tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52071660055154461932024-03-05T14:48:25.822-08:00ReflectionsShort essays by Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D., the author of TING AND I: A Memoir of Love, Courage and Devotion, published in September 2011 by Outskirts Press (Parker, CO, USA), available from outskirtspress.com/tingandi, Barnes and Noble [bn.com], and Amazon [amazon.com], in paperback or ebook formats. Please visit us at tingandi.com for more information.Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.comBlogger1009125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-27489360684544894692023-03-13T05:53:00.000-07:002023-03-13T05:53:20.642-07:00CHATGPT AND BLOGGING<p> To blog or not to blog? That is the question.</p><p>Artificial intelligence programs, ChatGPT and its successors, make it very easy to get content for ourselves or to share with others. What is a blog going to be worth?</p><p>Price reflects value, and value reflects content and scarcity.</p><p>Content is readily available, so much so that its scarcity has decreased abruptly.</p><p>Content providers will increase as ease of providing increases.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have paused adding my blog link to my email and paused blogging.</p><p>Here's what ChatGPT has to say about the prospects for blogging:</p><p><span style="color: rgba(52,53,65,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are the changes in the prospects for blogging due to programs like ChatGPT?</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--tw-prose-body); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Programs like ChatGPT, which are large language models powered by artificial intelligence, have the potential to significantly impact the prospects for blogging. Here are a few ways in which this may be the case: </span></p><p><span style="color: var(--tw-prose-body); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Competition for Attention: With the rise of programs like ChatGPT, there will likely be more competition for attention in the blogging space. As these programs become more sophisticated, they will be able to provide more detailed and nuanced information on a wide range of topics, potentially drawing traffic away from traditional blogs.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--tw-prose-body); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enhancement of Existing Blogs: On the other hand, programs like ChatGPT could also enhance the experience of reading traditional blogs. By using AI to analyze and interpret the content of blog posts, these programs could provide readers with additional context, suggestions for related content, and even personalized recommendations based on the reader's interests.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--tw-prose-body); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Forms of Content: Programs like ChatGPT also have the potential to generate entirely new forms of content that don't exist today. For example, they could be used to automatically generate summaries or highlight key points of longer blog posts, making it easier for readers to quickly get the information they need. Additionally, they could be used to create interactive content that adapts to the reader's responses or preferences.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--tw-prose-body); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increased Accessibility: Finally, programs like ChatGPT could help make blogging more accessible to people who might not have the time, resources, or expertise to create and maintain a blog themselves. By using these programs to automate certain aspects of the blogging process (such as generating headlines or identifying relevant images), people with limited time or resources could still participate in the online conversation and share their ideas with others.</span></p><p><span style="color: var(--tw-prose-body); font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall, it's clear that programs like ChatGPT have the potential to significantly impact the world of blogging. While there may be challenges and opportunities associated with this shift, it will be interesting to see how bloggers and readers adapt to the changing landscape of online content.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF. ALAS. </p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-41845369704314148712023-03-13T05:40:00.001-07:002023-03-13T05:40:23.065-07:00LEO COOPER CHIANG FLICS 2022-23<p> https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNHzMgaQUP1Klbk--L0pRd4r5NIPAATrwH67aDsxUxcSvvZER5cJ2T88Dt5z9_lyA/photo/AF1QipN2CcTQ2O6z8NHDHWMlkmhi4Gragj1g4DqSMcxQ?key=ZnhxZDZtSWY2THBvZHpiU1VMaXNmRmpzZlp3aGZR</p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-39036338082233199712023-03-13T05:32:00.001-07:002023-03-13T05:32:36.522-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH WEEK 12<p> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">WYZANT WRITING WEEK 12 ERIC LI 022623</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING BETTER ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Persuasion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, REPUTATION, ACHIEVEMENT, INSIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, from <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> SEE ALSO
GRAMMARLY.COM FOR FREE EDITOR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, from “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-FROST, POETRY, “Mending Wall”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, 150-250 WORDS ON CURRENT CYPRUS
CONFLICT <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NEXT WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, 150-250 W0RDS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Discuss “Mending Wall”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Something there is that
doesn't love a wall,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">That sends the
frozen-ground-swell under it,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And spills the upper
boulders in the sun;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And makes gaps even two can
pass abreast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">The work of hunters is
another thing:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I have come after them and
made repair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Where they have left not
one stone on a stone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">But they would have the
rabbit out of hiding,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">To please the yelping dogs.
The gaps I mean,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">No one has seen them made
or heard them made,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">But at spring mending-time
we find them there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">I let my neighbor know beyond
the hill;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And on a day we meet to
walk the line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And set the wall between us
once again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">We keep the wall between us
as we go.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">To each the boulders that
have fallen to each.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And some are loaves and
some so nearly balls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">We have to use a spell to
make them balance:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">‘Stay where you are until
our backs are turned!’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">We wear our fingers rough
with handling them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Oh, just another kind of
out-door game,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">One on a side. It comes to
little more:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">There where it is we do not
need the wall:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">He is all pine and I am apple
orchard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">My apple trees will never
get across<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And eat the cones under his
pines, I tell him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">He only says, ‘Good fences
make good neighbors.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Spring is the mischief in
me, and I wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">If I could put a notion in
his head:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0in;">‘Why</span></i><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> do
they make good neighbors? Isn't it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Where there are cows? But
here there are no cows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Before I built a wall I'd
ask to know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">What I was walling in or
walling out,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And to whom I was like to
give offense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Something there is that
doesn't love a wall,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">That wants it down.’ I could
say ‘Elves’ to him,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">But it's not elves exactly,
and I'd rather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">He said it for himself. I
see him there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Bringing a stone grasped
firmly by the top<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">In each hand, like an
old-stone savage armed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">He moves in darkness as it
seems to me,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">Not of woods only and the
shade of trees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">He will not go behind his
father's saying,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">And he likes having thought
of it so well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 16pt;">He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“any body” means “any corpse. ”Use “anybody.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“as good or better than.” Use “as good as, if not better.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“As yet.” Use “yet.”.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“no doubt but that” use “no doubt that”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Certainly” is often over-used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Comprise” means embrace or include.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Currently” is often redundant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Data” is a plural noun. “Datum” is singular. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“disinterested” is impartial. “Uninterested” bored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SIXTEENTH PARAGRAPH
Ending</span></b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is
always ancient virtue. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We worship it today because it is not of today. We love it and
pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is
self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even
if shown in a young person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH PARAGRAPHS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I hope in these days we have heard the
last of conformity and consistency. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Let the words be gazetted and
ridiculous henceforward. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Instead of the gong for dinner, let us
hear a whistle from the Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A great man is coming to eat at my
house. I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I will stand here for humanity, and
though I would make it kind, I would make it true. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Let us affront and reprimand the
smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of
custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history,
that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man
works; that a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of
things. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Where he is, there is nature. He
measures you, and all men, and all events. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Ordinarily, everybody in society
reminds us of somewhat else, or of some other person. Character, reality,
reminds you of nothing else; it takes place of the whole creation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">The man must be so much, that he must
make all circumstances indifferent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Every true man is a cause, a country,
and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish
his design; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A man Caesar is born, and for ages after
we have a Roman Empire. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Christ is born, and millions of minds
so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the
possible of man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">An institution is the lengthened
shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of
Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson.
Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves
itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.</span><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Let a man then know his worth, and
keep things under his feet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up
and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the
world which exists for him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">But the man in the street, finding no
worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or
sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">To him a palace, a statue, or a costly
book have an alien and forbidding air, much like a gay equipage, and seem to
say like that, 'Who are you, Sir?' <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Yet they all are his, suitors for his
notice, petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take
possession. The picture waits for my verdict: it is not to command me, but I am
to settle its claims to praise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">That popular fable of the sot who was
picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and
dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all
obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes
its popularity to the fact, that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is
in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason,
and finds himself a true prince.</span><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Habit 1: Be
Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">Habit 7: Sharpen
the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">150-250
WORDS ON FROST’S “Mending Wall.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps: do “good fences
make good neighbors”? Why and why not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LESSONS FROM THE VOCABULARY
BUILDER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-88741298967756721102022-12-25T10:03:00.000-08:002022-12-25T10:03:23.950-08:00How CHATGPT AI Interpreted My "Little Leo's Urge to Share" Vignette<p> <span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's possible that Leo was exhibiting a desire to share, which is a common trait in young children. At 18 months old, children are still learning about social interactions and may be trying to mimic the behaviors they see from their caregivers. It's also possible that Leo was simply returning the toy because he was done playing with it and wanted to move on to something else. Either way, it's clear that Leo is developing his social skills and learning about sharing and reciprocity. This is a natural and important part of child development, and it's great that you were able to support and encourage these behaviors in your interactions with Leo.</span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-66160383915709218412022-12-25T09:57:00.001-08:002022-12-25T09:57:14.406-08:00Little Leo's Urge to Share<p> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> When my 18-month-old grandson, Leo, came to visit me
yesterday, I gave him a little rubber squeeze toy, some kind of dinosaur, which
he evidently liked and played with a bit. An hour later, when that and other
diversions had paled, his father suggested my penlight would appeal to Leo, as
it had when he was home.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I lent Leo my penlight,
pleasing him. He walked away and quickly returned to hand me the toy I had
given him when he arrived. This is fair, he seemed to think. I agreed. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A skeptic might argue that Leo
felt he was trading, trading up, as both his parents are in commerce, but I
interpreted it as a lovable urge to share.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-87320020697482695702022-12-24T13:57:00.000-08:002022-12-24T13:57:50.519-08:00chatgpt Paragraph on Writing Better<p> This AI program is impressive.</p><p>I used <a href="https://chat.openai.com/chat">https://chat.openai.com/chat</a></p><p>I asked for a paragraph on writing better, and I received:</p><p><br /></p><p><next-route-announcer style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; 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This can help you to clearly articulate your ideas and ensure that your writing is cohesive and logical. It can also be helpful to actively seek out feedback on your writing, either from a tutor or teacher, or from a friend or colleague. This can help you to identify areas for improvement and learn from others' perspectives. Additionally, try to vary your sentence structure and use descriptive language to engage your reader and make your writing more interesting. Finally, make sure to carefully proofread your work for spelling and grammar errors, as these can distract from your message and undermine the overall quality of your writing.</p></div></div></div><div class="text-gray-400 flex self-end lg:self-center justify-center mt-2 gap-4 lg:gap-1 lg:absolute lg:top-0 lg:translate-x-full lg:right-0 lg:mt-0 lg:pl-2 visible" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-self: flex-end; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(172,172,190,var(--tw-text-opacity)); display: flex; 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Free Research Preview. Our goal is to make AI systems more natural and safe to interact with. Your feedback will help us improve.</div></div></main></div></div></div>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-66909642227910967382022-12-03T16:50:00.007-08:002022-12-05T05:06:07.615-08:00How Twitter Treated Trump Voters<p> Just fot he record:</p><p><br /></p><p>https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/12/02/elon-musk-explains-what-really-happened-with-the-hunter-biden-story-suppression-wow/</p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-10197290155740148522022-12-01T07:53:00.000-08:002022-12-01T07:53:36.484-08:00Coffee Gives Sprinters a Head Start<p> The Think Drink can shorten your time in the 100-yard dash:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-caffeine-finish-line-faster-reveals.html">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-caffeine-finish-line-faster-reveals.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">As measures of performance, the researchers measured the sprint velocity and calculated the sprint time. On discounting the effects of environmental factors, the corrected sprint time was used to examine the effects of caffeine supplementation.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.75rem; margin-top: 0px;">"The results revealed that the corrected 100-m sprint time was shortened significantly for athletes who received caffeine, with a decrease of 0.14 seconds compared to the controls. This decrease in the time was largely associated with a decrease in sprint time for the first 60 meters of the sprint."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.75rem; margin-top: 0px;">Interesting, though I am rarely in such a hurry.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.75rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-56277108046893523552022-12-01T07:44:00.001-08:002022-12-05T05:08:38.917-08:00How Many Stars? How Many Molecules? <p>Not sure how many stars there are in the universe, I asked Dr. Google, and found a wide range of estimates, but this site seemed relatively reliable: </p><p>https://www.worldatlas.com/space/how-many-stars-are-there.html</p><p class="xmsonormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="xmsonormal">A second source on the trillions of galaxies averaging 0.1
trillion = 100 billion stars each:<o:p></o:p></p><p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.space.com/26078-how-many-stars-are-there.html">https://www.space.com/26078-how-many-stars-are-there.html</a></span></p><p>How many stars in the universe?</p><p>Two trillion (2 x 10^12) galaxies and an average of 100 billion (1 x 10^11) stars per galaxy gives about 2 x 10^23 stars, give or take a few powers of ten:</p><p>200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars </p><p>How many molecules in 1/5 ounce of water?</p><p>6 x 10^23 is Avogadro's number, the number of molecules in a mole of a substance. A mole of water is H2O = 18 g, so 1/3 of a mole would match the star count, and that is 6 cubic cm of water, about 1/5 of an ounce!</p><p>This makes me think: our ideas about the origins of the universe, 14 billion years ago, via the Big Bang, have a lot yet to explain. A lot. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-61196566589715172392022-09-21T03:08:00.005-07:002022-09-24T02:59:50.045-07:00Track: Correlating Running Times versus Distance<p>Dear Long-Distance-Runner Nephew, William: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thinking about how to model expected running times (T, sec)
versus distance (D, m),</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I figured the relationship might be:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">T sec = (10 sec) (D / 100 m)^b</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where b would be b=1.0 if you could run the entire distance
at the same speed you ran the 100 m.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I expected fatigue would make b>1.0, but I did not know
how much greater.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I consulted the internet:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=correlation+between+running+times+and+distances&t=chromentp&ia=web">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=correlation+between+running+times+and+distances&t=chromentp&ia=web</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>there the exponent was found to be b = 1.1 from 100m to 10 km.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The best world-record coefficient (e.g., 10 s) might be Bolt’s 9.6 s for the 100 m, but <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was most interested in the exponent, the dependence of time on
distance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In high school, I ran the mile in about 5 minutes = 300 sec.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My pitiful 100-yard dash time was about 12 sec. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ratio of these times was about (300/12) = 25.0.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ratio of the distances was mile/dash = (5280/300) = 17.6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which predicts a time ratio of (17.6)^1.1 = 23.4 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">not too different from 25.0, assuming my approximate
12 s estimate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span face=""Open Sans", Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d1b1a;"><b>For non-record-holders like myself, expect our times vs. our distances to go as </b></span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1b1a; font-family: "Open Sans", Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><b>(T/To) = (D/Do)^1.1. </b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, as you go from 6 k to 8 k, for example, you would expect
a ratio of the times of about<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(8/6)^1.1 = 1.37. </p><p class="MsoNormal">A 6k time of 21 minutes would be about
21.0 x 1.37 = 28.8 minutes, rather than simply (8/6)(21.0)=28.0. The extra 0.8 of a minute is 48 seconds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Doubling the distance would tend to increase the time by the multiplier (2)^1.1=2.14, which is 7% longer than 2.0.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To some degree, goals like these target times can be
helpful. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At other times, they might be unrealistic, too easy, or too
hard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They are interesting, though. (I was sort of a theoretical miler.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I view this as a way to judge the likely impact of distance
on your time, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">rather than a way to compare oneself against world record
holders.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-8225559559041098742022-09-17T13:47:00.003-07:002022-09-17T13:47:48.916-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, WEEK 11<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, WEEK 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Persuasion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, REPUTATION, ACHIEVEMENT, INSIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, from <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, from “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-FROST, POETRY, ”The Oven Bird”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, 150-250 WORDS ON BROWNING’S “MY
