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moteab.docxStudent’s Name: Moteab Alhadreti
Institution: Dr.Wilt
Date: March 1, 2015
Analysis of Stylistic Challenges
Introduction
Any type of formal writing requires a high level of carefulness so as to have a quality work. This paper identifies the common challenges that are usually faced by writers as they draft their work, which involves errors in spelling, the use and misuse of punctuation or speech marks, the inappropriate use of prepositions and challenges in trying to find the correct choice of words.
Types of stylistic challenges
Prepositions
Prepositions are the part of speech that is usually very technical. Prepositions such as to, for, in, on and over are commonly misused. In a sentence, “I am interested into Japanese culture", into is wrongly used and should read, "I am interested in the Japanese culture". Other well-used prepositions and their preceding include complying with; interested in; good in; and according to.
Use of comparative and superlative
Here we use the words ‘than' to do comparison while ‘the' for superlative. For example, "the president gave the highest contribution." There is no use of the Hence the sentence is not grammatically correct. Correcting it would read: "The president gave the highest contribution."
Correct jargon
One of the key challenges is the inability to find the correct words to use when writing about a particular subject. For example, someone would write "I went toe small marriage party" which is not appropriate. Instead, the correct term to use would be wedding the party that is "I went to a small wedding party."
Interchanging of antonyms
This is another big challenge that the writers face. It refers to using other words that may have a similar pronunciation but a totally different meaning. For example in a sentence, "He was surprised and non-certified." The writer here meant the state of being contented with a situation or a circumstance. Therefore the correct word to use would be satisfied, it is also wrong to say non-satisfied as in the above statement, rather not satisfied. The correct sentence should read "He was surprised and not satisfied."(Wilt, 15th Feb, 2015.)
Use of articles a/an/the
Articles refer to the three words, an/a/the. ‘A’ is used to refer to something we don’t have any information about. It introduces a statement. For instance, in a statement, “the police assisted a blind man to cross the busy road." (indefinite article: a and an n.d.). Here we have no information as far as the blind man is concerned. The next statement describing the man would use the other article "the" because we already know the man. “The man usually goes to the Jeffers for some drinks."
Another commonly made error is using a/an with nouns. We use "a" with nouns beginning with a consonant sound, such as ‘university'. ‘An' describes nouns with vowel sounds, such as honor, institution, and egg. Mixing of such indefinite articles is common, for example, Harvard is an university in the United States. The use of "an" is wrong, though the noun University begins with a vowel sound "u" it is pronounced as if it were "y", hence adopts the article "a" to read, Harvard is a University in the United States.
Punctuation errors
Errors in punctuation are also common. Use of speech marks in direct speech is a critical issue for the writers. In a sentence which is supposed to be a question, it is common to find writers using exclamation marks or rather a full stop. For instance, in this question, “Where are the rest of the people!!” is meant to be a question to read, “Where are the rest of the people? ". Another challenge is failing to change the direct speech into reported speech and not using the opening and closing Marks. An example of such a statement is the following: In the morning, I told my friend the marriage party last night was small is that normal in the United States? When speech marks are used and correctly punctuated, it should read: In the morning, I asked my friend, "The wedding party last night was small. Is that normal in the United States?”.Changing it to the reported speech would read: In the morning, I asked my friend why the wedding party the previous night was small, and if that is normal in the United States.
Spelling mistakes
Spelling of some words is a challenge to many people and would give a different meaning when used wrongly in a sentence. Omission of some words is also a serious problem that would distort the meaning in a sentence where it is used. For example, writing the word ‘surprise' as a surprise as is read. Many writers would not realize any error in that. Also some words such as receive, deceive, perceive are also misspelled. The interchanging of the suffix ‘ive' with ‘Eve' is rampant for example in a sentence: The police received many complaints about robbery in the city.
Conclusion
Having gone through several writings from several writers I have managed to identify the commonly made mistakes and therefore avoiding them would be easy in my writings. The use of prepositions, punctuation marks, spelling errors, therefore, becomes easy, and hence production of grammatically correct and quality work will be easy.
