Reading Assignment #2

Chapter 5 "And Yet"


1.) The following sentences are where the author refers to the views of others.

• 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).

• 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.

• The average American will tell you he or she is "middle class."



These sentences are where the author refers to views of herself.

• I find myself not knowing what class I'm from.

• 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….”

• In my days as a newspaper reporter, I once asked a sociology professor what he thought about the reported shrinking of the middle class.

• As an historian, I seek the answers to these questions in the specificity of my past.

Signal phrases used:

• Marx and Engels wrote…

• He said…

• If only that were true…

• But I always felt…

• His definition

• I find myself…

• In my days…

• As a historian, I seek…



2.) From my essay on Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.

a) I engaged in 4 perspectives.

b) I could have included other perspectives besides the Bible and my own personal view.

c) I distinguish my views from others by using signal phrases such as…

 “I believe that…”

 “The passage in the Bible says…”

 “Psarev states that…”

 “The author shows evidence of this in his essay…”

d) Yes, I used clear voice-signaling phases.

e) The option that is available for clarifying who is saying what is voice markers and voice signaling phrases.

f) The options that were best suited for this particular text was voice signaling phrases.