LAST DUCHESS’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NEXT WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, 150-250 W0RDS <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FROST’S ‘The Oven Bird” or on a quote from Emerson, 150-250
words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.moralapologetics.com/wordpress/what-to-make-of-a-diminished-thing-poeticizing-the-fall-part-1-of-2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">In his poem
“The Oven Bird,” Frost uses the theological tropes of the Fall along with
natural revelation to give new meaning to the natural world of the poem while
also continuing to develop metaphorical poetics in which meaning itself must be
both natural and supernatural. Frost displays remarkable poetic dexterity by
both theologizing and naturalizing the act of this common bird’s call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a singer everyone has
heard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood
bird,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Who makes the solid tree trunks
sound again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He says that leaves are old and
that for flowers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mid-summer is to spring as one to
ten.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He says the early petal-fall is
past<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">When pear and cherry bloom went
down in showers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">On sunny days a moment overcast;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">And comes that other fall we name
the fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He says the highway dust is over
all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The bird would cease and be as
other birds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">But that he knows in singing not to
sing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The question that he frames in all
but words<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .25in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Is what to make of a diminished
thing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“any body” means “any corpse. ”Use “anybody.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“as good or better than.” Use “as good as, if not better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“As yet.” Use “yet.”.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“no” doubt but that” use “no doubt that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Certainly” often over-used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Comprise” means embrace or include.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Currently” is often reeundant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Data” is a plural noun. “Datum” is singular. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“disinterested” is impartial. “Uninterested” bored.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FIFTEENTH PARAGRAPH
Ending</span></b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We pass for what we are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Character teaches above our wills. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by
overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SIXTEENTH PARAGRAPH (BROKEN INTO SENTENCES)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions,
so they be each honest and natural in their hour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike
they seem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little
distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
This is only microscopic criticism. See the line from a sufficient distance,
and it straightens itself to the average tendency. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your
other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify
you now. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Greatness always appeals to the future. If I can be great enough
now to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to
defend me now. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be it how it will, do right now. Always scorn appearances and
you always may. The force of character is cumulative. All the foregone days of
virtue work their health into this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the
field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great
days and victories behind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing
actor. He is attended as by a visible escort of angels to every man’s eye. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That is it which throws thunder into Chatham’s voice, and
dignity into Washington’s port, and America into Adams’s eye. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is
always ancient virtue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and
pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is
self-dependent, selfderived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even
if shown in a young person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Habit 1: Be
Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize Habit <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">7: Sharpen the
Saw<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">150-250
WORDS ON AN EMERSON QUOTE OR ON FROST’S “THE OVEN BIRD”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-65259584552964483632022-09-11T05:40:00.002-07:002022-09-11T05:40:31.663-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, WEEK 10<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Persuasion:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, REPUTATION, ACHIEVEMENT, INSIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, from <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, from “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">-BROWNING, POETRY, ”My Last Duchess”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, 150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S “A TIME TO
TALK” OR ON A PARAGRAPH FROM EMERSON:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NEXT WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT, 150-250 W0RDS ON BROWNING’S “My
Last Duchess” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT", sans-serif;">My Last Duchess <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 20.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-transform: uppercase;">BY </span></span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-browning"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-transform: uppercase;">ROBERT BROWNING</span></a><span class="c-txt"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 20.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">FERRARA<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Looking as if she were alive. I call<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Worked busily a day, and there she stands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Strangers like you that pictured countenance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">The depth and passion of its earnest glance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">But to myself they turned (since none puts by<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">How such a glance came there; so, not the first<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Her husband’s presence only, called that spot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Must never hope to reproduce the faint<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">For calling up that spot of joy. She had<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">The dropping of the daylight in the West,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">The bough of cherries some officious fool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">She rode with round the terrace—all and each<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Would draw from her alike the approving speech,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">This sort of trifling? Even had you skill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">In speech—which I have not—to make your will<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">The company below, then. I repeat,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">The Count your master’s known munificence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Is ample warrant that no just pretense<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The truth is…,” “The fact is…, “Honestly…” Just state it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“They” Not with “each” “every” nor when it should be
singular, “He” or “she.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“This” often obscures what the reference is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<b>Try and</b> mend it” should be “<b>Try to</b> mend it.”<br />
“Unique” does not have degrees of being unique.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Utilize” is grandiose “use.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FOURTEENTH PARAGRAPH</span></b><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and
Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FIFTEENTH PARAGRAPH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I suppose no man can violate his nature. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his
being, as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve
of the sphere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor does it matter how you gauge and try him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it
forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me
record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and I
cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it
not. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of
insects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or
straw he carries in his bill into my web also. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We pass for what we are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Character teaches above our wills. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by
overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">150-250
W0RDS ON BROWNING’S “My Last Duchess” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 19.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queen or King – As sovereign, the King or Queen outranks
everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 19.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Queen Consort – The Queen Consort is the wife of the King<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: 19.5pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apart from the monarch and their spouse, the titles are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Duke or Duchess<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marquess or Marchioness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Earl or Countess<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Viscount or Viscountess<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-left: 51.75pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Baron or Baroness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-16600266614371200992022-08-28T14:50:00.000-07:002022-08-28T14:50:05.082-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, WEEK 9<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING BETTER ENGLISH – PERSUASION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, REPUTATION, ACHIEVEMENT, INSIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS – EVIDENCE, REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RESOURCES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- Macbeth book<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nice (best use: precise: “a nice distinction”)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Split infinitive (only to emphasize the adverb)
“to quietly go”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Than (often ambiguous) “I am closer to my
