The Elements Of Style By Strunk And White

This chapter holds a certain significance because it helps a writer know how to use the basic elements of the English language, in a way that people want to read. King says that vocabulary and word choice is a very important aspect of grammar, and this should be reflective of your style of writing. He makes very clear in this chapter the importance of sentence structure, and word order (King 118-120). King writes:

Watching Mr. Boyne's videos I learned that I often make the very common mistakes using commas that he went over. I also know that while I learned alot of this in school, not really having put it to use in life, that I had developed by grammar habits. The articles I also read were very informative, again I make many of the mistakes talked about in the articles.

What does the increase of individuals who self-identify as multiracial mean for the color line as those who come from mixed-race grow up and have their own children? How will that affect racial categories? These questions are answered in article 11 titled Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America by Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean, in the book Rethinking the Color Line by Charles A. Gallagher.

important rule of writing. Because there is so much variance between every writer in existence,

An example of this is in the first sentence when Delbanco states, “The American college is going through a period of wrenching change, buffeted by forces…” (Delbanco, 2012, 109). The style of Delbanco’s writing is very formal, he does not include any humor and is extremely proper with his word usage. The audience Delbanco is communicating with is an educated person who is considering college. This is because Delbanco uses intelligent words, for example, “demagoguery” (Delbanco, 2012, 112).

Bogdaniec’s teachings and instructions was punctuation, specifically commas. I was one of those people under the wrong assumption that commas were placed whenever there was a pause in a sentence or you are listing off multiple items, adjectives or verbs. Obviously I was wrong. In writing assignment 2 I had a few mistakes where I forgot to use correct punctuation. After reviewing Mr. Bogdanic’s remarks on assignment 2, I was able to go back and correct my punctuation mistakes and receive a grade of 105 out of 100 points for my revision. I finally understood why we use commas, and the importance of placing them in the correct location of a

Personification is necessary to the story because it allows the reader to get a better understanding of the characters. From this conversation with Whitney and Rainsford, we receive more information about Rainsford and his ideas about life and hunting. Rainsford shows apathy towards his game and believes the creatures he hunts have no feelings. “Rainsford presumes that hunting is a sport involving no more moral consequences than a game such as baseball; he further demonstrates his naivete by assuming that his victims, big-game animals, have no feelings” (Dunleavy 1). Later these ideas Rainsford has about hunting game and their ability to emote is compared to General Zaroff and his ideas about hunting humans. While Rainsford displays indifference towards his animal hunting game and how they feel, General Zaroff has a similar belief with his hunting of humans. General Zaroff has become bored with hunting animals, “ ‘ Simply this: hunting had ceased to be what you call a sporting proposition. It had become too easy.’ ” (Connell 6). However, his solution to his boredom is sinister, instead of hunting animals he hunts humans due to their ability to reason rather than use instinct. Much like Rainsford, General Zaroff had no feelings of pity or resentment for hunting his game. Not only does he get enjoyment out of hunting game which has more cognitive complexity than an animal, he also seems to see it as his right to rid the Earth of those subordinate. “Life is for the strong, to

I noticed that I have an issue with my placement of commas. I don’t know when to place them and when not. Since that is an issue I end up not placing them at all and I need them. I am learning when they are needed and when not from the feedback on my paper showing where there should be placement of them.

2. The author claims that what makes familiar writing style is not a vulgar or pompous words but proper and colloquial words.

You will be asked to correctly add commas to a paragraph of text using your understanding of the 8 comma rules.

Another quality a writer should have in his or her paper is giving examples or things that the readers would find useful and use it themselves. In William Zinsser’s “The Act of Writing: One Man’s Method”  he gives a lot of information on writing a paper and how to improve my writing skills. He talks about “editing, cutting and revising” (166). The one that I use the most, after learning from him, is the bracket method. He says that, “The brackets might surround the little qualifiers… sentence that… repeats what the previous sentence…”(167). I use the brackets idea and it makes my essay a little better. It really helps me to see what I had already said in the other sentence, so I can change the sentence or delete it. Another writer that gives out good information is Lewis Thomas. In “Notes on Punctuation”, Thomas talks about all kinds of punctuation. He gives information on the parenthesis, semicolon, colon, dash, comma, exclamation and quotation marks. Before I read his essay I didn’t know what or how to use a

Instructions on format for AMA are not explicitly stated in the AMA Manual of Style. These instructions come from Dr. Abel Scribe's AMA MedStyle Stat! Web site. Please use these guidelines as a rough estimate only of the requirements, and seek your professor's expertise for more concrete support.

Fernand léger was French painter who was profoundly impacted by cutting edge modern engineering and Cubism. He created "machine craftsmanship," a style described by fantastic robotic structures rendered in strong shades. Despite the fact that he manufactured his notoriety for being a Cubist, his style shifted extensively from decade to decade, fluctuating in the middle of figuration and deliberation and indicating impact from an extensive variety of sources. Léger worked in an assortment of media including paint, ceramic, film, theater and move sets, glass, print, and book expressions. While his style changed, his work was example, reliably realistic, favoring essential shades and strong structure.

The Western artistic tradition is limited to normative operations of representing reality through mimesis while the Chinese were concerned with its hermeneutics. The “Great Preface” to the Book of Songs claims that what a poem is consists in its articulation of inner intent (zhi 志). More importantly, Stephen Owen points out that this zhi is something of an intense and involuntary fixture on reality. With this in mind, Guo Xi echoes the words of the ancients by noting that “a poem is a painting without form and a painting is a poem with form.” However, one can go even further by speculating that human interpretations of reality call for a necessary mediation by ‘form’ before they can be organized into language. Thus, there is an immediate crossing over of spatial boundaries in the process of perceiving reality, internalizing it, and manifesting it through a painting. Su Shi’s notion of immediate reaction complements the idea of zhi as involuntarily manifested, concerning a spontaneous movement of the essence of reality from Nature to the human heart-mind and finally into the painting.