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Summ@ry on the books>>>

                 The book the Everyday Writer is about teaching college students how to write good papers whether it is for research or just editing revised drafts. The book gives you guides, expectations, assignment examples of students, and many more helpful things you can learn about writing. It contains a top 20 guide to troubleshooting your writing which helps you with writing sentences. For example a wrong word sentence can throw of your reader, missing a comma after an introductory element can cause the reader to make a pause where their not sopose to, an incomplete or missing documentation will give the reader lack of sources, vague pronoun reference , spelling, mechanical error with a quotation, unnecessary comma, unnecessary or missing capitalization, missing word, faulty sentence structure, missing comma with a nonrestrictive element, unnecessary shift in verb tense, missing comma in compound sentence, unnecessary or missing apostrophe, fused sentence, comma splice, lack of pronoun-antecedent agreement, poorly integrated quotation, unnecessary or missing hyphen, and sentence fragment all throw of the readers and it is why you learn to fix those mistakes.

            The author of the book the Everyday Writer, Andrea A. Lunsford, wrote the book because she thought it would help college students get better at their writing skills and learn how to fix their own mistakes. She believed that if the students learned from their own mistakes they get better as they keep learning. This book is a great guide for all college students because it shows the students commonly made mistakes and it shows how to fix them and make the papers better. It is a good way for students such as my self to get better at their writing because they are learning how to fix their mistakes. This is exactly what Andrea designed the book for.

            The book the Craft of Revision tells you how it is important for writers including good writers to revise their writing. No one is a good writer at first, you have to practice just like sports to become good at that sport. In sports the saying is practice makes perfect and that is included in writing if you keep practicing your writing you will get really good at it. The author Donald M. Murray gives you examples of good writers and quotes of important people. This chapter teaches you how important it is to do revision on all your papers. Revision is only the start of your writing not the end. Donald shows you how to begin your writing and brainstorm so you can become a good writer.

            The author Donald M. Murray says “beginning writers refuse to rewrite,” every beginner writer gets offended if he or she gets told to rewrite or revise their written work. Donald believes that the writers shouldn’t take that offensive instead the person that suggested that is trying to help, and the writer should admit to their mistakes and fix them. He also thinks that writing can never be done without having to be revised. Beginning writers like students always get offended when they are asked by their teachers to rewrite their papers and they get mad instead of seeing that the teacher is trying to help you towards becoming a good writer. So I believe that revision is a great part of writing now that I see it from Donald’s point of view.

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2 Ess@yzzzz on 50 Ess@yzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!

The essay “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Bordo in the book 50 Essays by Samuel Cohen is about how during the past few years people have gotten a different idea on how your suppose to look and how your figure is suppose to be. Most people think fat is not right and it is worse than a type of disorder. Models have been getting thinner doing different diets to become as thin as possible. “Psychologists commonly believe that girls with eating disorders suffer from “body image disturbance syndrome”:they are unable to see themselves as anything but fat,, no matter how thin they become”(86). A lot of young girls always want to see themselves as the models on TV very thin; but no matter how much weight they lose they still see themselves in the mirror as fat or not thin or pretty enough. Media is responsible for a lot of the eating disorders, unhealthy dieting, and starvation threw out many various cultures. I believe that it is true seeing it from my point of view when I was a high school student me and many of my friends would want to diet and lose weight just so we could be thin like models and maybe catch someone’s attention. But I believe that it is not right for media to advertise those things or make a certain image of a person by perfect.

            The essay “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn in the book 50 Essays by Samuel Cohen is about how lately in these last year’s television has had a big impact on families all over America. It has set families apart. “Who could have guessed that twenty or so years later Mom would be watching a drama in the kitchen, the kids would be looking at cartoons in their room, while Dad would be taking in the ball game in the living room?”(458). TV is a big deal now in society a lot of people watch it and its targeted to every type of person. The person that mostly watches television is children they tend to watch television for a lot of their free time. A lot of people say it is educational for them and others say that it is bad and does not help their development. When television first came out it was expensive and who would have thought now that there would be an average of three TV’s per house whole. Most parents are so accustomed to life with television that they make it a usual habit. Most families don’t even communicate with each other just because their favorite shows are on. I can relate from experience that when my mothers novela is on nobody better disturb her or else. Sometimes it is good but other times you want to talk and it doesn’t happen because of TV.

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Nowtopi@ 5….R@iny Mout@in, 50 Ess@yzzz.

