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Gary Clemans-Gibbon's blogs
Ugliness, staleness of imagery, lack of precision and inadvertent nonsense.
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon August 11, 2013 - 10:41pmMy literature review was intended to investigate previous works into the effects of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and other forms of Internet media into English grammar and idiomatic spoken and written language. It was prompted by a thesis...Mei-Lin’s investigation into attitudes surrounding the care of the elderly in larger Chinese...
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon July 27, 2013 - 10:01amHere is my formal write up of Mei-Lin’s investigation into attitudes surrounding the care of the elderly in larger Chinese communities within the USA (Swales & Feak, p.109)Critical evaluation - an example of unverifiable credibility.
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon July 23, 2013 - 5:16pm Comments (1)I have been posting on facebook about the incessant clamour surrounding the vacuous appeal of the "royal" baby and the indication of hegemonic success that the poor taxpayers who are "excited" at the news demonstrate. Following a polemic on royal...Critical Evaluation - Culture and cruelty.
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon July 22, 2013 - 6:48pm“To what degree, if any, does cultural conditioning and childhood indoctrination influence attitudes towards non-human beings and killing?”Writing, distractions, actual, real distractions and procrastination.
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon June 13, 2013 - 11:47pm Comments (10)This is a short one because I am so irritated by the suggestion that the features of out word processor program —"bells and whistles" — could ever constitute anything approaching a distraction in our contemporary, online, connected...Critical reading, respect, authority and freethought.
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon June 5, 2013 - 5:44pm Comments (1)If you habitually and unquestioningly perform some action, or hold a belief or assumption then you are in thrall to your cultural conditioning. All you have done is to have abdicated your personal responsibility on to all of society and authority....Scholarly neutrality and the art of persuasion
By Gary Clemans-Gibbon May 19, 2013 - 10:30pm Comments (2)One of the challenges that I have experienced on previous courses and in previous essays that I shall have to continue to work on conquering is that of rhetorical style. By this I mean the balancing of the imperative towards neutrality against the...