father than (to) my mother.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That vs which: “that” is restrictive, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “The plow
that is broken is in the garage.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“which” is not restrictive, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The plow, which is broken, is in the garage.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TENTH TO FOURTEENTH PARAGRAPHS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our
consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others
have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath
to disappoint them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag
about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you
have stated in this or that public place? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to
be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts
of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand eyed
present, and live ever in a new day. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust your emotion. In your metaphysics you have denied
personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield
to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.
Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may
as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Out upon your guarded lips! Sew them up with packthread, do.
Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as
cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again,
though it contradict every thing you said to-day. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah, then, exclaim the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be
misunderstood! Misunderstood! It is a right fool’s word. Is it so bad then to
be misunderstood? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and
Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit
that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Macbeth book choice</span><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Years ago, I liked Ridley's THE RATIONAL OPTIMIST, </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">and this book is even better, making the case for </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">largely accidental trial-and-error advancement in biology </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">and, more broadly, in economics and politics and other human endeavors, </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">where Great Man theories might have ascribed certain outcomes to </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">exceptional individuals, when in fact the time was right, </span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">and the conditions aligned for the almost-spontaneous outcomes.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The writing is clear and persuasive and well-documented.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small review-data" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 908.107px;"><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">For books I have helped finish and publish, see <a href="https://writeyourbookwithme.com" target="_blank">Write Your Book with Me</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-82745821419977311552022-08-19T12:42:00.001-07:002022-08-19T12:42:23.842-07:00LEO COOPER CHIANG AT 13 MONTHS<p> </p><p>SUPER GRANDSON:</p><p><br /></p><p>https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNHzMgaQUP1Klbk--L0pRd4r5NIPAATrwH67aDsxUxcSvvZER5cJ2T88Dt5z9_lyA/photo/AF1QipPV_DNF2l3nJMswetNLBYRCJruVORYj71il_zeT?key=ZnhxZDZtSWY2THBvZHpiU1VMaXNmRmpzZlp3aGZR</p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-26208596146718283312022-08-19T12:20:00.002-07:002022-08-19T12:20:55.591-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, WEEK 8<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">PERSUASION KEYS:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, REPUTATION, ACHIEVEMENT, INSIGHT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> SOURCES:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- FROST, POETRY, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- THIS WEEK’S WRITING ASSIGNMENT: 150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S
”STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">LAST WEEK’S WRITING
ASSIGNMENT: </span><b style="color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S “Paul’s Wife</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Leave, let: "Let it alone."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Less, fewer: "More or less; many or fewer."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like, as: prepositional phrase, clause<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Loan (n), lend (v)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Partly, partially: a part of a whole, to a certain degree<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Firstly, first; secondly, second…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I or we <b>shall</b>, you <b>will</b>, he or she <b>will (1<sup>st</sup>
person future, 2<sup>nd</sup>, 3<sup>rd</sup>)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PENULTIMATE LINES from
EIGHTH PARAGRAPH <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a mortifying
experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the
general history; I mean “the foolish face of praise,” the forced smile which we
put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which
does not interest us. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NINTH PARAGRAPH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For non-conformity, the
world whips you with its displeasure. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And therefore a man
must know how to estimate a sour face. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The bystanders look
askance on him in the public street or in the friend’s parlor. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If this aversion had
its origin in contempt and resistance like his own he might well go home with a
sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces,
have no deep cause—disguise no god, but are put on and off as the wind blows
and a newspaper directs. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet is the discontent
of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is easy enough for
a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their rage is decorous
and prudent, for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But when to their
feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the
poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of
society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and
religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frost’s “</span></b><b><span style="color: #3c605b; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">”</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Whose woods these are I think I know.<br />
His house is in the village, though;<br />
He will not see me stopping here<br />
To watch his woods fill up with snow.<br />
My little horse must think it queer<br />
To stop without a farmhouse near<br />
Between the woods and frozen lake<br />
The darkest evening of the year.<br />
<br />
He gives his harness bells a shake<br />
To ask if there is some mistake.<br />
The only other sound's the sweep<br />
Of easy wind and downy flake.<br />
<b>The woods are lovely, dark and deep,<br />
But I have promises to keep,<br />
And miles to go before I sleep,<br />
And miles to go before I sleep.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S ”STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY
EVENING.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">douglas@tingandi.com</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WriteYourBookWithMe.com</span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-72557918808391822992022-08-14T11:52:00.000-07:002022-08-14T11:52:16.041-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, WEEK 7<p>PERSUASION: </p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, REPUTATION, ACHIEVEMENT, INSIGHT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- FROST, POETRY, “Paul’s Wife” Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- WEEKLY SHORT ASSIGNMENT: Discuss “Paul’s Wife” Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LAST WEEK’S WRITING
ASSIGNMENT: 150-250 WORDS ON: KIPLING’S “IF” </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fact</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> vs. opinion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Farther</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (distance) vs. <b>further</b>
(time or amount)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Folks</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (too colloquial)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He is [a man who]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Imply</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (suggest) vs. <b>infer</b>
(deduce)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interesting</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> [show rather than
claim this]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LAST LINES from SEVENTH PARAGRAPH <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is
easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the
midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EIGHTH PARAGRAPH (Broken into sentences):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to
you is that it scatters your force. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible
Society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it,
spread your table like base housekeepers,—under all these screens I have
difficulty to detect the precise man you are. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But do your thing, and I shall know you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A man must consider what a blindman’s-buff is this game of
conformity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency
of one of the institutions of his church. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and
spontaneous word? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the
grounds of the institution he will do no such thing? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do I not know that he is pledged to himself not to look but at
one side, the permitted side, not as a man, but as a parish minister? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He is a retained attorney, and these airs of the bench are the
emptiest affectation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another
handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of
opinion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars,
authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not
quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four: so
that every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to begin to set them
right.</span></b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of
the party to which we adhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by
degrees the gentlest asinine expression. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not
fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean “the foolish face of
praise,” the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at
ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping
willfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most
disagreeable sensation; a sensation of rebuke and warning which no brave young
man will suffer twice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Excerpt from Frost’s “Paul’s Wife”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">To drive Paul out of any lumber camp</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">All that was needed was to say to him,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">"How is the wife, Paul?"--and he'd
disappear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[The lumberjacks discuss whether Paul has a wife and later some
see them together….]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
Next evening Murphy and some other fellows<br />
Got drunk, and tracked the pair up Catamount,<br />
From the bare top of which there is a view<br />
To other hills across a kettle valley.<br />
And there, well after dark, let Murphy tell it,<br />
