Assignment #6 ( The Quotation Discussion)

I would like to discuss the use of quotation in the seventh paragraph of "A way With Words, or Away With words: Effct of Texting And IMing on Language" by Timothy Barranco.
The paragraph illustrates that the text usage is not permanent and the youth who used such language before prefer a more formal laguage when they go to college. To support the idea, the author provides us three quotations which come from lingustics professor and the director of freshman composition, who are both experiencing such change of the youth's habit. In my opinion, the reason why the author choose the two resources is that both of the quotations are from experts who really know well about how the subtle change is performed by teenagers using more formal language, and it is also that both of the professors are invovled in the college life and really understand the youth much better than anyone else.
Between the lines, readers can easily tell that author casts his agreement on the usage of text language. To help the readers accept wirter's idea more easily, the writer emphasises the point that even though there are many bad habbits "developed through frequent use of txt,(but) they are typically short-lived". He finds the quotation from Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor's notes, suggests that teenagers will automatically give up their bad habbits of language using when they go to colleges. They are "in favor of formal writing conventions"(Baron 31). In this way , the author perfectly finds the quotation which supports his idea that "as students grow older and become more mature, they tend to drift away from the txt they used throughout theirbyounger teen years and shift their wirting style ub a more ofrmal an dpolished direction." -Timothy Barranco
The quotatations in the seventh paragraph explains why txt language should not be reagarded as a "threat to English language." All quotations tell readers this casual, informal and even bad language habbit is going to be given up by teanagers with their transition to collge. The seventh paragraph as a part of the reason, which illustrates why the author thinks that txt language is actually not "away with words" , which is also the main idea of the essay. Form my perspective, the wirter here uses the three quotations very effectively and efficiently.



Works Cited

Baron, Naomi S. "Instant Messaging and the Future of Language." Communications of thr ACM 48.7 (July, 2005): 29-31.Academic OneFile.Wed. 25 November 2008.
Barranco, Timothy. "A Way With Words, or Away With Words: Effect of Texting and IMing on Language" Arak Anthology (2009): 28. Department of English, University of Delaware.

Blog Assignment #5

I was born in China, a land which is full of conflicts and contraries. We have only one party, the Chinese Communist. I always thought that what people tld me was exactly what happened in the history. I did not realize that there may be different versions of history untill I have met my high school history teacher. He was born in the 1960s in China, which is the worst decade in Communist China. Because of the Great Porletarian Cultural Revolution, he lost the chance to get educated. during the ten years revolution, he was forced to stay at home to work at his scholl age instead of get trained. Fortunately,the political movement came to an end at his 30s, and he took the Unversity Entrance Examination. Finally, he got his bachelar degree in Shanghai . At that time, people who graduated from college could usually get a promising job. However, the moment he thought that everything would turn bright, another movement spread over the whole China. At that time, as a graduated student, he simply thought that ideology and truth was everything. He took a part in the movement, even though the party promised that it was free to say anything, he still got caught and was send to the jail as a rebeliant.

On my history text book, I could only see some description about the Great Porletarian Cultural Revolution and nothing about the second student movement in the 1980s. Most of teenagers of my age have no idea about the Student Revolution in the 1980s. And our teachers before never talked about it, neither do our parents. When it comes to the 1960s, text book tells us that it was a mistake and nothing more. We did not know exactly what it is like, all the information we got about the terrible 10 years revolution is that the Mao made a wrong decision and the whole nation fell in a great depression. No conclusion could be made about the two movements. And that was the biggest our current history text book has, according to my history teacher's words.

He always told us that people did not wirte history, in turn, it was history made people. Only because of some mistakes that the history book seldom mentioned, he and his peer lost their happiness that they were supposed to have. I felt pretty sorry about what happened on him, but I also realized that history is not what people did, it was what been said by peopel who is in power.

Lisha