Grammar for the Faster Speakers and Writers (Week 11)

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There are many ways speakers and writers can use to convey their messages. Whether they use passive or active voices, their focus is to "create voice" (Weinstein and Finn 56) for their targeted audience. By creating a voice for their audience, speakers and writers can use "contractions and parentheses" as "grammatical devices" to help them conveying such "purpose" (Weinstein and Finn 56). 

For example,

"Here I am actually 'hooked' on a program" (Weinstein 61). The speaker wanted to emphasize his passive enjoyment of a program by placing the word "hooked" in parenthesis to emphasize the importance of his or her message.  The speaker wants to be "passively real" with his or her intention about the program he or she wants.  The word "hooked" is actually a past participle of "hook," which is a verb." To use "hooked," the speaker or writer must use a linking verb of "to be."  

 

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There are other times and situations that writers and speakers use different approaches to convey their messages to certain audience.  For example, some users may use emoticons for different purposes. 

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I personally do not like the use of emoticons for various reasons.  Even though we are in a digital era, I do not prefer the use of emoticons whenever I communicate with people. If I use emoticons, I would use in situations such as grading students' work, sending quick agreements or disagreements with senders, and avoiding long responses to those whom I do not want to deal with.  For example, I had would click on a happy "emoticon" to quickly agree with a sender about a particular message that I deemed annoying. My happy emoticon did not mean that I agree with the sender, but it was a quick way for me to passively agree and get rid of the message without thinking about it. Thus, I do not believe in the use of emoticons as an effective way to convey real messages in writing and other forms of communication.

Works Cited

Weinstein, Lawrence and Finn, Thomas. Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are. Pearson 

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