Please respond to the following questions, based upon the assigned readings in Culture: A Reader for Writers. You should number your responses, which should total at least 300 words combined, and you should post a 75-word response to one student’s post in this forum. Please remember that these short discussions are meant to allow you to practice the conventions of academic writing and to allow you to interact and exchange ideas with other students in the course. Please note that you must post your own answers to the questions posted before you respond to another student’s post.
“Bug Affairs” (p. 264) Questions
1. What is Pennington’s purpose? Do you think this article is attempting to inform, persuade, entertain, solve a problem, or something else? In short, what is Pennington up to?
2. Explain Pennington’s introductory strategy. How does the description of a bedbug’s feeding process fit into his overall purpose?
3. What does the resurgence of bedbugs in major U.S. cities say about us–about our culture, our relationship to nature, or our progress?
“Fly on the Wall Sees Things It Wishes It Hadn’t” (p. 277) Questions
1. Scientific American articles are written for a general audience–people who haven’t spent years studying bacteria, feces, or houseflies. Identify the passages in which you learn something new. Explain, if you can, how Dunn condenses background knowledge for a general audience.
2. Explain the role of questions in Dunn’s article. Point to at least two specific questions and describe how they serve a particular purpose.
3. In his conclusion, Dunn explains that flies offer a “real truth” about human behavior. In your own words, explain that truth.
I dont have access to the book, also I will respond to my peers myself! Thank You
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