They saw Paul and his creature keeping house.<br />
It was the only glimpse that anyone<br />
Has had of Paul and her since Murphy saw them<br />
Falling in love across the twilight millpond.<br />
More than a mile across the wilderness<br />
They sat together halfway up a cliff<br />
In a small niche let into it, the girl<br />
Brightly, as if a star played on the place,<br />
Paul darkly, like her shadow. All the light<br />
Was from the girl herself, though, not from a star,<br />
As was apparent from what happened next.<br />
All those great ruffians put their throats together,<br />
And let out a loud yell, and threw a bottle,<br />
As a brute tribute of respect to beauty.<br />
Of course the bottle fell short by a mile,<br />
But the shout reached the girl and put her light out.<br />
She went out like a firefly, and that was all.<br />
<br />
<b>So there were witnesses that Paul was married<br />
And not to anyone to be ashamed of<br />
Everyone had been wrong in judging Paul.<br />
Murphy told me Paul put on all those airs<br />
About his wife to keep her to himself.<br />
Paul was what's called a terrible possessor.<br />
Owning a wife with him meant owning her.<br />
She wasn't anybody else's business,<br />
Either to praise her or much as name her,<br />
And he'd thank people not to think of her.<br />
<u>Murphy's idea was that a man like Paul<br />
Wouldn't be spoken to about a wife<br />
In any way the world knew how to speak.<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/robert_frost/poems/735<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S “Paul’s Wife</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-72529815223865674562022-08-13T16:57:00.002-07:002022-08-13T17:04:06.090-07:00REVIEW of GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH SOFTWARE<p>Months ago, I had the pleasure of being the guest on Luke
Jean-Louis’s podcast.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Smart man, very nice. We had an engaging, intelligent conversation
on air.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recently, he sent me a slender paperback book, GROW YOUR BUSINESS
WITH SOFTWARE, and I finally got the time to read it. I was impressed! In about
100 pages, Luke Jean-Louis marshaled hundreds of facts to convince business
folk that more software use will mean more business, a lot more.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who is he? Luke Jean-Louis “is an author, entrepreneur, and
host of The Deep Voice Man Show podcast. He was born and raised in Manhattan.
He received his MBA from Baruch College….” So says the book jacket, and the
book’s well-written text demonstrates his English language skills and his comprehensive
knowledge of using modern IT methods to expand business
impact and profitability.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topics highlighted include:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Review funnels<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Chat widgets<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Text message market<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Missed call text backs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Email marketing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Virtual phone systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Staying organized<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some examples of the stats he cites (and I am quoting him):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->88% of online customers trust reviews as much as
a personal recommendation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->38% said they were more likely to buy from a
firm if it had live chat.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->According to Twilio, 90% of customers prefer
using messaging to communicate with businesses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->80% of business conversations occur over the
phone.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--> Email
continues to have the highest ROI and lowest cost of any marketing method.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Tweets with video have 10x more engagement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Many more facts he presents will get his readers to rethink
their marketing methods.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He offers his advice through <a href="mailto:Luke@BizThunder.com">Luke@BizThunder.com</a>, or text: (646)
373-7105.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One can obtain an autographed copy of his book by visiting
his website:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> <a href="https://bizthunder.com/product/growyourbusinesswithsoftware/" target="_blank">https://bizthunder.com/product/growyourbusinesswithsoftware/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> and entering the promo code, <b>"FREE22"</b> at
checkout.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>I recommend this book highly. </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Douglas Winslow Cooper, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author of WRITE YOUR BOOK WITH ME<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-40842365563345745622022-08-07T13:20:00.000-07:002022-08-07T13:20:16.850-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 6<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">KEYS TO PERSUASION:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CLASSIC RESOURCES:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, <i>THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- FROST, POETRY, “The Road Not Taken”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- WEEKLY SHORT ASSIGNMENT: “The Road Not Taken”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">LAST WEEK’S WRITING
ASSIGNMENT: 150-250 WORDS ON: KIPLING’S “IF”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IV. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY
MISUSED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Allude vs. elude<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Among vs. between<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And/or<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As yet vs. yet<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Can vs. may<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Data is plural<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Disinterested vs. uninterested<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Effect vs. affect<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FIRST LINE OF FIFTH PARAGRAPH OF THE ESSAY (BROKEN INTO
SENTENCES HERE):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow
faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. <b>Society everywhere is in
conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LAST LINES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—<b>though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the
dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to
withhold.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SIXTH AND SEVENTH PARAGRAPHS FROM EMERSON’S “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than
the rule. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is the man <i>and</i> his virtues. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or
charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on
parade. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their
living in the world,—as invalids and the insane pay a high board. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their virtues are penances. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I do not wish to expiate, but to live. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My life is not an apology, but a life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is for itself and not for a spectacle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be
genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet
and bleeding. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a
conquest, a medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this
appeal from the man to his actions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or
forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic
right. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need
for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people
think. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,
may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is the harder because you will always find those who think
they know what is your duty better than you know it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is
easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the
midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POEM: FROST’S “THE
ROAD NOT TAKEN”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h1 style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT", sans-serif;">The Road Not
Taken <o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="u-isvisuallyhidden"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Launch Audio in a New Window</span></span><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c-txt"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #494949; font-family: "Gill Sans MT",sans-serif; font-size: 20.5pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-transform: uppercase;">BY </span></span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-frost"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.05pt; line-height: 107%; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-transform: uppercase;">ROBERT FROST</span></a><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 20.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And sorry I could not travel both<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And be one traveler, long I stood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And looked down one as far as I could<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">To where it bent in the undergrowth;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Then took the other, as just as fair,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And having perhaps the better claim,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Because it was grassy and wanted wear;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Though as for that the passing there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Had worn them really about the same,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And both that morning equally lay<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">In leaves no step had trodden black.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Oh, I kept the first for another day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet knowing how way leads on to way,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">I doubted if I should ever come back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">I shall be telling this with a sigh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Somewhere ages and ages hence:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">I took the one less traveled by,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 107%;">And that has made all the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-69915886017767988872022-08-03T16:52:00.000-07:002022-08-03T16:52:12.104-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 5<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING BETTER ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PERSUASION KEYS:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS – AUTHORITY, CHARACTER, KNOWLEDGE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - REASON AND EVIDENCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS – EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, ELEMENTS...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, SELF-RELIANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- FROST, POETRY, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">- WEEKLY SHORT ASSIGNMENT: “Nothing Gold Can Stay”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT: WHY STUDY WRITING FROM OTHER TIMES AND PLACES? (150-200 WORDS) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LAST WEEK’S WRITING
