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After re-reading the selected according and analyzing it critically, it is vivid that McFadden’sprimary goal remains same. For instance, herprimepurposeis challenging of calling people or referring to them without using gender pronouns. McFaddenBrainstorms if there is a way to which, a writer or a speaker can refer to a person without necessarily using gender pronouns like, he/she, his/her among others. Critically, analyze the entire of this text; it is clear that McFadden’s goal does not change. For example, she describes the challenges presented when it comes to referring to people without using gender pronouns. “As the after-dinner speaker at a recent professional conference, I heard a text replete with ”he/she’s” and ”his/ her’s” read aloud for the first time. The hapless program female chairperson stuck with the job chose to render these orally as ”he-slash-she” and ”hisslash-her,” turning the following day’s schedule for conference participants into what sounded like a replay of the Manson killings.”The quote clearly shows the challenge people have while addressing people using gender pronouns.

            Subsequently, in this article, McFadden uses various key points in achieving her goal, as highlighted below. Foremost, the author uses tricky situations where people find it hard when it comes to calling people without using the gender pronouns. For instance, the author uses various artists who have to find it difficult in referring to people without using gender pronouns. For example, from the text; ”The author of the article, Sydney Weisman, is a female.” So the war of the pronouns and suffixes rates, taking no prisoners except writers. Neuter your prose with all those clanking ”he/she’’. ” Thus, from this quotation, it is evident that most authors of various books find it hard to use masculine, rather they prefer to use gender pronouns while referencing to people. Secondly, the author states how different people find it hard when referring using Gender pronouns since no one is certain whether God is male or female. Therefore, people ends up confusing audiences, while addressing them, since the public are not sure if the speaker is referring to God or human being when he or she uses gender pronouns.

            On another hand, the audience going to read essay will find some difficulties in understanding it clearly due to the following reasons. The first challenge I will have in supporting my argument is that the quotations I have used, wereemployed by theauthor. Thus, I am not sure if the opinion of McFaddenwas on facts or just imagination. Secondly, just like most speakers and writers, it’s hard to address anaudience without using gender pronouns when referring to the author or the other person quoted. For instance, in this essay, there is a place where McFaddensaid referring to a female by gender is like discriminating them.

The goal of writing this critical analysis essay is to highlight outmultiple instances in life where theuse of pronouns while referring to people is not okay. Foremost, when using pronouns about a person, it is hard to the person you are addressing to know whether the person referred to is a woman or a male. Thus, people should be using the real names of individuals or use masculine while referring to them to make communication clear. Secondly, there are some situations where using gender pronouns do not apply. For example, when referring to a transgender person, it is hard whether to call the person he or her. Hence, McFadden is right when she claims that “the neutering of spoken and written English, with its attendant self-consciousness, remains ludicrous.”

            However, there are some cases in this article where I disagree with McFadden opinion about her topic of discussion. For example from this quote; ”Though I speak with the tongues of persons and angels …” it is vivid that the pronoun I here am clear. The pronoun is referring to anyone reading that particular verse. Therefore, this pronoun in this context was correctly used by the speaker. The second instance from the text where I disagree with the where McFaddensays; As the after-dinner speaker at a recent professional conference, I heard a text replete with ”he/she’s” and ”his/ her’s” read aloud for the first time. The hapless program female chairperson stuck with the job chose to render these orally as ”he-slash-she” and ”hisslash-her.” For instance, if McFadden is in theposition of hearing the message from the main speaker, then she is inaposition to tell whether the person is male or female. Thus, I disagree with theauthor when she refers to the speaker in the above context as she/he.

            Consequently, to improve feedback from outside party, I need to consider the following critical elements. Firstly, I need to write an essay that has agood flow of ideas, so that the outsiders can quickly identify where I need to improve to make my writing great. Subsequently, I need to use some direct quotes from the article am using to write the essay to make my writings more logic. Thirdly, I need to use simple and definite language in my article so that the outside party can easily read and understand it to make the necessary recommendations that will improve my composition in thefinal project. Therefore, I will utilize the feedback from the outside party, whether criticisms or positive to perfect my last project to score thehighest grade.

            Peer evaluation is the revision strategy I will deploy while writing my essay due to outlined reasons below. Foremost, it is hard for a person to identify his or her mistakes. Thus, giving my classmates my work will greatly help in highlighting the errors in my writing. Secondly, when my classmates go through my essay, they can give me more ideas that can help me in improving my composition, unlike when I revise by myself. Therefore, peer revision is the best revising strategy for best essay writing since the student not only identify his or her mistakes but also gets more ideas about the composition. 

