EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Cheryl Crawford, Elizabeth Magie, Intertextuality
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En 1002 summer 2010 cheryl crawford. Consider three things for your writing: occasion, purpose, audience. You want to avoid slang in essays. You don"t want to use pretentious writing; don"t try to use the thesaurus to try to make yourself look smart. Multiple meanings, not everyone knows what it means, slang changes and evolves. Generalizations; be conscious of; covered in section 66. Unfounded; you have to prove what you are. The purpose of an essay is to convince and persuade your audience of something. If you"re using a generalization, it"s easier to prove wrong. Generalization is something that sometimes does not have something to do with saying. texts. Generalizations take you away from the main point and the texts. Wordiness not being clear and taking up a lot of space that you need. Avoid passive voice, avoid redundancies, avoid to be", use strong verbs, avoid precise as possible. repetition and clich s.
