Month: October 2021

Today, I read Lexi and Samuel’s posts. After reading Lexi’s post, I realize that we both have many similarities about what we have received from the readings. For instance, both of us mentioned how Chapter 4 of the book, Everything’s an Argument, is telling the readers how to analyze logos and how to use them to support one’s argument. We also mentioned the main purpose of Caleb Wong’s essay which is about people’s addiction to social media. I found Lexi’s post interesting because I didn’t think about Wong’s flaws in his essay. Lexi mentioned that even though Wong delivers a strong claim, she feels like “he may have lost the interest of [some] readers” because his paper is “filled with purely facts and statistics”. I didn’t see Samuel’s post.

Group Members: Yari, Ian, and Lillian

Coordination Conjunction: FANBOYS

Exercise 1:

1. Pets are not allowed in Mr. Taylor’s building; however, he owns several cats and a parrot.
2. New legislation prevents drivers from sending or reading text messages while driving, but many people continue to use their phones illegally.
3. The coroner concluded that the young man had taken a lethal concoction of drugs, however, by the time his relatives found him, nothing could be done
4. Amphibians are vertebrates that live on land and in the water, and flatworms are invertebrates that live only in water.
5. Ashley carefully fed and watered her tomato plants all summer, so the tomatoes grew juicy and ripe.
6. When he lost his car key, Simon attempted to open the door with a wire hanger, a credit card, and a paper clip, however, he called the manufacturer for advice.

Exercise 2: 

1. Jake is going to Mexico where there are beautiful beaches in Mexico.
2. Because a snowstorm disrupted traffic all over the east coast, there will be long delivery delays this week.
3. My neighbor had his television volume turned up too high until I banged on his door and asked him to keep the noise down.
4. Jessica prepared the potato salad and the sautéed vegetables while Ashley marinated the chicken.
5.  Romeo poisons himself before Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead and stabs herself with a dagger.

Today, I read Yari and Ian’s posts about “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Both of them had similar ideas where we all recognize that Tan’s main point is talking about how English isn’t a free language, in other words, a language that strictly follows a certain rule.

After reading Ian’s post, I realize that he also had similar ideas where we directly mention what Tan’s message was. Although I wrote about the emotional appeal that she provided to the audience, Ian, on the other hand, wrote about the credibility and logos that she used. I only focused on writing about how her personal story provided emotional appeal but Ian also mentioned that her personal story also serves as her credibility to the audience.

On the other hand, Yari had a very developed reading response where she used multiple examples and also explain the appeals. Although Yari didn’t directly mention the message that Tan was giving, she provided enough examples and explanations to support her response. One similarity that I found between Yari and my post was that we both used examples of how Tan realized that she spoke Chinglish. Yari also mentioned “Englishes”.