marigolds
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« Reply #345 on: November 09, 2009, 10:51:09 AM » |
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Oh, ugh. More "determination" and "do anything you set your mind to" self-talk... about Richard Wright this time.
"I believe that his intended audiences are people who lack determination. He writes this essay in order for those people to realize that anything is possible if you are determined. I also believe that it is his purpose for writing this essay. Let me tell you more."
Oh, please do tell me more. Tell me about how anything is possible if you are determined! If I am determined, can I fly? Can I drink an entire tanker truck full of beer? With determination, can I make this essay anything other than crappy?
Huh, it didn't work. I guess I wasn't determined enough.
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« Reply #346 on: November 09, 2009, 11:00:55 AM » |
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Oh, ugh. More "determination" and "do anything you set your mind to" self-talk... about Richard Wright this time.
"I believe that his intended audiences are people who lack determination. He writes this essay in order for those people to realize that anything is possible if you are determined. I also believe that it is his purpose for writing this essay. Let me tell you more."
Oh, please do tell me more. Tell me about how anything is possible if you are determined! If I am determined, can I fly? Can I drink an entire tanker truck full of beer? With determination, can I make this essay anything other than crappy?
Huh, it didn't work. I guess I wasn't determined enough.
We should start a whole new school of literary criticism: "The Secret," as it applies to texts. (Oh, wait. I think Ayn Rand already did that.) |
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marigolds
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« Reply #347 on: November 09, 2009, 11:11:50 AM » |
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Oh god. From the same paper:
"Richard Wright's target audiences are people who enjoy reading about how black people or people in general overcome hard situations, or people who lack determination."
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barcrossliar
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« Reply #348 on: November 09, 2009, 03:48:16 PM » |
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"Agnostic behavior in mice..."
I can just picture them sitting around discussing whether they can really know how water bottles get refilled.
-+LR
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"where whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?"--R.L. Stevenson
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« Reply #349 on: November 09, 2009, 04:20:06 PM » |
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"Agnostic behavior in mice..."
I can just picture them sitting around discussing whether they can really know how water bottles get refilled.
-+LR
Just made my day with THAT one! |
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« Reply #350 on: November 09, 2009, 04:59:54 PM » |
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"Agnostic behavior in mice..."
I can just picture them sitting around discussing whether they can really know how water bottles get refilled.
-+LR
Awesome! (especially your comment -+LR!) |
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« Reply #351 on: November 10, 2009, 01:09:45 PM » |
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In a paper on whether prostitution should be criminalized:
"Sex is a want. And like anything else in society, if you want something, you have to pay for it."
to which my partner replied "and you pay, and pay, and pay..."
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« Reply #352 on: November 10, 2009, 05:04:21 PM » |
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"The Robert Frost reveals it again in the next line with his Diction."
bow chicka wow wow!
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« Reply #353 on: November 10, 2009, 05:19:39 PM » |
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"The Robert Frost reveals it again in the next line with his Diction."
bow chicka wow wow!
What school of thought is encouraging the use of "diction," anyway? I have a few students who use this, but none of the English profs I have checked with are teaching it. I prefer to reserve diction for speech! |
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« Reply #354 on: November 10, 2009, 05:55:15 PM » |
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"The Robert Frost reveals it again in the next line with his Diction."
bow chicka wow wow!
What school of thought is encouraging the use of "diction," anyway? I have a few students who use this, but none of the English profs I have checked with are teaching it. I prefer to reserve diction for speech! Their high schools, or possibly SAT-prep services. This is the way the term is used on the SAT reading comprehension. It drives me nuts, especially when I tell my students, "You are misusing this term." Then they respond, "No, this is the way I learned it." GAH! And I'm telling you that in my field, and therefore in my class, this is an improper usage! |
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marigolds
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« Reply #355 on: November 10, 2009, 08:50:14 PM » |
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"The Robert Frost reveals it again in the next line with his Diction."
bow chicka wow wow!
What school of thought is encouraging the use of "diction," anyway? I have a few students who use this, but none of the English profs I have checked with are teaching it. I prefer to reserve diction for speech! Their high schools, or possibly SAT-prep services. This is the way the term is used on the SAT reading comprehension. It drives me nuts, especially when I tell my students, "You are misusing this term." Then they respond, "No, this is the way I learned it." GAH! And I'm telling you that in my field, and therefore in my class, this is an improper usage! I'm too crabby to navigate to the OED right now, but...dictionaries aren't lists of spoken words. When did they diverge? I always thought it was just word choice. |
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« Reply #356 on: November 10, 2009, 10:28:26 PM » |
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I'm too crabby to navigate to the OED right now, but...dictionaries aren't lists of spoken words. When did they diverge? I always thought it was just word choice. I'll check for ya, marigolds. OED says: "The manner in which anything is expressed in words; choice or selection of words and phrases; wording; verbal style" I do define "diction" in this manner when I teach poetry. That being said, I also tell students that they can analyze an author's choice of words, but they should never ever say that an author "uses diction." More in the spirit of this thread ... from the same paper: "If the line uses an enjambment then the line is the introduction to the list of ingrideanice that was put together in Gods plan." |
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« Reply #357 on: November 11, 2009, 01:56:20 AM » |
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"A single place of lush serenity, amongst the dessert of grimy titty bars and obnoxious music."
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« Reply #358 on: November 11, 2009, 04:50:21 AM » |
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"A single place of lush serenity, amongst the dessert of grimy titty bars and obnoxious music."
Sounds like dessert to me! Is there also chocolate? |
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« Reply #359 on: November 11, 2009, 11:44:33 AM » |
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No sentence, but a paragraph that somehow conflates the English and American Bills of Right. So you've got Parliament, the King, and Continental Congress (which is itself divided into Federalist and anti-Federalist factions) all battling over the nature of government.
Not surprisingly, the paper is a wee bit of a mess.
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