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The articles "Official American English is Best" and "How Learning New Languages Has Shaped My Identity" will be compared and contrasted in this essay. I will also connect these two articles with another article titled "African American Language is Not Good English" to see how it contributes to the overall message of the first two articles.
The first two articles go hand in hand when it comes to the surrounding themes. In the article "How Learning New Languages Has Shaped My Identity" by France François, She discusses her personal experience with how different learning languages influenced her identity and helped her express herself. Similarly to the article "Official American English is Best" by Steven Alvarez, in which the author encourages its audience to embrace the diversity of our voices and language as linguistic gifts that can help us get through life's toughest challenges. Although both pieces revolved around the
same topic and targeted audience, the authors' approaches vastly differ. For instance, the structures, tone, and rhetorical choices used help create a distinctive difference between those two articles.
The manner in which each of these articles is structured is one of the main distinctions between them. Each is arranged differently but achieves the same goal of informing and convincing the intended audience, including instructors, students, and bilingual or multilingual people. For example, the writer's use of chronological text structures in the article "How Learning New Languages Has Shaped My Identity"
provides readers with a clear picture of the sequence of events on her road to discovering herself due to being multilingual. In contrast to the Problem and Solution structure used in the article "Official American English is Best," the author begins by introducing the "debate in favor of English as the official language of the United States" before moving on to a solution, "Embracing All of the United States' Languages as Gifts." The structure of both of these pieces assists the author's aim by allowing the author to organize their thoughts in a way that helps the reader comprehend the passage and what is being proposed/solved, despite the fact that the patterns of organization are entirely different.
When it comes to the third article, There are several similarities Between the third
article, "African American Language is Not Good English," and the second article, "Official American English is Best." One similarity is the use of irony in the title vs. the author's purpose, for example. The primary claim of the article is contradicted by what is
said in the title to the author's purpose of the article, which is to inform readers that African Americans language should not be seen as bad English" but rather a form of English with different grammatical rules. This adds to the overall message of the first two articles, which is that no language is superior to another.
Finally, while there are many similarities, such as the topic and use of irony, there
are also significant variations in each article's approach. I like all three of these pieces
equally because I believe they all contribute to the overall message of language: each language has its own uniqueness and can influence others differently.
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