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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ....................................................................................................................... v Chapter I: Reading Academic Texts From Hand to Mouth ............................................................................................................ 3 A Brief History of English..................................................................................................... 10 Understanding Calories ....................................................................................................... 19 Wrigley’s Chewing Gum ...................................................................................................... 20 The Golden Age of Comics .................................................................................................. 21 Competition and Cooperation ............................................................................................ 22 On Various Kinds of Thinking .............................................................................................. 23 From the Autopsy Surgeon’s Report ................................................................................... 34 Legal Indictment ................................................................................................................. 35 Local Girl Found Slain by Rejected Lover ............................................................................ 36 The Sob Sister’s Story .......................................................................................................... 37 Porphyria’s Lover ................................................................................................................ 38 Quiapo: The Procession of the Black Nazarene .................................................................. 40 Black Nazarene Procession Awes American Tourist ........................................................... 42 Chapter 2: Writing A Reaction Paper, Review, or Critique Art ....................................................................................................................................... 45 Four Values in Filipino Drama and Film .............................................................................. 48 The Digital Divide: The Challenge of Technology and Equity ............................................. 62 Ang Bayan Muna Bago ang Sarili ........................................................................................ 64 Why JFK’s Inaugural Succeeded .......................................................................................... 66 President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address ................................................................. 69 Dead Water ......................................................................................................................... 72 Epic Review Shows How the Revolution Assassinated ‘Heneral Luna’ ............................... 73 Movie Review: Heneral Luna .............................................................................................. 75 Review: ‘Heneral Luna’ Shows Human Side of Hero........................................................... 78 ‘HeneralDEPED Luna’: Film Review................................................................................................ COPY 80 Chapter 3: Writing A Concept Paper Boondocks ........................................................................................................................... 85 Months of the Year ............................................................................................................. 87 Days of the Week ................................................................................................................ 91 Ketchup ............................................................................................................................... 93 Mercury Pollution ............................................................................................................... 95 Hormones in the Body ........................................................................................................ 97 iii All rights reserved. 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Paleolithic Art ...................................................................................................................... 99 Extracts from Words to the Intellectuals .......................................................................... 101 Why Sinigang? ................................................................................................................... 104 The Sentiments of Kundiman ............................................................................................ 109 Our Very Own Arnis .......................................................................................................... 115 Fusion vs. Fission ............................................................................................................... 117 Things: The Throw-Away Society ...................................................................................... 120 Chapter 4: Writing A Position Paper The Case for Short Words ................................................................................................. 124 Doubts About Doublespeak .............................................................................................. 127 The Other Side of E-Mail ................................................................................................... 130 Women Talk Too Much ..................................................................................................... 132 ‘r u online?’: The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens .......................................................... 139 Is Bad Language Unacceptable on TV? ............................................................................. 143 Good English and Bad ....................................................................................................... 147 With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything ...................................................................... 157 The Great Global Warming Swindle .................................................................................