University of California Riverside Type of English Discussion My teacher gave me an essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. There is a essay prompt that my teach

University of California Riverside Type of English Discussion My teacher gave me an essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. There is a essay prompt that my teacher gave me. I need to write 1 introduction, 3 body paragraph, and 1 conclusion. For introduction is just to summarize the Mother Tongue. The last sentence of introduction there must be a thesis statement. For 3 body paragraphs just need to use personal opinion to support my thesis statement. Thesis statement is ur essay prompt. The whole essay should be less than 750 words. So is basically read the Mother Tongue and write an essay with your own personal view about the essay and some personal opinions. Basic Writing 3
Prompt for Essay #1
Rough Draft Deadline: Tuesday, April 23 (11:59PM)
Final Draft Deadline: Tuesday, May 7 (11:59PM)
Assignment Prompt
This essay will require you to discuss the following writing topic in response to Tan’s “Mother Tongue”:
“What are the “different Englishes” Tan discusses, and how does she view them? What do you think of
her view? To support your position, be sure to use specific evidence taken from your own experience,
observations, or reading.” (Note that “reading” here means other readings than Tan’s essay itself.)
To do well on your essay, you must….
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Begin your essay with basic information about the reading selection and Tan’s argument
Ensure that your introduction has a thesis that indicates your reaction to Tan’s argument
Ensure that each body paragraph has one distinct central idea that is related to your thesis
Give each of your body paragraphs a topic sentence that presents the paragraph’s central idea
Use appropriate “specific evidence” – as described above – in each of your body paragraphs
Provide a conclusion that reinforces your thesis without reusing specific wording from your intro.
Use correct grammar and sentence structure, ideally with a sophisticated “variety of sentence
patterns” (Strahan and Moore 51)
Demonstrate correct knowledge of the Tan reading, as well as excellent critical thinking about the
topic overall
Length, Formatting, and Submission Guidelines
You have the ability to decide how long your essay should be to fulfill the requirements above, although
your essay should not exceed 750 words maximum. The essay must be formatted according to MLA
guidelines, with 1-inch margins, double spacing, and a standard 12-point font such as Times New Roman.
You will work on drafting your essay in class on the dates noted on the syllabus. Once you have finished
your draft, you will type it on a computer and upload it, and I will provide preliminary feedback. You will
then revise and edit your draft for a grade.
You must submit your completed essay electronically as an MS Word document (.doc or .docx) to our
class’s iLearn website using the “Assignments” function. If you do not have MS Word on your computer
(e.g., if you use Pages instead), consider creating your document in Google Docs and then exporting it as
a Word document.
Remember the course policy regarding late papers, which will lose 1/3 of a letter grade for every day they
are late (e.g., if your paper is one day late, you will receive an A- rather than an A or a B- rather than a B).
Grading Standards
The grading standards for this paper, like all papers assigned in this course, are included in the grading
rubric on pp. 51-53 of Write It.5. Check out the “To do well on this essay…” section above for more
insight.
Read the following
essay and the writing to pie that follows it. Then, use the exercises
and activities that
follow to move through the writing process and develop your coses
essay in response to the argument Tan presents in “Mother Tongue.”
Mother Tongue
Essac
AMY TAN
Amy Tan is an American writer whose novels examine family relation-
ships, especially those of mothers and daughters. She has written several
bestselling novels, such as The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s
Wife. Tan has a BA and MA from San Jose State University.
I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more
than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this
country or others. I am a writer. And by that definition, I am someone
who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I
spend a great deal of time thinking about the power of language—the way
it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all-all the Englishes I
grew up with sob o new song
Recently, I was made keenly aware of the different Englishes I do
use. I was giving a talk to a large group of people, the same talk I had
already given to a half a dozen other groups. The nature of the talk
was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club. The
talk was going along well enough, until I remembered one major dif-
ference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the
room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy
speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her. I was say-
ing things like, “The intersection of memory upon imagination” and
“There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus”-a
speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it
suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses,
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I’ll quote
conditional phrases, all the forms of standard English that I had learned
in school and through books, the forms of English I did not use at home
with
my
mother.
Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and
I again found myself conscious of the English I was using, the English I
do use with her. We were talking about the price of new and used fur-
niture and I heard myself saying this: “Not waste money
that way.” My
husband was with us as well, and he didn’t notice any switch in my Eng-
lish. And then I realized why. It’s because over the twenty years we’ve
been together, I’ve often used that same kind of English with him, and
sometimes he even uses it with me. It has become our language of inti-
macy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language
I grew up with.
So you’ll have some idea of what this family talk I heard sounds like,
what
my mother said during a recent conversation which I
mother
videotaped and then transcribed. During this conversation, my
was talking about a political gangster in Shanghai who had the same
last name as her family’s, Du, and how the gangster in his early years
wanted to be adopted by her family, which was rich by comparison.
Later, the gangster became more powerful, far richer than mother’s
my
family, and one day showed up at my mother’s wedding to pay his
respects. Here’s what she said in part:
“Du Yusong having business like fruit stand. Like off the street
kind. He is Du like Du Zong-but not Tsung-ming Island people.
The local people call putong, the river east side, he belong to that
side local people. That man want to ask Du Zong father take him
in like become own family. Du Zong father wasn’t look down on
him, but didn’t take seriously, until that man big like become a
Mafia. Now important person, very hard to inviting him. Chinese
way, came only to show respect, don’t stay for dinner. Respect for
making big celebration, he shows up. Mean gives lots of respect.
Chinese custom. Chinese social life that way. If too important won’t
have to stay too long. He come to my wedding. I didn’t see,
I heard
it. I gone to boy’s side, they have YMCA dinner. Chinese age I was
nineteen.”
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You should know that my mother’s expressive command of English
belies how much she actually understands. She reads the Forbes report,
listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads
all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease-all kinds of things I can’t
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begin to understand. But when I was growing up, my mother’s “lim-
ited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her Eng-
lish. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to
say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly, her thoughts were
imperfect. And I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the
fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did
not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to
understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her. Today, some
of my friends tell me they understand fifty percent of what my mother
says.
Some say they understand eighty to ninety percent. Some say they
understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese.
But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural.
It’s my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of
observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the
way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world. It captures
my mother: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her
speech, and the nature of her thoughts.
Copyright © 1989 by Amy Tan. First appeared in The Threepenny Review. Reprinted by per
author and the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
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