ENG 015 – Fall 2018

PB1A Letters to the Editor Part1 Links： Here is David C.  Leach letter to the editor that she published in the DP. Here is an example: Let's get physical Here is Sally Engelhart  letter to the editor that she published in the DP. Part2 Genre conventions: Date, author name, title, picture,formal language, polite,personal opinion, reasons, questions, advantage for credit physical education classes, actual conditions. Part3 Exigence: What prompted the writer’s need to communicate in this particular text? Penn college offer credit physical education classes. What’s the urgency behind the need to enact this genre? Why this, why now? Student become lazy and they got illness easily. They kill for a weekly hour set aside for playing games with friends. Many of them want gym class back. What event/moment sparked the creation of this text? Over recent years, a bunch of universities have been fizzling out or eliminating physical educa...

Here is David C. Leach letter to the editor that she published in the DP. Here is an example: https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/11/upenn-gym-physical-education-pottruck-ivy-league-columbia-cornell-editorial Here is Sally Engelhart letter to the editor that she published in the DP.

    I am a dynamic boy with a wide range of interests since childhood: drawing, playing the piano, skating, singing, table tennis, calligraphy and travelling.     Take my experience with table tennis as an example. My story with table tennis began since Grade six, I remember it was a summer day when I stayed in my mother’s office waiting for her and suddenly a pair of table tennis bats just drew my attention. At that moment, an idea just popped in my mind that I should really try activities like playing table tennis there. So I searched the whole office area and found an abandoned table ideal for playing table tennis on and a spacious room which could be used as an activity room. Later, I placed a large piece of cardboard in the middle and supported it with two books, which brought my handmade table tennis table into being.     What the sports meant to me was more than a pastime. During playing with my mother’s colleagues, I found many of them tale...