 
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Use of Gender Titles

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_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Report Information from ProQuest October 30 2016 23:44 _______________________________________________________________ 30 October 2016 ProQuest Table of contents 1. On Language; IN DEFENSE OF GENDER…………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 30 October 2016 ii ProQuest Document 1 of 1 On Language; IN DEFENSE OF GENDER Author: McFadden, Cyra ProQuest document link Abstract (Abstract): Defend it on any grounds you choose; the neutering of spoken and written English, with its attendant self-consciousness, remains ludicrous. In print, those ”person” suffixes and ”he/she’s” jump out from the page, as distracting as a cloud of gnats, demanding that the reader note the writer’s virtue. ”Look what a nonsexist writer person I am, avoiding the use of masculine forms for the generic.” Spoken, they leave conversation fit only for the Coneheads on ”Saturday Night Live.” ”They have a daily special,” a woman at the next table told her male companion in Perry’s, a San Francisco restaurant. ”Ask your waitperson.” In a Steig cartoon, the words would have marched from her mouth in the form of a computer printout. As the after-dinner speaker at a recent professional conference, I heard a text replete with ”he/she’s” and ”his/ her’s” read aloud for the first time. The hapless program female chairperson stuck with the job chose to render these orally as ”he-slash-she” and ”hisslash-her,” turning the following day’s schedule for conference participants into what sounded like a replay of the Manson killings. Links: Request this item through ILL, Check Full Text Finder for Full Text Full text: So pervasive is the neutering of the English language on the progressive West Coast, we no longer have people here, only persons: male persons and female persons, chairpersons and doorpersons, waitpersons, mailpersons – who may be either male or female mailpersons – and refuse-collection persons. In the classified ads, working mothers seek child-care persons, though one wonders how many men (archaic for ”male person”) take care of child persons as a fulltime occupation. One such ad, fusing nonsexist language and the most popular word in the California growth movement, solicits a ”nurtureperson.” Dear gents and ladies, as I might have addressed you in less troubled times, this female person knows firsthand the reasons for scourging sexist bias from the language. God knows what damage was done me, at 15, when I worked in my first job – as what is now known as a newspaper copyperson – and came running to the voices of men barking, ”Boy!” No aspirant to the job of refuse-collection person myself, I nonetheless take off my hat (a little feathered number, with a veil) to those of my own sex who may want both the job and a genderless title with it. I argue only that there must be a better way, and I wish person or persons unknown would come up with one. Defend it on any grounds you choose; the neutering of spoken and written English, with its attendant selfconsciousness, remains ludicrous. In print, those ”person” suffixes and ”he/she’s” jump out from the page, as distracting as a cloud of gnats, demanding that the reader note the writer’s virtue. ”Look what a nonsexist writer person I am, avoiding the use of masculine forms for the generic.” Spoken, they leave conversation fit only for the Coneheads on ”Saturday Night Live.” ”They have a daily special,” a woman at the next table told her male companion in Perry’s, a San Francisco restaurant. ”Ask your waitperson.” In a Steig cartoon, the words would have marched from her mouth in the form of a computer printout. In Berkeley, Calif., the church to which a friend belongs is busy stripping its liturgy of sexist references. ”They’ve gone berserk,” she writes, citing a reading from the pulpit of a verse from I Corinthians. Neutered, the once glorious passage becomes ”Though I speak with the tongues of persons and of angels …” So much for sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. The parson person of the same church is now referring to God as ”He/She” and changing all references 30 October 2016 Page 1 of 3 ProQuest accordingly – no easy undertaking if he intends to be consistent. In the following, the first pronoun would remain because at this primitive stage of human evolution, male persons do not give birth to babies: ”And she brought forth her firstborn son/daughter, and wrapped him/her in swaddling clothes, and laid him/her in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. …” As the after-dinner speaker at a recent professional conference, I heard a text replete with ”he/she’s” and ”his/ her’s” read aloud for the first time. The hapless program female chairperson stuck with the job chose to render these orally as ”he-slash-she” and ”hisslash-her,” turning the following day’s schedule for conference participants into what sounded like a replay of the Manson killings. Redress may be due those of us who, though female, have answered to masculine referents all these years, but slashing is not the answer; violence never is. Perhaps we could right matters by using feminine forms as the generic for a few centuries, or simply agree on a per-woman lump-sum payment. Still, we would be left with the problem of referring, without bias, to transpersons. These are not bus drivers or Amtrak conductors but persons in transit from one gender to the other – or so I interpret a fund-drive appeal asking me to defend their civil rights, along with those of female and male homosexuals. Without wishing to step on anyone’s civil rights, I hope transpersons are not the next politically significant pressure group. If they are, count on it, they will soon want their own pronouns. In the tradition of the West, meanwhile, feminists out here wrestle the language to the ground, plant a foot on its neck and remove its masculine appendages. Take the local art critic Beverly Terwoman. She is married to a man surnamed Terman. She writes under ”Terwoman,” presumably in the spirit of vive la difference. As a letter to the editor of the paper for which she writes noted, however, ”Terwoman” is not ideologically pure. It still contains ”man,” a syllable reeking of all that is piggy and hairy-chested. Why not Beverly Terperson? Or better, since ”Terperson” contains ”son,” ”Terdaughter”? Or a final refinement, Beverly Ter? Beverly Terwoman did not dignify this sexist assault with a reply. The writer of the letter was a male person, after all, probably the kind who leaves his smelly sweat socks scattered around the bedroom floor. No one wins these battles anyway. In another letter to the same local weekly, J. Seibert, female, lets fire at the printing of an interview with Phyllis Schlafly. Not only was the piece ”an offense to everything that Marin County stands for,” but ”it is even more amusing that your interview was conducted by a male. ”This indicates your obvious assumption that men understand women’s issues better than women since men are obviously more intelligent (as no doubt Phyllis would agree).” A sigh suffuses the editor’s note that follows: ”The author of the article, Sydney Weisman, is a female.” So the war of the pronouns and suffixes rages, taking no prisoners except writers. Neuter your prose with all those clanking ”he/she’s,” and no one will read you except Alan Alda. Use masculine forms as the generic, and you have joined the ranks of the oppressor. None of this does much to encourage friendly relations between persons, transpersons or – if there are any left – people. I also have little patience with the hyphenated names more and more California female persons adopt when they marry, in the interests of retaining their own personhood. These accomplish their intention of declaring the husband separate but equal. They are hell on those of us who have trouble remembering one name, much less two. They defeat answering machines, which can’t handle ”Please call Gwendolyn Grunt-Messerschmidt.” And in this culture, they retain overtones of false gentility. Two surnames, to me, still bring to mind the female writers of bad romances and Julia Ward Howe. It’s a mug’s game, friends, this neutering of a language already fat, bland and lethargic, and it’s time we decide not to play it. This female person is currently writing a book about rodeo. I’ll be dragged behind a saddle bronc before I will neuter the text with ”cowpersons.” Cyra McFadden, author of ”The Serial,” lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. William Safire is on vacation. Illustration 30 October 2016 Page 2 of 3 ProQuest drawing of women Subject: ENGLISH LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES; Publication title: New York Times,   Late Edition (East Coast) Pages: A.9 Publication year: 1981 Publication date: Aug 2, 1981 Year: 1981 Section: A Publisher: New York Times Company Place of publication: New York, N.Y. Country of publication: United States Publication subject: General Interest Periodicals–United States ISSN: 03624331 CODEN: NYTIAO Source type: Newspapers Language of publication: English Document type: NEWSPAPER ProQuest document ID: 424181129 Document URL: http://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/424181129?accountid=3783 Copyright: Copyright New York Times Company Aug 2, 1981 Last updated: 2010-06-29 Database: ProQuest Central _______________________________________________________________ Contact ProQuest Copyright  2016 ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. – Terms and Conditions 30 October 2016 Page 3 of 3 ProQuest

