Write two paragraphs that briefly define effective writing in your own words and identify your writing strengths and weaknesses.

Effective writing is one that uses the correct grammar of your language and is able to establish effective communication with your audience, through word choices that are consistent with the readers and their degrees of reasoning. In addition, effective writing is cohesive and conveys messages in a fluid and well-established way.

Regarding my type of writing, I believe that there is a long way for me to acquire perfection, for that I try to optimize my common strengths (clarity, direct and simple language, use of more colloquial words and easy to understand phrases) relation to language and diminish my weaknesses (speed, subjects little explored, prolixity and very short narratives).

“thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.”

“hath taught me to set in trifles no store,”

“me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.”

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)