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In what ways have we done wrong in using chemicals? surroundings public users Text Analysis Detailed Analysis Part VI: Discussion Reinforcement Discussion Silent Spring Unit 5 Language Writing Techniques 1. How did Carson’s view contrast with the popular attitude towards nature of her time? 2. Any thoughts about the text, the book and the controversy it arouses? What is the right attitude to nature? How do you look at human being’s role in nature? Is our intelligence a blessing or a curse? How should we look at science and technology? Where did Carson’s sense of mission come from? 3. Are pesticides publicly dangerous or not? Reinforcement Discussion What is good writing? Her measured, carefully-worded (language) yet passionate prose (passion, love) was all the more damning because she, herself, was a scientist (ideas; information). Reinforcement Writing Techniques How can we write with power and precision? Eloquence Parallels …until they emerge and combine into new forms that kill vegetation, sicken cattle, and work unknown harm on those who drink from once pure wells. (para. 11) …to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil… (para. 16) Rhetorical questions Can anyone believe…? (para. 16) How could intelligent beings… ? (para. 18) Reinforcement Writing Techniques Antitheses: (juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in one grammatical structure) The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature. (para. 13) …this imagined tragedy may easily become a harsh reality we all shall know. (para. 8) Reinforcement Writing Techniques 2. Precision Qualifying expressions: To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation and its animal life have been molded by the environment. (para. 10)