ASSIGNMENT: 150-250 WORDS ON: KIPLING’S “IF” </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">V. AN APPROACH TO STYLE, Contnued<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11. Do not explain too much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12. Do not create awkward adverbs (xxxly).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13. Make sure the reader knows who is speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">14. Avoid fancy words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">15. Do not use dialect unless your ear is good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">16. Be clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">17. Do not inject opinion (without good reason).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">18. Use figures of speech sparingly (similes, metaphors).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">19. Avoid shortcuts at the cost of clarity (though brevity
is good).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">20. Avoid foreign languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">21. Prefer the standard to the offbeat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“<b>Young writers will be drawn at every turn toward
eccentricities in language.</b> They will hear the beat of new vocabularies,
the exciting rhythms of special segments of their society, each speaking a
language of its own. All of us come under the spell of these unsettling drums;
the problem for beginners is to <b>listen to them, learn the words, feel the
vibrations, and not be carried away</b>.” (STRUNK AND WHITE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FIRST LINE OF FOURTH PARAGRAPH OF THE ESSAY (BROKEN INTO
SENTENCES HERE):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The nonchalance of
boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say
aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LAST LINES FROM THE
FOURTH PARAGRAPH:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He would utter
opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private but
necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEXT PARAGRAPH FROM
EMERSON’S “SELF-RELIANCE” (AGAIN, IN SEPARATED SENTENCES)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow
faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every
one of its members. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree,
for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the
liberty and culture of the eater. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The virtue in most request is conformity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Self-reliance is its aversion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the
name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the
world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to
make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old
doctrines of the church. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On my saying, “What have I to do with the sacredness of
traditions, if I live wholly from within?” my friend suggested,—”But these
impulses may be from below, not from above.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I replied, “They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the
devil’s child, I will live then from the devil.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or
this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is
against it. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as
if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and
names, to large societies and dead institutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me
more than is right. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all
ways. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that
pass? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and
comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to
him, “Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper; be good-natured and modest;
have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this
incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. <b>Thy love afar is
spite at home.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is
handsomer than the affectation of love. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your goodness must have some edge to it,—else it is none. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of
the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my
genius calls me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, <i>Whim.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot
spend the day in explanation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my
obligation to put all poor men in good situations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, </span></b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that I
grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me
and to whom I do not belong. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I
am bought and sold;</span></b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous
popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of
meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the
thousandfold Relief Societies;—<b>though I confess with shame I sometimes
succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall
have the manhood to withhold.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POEM: FROST’S “Nothing
Gold Can Stay”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">Nature’s first green is
gold,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">Her hardest hue to hold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">Her early leaf’s a flower;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">But only so an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">Then leaf subsides to leaf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">So Eden sank to grief,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">So dawn goes down to day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;">Nothing gold can stay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: -12.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit", serif; font-size: 19pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
150-250 WORDS ON FROST’S “</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nothing
Gold Can Stay”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-58690759449255684982022-07-31T08:51:00.006-07:002022-07-31T08:54:28.959-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 4<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">WEEK 4 </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING BETTER ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">CLASSIC ELEMENTS OF PERSUASIVE WRITING:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS - AUTHORITY, CREDIBILITY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">LOGOS - EVIDENCE, REASON, LOGIC</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">PATHOS - EMOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">RESOURCES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, "SELF-RELIANCE"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- KIPLING, POETRY, “IF”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT: WHY STUDY WRITING FROM OTHER
TIMES AND PLACES? (150-200 WORDS)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">V. AN APPROACH TO STYLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">6. Do not overwrite. (Keep it simple.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">7. Do not overstate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">8. Avoid the use of qualifiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">9. Do not affect a breezy manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">10. Use orthodox spelling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY EXCERPT, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO
EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">FIRST LINE OF THIRD PARAGRAPH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust thyself: every
heart vibrates to that iron string. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LAST LINES FROM THIRD
PARAGRAPH:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bashful or bold then,
he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NEXT PARAGRAPH FROM
EMERSON’S “SELF-RELIANCE”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The nonchalance of
boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say
aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How is a boy the
master of society; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his corner on
such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits,
in the swift, summary way of boys, as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent,
troublesome. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He cumbers himself
never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine
verdict. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You must court him; he
does not court you. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the man is as it
were clapped into jail by his consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As soon as he has once
acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or
the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no Lethe for
this. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah, that he could pass
again into his neutral, godlike independence! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who can thus lose all
pledge and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased,
unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always
engage the poet’s and the man’s regards. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of such an immortal
youth the force would be felt. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He would utter
opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private but
necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POEM: RUDYARD
KIPLING’S “IF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://poets.org/poet/rudyard-kipling" target="_self"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #007ab3; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rudyard Kipling</span></a><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #343434; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - 1865-1936<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #343434; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you can keep your head when all about you<br />
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;<br />
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br />
But make allowance for their doubting too;<br />
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br />
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,<br />
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,<br />
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #343434; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you can dream—and not make dreams your
master;<br />
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;<br />
If you can meet with triumph and disaster<br />
And treat those two impostors just the same;<br />
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken<br />
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br />
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,<br />
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #343434; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br />
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br />
And lose, and start again at your beginnings<br />
And never breathe a word about your loss;<br />
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br />
To serve your turn long after they are gone,<br />
And so hold on when there is nothing in you<br />
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #343434; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you can talk with crowds and keep your
virtue,<br />
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;<br />
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;<br />
If all men count with you, but none too much;<br />
If you can fill the unforgiving minute<br />
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—<br />
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,<br />
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">REMINDER
/ REVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Titles from THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING ASSIGNMENT:
