Blog Assignment #6

In the 7th paragraph of " A Way With Words, or Away With Words", author uses three citations from two sources. They are "data suggests that when teenagers transition to college, they naturally shed some of their adolescent linguistic ways in favor of more formal wrting conventions", "[the] data contains few abbreviations or acronyms. Spelling is remarkably good, and punctuation isn't particularly bad either" and "most students realize that they need to put their adolescent spellings behind them by the time they get to college". In the 7th paragraph, author tends to tell readers that students' writing by using txt language become less as they grow up. Using these sources can make sense of his point. Because as the citation, these source are from data, which are more denpendable. At the end, the source can be a good conclusion.
This article is about students' using adolescent spelling. At the beginning, author talks about its convenient and parents' tripedation. This paragraph，in the middle part, acts as transition. After this paragraph, author writes about something on the other hand compared to previous paragraphs.

Blog Assignment #5

In China, after every dynasty takes place of the former one, the first thing they must do is writing history. They would like to say they stand for justice and their behavior of dynasty change is fulfilling absolute decree. They describes former dynasty's administration management corrupt. That's why they overturn it. Because winner uses history to change people's minds so that to control them especially their thoughts. History belongs to culture. Controlling culture is the most important thing for a dynasty.
However, if the history is written by loser, what we learn nowadays would be totally different. For example, in "From Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", if history is written by Indians, it would say how terriblely the Eroupen did to them. They would accuse invader of their behavior. Surely, what loser describe about history is not accurate, but it is in another differently angle. Of course, loser will emphasize their pity and innocence, and criminal actions of invaders. Indians will say how big they offered help to newcomings and would describes English as devil. Since historical events happened, people have no method to change it. Winner will erase their immoral activities while loser will concertrate on winner's immoral activities. And,emotions are different. Winner's history consists of happiness and proud while loser's history consists of antipathy and regret.