Write a (roughly) 500 word paper that will encapsulate what happened in 2020. This paper will hypothetically be put into a time capsule to be opened 25 years from now.
Purpose: So that I may establish a baseline of your current writing skills.
Audience: you don't know who will open or read the time capsule. Speak in a way that can reach/appeal to as many people as possible.
Do not seek any help (no friends, no family, no internet sources, and no college consultants)
I need to see YOUR writing, and using any assistance will undermine my ability to evaluate your writing skill-set.
Mot Juste: Assignment 2
Assignment: Re-write the Time Capsule paper focusing on the best word use possible.
Purpose: to hone a skill of choosing every single word in a writing and to disrupt the brain's dominance over communication.
The Mot Juste [Mo Zhoost] is a term coined by the author Gustave Flaubert.
Mot Juste means the best word for that contextual moment.
Finding the Mot Juste is not simply about creativity; we must take back language-use from our brains and entice our brains to work for us, rather than its default of working against communication.
[PDF]Lakoff and Johnson's seminal work on metaphors in language
Assignment: Re-write the Most Juste Time Capsule paper focusing activating sentences and elevating writing to collegiate writing best word use possible.
Purpose: to hone a skill of choosing every single word in a writing and to disrupt the brain's dominance over communication.
E-Prime is the official name for not using to-be verbs.
To-be verbs cause weak writing by merely equating one concept with another, and the brain tends to rely on these structures of sentences because the brain simply does not care to communicate to anyone else but you.
I expand on e-prime beyond to-be verbs, and I call the whole list Pus Word
be
is
am
are
was
were
been
These first seven are the "to-be" verbs and cause many errors
it
thing and things
Numbers 8 and 9 create an ambiguity that never should occur in a paper.
get
gets
got
goes
People use these last four as an easy fall back from not using the first nine. Also, they sound unprofessional, and one aim of an education is to professionalize, which in this class means helping you form a bilingualism of both your everyday-speak and your ability to use a professional language.
