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Week 5 Assignments
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This week, we will be reading and writing about thesis-based texts!
- Week 5 Assignments
- Group Assignments DUE by MIDNIGHT, Thursday, October 9
- RWA and LJ DUE by 9 am Tuesday, October 14
- LEARNING JOURNAL 5
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Please spend five to seven minutes comparing and contrasting how you read things in print and how you read things on the Web. If you are looking for a place to start, you may want to consider these questions: Do you read the same kinds of things in print and online? Are there some things you would only read in print and others that you would only read online? What specific differences do you notice do you notice when you read in print versus online?? What similarities?Group Assignment 5: What Is Grammar?
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- 1/ In one to three sentences, describe your understanding of the term grammar and the basis for that definition, e.g., I’ve been told that I have bad grammar by teachers because I cannot spell well, etc.
2/ Look up the definition of grammar in a dictionary. Write down the definition. Please also include the title of the dictionary from which you took the definition and the page number on which the definition was found. For example: Definition of the term grammar. The Oxford American College Dictionary (2002), p. 707.
- 3/ Your response to Question 1 is your own connotative definition of grammar. Your response to Question 2 is a denotative definition of grammar. In three to five sentences, please compare and contrast these, explaining what is similar and what is different about them in relation to each other.
- 4/ Post your responses to Questions 1-3 as a reply to Professor Rodgers’ blog post “GA5: What Is Grammar?”
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- RWA5: Actively Read and Respond to Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
College Writing
Professor Rodgers
To complete this assignment, please do the following:
First, based on the guidelines for Active Reading, please read, annotate, and take notes on Professor Rodgers’ introduction to Chapter 4 of her textbook in progress and on Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Second, please complete a “Reverse Outline” of Carr’s essay. For an introduction to Reverse Outlining, please read the Purdue OWL introduction to Reverse Outlining, which was handed out in class.
Third, please read Professor Rodgers’ Handouts on “Writing About Texts,” which you can access in the Handouts section of this website or by clicking here: Writing About Texts
Fourth, please complete the Describe and Analyze sections of the College Writing Reading Worksheet for Carr’s essay.
1. My understanding of grammar is the way in which one individual tries to articulate themselves. It could also have the meaning of how one writes .
2.Grammar:1 a : the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence
b : a study of what is to be preferred and what avoided in inflection and syntax
2 a : the characteristic system of inflections and syntax of a language
b : a system of rules that defines the grammatical structure of a language
“The Merriam-Dictionary”(2014),app dictionary
3. Connotative is the definition of the word in common usage. Denotative is the dictionary definition. Regarding the two they both have a similarity of both being a figure of speech.
1. I believe grammar can be described as the structure of a language. I think this because without the practice of proper grammar, it can be very difficult to understand what someone is trying to say, whether it be in writing or speech.
2. Grammar – the set of rules that explain how words are used in a language; speech or writing judged by how well it follows the rules of grammar; a book that explains the grammar rules of a language
Merriam-Webster. Web.
3. There are very few differences between my definition and the actual definition of grammar. In the connotative meaning, grammar is described as the structure of language. However, in the denotative meaning, it is described as a set of rules that explain how words are used. Though minor, the denotative meaning implies that grammar can be interpreted as a set of things to follow.
1.In my understanding grammar is the structural format of a sentence to make it understandable. Grammar is utilized to help fix a sentence if it
sounds weird or just dosen’t make sense. When writing sometimes i don’t recognize my own mistakes in the grammar because i dont pay attention to it until it is read back to me.
2. According to the online oxford dictionary grammar means The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.
source:http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/grammar
3. The oxford defentiton differs from mine in the sense that it gives a more detailed explanation of the definition. Unlike mine the dictionary points out “structure, language and syntax as part of the defenition”. Both however have the same idea that its a means of structurally wording a sentence or phrase to make it clearer or simpler.