150-250 WORDS ON: KIPLING’S “IF” </span></b><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-8099171029668926752022-07-25T07:49:00.001-07:002022-07-25T07:49:40.523-07:00ROMANTIC LYRICS, "That's All"<p> <span style="background-color: #ddddee; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">"That's All"</span></p><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><div style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">I can only give you love that lasts forever,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the promise to be near each time you call,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the only heart I own is yours and yours alone, that's all, that's all.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I can only give you country walks in springtime,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And a hand to hold when leaves begin to fall,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And a love whose burning light to warm the winter night, that's all, that's all.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There are those I am sure who have told you,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They will give you the world for a toy.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />All I ask for these arms to enfold you, and a love, time can never destroy.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you're wond'ring what I'm asking in return, dear,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You'll be glad to know that my demands are small.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Say it's me that you'll adore for now and ever more, that's all, that's all.</div><br style="background-color: #ddddee; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><div><br /></div><div>Written by Brandt and Haymes</div><div><br /></div><div>https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/thatsall.html</div><div><br /></div><div>I dedicate this to Tina Su Cooper.</div>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-68401937515820819572022-07-21T12:24:00.005-07:002022-07-21T13:01:17.787-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 3<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">WYZANT WRITING WEEK 3 062722 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">WRITING BETTER ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ETHOS, LOGOS, PATHOS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- STRUNK AND WHITE, ELEMENTS...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, SELF-RELIANCE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- FROST, POETRY, “The Road Less Traveled”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- WEEKLY SHORT ASSIGNMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT: WHY STUDY WRITING BETTER ENGLISH?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ELEMENTS OF STYLE, CONTINUED<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">V. AN APPROACH TO STYLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Place yourself in the background.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Unless, of course, you are writing a memoir or
autobiography. Even then, try not to brag.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. Write in a way that comes naturally.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Write pretty much as you talk.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">3. Work from a suitable design.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">An outline will help greatly. In a formal piece, your first
paragraph should outline the presentation such that each sentence could be a
suitable topic sentence for a paragraph in the body of the work that follows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">4. Write with nouns and verbs.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Use specific nouns and descriptive verbs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">5. Revise and rewrite.</span></b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">You will always find something worth improving; however,
don’t let perfectionism cripple you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Poet ROBERT FROST, "The Road Not Taken”</span></p><div class="card-header pb-2 pt-3 bg-white" data-v-197036e9="" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: "Founders Grotesk", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.6rem !important; padding-left: 3.25rem; padding-right: 1.25rem; padding-top: 1.2rem !important; padding: 1.2rem 1.25rem 0.6rem 3.25rem;"><div data-v-197036e9="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-flex poem__title mb-1" data-v-197036e9="" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: justify; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 0.3rem;"><h1 class="card-title" data-v-197036e9="" itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Poets Electra Roman No 2"; font-size: 2.5rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500; line-height: 3rem; margin-bottom: 0.75rem; margin-top: 0px;">The Road Not Taken</h1><a data-v-197036e9="" href="https://poets.org/poem/road-not-taken#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ab3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self"><svg class="poem__soundcloud-link" data-v-197036e9="" height="8" viewbox="0 0 8 8" width="8" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path d="M3.34 0L2 2H0v4h2l1.34 2H4V0h-.66zM5 1v1c.17 0 .34.02.5.06.86.22 1.5 1 1.5 1.94a1.987 1.987 0 0 1-2 2v1c.25 0 .48-.04.72-.09h.03C7.05 6.58 8 5.4 8 4c0-1.4-.95-2.58-2.25-2.91C5.52 1.03 5.26 1 5 1zm0 2v2c.09 0 .18-.01.25-.03.43-.11.75-.51.75-.97a.997.997 0 0 0-1-1z" data-v-197036e9=""></path></svg></a></div><span class="card-subtitle" color="var(--black)" data-v-197036e9="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -0.375rem;"><a data-v-197036e9="" href="https://poets.org/poet/robert-frost" itemprop="author" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007ab3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">Robert Frost</a><span class="dates" data-v-197036e9="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> - 1874-1963</span></span></div></div><div class="card-body" data-v-197036e9="" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; flex: 1 1 auto; font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 1.25rem;"><div class="poem__actions vertical dark" data-v-197036e9="" data-v-1e4a20ad="" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex-grow: 1; left: -3rem; margin-bottom: 2.4rem; position: absolute; width: 33px;"><ul class="poem__actions__social d-flex flex-wrap" data-v-1e4a20ad="" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; 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font-size: 1.1rem; padding-left: 0.5rem; padding-right: 0.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And sorry I could not travel both</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And be one traveler, long I stood</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And looked down one as far as I could</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">To where it bent in the undergrowth;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Then took the other, as just as fair,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And having perhaps the better claim,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Because it was grassy and wanted wear;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Though as for that the passing there</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Had worn them really about the same,</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And both that morning equally lay</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">In leaves no step had trodden black.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Oh, I kept the first for another day!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Yet knowing how way leads on to way,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">I doubted if I should ever come back.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">I shall be telling this with a sigh</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Somewhere ages and ages hence:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">I took the one less traveled by,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">And that has made all the difference.</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">THIRD PARAGRAPH OF THE ESSAY (BROKEN INTO SENTENCES HERE):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust thyself: every
heart vibrates to that iron string. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Accept the place the
divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the
connection of events. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great men have always
done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age,
betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart,
working through their hands, predominating in all their being. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And we are now men,
and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not
pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and
benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort let us
advance on Chaos and the Dark.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What pretty oracles
nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and
even brutes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That divided and rebel
mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the
strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their mind being
whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are
disconcerted. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Infancy conforms to
nobody; all conform to it; so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of
the adults who prattle and play to it. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So God has armed youth
and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it
enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, it will stand by itself.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do not think the youth
has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hark! in the next room
who spoke so clear and emphatic? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems he knows how
to speak to his contemporaries. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bashful or bold then,
he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">Chapter Titles from THE SEEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
PEOPLE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Habit 1: Be Proactive</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 3: Put First Things First</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 4: Think Win/Win</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be
Understood</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 6: Synergize</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ASSIGNMENT: 150-200 WORDS:
WHY STUDY THE WRITINGS OF OTHER TIMES AND PLACES?</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I help people write and publish their books through <a href="https://WriteYourBookWithMe.com " target="_blank">Write Your Book with Me</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-73104838208531563522022-07-15T03:09:00.003-07:002022-07-15T03:09:53.242-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 2<p>WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 2</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">KEY ELEMENTS OF PERSUASIVE WRITING</p><p class="MsoNormal">ETHOS, LOGOS, PATHOS<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ethos - Authority, character, reliability, knowledge</p><p class="MsoNormal">Logos - Logic, evidence</p><p class="MsoNormal">Pathos - Emotional appeal</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Recommended reading</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">STRUNK AND WHITE, <i>ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">EMERSON, "Self-Reliance" Essay</p><p class="MsoNormal">FROST, POETRY, "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same"</p><p class="MsoNormal">WEEKLY SHORT ASSIGNMENT: Why study fine writers from other times and foreign lands?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LAST WEEK’S ASSIGNMENT: WHY STUDY WRITING BETTER ENGLISH?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FROM <i>ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i>:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">II.
ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">8.
Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
can be tricky, as “topic” is a slippery term. Lately, short paragraphs have
become fashionable and are effective.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">9.
As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity
with the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“In
conformity” does not mean repeating, however. Be more creative as you restate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">10.
Use the active voice.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Active:
<i>She wrote the poem.</i> Passive: <i>The
poem was written by her.</i><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">11.
Put statements in positive form.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Do
not put statements in this negative form, generally.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">12.
Use definite, specific, concrete language.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
done in “connecting Asian American women to the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">13.
Omit needless words.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Be
pithy, terse, and succinct, avoiding repetition and redundancy, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">unlike this sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">14.
Avoid a succession of loose sentences.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Loose
sentences are distinguished from periodic ones, where the main idea comes at
the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">15.
Express co-ordinate ideas in similar form.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Use
parallelism in sentence structure: <i>she wrote the book and he drew the
pictures.<b><o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">16.
Keep related words together.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Make
it clear what your modifiers modify.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">17.
In summaries, keep to one tense.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Generally,
use the simple present or simple past tense: <i>it does, it did….</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">18.
Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Easier
said than done.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO EMERSON<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SECOND PARAGRAPH OF THE ESSAY (BROKEN INTO SENTENCES HERE):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the
conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take
himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is
full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his
toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he
knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much
impression on him, and another none. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is not without preestablished harmony, this sculpture in the
memory. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might
testify of that particular ray. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bravely let him speak the utmost syllable of his confession. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine
idea which each of us represents. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so
it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by
cowards. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his
work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him
no peace. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is a deliverance which does not deliver. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.2pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no
invention, no hope.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Poet ROBERT FROST, "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be
the Same”<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="background: #FFFFF2; border: solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid #CCCCCC .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 23.0pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He would declare and could
himself believe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That the birds there in all
the garden round<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From having heard the daylong
voice of Eve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Had added to their own an
oversound,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her tone of meaning but
without the words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Admittedly an eloquence so
soft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Could only have had an
influence on birds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When call or laughter carried
it aloft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be that as may be, she was in
their song.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moreover her voice upon their
voices crossed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Had now persisted in the
woods so long<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That probably it never would
be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Never again would birds' song
be the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: 20.4pt; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; padding: 0in; word-break: break-all;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And to do that to birds was
why she came.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ASSIGNMENT: 100-200 WORDS ON WHY STUDY FOREIGN WRITERS AND NON-CONTEMPORARIES,
TOO?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I help people write and publish their books, through my <a href="http://WriteYourBookWithMe.com">WriteYourBookWithMe.com</a>, and I tutor on Wyzant.com.</p><p class="MsoNormal">You can email me at douglas@tingandi.com</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207166005515446193.post-11338359679502193582022-07-07T11:05:00.002-07:002022-07-10T07:59:51.485-07:00WRITING BETTER ENGLISH, LESSON 1 <p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">ETHOS - authority, LOGOS - reason, PATHOS -emotion</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> GRAMMAR AND SPELLING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">GOALS FOR TUTORIAL</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">CAREER GOALS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> TUTORIAL PLANS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">-- FINISH WRITING/EDITING OF NOVEL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> - <i>WRITE YOUR BOOK
WITH ME<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">- <i>STRUNK AND WHITE, ELEMENTS OF STYLE</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- EMERSON, "SELF-RELIANCE," PROSE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- FROST AND OTHERS, POETRY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> WEEKLY SHORT ASSIGNMENTS</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">FROM MY ESSAY, BASED ON <i>ELEMENTS OF STYLE<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I. ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding ‘s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A dog’s life, Tom’s pen, and Charles’s paper are right.
Note that possessives of plurals that themselves end in s take only the
apostrophe, so we have: several friends’ birthdays. Plurals not ending in s do
take ‘s: the children‘s hour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2. In a series of three of more terms with a single
conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This, that, and the other all qualify. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">It is best, at least most of the time, to avoid
parentheses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">4. Place a comma before a conjunction introducing a
co-ordinate clause.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This is often done incorrectly, but it is important.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This is also often done incorrectly; it is important to use
a semicolon instead or start a new sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">6. Do not break sentences in two.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Be sure. Not to. Or only rarely! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">7. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must
refer to the grammatical subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Trying to write well, you should heed this rule.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ESSAY, "SELF-RELIANCE," RALPH WALDO EMERSON<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;">OPENING PARAGRAPH OF THE ESSAY (BROKEN INTO SENTENCES
HERE):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I READ THE OTHER day some verses written by an eminent
painter which were original and not conventional. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the
subject be what it may. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The sentiment they instill is of more value than any
thought they may contain. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true
for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the
universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost—and our first thought
is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest
merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books
and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light
which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the
firmament of bards and sages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is
his. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected
thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us
than this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with
good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the
other side. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good
sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be
forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">NEXT WEEK, MORE EMERSON AND <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Poet ROBERT FROST, "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be
the Same”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> SCHEDULE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> ASSIGNMENT: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">10 POSSIBLE TITLES FOR YOUR NOVEL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">100-200 WORDS ON WHY STUDY WRITING ENGLISH BETTER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">NOTE: I TUTOR ON WYZANT.COM, AND THIS IS FROM MY NOTES FOR THE FIRST LESSON WITH AN AUTHOR WHO HAS A MANUSCRIPT FOR HIS NOVEL.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I published WRITE YOUR BOOK WITH ME through Outskirts Press, and you can reach me through WriteYourBookWithMe.com and douglas@tingandi.com. </span></p>Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00268027907126271419noreply@blogger.com0