1. reading a article and then write an paper: 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 ???

2. 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.

3. Help me revise a paper, because there are too many clichés in the first half that need revision