 
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  1. After re-reading your selected article, write a 3-4 sentence overview of the work, briefly describing main points and your thoughts about the writing. Include the author’s name and title of the article in this overview. These sentences will be part of your Introduction.
  2. In Assignment 1: Writing Plan, you wrote a claim* to be addressed in your analysis essay. The claim should again clearly state what you believe is the author’s goal in his or her article, your reaction to this goal (e.g., do you agree or disagree?), and why you had this reaction. After re-reading and re-evaluating the article, do you want to change your claim? If so, re-write your claim in the textbox below. If you are still happy with your original claim, enter it again in the textbox.
  3. In Assignment 1: Writing Plan, you listed three possible key points* that the author used to support his or her goal. Re-write the first supporting point in the textbox below. Then list one way in which the reading supports this point.
  4. Now look for specific evidence* to support this first key point. The evidence should be a direct quote* from the article, a summary* of a section of the article, or a paraphrased* section of the article. Include the evidence in the textbox. (Remember to put quotation marks around direct quotes and cite the source in either MLA or APA format.
  5. Write 1-2 sentences that explain how this piece of evidence supports the author’s goal (from Question 2). Then, write 4 or more sentences that explain your reaction to the author’s key point (e.g., do you agree or disagree with this key point and its evidence? Do you think the author met his/her goal with the evidence that is being presented? Does additional information need to be included?) Remember to elaborate on your reaction.
  6. Write the second key point/supporting point from your Assignment 1
  7. Now look for specific evidence to support this second key point. The evidence should be a direct quote from the article, a summary of a section of the article, or a paraphrased section of the article. Include the evidence in the textbox. (Remember to put quotation marks around direct quotes.)
  8. Write 1-2 sentences that explain how this piece of evidence supports your claim (from Question 2). Then, write 4 or more sentences that explain your reaction to the author’s key point (e.g., do you agree or disagree with this key point and its evidence? Do you think the author met his/her goal with the evidence that is being presented? Does additional information need to be included?) Remember to elaborate on your reaction.
  9. Write the third key point/supporting point from your Assignment 1
  10. Now look for specific evidence to support this third key point. The evidence should be a direct quote from the article, a summary of a section of the article, or a paraphrased section of the article. Include the evidence in the textbox
  11. Write 1-2 sentences that explain how this piece of evidence supports your claim (from Question 2). Then, write 4 or more sentences that explain your reaction to the author’s key point (e.g., do you agree or disagree with this key point and its evidence? Do you think the author met his/her goal with the evidence that is being presented? Does additional information need to be included?) Remember to elaborate on your reaction.
  12. Re-state your claim exactly as it is stated in Question 2.
  13. Write 3-4 sentences that summarize your reaction to the author’s key supporting points (Questions 3-11).
  14. Explain at least 2 insights* about your claim established through your analysis.
 
