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Features of academic discourse
Question: Academic writers announce, usually somewhere near the beginning of an article, what they are going to do.
Answer: Billboards
Question: explore or problems to solve.
Answer: Questions
Question: Popular assumption that academic texts usually deal with certainty and much academic assertions.
Answer: Hedges
Question: Writing offers plenty of explicit direction about turns in a argument.
Answer: Signposts
Question: Academic texts often include a _______ of what others have already said.
Answer: Review
Purposes of Academic Reading
Question: What do I understand this to be saying?
Answer: Explain
Question: What could I learn from this? What does this make me think?
Answer: Explore
Question: Is this persuasive? How do I interpret this?
Answer: Evaluate
Question: How is this put together? Do I notice about how I'm thinking about this?
Answer: Reflect
Question: What question did you have after reading "George Saunders's Advice to Graduates".
Answer: Answers may vary
Random
Question: When _____ are upset, their sweat turns red.
Answer: Hippos
Question: ______ has 4 noses
Answer: Slugs
Question: A group of owls is called a ______
Answer: parliament.
Question: A bolt of lightning is ___ times hotter than the sun
Answer: six
Question: When snowboarding was invented it was called ______
Answer: Snurfing
George Saunders
Question: what was George Saunders biggest regret?
Answer: Failure to act with kindness
Question: Saunders says "as we get older, we come to see how useless it is to be ______..."
Answer: Selfish
Question: Saunders says that you will gradually be replaced by what? Provide an example.
Answer: Love. If you have kids, you won't care what happens to you, as long as they benefit.
Question: What is Saunders advice for becoming kinder and more loving?
Answer: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
Question: what is the connection between the processes of becoming kinder and improving reading skills?
Answer: They are both gradual processes.
George Saunders Continued
Question: what is the reason for our lack of unkindness according to Saunders?
Answer: Selfishness
Question: Saunders says that kindness happens naturally with ___.
Answer: Age
Question: What can we take from both pieces of writing?
Answer: They are both gradual processes and activities that require devotion and conscious input in order to improve.
Question: If someone is going to become kinder, what do they have to do? Why do they have to do that?
Answer: We have to take ourselves seriously, we have to do this to be our best selves
Question: What's the key to becoming kinder according to Saunders?
Answer: Taking our own initiative; other's can't do it for us