grammar post 8

Quoting has so many different rules its hard to keep them all straight but this site really helped it had all the quoting ways you can imagine. I struggle when i dont know if you are like supposed to put your own thoughts into quotations into a paper just little things like that so if you are like me this website will help.
Direct quotations are another person's exact words--either spoken or in print--incorporated into your own writing.
Use a set of quotation marks to enclose each direct quotation included in your writing.
Use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of a whole sentence. Do not use a capital letter with the first word of a direct quotation of part of a sentence.
If the quotation is interrupted and then continues in your sentence, do not capitalize the second part of the quotation.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen, owners of a 300-acre farm, said, "We refuse to use that pesticide because it might pollute the nearby wells."
Mr. and Mrs. Allen stated that they "refuse to use that pesticide" because of possible water pollution.
"He likes to talk about football," she said, "especially when the Super Bowl is coming up."
Indirect quotations are not exact words but rather rephrasings or summaries of another person's words. Do not use quotation marks for indirect quotations.
According to their statement to the local papers, the Allens refuse to use pesticide because of potential water pollution.
Below are some further explanations and examples of how to integrate quoted prose into your own writing.
Quotation within a quotationUse single quotation marks for a quotation enclosed inside another quotation. For example:
The agricultural reporter for the newspaper explained, "When I talked to the Allens last week, they said, 'We refuse to use that pesticide.' "
Omitted words in a quotationIf you leave words out of a quotation, use an ellipsis mark to indicate the omitted words. If you need to insert something within a quotation, use a pair of brackets to enclose the addition. For example:
full quotation
The welfare agency representative said, "We are unable to help every family that we'd like to help because we don't have the funds to do so."
omitted material with ellipsis
The welfare agency representative said, "We are unable to help every family . . . because we don't have the funds to do so."
added material with brackets
The welfare agency representative explained that they are "unable to help every family that [they would] like to help."
Block quotationsA quotation that extends more than four typed lines on a page should be indented one inch from the left margin (the equivalent of two half-inch paragraph indentations). Maintain double spacing as in the main text, and do not use quotation marks for the block quotation.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_quote.html

Breather assignment

I really liked both poems that we were assigned i especially liked money. I love how this poem was giving the truth about money. It is interesting to think that always people will care so much for money and that is just a fact of life but i really enjoyed the message of getting out and doing something. The second poem really made me think of how luck i am to be here and how my life is but it also taught me that you can be happy no matter where you live or what you have its just how you have your attitude in life. I really enjoy art so i am excited to be looking more into it for our assignment this next week

Educatoin

The Roots of Debate in Education and the Hope of Dialogue

By: Deborah Tannen

I enjoyed reading this passage even if it was a very long one. i think that Deborah Tannen had a good voice and was quite entertaining. Somethings that i found interesting were the section on learning by fighting.
I really liked this section because it was interesting to see the different stlyes of teaching there is and how they work or do not work for their society. I found it interesting that in a french class they had to stand up and one at a time and repeat a poem in class.. the teacher would make the do it till it was perfect.. my reaction was the same as probably most Americans would that this is mean that and that the teacher was rude and there is to much being focused on memorization which does not really matter.
Overall i really liked this piece of writing. It is interesting to see the different diversity we have in education, how we debate and many other great things that Tannen brings up.

Grammar Post 7

Something that i struggle with is transitions. it seems as though i have many ideas but dont know how to connect them, this website helped by giving examples you can further learn this priciple from the site listed below.

Transition-sentences bring out the logical relation between ideas. You want your paper to read like a continuous argument which good transitions help to facilitate. Words like ‘however’, ‘so’, ‘additionally’ do indicate a logical relation between paragraphs, but they are weak. A strong transition makes the relation explicit.

