Diablo Valley College The Race with Time in a Pandemic Essay & Annotations Paper

1. You need to reading an article and then Please read this carefully, highlighting and annotating what you think is most important. You will recognize some of what Orwell advises from the advice that William Zinsser provides in On Writing Well. How worthwhile are abstract nouns such as peace, love, freedom, health in political speech? Why are abstract nouns used so often? What about concrete terms? Why do many politicians avoid them?

Make at least four annotations and two responses to the observations of your classmates.

2. after reading the first article, u need to Combine two articles to write a paper. Your answer should be in essay form…MLA, interesting title…at this point you should know the drill…or should be asking for help.

This is a particularly important chapter: over the years you have been faced with a barrage of information and misinformation. How can you tell the difference? Why does it matter? A friend recently told me that in her Freshman English Composition class years ago, her professor constantly reminded the students that “labels stop thought,” and I was thinking that so much many of you have heard as you have grown up is the indiscriminate use of labels thrown at viewers and listeners as if that is all there is to know about an issue…leading to a smug certainty based on ???

3. Help me revise a paper.