            The essay “The way to Rainy Mountain” by Scott Momaday, in the book 50 essays from Samuel Cohen is about a plain in Oklahoma. The Kiowas, which was her ancestors; they named the place Rainy Mountain. The Kiowas named it that because the hardest weather I the world was there. Scott turned to Rainey Mountain in July because his mother heard died in the spring and he wanted to visit her grave. His grandmother’s name was Aho, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America. Scott said that his grandmother lived a long life that the shadow of Rainy Mountain an immense landscape of the continental interior laid like a memory in her blood.

            Chapter five in the book Nowtopia by Chris Carlsson is about how gardening produces good food and it benefits outside the complex of exchange. Chris says that it is an area of creativity and a symbolic activity. It is not easy to harvest food it takes a lot of work. Gardens are patches of land containing many purposes and possibilities, and have become battlegrounds for opposing social dynamics. Many agricultural skills help urban gardening. Peirce tells “I organized SLUG [the San Francisco League of Urban Gardening] and there were a lot of people involved” (86). Beginning SLUG he wanted to do economic, social and environmental justice. Urban gardening programs are instruments of urban gentrification. Gardening is import in history and in modern life.

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CR and Ew 5!!!!

Chapter five in the book the Craft of Revision by Donald Murray talks about genre and how it is what the writer sees in the subject and reveals to the readers. Choosing the genre you should ask these questions what I have to say. Where am I headed? Where do I begin? What’s the length? How do I get from beginning to end? What must I included? What genre? Genre provides meaning to the materials just like a house gibes meaning to the cement and lumber. You should try to use the five paragraph theme, paragraph one introduction beginning with topic sentence, paragraph two, three, and four topic define and quality documentation, and paragraph five conclusion tell the reader what you have said. The purpose of genre is to carry meaning to the reader. An ineffective genre is one that does not deliver the information the reader needs. To check if the genre is effective make yourself the reader of your draft. Genre communicates meaning just like a house invites you to live in it. Most writers try to find the genre hidden in the draft which is internal genre. External genre is established by tradition or the readers expectations you can create your own genre that carries your information to your own reader. Also there is the discovered genre and the invented genre. But you should always have a genre well developed.

            Section five in the book The Everyday Writer by Andrea Lunsford talks about how being able to communicate with someone whether it’s local or through the world in writing. You should write to world in what you consider normal in a certain situation. You need to describe your terms in order for other readers to understand it. You should have good style and organization, and use a lot of evidence for the readers. A lot of different text have assumption about genre which is not right because it may discourage different people to do different things. Other differences are age, class, geographic area, physical ability or health, religion, and sexual orientation. There are different varieties of English, ethnic varieties of English, regional varieties of English, and standard varieties of English and of course other languages. You need to use appropriate formality and no slang or colloquial language in a writing piece. You should use figurative language and homonyms. And last you should always use a glossary if you’re not sure.

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F@v0rit3s in 50 Ess@yzzz!!!

          The essay “How you became you” by Bill Bryson, in the book 50 essays is about how you are made up of atoms which are tiny particles that don’t even know you exist and they don’t even know they exist. The atoms come together and make you who you are. If you were to get tweezers and pluck every single atom of your body you would have fine atomic dust. Bryson says that before there was nothing at all anywhere in the world, so that thanks to the atoms that we got assembled to be alive in the twenty-first century.

          The essay “Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin” by Natalie Angier, in the book 50 essays by Samuel Cohen talks about what women expect from men and what men expect from women. It tells how men and women are pleased differently by the sexes in sexual activity. It says that if a woman sleeps with fifty men than she is considered a hood rat, but if a man would sleep with fifty women it does not affect his reputation in human society. The fact is that men rather sleep with eight different women and women would prefer to sleep with one man. This does not mean that women want sex any less than men do, they just like having one partner to do it with instead of many different ones. Marriage is a mutual bond between men and a woman and both are so eager to marry each other. I really enjoyed essay it was great I loved it.

          Chapter four in the book Nowtopia by Chris Carlson is about how society has developed during three different centuries of capitalist expansion. The entire planet is facing unprecedented crisis of urbanization, resource depletion, poverty, climate change, and the breakdown of political systems. Science has been developed during the century and has been evolved. This chapter tells you about the general intellect, science of premaculture, reductionist science, old science meeting new science abundance limits, accountability, premaculture, and direct action.

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