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Use of Gender Titles

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Use of Gender Titles

         In my critical analysis essay, I will be concentrating or rather targeting the English scholars as my audience. This is because these are the people who are relatively critical thinkers and are substantially involved in challenging the use of words in English, which in this case might include gender- sensitive words. Scholars are interested individuals who have a lot of question to ask on various subjects by challenging the already existing language while at the same time also providing their views and suggestion on the use of English words. There are a lot of difficulties I will encounter; however, my audience will benefit a lot from my critical analysis of my selected article since I will provide several insights on the use of gender-sensitive words and how the article brings them out. Well, my analysis in the areas of the article such as how the writer brings out their point of view will help my audience clearly understand the context of which the author is writing. My audience will also benefit from the fact that I will use gender- sensitive words and explain such terms as menstrual periods, mental illness and mentality relating to sex using gender- sensitive words.

          This particular article is written in a manner that basically might not be understandable, or rather it is not easy to directly decipher the meaning and the author’s point of view. This is why my analysis will be very vital in helping my audience in understanding the various concepts and views points projected by the author. First of all, studyprimarily provides a simplification of the complicated concepts and ideas of the article. Some important issues are brought up by the author in the article, and an example of such matters relate to the use of aword such as aperson, woman, among others that I will help my audience understand by relating them to the author’s point of view. My analysis will focus on providing a clear understanding of the author’s message and opinionin a clear way. There is also the important fact that is prominent in the article that my analysis will focus on to enable my audience to understand this article, such events which include the need to erase gender insensitive words from English.

          Well, my primary purpose of analyzing this article is to provide my audience with an understanding of the author’s ideas and point of view. Also, I am intending to provide additional context to help my audience in understanding the text clearly. Some of the settings I will introduce include the use of words such as menstrual periods which is mainly inclined to the feminine gender and mentalities that are essentially related to sex. It is worth nothing that, I am no intending to use my analysis to convince my audience that the author’s ideas and point of view are correct or otherwise. In fact, I intend to provide the audience with insights and a better understanding so that the decision as to whether the author is right or wrong will solemnly depend on the public’s understanding. I agree with the author recognizing the fact that, in some cases, there is need to specify gender.

 
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