Author Archives: gabgrace

John Swales is professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan. He got his PHD from Cambridge. He is known for his work on genre analysis, and rhetoric analysis. He was born in 1938 in the U.K(Wikipedia). I think that he imagined college students to be reading his text, since he worked at a college.Continue reading “HW 1/30”

Stein does not portray himself as an audience friendly writer, he is very blunt. The whole tone of his piece is that his opinion is the right opinion, and everyone who disagrees with him is not a true American. I think that Stein sees that the gap of the conversation is that Americans are notContinue reading “CL/30”

Discourses: How Do Communities Shape Writing Everyone throughout their life gains more literacies. A discourse community is a community that share goals and they communicate to reach their goals. The article pushes the reader to figure out what discourse communities they are apart of. The article brings up questions that the reader can think aboutContinue reading “HW 1/28”

The intended readers are Americans. He dresses them by saying “You Yankee Haters..” The article is rhetorical and it is reaffirming the beliefs people have. He is making fun of America in general. The value that the readers and the writer have in common is wanting to be successful. He appeals to them by sayingContinue reading “CL 1/28”

The Brief Thompson is persuasive in that the text is saying that you start to become more persuasive in your writing when you want to make your position known. This is persuasive because the reader starts to think about what they want to say, and they become more motivated to learn how to use rhetoricContinue reading “HW 1/21”

Comfortable In Classroom Getting to know the people in the class Writing what I think and then sharing it Having a partner to talk to about topics Uncomfortable In Classroom An uncomfortable topic A very quiet class In Defense of Domination Times Article by Joe Stein Joel Stein is an American Journalist who wrote forContinue reading “CL 1/21”

An active reader has to be curious. An active reader has to ask questions. These questions include: What does the text mean? Why is the text important or why is it not? How can the text be used? The reader needs to process their thoughts and feelings about the text as they read. In orderContinue reading “HW 1/16”

I’m at UCBA because it is close to where I live and it is a great school. I chose this section, because it worked with my schedule. I was born in Cincinnati I was born here, and then I lived in Arlington, Virginia for about 8 years. I moved back to Cincinnati when I wasContinue reading “CL 1/16”