No transition: In some cultures sympathy plays a role in moral decision-making.
Weaker transition: However, conflicts between principle and emotion more often occur when there is a conflict between the moral values of different cultures.
Stronger transition: While conflict between morality and sympathy can occur in the context of a single cultural code, it more often arises in cross-cultural conflicts.
You also want to avoid using pronouns like ‘this’ to refer to an entire idea, as it’s not always clear what idea you intend to refer to. It is always good to make things explicit.
Weaker transition: Even if this is wrong, relativism does not necessarily promote human well-being and justice.
Stronger transition: Even if a society is able to collectively define its culture and establish its own moral code, relativism does not necessarily promote human well-being and justice.

http://www.sfu.ca/~etiffany/teaching/phil120/transitions.html

Grammar post 6

Well something i struggle with is something i feel like every elementary kid understands but o well. i always forget the little rhyme.. i get confused between i's and e's

Write I before E
Except after C
Or when it sounds like an AAs in "neighbor" and "weigh"

i before e: relief, believe, niece, chief, sieve, frieze, field, yield
e before i: receive, deceive, ceiling, conceit, vein, sleigh, freight, eight


Exceptions
seize, either, weird, height, foreign, leisure, conscience, counterfeit, forfeit, leisure, neither, science, species, sufficient

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelie.html this site has excericses to further your practice with this rule

My Teacher

Her name was Ms. Kirby. She was the jr. high girls gym coach. Known all around the school as a lesbean. Almost everyday was the same she would either wear her wrangler jeans that were baggy on her skinny body or navy sweats both would be paired with a plain basic tee. To top off this non form fitting outfit she would wear tennis shoes with out fail everyday. The only makeup she wore was blue mascara her hair was sandy brown with grown out small golden and gray her hair had no layers, was shoulder length and had been tattered from lack of haircuts and brushing. Her eyes were always blood shot and she wore cotton in her ears.. from her apperance she looked like nothing more then a strange looking woman that looked as if very low class.
If looks were everything she would be not be in a good spot but thank goodness she had a sweet loving personality.
In ninth grade i decided to be her teachers assistant. This changed my whole perspective about school, life and teachers. She won me over by always talking to me telling me she knew there was rumors about her being a lesbean (she was not) she blew it off like it was the people that spread the rumors problem and she would never let it bother her. Nearly everyday i would go to the teachers lounge to get her stuff where she would give me money to by myself a diet coke and a grandmas pink fluffy sugar cookie. We talked about everything you can imagine about boys,how she knew different ways to ditch high school classes but the biggest thing she would talk about washer health she never slept this had explained her bloodshot eyes she had more health problems then anyone i had ever known. For one example since she did not sleep she took medicine to sleep it made her ears constantly run which was why she woar the cotton in her ears when this happened her nose would get clogged and she could not breath she had many surgerys to correct her nose and tried many different sleep medication nothing would work this was the beginning of many other probelms she had.
Throughout all of the many things she had going on in her life from health, divorce and others she was one of the most positive and genuine people i have ever known. I really learned alot from her especially the importance of never judging a book by its cover. Education wise she taught me many study skills for high school although she may of not taught me the best habits ( telling me to be an attendance assistant and forge notes so you are excused when you are absent) she helped me to really be excited for high school and years to come. I am really fortuante to have had her touch my life the way she did.

Grammar Post 5

Something that i struggle with would have to be sentence clarity. It is hard when it sounds fine to me just going through a sentence then someonelse will read it or i will out loud and realize that it makes no sense.This website really had some good information for help with this.

Go from old to new information
Be careful about placement of subordinate clauses
Use active voice
Use parallel constructions
Avoid noun strings
Avoid overusing noun forms of verbs
Avoid multiple negatives
Choose action verbs over forms of be
Avoid unclear pronoun references

The site was http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_sentclar.html

In the reading "I just want to be average" i found many things that drew my attention. First of all I was really interested to hear that the boy was put in wrong classes from a test. I really don't like the idea of everything being based off a test because you can either be lucky or not so lucky on a test and from that you can be in classes that put you in a higher level that are way to hard for you or the other way where the classes are to easy but either way that is what they say you are supposed to be in.
I really felt sympathetic for him cause he was in hard classes and got bad grades.I really disagree with all that because I fall in the other case where I am not very good at test taking but classes that I get in I would rather be in harder classes then have to average grades from having to take the lower then higher class.
I think i really felt upset and had a connection just because I took a Math 1010 in high school that is a college class i dropped out before the next semester 1050 when I tried to come down and register they said i could not even get into 1010 that made me frustrated cause there i was having already taken that class luckily i went and took the college test and litterally guessed on everyone for the heck of it and got into 1010. That is why you really can not base knowlege off of tests and i hate how even if you have taken the class they would make you take it again because another test score says you should be in a lower class.