Functional Styles. Афанасьева Н.Р - 26 стр.

                Questions for Study and Discussion                               5. Think of the ways you could translate some of the realia
                                                                          mentioned in the text
       Meaning and Purpose
                                                                                 High school counselors
       1. What is the primary claim in Raspberry's essay? Is he at-
                                                                                 Baccalaureate addresses
tempting to affect opinion, action, or both? Explain.
                                                                                 College of Arts and Sciences
       2. From one perspective, Raspberry may be seen as a reporter
                                                                                 Liberal arts education
rather than an advocate of a belief or policy. Where does he objec-
                                                                                 Undergraduate majors
tively inform in this essay, and where does he actually advocate?
                                                                                 Assistant professor
       3. According to Raspberry, why is getting a liberal-arts educa-
                                                                                 Office of Career Planning and Placement
tion better than "locking into career tracks as early as the sophomore
                                                                                 Experiential learning
year"? What is the "winning combination" that he recommends?
                                                                                 6. Discuss possible ways of translating the final paragraph of
       Strategy and Audience                                              the essay.
       1. Does Raspberry's case rely mostly on evidence (inductive               7. What other difficulties in translation do you predict? Discuss
reasoning) or assumptions (deductive reasoning)? Cite passages to         them to come up with solutions.
support your answer.
       2. What kinds of data does the author use to support his argu-            FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY
ment? What underlying general principle or warrant links the claim               Choose a topic you consider appropriate to write two essays
and the data?                                                             different in manner – one argumentative and one persuasive essay.
       3. Is the author writing for an audience of high-school coun-      Bring forth the differences between the two types if writing as obvi-
selors, prospective college students, parents, or all three groups? Ex-   ous as possible – in structure, register, language means employed,
plain. Hoe does it influence his choice of words and tone?                etc.
       Style and Language
       1. Raspberry's essay appeared as a newspaper column. Often,
journalistic style encourages very brief, sometimes single-sentence
paragraphs. What effect do such brief paragraphs have?
       2. Although the paragraphs may be short, sentences may be
relatively long. Do any of Raspberry's sentences seem longer than
necessary or in any way unclear? (Check paragraph 9, for instance.)
How might you revise?
       3. What is different and what is similar between this essay and
the one you read in the previous parts? Analyze the text answering the
questions for the previous essay.
       4. What peculiarities of the genre of review can you point out?

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