Short reading responses

ShortReadingResponses.pdf

Due Date: 8/29/2023

Assignment Instructions: ● Read the reading “USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS” (attached) ● Write two responses (TO-DOs) based on the reading

Response #1: [In the story, Guili interacts with people in a number of different social environments. In each instance, language becomes an issue. Take a moment to consider how her reliance on phrases from a phrase book affects her ability to engage with the clerk. What are the consequences to her as an individual that she is relying on those phrases to express herself? In what ways do those phrases create her identity? Then compare that to her attempt to pronounce her son's preferred name, Ted. She is unable to pronounce the name, despite her earnest attempt to do so. What does this mean about her ability to interact with her son? What are the consequences for her inability to represent him as he chooses to be represented, despite wanting to? And in a broader sense, how is language tied to power in this story?]

TO-DO:

1. Write at least 200 words considering how language and identity connect in this story, particularly focusing on the consequences. Use at least 3 direct quotes in your answer.

2. Write at least 100 words on a time when YOU were represented inaccurately by someone else or were unable to represent yourself as you would have preferred (give specific details here; vague or hypothetical answers won't suffice). In particular, discuss what caused the inaccuracy and what the consequences were of being inaccurately represented.

(Total of approximately 300-350 words)

Response #2: [In the story, the reader finds a woman whose life experience is shaped and in some ways determined by the limitations of her language ability, as well as the consequences she experiences as a result. The article deals with an aspect of the relationship between language use and depression, which both is and shapes experience and has serious consequences. But despite these similarities, the article has significantly different aims than the work of fiction, and its form is guided by its goals. For this exercise, answer in very brief (2-3 sentence) responses to the following prompts giving specific quotes from the article or story to support each:]

TO-DO:

● How do the representations of negative emotional experiences in the work of fiction differ from those in the nonfiction article? Use AT LEAST 1 direct quote for each set of questions.

1. What is the aim of the article? What effect(s) does it seek to produce in the reader? How does it produce this effect?

2. What is the aim of the work of fiction? What effect(s) does it seek to produce in the reader? How does it produce this effect?

3. In what ways were “ethos,” “pathos,” and “logos” used in these two texts?

ShortReadingResponses.pdf

Due Date: 8/29/2023

Assignment Instructions: ● Read the reading “USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS” (attached) ● Write two responses (TO-DOs) based on the reading

Response #1: [In the story, Guili interacts with people in a number of different social environments. In each instance, language becomes an issue. Take a moment to consider how her reliance on phrases from a phrase book affects her ability to engage with the clerk. What are the consequences to her as an individual that she is relying on those phrases to express herself? In what ways do those phrases create her identity? Then compare that to her attempt to pronounce her son's preferred name, Ted. She is unable to pronounce the name, despite her earnest attempt to do so. What does this mean about her ability to interact with her son? What are the consequences for her inability to represent him as he chooses to be represented, despite wanting to? And in a broader sense, how is language tied to power in this story?]

TO-DO:

1. Write at least 200 words considering how language and identity connect in this story, particularly focusing on the consequences. Use at least 3 direct quotes in your answer.

2. Write at least 100 words on a time when YOU were represented inaccurately by someone else or were unable to represent yourself as you would have preferred (give specific details here; vague or hypothetical answers won't suffice). In particular, discuss what caused the inaccuracy and what the consequences were of being inaccurately represented.

(Total of approximately 300-350 words)

Response #2: [In the story, the reader finds a woman whose life experience is shaped and in some ways determined by the limitations of her language ability, as well as the consequences she experiences as a result. The article deals with an aspect of the relationship between language use and depression, which both is and shapes experience and has serious consequences. But despite these similarities, the article has significantly different aims than the work of fiction, and its form is guided by its goals. For this exercise, answer in very brief (2-3 sentence) responses to the following prompts giving specific quotes from the article or story to support each:]

TO-DO:

● How do the representations of negative emotional experiences in the work of fiction differ from those in the nonfiction article? Use AT LEAST 1 direct quote for each set of questions.

1. What is the aim of the article? What effect(s) does it seek to produce in the reader? How does it produce this effect?

2. What is the aim of the work of fiction? What effect(s) does it seek to produce in the reader? How does it produce this effect?

3. In what ways were “ethos,” “pathos,” and “logos” used in these two texts?

ShortReadingResponses.pdf

ShortReadingResponses.pdf

ShortReadingResponses.pdf