ENGL 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Standard Written English, College English, Insert Name Here
16 Feb 2018
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Try to see the argument from the author s perspective(it makes it seem fair): avoiding straw man(doing justice to the source): watch unfair distortion readers need enough to judge argument on its own merits. A good summary has a spin that allows summary to fit own agenda while also being true to the text. It not only represents the author s view accurately, but fits your own agenda: signal verb: avoid she says or the author says ------it s too vague and informal. Dfw on swe (the essay is at the bottom: topic: black english vs white english; Writing dialect with african american students: audience: university students. Mlk jr. /malcolm x use swe even though they were raised in a different dialect. David foster wallace s rant about standard written english (swe)1. I don"t know whether anybody"s told you this or not, but when you"re in a college english class you"re basically studying a foreign dialect.
