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Directions: To see how one writer signals when she is asserting…
Directions:
To see how one writer signals when she is asserting her own views and when she is summarizing those of someone else, read the following passage by the social historian Julie Charlip. As you do so, identify those spots where Charlip refers to the views of others and the signal phrases she uses to distinguish her views from theirs.
I will leave an example below please don’t copy the example words, Just follow the structure and use your own words!!! In bold
Background.
“When writers fail to use voice-marking devices like the ones discussed in this chapter, their summaries of others’ views tend to become confused with their own ideasand vice versa. When readers cannot tell if you are summarizing your own views or endorsing a certain phrase or label, they have to stop and think: “Wait. I thought the author disagreed with this claim. Has she actually been asserting this view all along?” or “Hmmm, I thought she would have objected to this kind of phrase. Is she actually endorsing it?” Getting in the habit of using voice markers will keep you from confusing your readers and help alert you to similar markers in the challenging texts you read” (Graff and Birkenstein, 74).
Please share those spots and the signal phrases she uses in your reply to the discussion topic:
Marx and Engels wrote: “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each otherthe bourgeoisie and the proletariat” (10). If only that were true, things might be more simple. But in late twentieth-century America, it seems that society is splitting more and more into a plethora of class factionsthe working class, the working poor, lower-middle class, upper-middle class, lower uppers, and upper uppers. I find myself not knowing what class I’m from.
In my days as a newspaper reporter, I once asked a sociology professor what he thought about the reported shrinking of the middle class. Oh, it’s not the middle class that’s disappearing, he said, but the working class. His definition: if you earn thirty thousand dollars a year working in an assembly plant, come home from work, open a beer and watch the game, you are working class; if you earn twenty thousand dollars a year as a school teacher, come home from work to a glass of white wine and PBS, you are middle class.
How do we define class? Is it an issue of values, lifestyle, or taste? Is it the kind of work you do, your relationship to the means of production? Is it a matter of how much money you earn? Are we allowed to choose? In this land of supposed classlessness, where we don’t have the tradition of English society to keep us in our places, how do we know where we really belong? The average American will tell you he or she is “middle class.” I’m sure that’s what my father would tell you. But I always felt that we were in some no man’s land, suspended between classes, sharing similarities with some and recognizing sharp, exclusionary differences from others. What class do I come from? What class am I in now? As a historian, I seek the answers to these questions in the specificity of my past.
–Julie Charlip, “A Real Class Act: Searching for Identity in the ‘Classless’ Society.”
Here is an Example
From the passage “A real Class Act: Searching for identity in the “Classless’ Society” by Julie Charlip, a few signal phrases that she uses that distinguishes her views from theirs are;
“Marx and Engels wrote: “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other-the bourgeoisie and the proletariat” (10). (Charlip is quoiting, these are not her own words)
If only that were true, things might be more simple. (Charlips words)
In my days as a newspaper reporter, I once asked a sociology professor what he thought about the reported shrinking of the middle class. (Charlip words, she uses the I and my)
Oh, it’s not the middle class that’s disappearing, he said, but the working class. (The sociology professors words)
His definition: if you earn thirty thousand dollars a year working in an assembly plant, come home from work, open a beer and watch the game, you are working class; if you earn twenty thousand dollars a year as a school teacher, come home from work to a glass of white wine and PBS, you are middle class. (Sociology professors words)
I’m sure that’s what my father would tell you. (Charlip uses I)
But I always felt that we were in some no man’s land, suspended between classes, sharing similarities with some and recognizing sharp, exclusionary differences from others. (Charlip uses I)
As a historian, I seek the answers to these questions in the specificity of my past. (Charlip uses I and my)
