LEARNING LOG #9: 4/26/21 → 

 
--Writing Task: Style Academy, Scheme Balance 
● If . . . then . . . 
● Not . . . but . . . 
● Not only . . . but also . . . 
● From . . . to . . . 
● Either . . . or . . .  
● Neither . . . nor . . . 
● Exercise one: There could be a mix up of the tickets if we arrive at the arena late 
which can cause us to be even more late, then we’d have to hold up the line as 
the game goes on in the background. 
● Exercise two: Neither strong boots, a top-of-the-line backpack, nor a sturdy ice 
axe is what you’ll need to climb Mt. Everest; you need limitless persistence, wild 
courage and a marathon runner’s legs. 
LEARNING LOG #8: 4/26/21 → 
--Writing Task: Style Academy, Active Sentences 
● There needs to be an investigation by the university into the usage of laptops by 
students in their classes. 
○ No slow starts 
○ Find actors in the sentence, move them to the subject 
○ Give actors actions 
● The university needs to investigate the students using their laptops. 
● Chemist’s analysis of the neurotransmitter serotonin helps pharmaceutical 
companies in the development of drugs for depression. 
● The defense attorney’s attempt to humiliate the prosecution's star witness made 
them cry.  
● Some people who wear bicycle shorts shopping don’t understand others are 
staring at them.   
LEARNING LOG #7: 4/21/21 → 
--Writing Task: Style Academy, Absolute Phrases 
● In the middle of the exam, one student came stumbling through the door, 
clothing soaked from the rainstorm outside. 
● The rowdy pack of paparazzi stepped over themselves trying to get a shot of the 
just-married celebrities snapping their cameras like crazy. 
 ● Snapping their cameras like crazy, the rowdy pack of paparazzi stepped over 
themselves trying to get a shot of the just-married celebrities. 
● The rowdy pack of paparazzi stepped over themselves, snapping their cameras 
like crazy to get a shot of the just-married celebrities. 
● The mild morning sun was peeking over the mountains to the lining of the city’s 
political leaders on the sidewalk, the conditions for the opening ceremony could 
not have been more ideal with an enthusiastic crowd of locals forming in front 
of the new factory there were protestors and the coroner of three blocks away. 
LEARNING LOG #6: 4/19/21 →  
--Writing Task: Style Academy: Appositives 
● Identify or rename, explain or give examples of, define, or summarize 
● Drew Gilpin Faust, a renowned world-wide professor, recently testified before 
the United States Congress to encourage the government to fund more science 
research. 
● A diphthong is a vowel sound that kind of glides from one vowel sound to 
another, such as cow. 
● Saltair, built in 1893, was once allied with Coney Island of the West upon the 
southern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah by the Los Angeles and Salt Lake 
Railroad Company that had been designed by a Utah architect of German 
descent, Richard Kletting. 
LEARNING LOG #5: 4/14/21 
--Writing Task: Style Academy →  
● Hesitantly tucking her hand behind her back, her younger sister looked into the 
camera.  
LEARNING LOG #4: 4/12/21 
--Writing Task: Style Academy → 
● People who become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge their 
failures: they even embrace them, explore them, learn from them. 
● Since the late 1990s, I could no longer see my feet so I made an appointment 
with a Paris eye doctor who sent me o to buy glasses after he ran some tests. 
● The fact that I couldn’t see the choice of frames clearly, I blame my bad choice 
of them on my poor eyesight. 
● I would like to say they were forced upon me, however neither excuse is true. 
● The frames were made of dark plastic with rectangular lenses not much larger 
than my eyes.  
 ● There was something vaguely familiar about them, but I couldn’t quite put my 
finger on it.  
● After picking them up I spent a great deal of time in front of the mirror, 
pretending to share intelligent comments regarding the state of Europe. 
LEARNING LOG #3: 4/7/21 
--Writing Task: Style Academy → 
● Snowden self-indulgently short-circulated, since he was putting his own 
preferences above everything else, the democratic structures of his own 
accountability. 
● Snowden was putting his own preferences above everything else by self 
indulgently short circuiting the democratic structures of accountability. 
● By placing his own preferences above Snowden self indulgently and 
short-circuited the democratic structures of accountability. 
--Practice Paragraph 
● Spread in feedlots, slaughterhouses, and hamburger grinders, the pathogens 
from infected cattle are spread. The slaughterhouse tasks more likely to 
contaminate meat is the removal of an animal’s hide and its digestive system. 
The hides are now pulled o by machine and must be adequately cleaned from 
the chunks of dirt and manure that may fall from it, possibly landing on the 
meat. Stomachs and intestines are still pulled out of cattle by hand but carefully 
since the contents of the digestive system may spill everywhere. What makes the 
task much more di cult is the increased speed of today’s production lines, A 
single worker at a “gut table” may eviscerate sixty cattle an hour. It takes a fair 
amount of skill to perform the job properly. I talked with a former IBP “gutter” 
learning that it took him six months to learn how to pull out the stomach and tie 
o the intestines without spillage. His best was gutting two hundred 
consecutive cattle without spilling anything. Inexperience gutters spill manure 
far more often. The hour spillage rate at the gut table rungs as high as 20 
percent with stomach contents splattering one out of five carcesses here in IBP 
slaughterhouse is in Lexington, Nebraska. 
LEARNING LOG #2: 4/5/21 
--Writing Task: Style Academy → 
● Even though geopolitical conflicts between nations will always be with us, this 
doesn’t mean we need to be afraid of each other. 
 ● While we don’t need to be afraid of each other, geopolitical conflicts between 
nations will always be with us. 
● We don’t need to be afraid of each other because geopolitical conflicts between 
nations will always be with us. 
--Part 2: 
● Once we have the bags ready for the choir rehearsal we’ll have to pack the 
sandwich lunches since we don’t want to be hungry during the concert practice in 
order to avoid bad singing when we’re up on stage. 
● Because we’re late to practice we’re going to have to do our hair while we’re in 
the car driving to the concert hall rather than wasting more time getting ready. 
LEARNING LOG #1: 3/24/21 
--Writing Task: Style Academy→ 
● As she entered the shower, Myka’s singing surprised her mother. 
● Myka sang to the surprise of her mother. 
● In the afternoon, Myka’s mother was shocked to hear her daughter singing. 
● Myka was singing later that day, it surprised her mother. 
● Myka’s mother was surprised by her daughter’s singing. 
● As Myka sang, she surprised her mother. 
● To surprise her mother, Myka sang to her. 
● Much to the mom’s surprise, her daughter Myka sang. 
● Myka was singing which surprised her mother. 
● While Myka sang, her mother was surprised. 
○ Non-hibakusha employers developed a prejudice against the survivors as 
word got around that they were prone to all sorts of ailments, and that 
even those like Nakamura-san, who were not cruelly maimed and had not 
developed any serious overt symptoms were unreliable workers, since 
most of them seemed to su er, as she did, from the mysterious but real 
malaise that came to be known as one kind of lasting A-bomb sickness: a 
nagging weakness and weariness, dizziness now and then, digestive 
troubles, all aggravated by a feeling of oppression a sense of doom, for it 
was said that unspeakable diseases might at any time plant nasty flowers 
in the bodies of their victims, and even in those of their descendants.