Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 22 стр.

and freedom for women. For example, fifty years ago, a house-                    10. Where could an article like this appear? Who the commu-
wife spent an average twelve to fourteen hours per day doing               nicators might be?
housework. Due to the invention of machines such as vacuum                       11. What conclusions can you come to on the basis of these ob-
cleaners, washing machines, and dishwashers, a housewife can               servations? Do you think the text was written by a man or a woman?
now take care of her daily housework in about five hours.                  Explain.
       4. The final event that, at least in the United States, gave              12. Sum up your ideas and using this piece of writing as an ex-
impetus to the liberation of women was World War II. During the            ample of essay as a genre prove that it belongs to the realm of the
war, most men were serving in the military. Consequently,                  publicistic style and comment on the peculiarities typical for it due to
women had to fill the vacancies in the labor force. Women by               its written form.
thousands went to work in factories and took over businesses for
their absent husbands. This was a great change for the majority                  TEXT 2
of American women, for they discovered that they could weld
airplane parts and manage businesses as well change diapers                       Read the text below and try to define its genre.
and bake bread.                                                                   Roger Simon is a columnist for the Baltimore Sun Born in Chi-
       5. These events planted the seeds of great change in so-            cago in 1948, Simon earned his В A. from the University of Illinois in
ciety, and the effects of this change are being felt at all levels: in     1970 and got his first professional job with the Chicago City News
the family, in business, and in government.                                Bureau. He became a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1972,
                                                                           later moving to the Tribune. He has been a humor columnist for Chi-
                Questions for Study and Discussion                         cago Magazine, and contributed articles to several popular periodi-
                                                                           cals. His -work is collected in Simon Says: The Best 'of Roger Simon
       2. Analyse the paragraphing of the essay and compare it with        (1985), and he has written an account of the 1988 presidential cam-
that of the speech.                                                        paign, Road Show (1989). Among his honors are several United Press
       Which do you consider to be more rigid?                             International public-service awards, and the Peter Lisagor Award.
       3. Where do you find the author’s thesis statement? What is
the structure of argumentation used in this essay? What techniques                No Compassion for Drunk Drivers
does the author use to support his claim?                                         In this essay, Simon writes an outraged reply to a television
       4. Draw the main idea of each paragraph in the body of the          program about drunken driving (produced and narrated by the guilty
essay.                                                                     party, a Washington, D.C., television reporter, as part of his punish-
       5. How are the paragraphs made coherent? Analyze the sys-           ment), condemning the show as self-serving and dishonest. Simon 's
tem of connectives and other means of cohesion.                            real target, however, is drunken drivers themselves. His view is angry
       6. Comment on the register of the vocabulary used in the text.      and uncompromising in the extreme.
       7. Is the author biased? Does he use emotional appeal?
       8. Analyse the language the essay is written in. Is it figurative         I would like to make an admission up front: I have a thing about
or rather matter-of-fact?                                                  drunken drivers.
       9. Is the essay argumentative or persuasive?
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