Ambiguity and Clarity in Writing Paper Critical Thinking 205 Vagueness‚ Ambiguity and Clarity in Writing Dawsolene M. Burrel CRT/205 June 30‚ 2013 Lennette Jones Vagueness‚ Ambiguity and Clarity in Writing Example 1. This particular case study will reflect an organization with a van that has undergoing internal conflict. It will also analyze the reason for the conflict and offer positive resolutions of this conflict. The project must first understand
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Return From the Dead: Ligeia The word ambiguous describes that which is capable of two or more contradictory meanings. This word perfectly portrays the Poe story Ligeia in a nutshell. Throughout the text the reader is expected to interpret the story and make distinctions between which of the two possible meanings is in all actuality the "true" reading. But unbeknownst to a vast majority of the scholars who attempt to interpret and analyze the text‚ both of the conclusions to which the reader can
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Allusions in Bill Collins’ “Sonnet” By definition‚ an allusion is a reference‚ within a literary work‚ to another work of fiction‚ a film‚ a piece of art or even a real event and it serves as a kind of shorthand‚ drawing on this outside work to provide greater context or meaning to the situation being written about (Wiehardt). In poetry‚ allusion is a must device for it standard form. If using allusions is great‚ smart and economical ways for the author to communicate with the reader with least
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(a) Explain briefly what is meant by the term ‘elaborated speech code’ . Elaborate speech code is usually associated with middle-class‚ well educated people. It uses a wide variety of vocabulary‚ is more context based‚ uses grammatically complex sentences‚ communicates abstract ideas and is mostly context-free. (b) Identify three policies that governments have introduced to compensate for material and cultural disadvantage‚ apart from Educational Priority Areas. Compensatory education is a policy
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Language is a verbal and nonverbal method of communication that can be spoken‚ written‚ or expressed. Within the Party‚ the authority was able to control‚ prohibit‚ and alter specific information from being evident to the entire population. The conformity and restrictions of their society was created to prevent intelligence and eradicate the minority. With the restrictions on language it leads to restrictions of creativity and ideas. In the novel‚ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell‚ the Party
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Chun Kit Dixon Wong U0907754 Writing 1010 – 006 10 February 2015 In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: introduction” James P Gee presents his analysis of discourse. Gee discussed Discourse and discourse. With the capital “D which included saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ believing and so forth. The other discourse with the little “d”‚ it only means connected stretches of language that make sense (Gee‚ 1989:Page 5) Using the right grammar to talk to people it doesn’t workout every single
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In a foreword to The Fellowship of the Ring‚ J.R.R. Tolkien states that‚ “But I cordially dislike allegory in all it’s manifestations‚ and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history‚ true or feigned‚ with it’s varied applicability to the thought and experience of the readers.” A common misconception is that applicability and allegory are the same concept. As Tolkien references throughout his foreword‚ applicability is the freedom of the reader
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Bentham’s idea of question-begging appellatives functions when the word or phrase puts forth ideological assumptions in an audience‚ or when the word or phrase pre-empts debate. Along with question-begging appellatives‚ Bentham has a concept of triplicate vocabulary‚ stating that there are dyslogistic‚ eulogistic‚ and neutral terms. However‚ Burke adjusts Bentham’s concept and states that neutral language does not exist (p.92). The phrase “save the bees” is a eulogistic question-begging appellative
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The three types of Hebrew parallelism: “synonymous‚ antithetical‚ and synthetic”. Parallelisms are ideas that don’t always interact with other words but they are repetition of words in structure form. One of the three forms of parallelism is synonymous‚ which can be defined as “closed similarity between line structures of the writing (Tullock & McEntire‚ 2006 p. 189).” Secondly‚ the antithetical form of parallelism is when the “second line contrast with the first line (Tullock & McEntire‚ 2006 p
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Do I Fit in? Years and years go by as people who are new to American society try to adjust to changes in lifestyle. Since America was built on a basis of immigrants I know I am not the first to ask the question “Do I fit in?” There are many stories‚ but I am only covering the topic of my background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing
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