Week 3

So this week we focused on some things that were a little bit different then last weeks. We focused on parenthesis, dashes, “and” in a list, the use of a reflexive pronoun. [A list without the final and] see what I did there? When writing I always forget how many different rules there are. There are so many things to remember and so going over these things in class are so helpful because I didn’t even know that “a list without the final and” was proper grammar.

So this is an excerpt from one of my papers for English 302 on Walden:

 In the article titled Freedoms Through Critique: Thoreau’s Service to Others, Mason Marshall asks the question, “If his society corrupts its members and nature is restorative, why not leave the society behind and concentrate on just communicating with nature? (Marshall 1). Which is what Thoreau himself does [the use of a reflexive pronoun]. He moves from all the corruption and busyness of the city to break free from the negativity and have a cleansed mind. He builds a house instead of asking the bank for money. Thoreau wants his life to be simple – [the use of the dash to show emphasis] he can only achieve this by cutting all ties to the outside world.

This is another example from a paper:

Making a word cloud on the website TagCrowd.com (shown at the end) [use of parentheses for emphasis]. I can see the most frequently used words and get an image of what the story entails. When looking at the words in my word cloud, I decided to choose the words that seemed to have the most significance regarding the story. These words are names of characters, and describing words such as, beauty and eyes and worked and years [the use of and].  By looking at these words the reader can get clear insight that the story is based on the theme of love and the romance between two people.