?

2 Is it good to always practice good grammar?

why?3 What is grammar in your own words?

1. Who created grammar?

2. Whats the difference between phonics and grammar?

3.  Why is grammar so important to people?

Q1: who came up with grammar?

Q2: Why is there so many different perceptions of grammar?

Q3: Is there a form of gramma for sign language?

What’s the correct grammar for numbers: When to spell out and When to write as numbers?

Does “correct grammar” have to be used to understand a writers’ work?

Is their an author out there that doesn’t apply the grammar rule to their writing?

a. spelling
b. word order/syntax/the way words are put together to form sentences
c. the meaning of words in certain contexts
d. proper English
e. punctuation
f. the structure of how to write, read, and speak
g. pronunciation
h. tone
i. diction

Of the nine definitions, how many of the above should be included in a technical definition of grammar?

Questions About Grammar

Does grammar vary between speaking and writing?

Out of all the short intros the titles that I was most intrested in was happiness, madness, nothing, and anxiety. The one I pick for the class to read is nothing.