A Grammatical Analysis in Three Secrets to Academic Success
What will readers do after reading a writing style?
There are many things that readers may do after reading a writing style, such as making judgments, and thinking about how information might be used in the future. Analysis is also an important thing that a good reader done. People can analysis about the author’s ideas, techniques, and patterns in the writing style. Language is involved with almost everything we do as human beings. We cannot live without language. To capture a language, Learning about English grammar pattern is a dimension that would be mean for achievement. Analysis a writing style can help us discovering the language to express what we read.
Three Secrets to Academic Success was written by Elana Peled, Ed.D. She is the founder of Academic Success for All. She started writing to help people who struggle to achieve academic success. This book reveals the powerful secrets that underlie academic success. The second secret is the learning creativity. It is about that every single person on the planet has the capacity to be creative. Our creativity is involved in how we make sense of the world and is intimately connected with our ability to learn. Based on my analysis in her writing style, she had written this chapter in grammatical correct English. One of the most important factors is that sentences were not formed by words alone but by structural units. The author had conformed her words, phrases, and sentences to specific pattern determined by the syntactic rules of the language. She utilized different types of sentences, passive voice, relative clause, and pronoun to emphasize some facts, attract our attention, and make effective writing.
The author used a variety of sentence types at varying lengths to express more strong statements, reasonable ideas, interesting and dynamic energy. There are some types of sentences that were used in her writing, such as simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences. They brought about different effects in her writing. An example of simple sentence is “Creativity is our birthright!” (Peled, 2011). This simple sentence contains just an independent clause to declare or exclaim something. In this simple sentence, she wanted to exclaim about creativity. It has the most basic elements that make it a sentence, for instance a subject, a verb, and a completed thought. In addition, the exclamation mark is used to give emphasis to her statement. This means she wants the reader to understand the strong statement even in simple sentence. The following example is using a compound sentence to compose of two or more independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction. “They are simply abandoned again, but without any warning that would give them the opportunity to prepare a means of finding their way home.” (Peled, 2011). This sentence contains two clauses which are joined by "but". It contains two independent clauses that have equal grammatical status. The comma and coordinating conjunction do not affect the independency of the compound sentence. Therefore, coordinating conjunctions are useful for connecting these clauses. The purpose of using coordinating conjunction is to make an impact between two clauses. A complex sentence contains both independent and dependent clauses. In the following example, both clauses contain a subject and a verb, but the dependent clause has a subordinating conjunction words “since”. “Since academic success requires creativity, we can now understand how one might subconsciously choose to avoid being successful there” (Peled, 2011). Subordinating conjunction signal meaning relationship between two clauses and express specific independent clause. It also affect the grammatical status of the clause that subordinating conjunction attach to. Because of the dependent clause comes first, it is always followed by a comma. In this case, the complex sentence