The English Language

The English language is particularly complex in almost all aspects. Many of the words in the English language have different meanings for the same word. This is not unlike the definition of the different levels of usage. McCrimmon defines the three levels, formal, moderate, and colloquial, by their sentence structure, diction, and tone (McCrimmon 193). ¹ Using McCrimmon’s definitions, authors can determine what type of writing is applicable to each of the three levels. For the formal writings, an adequate example of where readers can find it is in a professional journal, and an appropriate place to find an example of the moderate level is in a weekly news magazine. Also, the best place to look for an example of the colloquial level is in certain sections of the newspaper. All of the levels of usage apply to these different types of writings and assist in defining what each level involves.

While writing, most of us don’t think of the ways we develop and create ideas or how we construct them into words. We don’t think about where we get the ideas from and how we choose to write what we write. Some say our ideas come from our own knowledge and experiences and that we simply make connections. While others say that ideas are always taken from different sources. In the text “Tracing Trajectories of Practice” by Kevin Roozen, Roozen discusses his study which traces the ways in which people write what they write. The text mentions a participant named Lindsey as an example, and explains Lindsey’s process and the methods she uses while writing.

There are many aspects for my mind to conceive while reading the articles why I write by George Orwell and Joan Didion. There are many different factors in triggering an author’s imagination to come up with what they want to write, and why they want to write it. In most writings a purpose is not found before the writer writes, but often found after they decide to start writing.

The overall purpose of Didion’s essay is to show you her writing process. Which is that something so vague like a picture or a memory can create a whole novel. She explains that writing might not always be easy but that if it is your passion, it is worth it.

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” Yusuf Karsh wittily elucidates that character takes time to mature into one of great influence. To achieve this, writers introduce several different literary techniques. Generally, to build a character, writers use direct and indirect presentation. While using direct presentation, the author candidly gives readers information through narration. Indirect presentation occurs when readers receive information about a character from dialogue or an action made by another character. By utilizing these methods, writers can effectively create their characters in a way that successfully collaborate to an intricate plot. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses these techniques to unravel many

Throughout my educational years, I had only done writings that involves in small research papers, MLA style essays, and summary essays. However, English 101 has given me a new way to look at my writing skills. Most of the writings I have been doing so far in this course were interpretative essays where we interpreted and reflected on other’s writing and then reflecting back to ours own writing. This class also has given me the opportunity to work with my classmates and a chance to discuss about the writing strategy they made in their papers versus the strategy I made in my papers. In addition, I find the in-class activity to be very useful because it allows me to see other’s perspectives and feedbacks. The in-class activities were class discussions, group works, and conference with the instructor. At the end of the semester, the class objective was to pick out two best interpretative essays that we have been working on with a final reflective essay to include in our final portfolio. So for the rest of this essay, I would like to talk about my two best interpretive essays that I have decided to include in my final portfolio: “Death of a Funeral Business”, and “No Time to think” and “Time Ain’t Money”.

In Malaysia, English language is stereotypically considered as a person’s second or third language. Majority of Malaysians’ native language is Malay for Malays, Tamil for Indians, Mandarin for Chinese or colloquial dialects for those from rural areas. In this paper, I would reflect on my English language learning experiences.

Explains the lesson, gives examples, vocabulary, great interaction with students, one on one help, they all participate to answer the book pages, motivates students to speak English, corrects students as they speak, clear and sure of the topic, enjoys class.

Have you ever experienced what it feels like to be bullied for your differences? I was in the 5th grade when I first encountered what it meant to be ridiculed for the way you speak. There was a time when my classmates made fun of another boy for the way he was speaking English. The boy was very quiet and only spoke to his cousin during class. The only language he was comfortable speaking was Chinese. My classmates at the time were taking turns recreating what they thought his language sounded like. Every so cruelly they mocked him in a way that was extremely racist; they were bullying him. I specifically remember one girl telling him, “Does your language sound like, ching chong, chong?”, she proceeded to laugh while she asked him. I never stuck up for him when I heard this, and I feel ashamed till this day that I didn’t speak up for him. Language shaming can come from anyone, and it takes many forms. In “Coming to Language” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the passage gives us a personal experience, he has with language shaming from a teacher and how it affected his life and his journey of finding freedom through writing. In addition we see, another example of language shaming in “Living with Dyslexia” by Gareth Cook where he talks about his learning disorder and how it altered his relationship with teachers and his life. There is great similarity between Baca, Cooks and I’s encounter with teachers and language shaming. Since I’ve been in college, I have had three professors tell me

Throughout human history, people have been telling stories. Traditionally, stories were not the work of one single author, rather, they used to travel from mouth to mouth in a community, which often resulted in many different versions of the same story. When people finally started writing stories down, it meant that these stories were set in stone and would stay that way for the remainder of time. However, this also meant that stories were a result of a single person thus it was that person’s perspective or version that made it into books. Similarly, the authors of “Red Lights”, “The Boat”, and the “Paper menagerie” have all been influenced by anecdotes and their personal lives are present throughout the stories.

Throughout her writing Joan Didion brings up many important points and reasons to write that apply to all types of people from professional writers to average people. Didion uses an approach that allows many people to understand the importance of writing in everyone’s life. In both “Why I Write” and “On Keeping a Notebook” readers are able to find the personal importance of writing from recalling the past, to finding an answer, and even simply expressing personal thoughts and feelings.

The english language is something hard to comprehend most of the time. Lots of people in the United States but really for the immigrates. It could have people looking uneducated without learning it. Tan’s challenges herself by looking past the stereotypes of Asians & math and became an English major. I myself have had some difficulty with the english language.

Fiction is all over the world, and most people have been influenced by a fiction story, whether the influence is noticed or not. Authors of fiction stories have written for many different reasons. Most authors write to express their life experiences or relationships, where the fiction characters represent real people in the author’s life. Fiction changes the

Have you ever had to learn a completely new language that you had no idea even existed? My parents would only talk in Bosnian at home, so I learned that language from them. I had no idea that the English language was even a real thing, all I knew was Bosnian. When I first started kindergarten, I had no idea what people my age were saying to each other. I couldn’t make any friends back in kindergarten because I didn’t understand anybody. My parents honestly thought I was going to fail kindergarten, because I took so much longer than the rest of the kids in my class to figure out simple words and what they meant. For example, I didn’t know what an apple was. In Bosnian, an apple is called Jabuka (ya-boo-ka). There are some words in certain languages that sound similar, so it would be easier to recognize and learn. But there is no similarity in Bosnian words and English words. I learned the English language, as well as slang, from my teachers and friends, even though it was a long and slow process.

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