Hayden Benjamin Aria S.

Halliday English 106 3/30/14 Our Ever-Shifting Jargon & Academic Writing is Convoluted In the article Our Ever-Shifting Jargon, the point is made that terms are continuing to evolve as time goes on. However, after a certain point, I disagree with it. I believe that terms are shifting to more accurate words and phrases that better describe the nouns that they are referring to. The other terms they bring up deal with being politically correct, and fixing all the incorrect jargon from an earlier, still developing generation. I am not sure how others feel about some of the changing terms, but I feel like they are insignificant changes that have never really registered with me. I am not against being fair to both sexes, but I had never thought of freshman as a sexist term and plenty of girls I know have not either. I believe the term should be corrected, but I do not believe it holds much importance, if any at all. The context behind these phrases might have a background of sexism, but they have come to mean something so much different than what their make up (the roots and words they are constructed with) implies. A good example is the now pass dormitory, or dorm. The term administrators prefer to use these days is residence hall. The above dealt with the changing language, and the article Academic Writing is Convoluted, is an article dealing with the changing problems of the world. The main argument made by this author is that the worlds greatest minds are being shut out from issues that face the world today. I agree with this and I believe this is a problem. School

has become separate from the real world for the most part. Is it that they dont teach you what you need to know? Or is it that it is too difficult to adequately prepare someone for an ever-changing world. Like it or not, the Western world has devised a two-part education system. Both of these articles deal with academics and language, a strong point of what we are currently learning in class.