We need to stop looking at the “issues” of 1Gs as solely monetary. What we need to do instead is to understand that what influences 1Gs to attend college in the first place, the social support of family and mentors, needs to be replaced by the social support from us, their peers.
Thesis Statement?
But what good do things like bedding and grocery money do when a first-generation student is unable to text a parent for help on paper topics or feels more unprepared for college life and classes than his peers
Second conversation there i a larger problem
201Nutbeamof this comes from Harvard College dean, Dr. Khurana, who admitted to making a 1G uncomfortable when asking the class she was teaching to say what their parents did for a living, as an “icebreaker” (Pappano). To remedy the situation, she now asks different icebreaker questions (Pappano). But does changing the question really address the true problem?
This is a good example of a quote sandwich or an iced quote.
in other words, attempting to let 1Gs know that a college education is not just for “rich kids.”
Best use of metacommentary, It is funny I hear a voice and it explains the previous topic well.
eady met with multiple struggles.
sets up the rest of the paragraph effectivly
Why, then,
metacommentary to pose question
When one thinks about it,
metacommentary
The issue of income inequality experienced by students in college is one that is largely ignored, or trivialized, as one can s
She continuously goes betwee her real life stories and second conversations.
for my federal work-study job1
Adding to the story of her financial situation.
’ve personally heard the term used an innumerable amount of times, including by my roommate (who yet s
Beginning of second conversation.
The term “starving college student” has become infamous -used by almost any and every college student, regardless of their economic security.
Great use of metacommentary and explains the previous remarke
Her friend gave her a faux-upset look.
Metacommentary also 1st convo
lus, she had to go back soon, anyways
is this all metacommentary
lus,
Possible Mettacomentary http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
. However meticulous he might be in fact-checking the errors of others, there is always this slippage in his account of his own success, this insistence that he did it by himself.
Calling out a famous seeker of truth for being deceitful. This is a powerful sentence.
The GoFundMe appeal was not the first time I’d seen David diminish Barbara’s role in building Snopes’ reputation.
This sentence clarifies the authors stance, and it is a form of metacomentary
tuck in my craw.
I am unfamiliar with this phrase.
Still, David must have anticipated that ending the agreement would annoy his new co-owners.
Foreshadowing the next section possibly.
Kim LaCapria, a frequent poster who later became one of Snopes’ first employees, says she relied on Barbara in those years.
The way she is introduced is clear and brief, both good things.
Finally
Metacommentary?
Then, on September 11, 2001, out of the clear blue sky, everything changed.
This reminds me of a set up for a punch line
—the closest thing to fake news the early internet could come up with—but it remained, mostly, a hobby for the Mikkelsons.
It is so interesting to think that email chains were the 1990s version of fake news. The dashes are also examples of metacommentary
and their stories about these salad days sound like tales from an endearingly dorky public-access television show.
Metacommentary. This makes the readers understand the next sentence before they read it.
He’s got the worldview of Eeyore, had Eeyore been obsessed with cataloging the precise history, variety, and growing seasons of thistles in the Hundred Acre Wood.
I am not sure that this is metacommentary, however, it effectively gives the readers context in a funny and relatable way.
As pretty much anyone knows, the truth can be a slippery bastard
This is a funny example of metacommentary. This line makes me want to continue reading
—which
Metacommentary used to quickly add an important piece of information.
like PolitiFact, which is operated by the Tampa Bay Times, or FactCheck.org at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
The author is giving credit to the cites and their owners.
Feeling depressed about the conflation of fiction and fact in the first few months of 2017,
This is an excellent example of metacommentary. It is slightly long-winded but it works with the piece
Not-Normal was setting in:
This is an example of metacommentary.
When they fetishize pain, it’s only because it resides so closely to excellence.
This thought answers so many questions and perfectly sums up the reasoning behind skateboarding.
That is, those dudes never get off their skateboards, literally or otherwise, even when it makes sense.
This is an obvious and effective use of metacommentary, and it works very well within the paragraph. The sentence is functional, and it clearly explains the previous thought.
Phelps wrote an article about the trip for the magazine, called “Party’s Over,” and, interspersed with his thoughts on aging and substance abuse,
I think that it is difficult to quickly summarize what a piece of writing is about, however the author seems to do this seamlessly. This is something I need to work on.
the city is too topographically blessed to be completely rid of skateboarders
I liken the way the author paraphrased in this comment.
Phelps’s Ray-Bans are embedded in the concrete of the Potrero del Sol skate park
I like how this citation references the previous statement in the text about why the glasses are on the skatepark. I is much less dry than a simple citation.
This was years ago, and I still haven’t decided whether he was making fun of me or not.
I appreciate this brief comment on the authors own thought process.
But the bluntness with which he delivers his judgments continues to make him divisive
I enjoy how the author counters the previous point with this sentence.
Skaters at the South of Market skate park in San Francisco
This is an obvious citation, however it dose not take away from piece.
Phelps claims to have done so much acid, he would later mistake the 1989 earthquake for a particularly heavy flashback.)
Other than this sentence being extremely funny, it is also a good example of metacommentary. The parenthesis give the illusion that the reader and the author are in on something that the subject isn't.
You don’t root for skaters; you have taste in skaters.
This is another example of an interesting and pertinent comparison.
Skateboarding probably has more in common with pornography: Talented people are paid to be filmed doing something they’re good at, or at least insane enough to try.
This is a very interesting thought. It is both funny and thoughtful about what the true qualities of skateboarding are.
His entire affect is charmingly cartoonish.
I really like the descriptive language here.
He’s been the editor of Thrasher since 1993. The magazine occupies such a privileged space in skateboarding’s collective imagination that it’s difficult to know what to compare it to.
I like how the author cites the magazine in a non-obvious way by describing what it is like.
As if to punctuate his point, he ran the next red light
Great transition. I admire the strategy.
mid-ass;
again, with the fun swear words.
I had spent only a few minutes with Jake Phelps before someone called him an asshole
I really like how punchy this first line is. I draws readers in and beckons them to read more.
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Metacommentary punctuation.
Look
An example of metacommentary?
On the contrary,
This is metacommentary because the author is playing the devils advocate with their own work.
And here’s the thing
Placing emphasis on a point within the paragraph is metacommentary.
The answe
Responding to their own work.
by the way,
I am not sure but I think this is metacommentary.
This makes sense
Metacommentary because the author is agreeing with their previous point.
For example,
I am not sure if this is metacommentary, but I think it might be because it introduces rational for the authors argument.
:
This is an example of metacommentary because it sets up an explanation.
In fact,
This is metacommentary
You see
meta commentary because its a phrase that checks if the reader understands.
Now, this isn’t the way we like to see ourselves.
I feel that the use of metacommertary here can be argued that it is the entire sentence. This is because the author is making it extremely clear what their thoughts are
— that is
This acts as a further explanation for the previous claim.
The key observation,
Letting the readers know what they should take away from the piece: this is metacommentary.
We know
This is similar to saying "obviously" which is a know example of metacommentary
But let’s go beyond the personal here
This is metacomentary because it alerts the author and the readers to the direction the op-ed is going
O.K.
Using a colloquialism like "OK" helps the readers access the text. It also allows readers to understand the text better because people can generally understand the nuance of using the word "OK" in this context. This is also metacometrary because the author is commenting on their work.
If you’re like me
This is an example of meta commentary because the author is asking the readers to understand the content of the article from their perspective