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Workshop in Essay Writing (ENG1100)
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Essay Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists Born in Nigeria in 1977, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a renowned novelist delivered a talk at TEDx Euston, a London conference focused on diversity, vibrancy and potential of in 2012. In 2014, her TED Talk was adapted into a book. (Broadview Press, 2014, p). Adichie theorizes that we should all be feminists. She talks about her experiences as a Nigerian woman and believes that men and women deserve the same level of rights in all aspects of life. Adichie uses numerous different types of expository writing to make her essay convincing to her readers such as illustration, argument, and narration. Adichie uses many examples to compare the behaviour towards woman versus towards men. Woman are degraded if they are still unmarried a certain age. Adichie stated that society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his (Adichie, 2012, p). She also stated that teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our boyfriends? God (Adichie, 2012, p). Adichie uses the method of illustrations and uses specific examples and situations to support her main message and to demonstrate that woman and men do not have to same level of respect. The more specific the example, the more effective it is in persuading the readers to believe what you are conveying is accurate. During her TED Talk, she presents a personal experience as she told the audience a time when she was out with a friend, who was a male, and decided to tip a gentleman from her money for helping her find a parking spot. The gentleman said thank you to her male friend instead of Adichie because he believed that whatever money she had came from him. To automatically assume that whatever money Adichie had come from her male friend is a disrespectful insinuation that women need to rely on men for their income and cannot work for themselves. These illustrations further demonstrate why the gender inequality issue needs to improve. Her use of personal experiences allows the audience to see things from her perspective and further relate to the issue. Adichie is persuasive within her text. She types of expository writing she uses is argument because she is persuading the audience. The use of for strategies in her TED Talk allowed the audience to be captivated her words and arguments to believe what she is trying to express. She uses these methods to appeal to the audience on an 1 emotional, ethical and logical level. She used pathos to appeal to emotion sharing her personal experiences and stories. She used logos to appeal to logic using facts and statistics. She stated that about of the population is female. She used ethos to appeal authority mentioning authoritative figures such as a quote Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai. All of these modes are used to support her main argument. This expository essay is written in the first person. Adichie used a narrative point of view to tell multiple stories from her past. She speaks in first person, using which creates a conversational tone. Speaking in the first person has a greater impact on the readers because the message that is being conveyed can be better comprehended. For example, in the first paragraph of the essay she narrates a story of her walking into a Nigerian hotel and being questioned a guard at the entrance because she is a woman. walked into the lob of one of the best Nigerian hotels, and a guard at the entrance stopped me and asked me annoying questions because the automatic assumption is that a Nigerian female walking into a hotel alone is a sex worker. Because a Nigerian female alone cannot possibly be a guest paying for her own (Adichie, 2012, p). This allows the readers to understand the gender inequality she has experienced on a more personal level. Readers can see that she is not only proving thesis with personal opinion but through personal experiences as well which makes the essay more authentic. Adichie uses various types of expository writing such as illustration, narration, and argument to persuade the readers to recognize that there is great inequality between males and females. She states that problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we Woman are prescribed to be inferior to men which is why Adichie believes that we should all be feminists. personal definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do Many more can bring awareness to the gender inequality issue and help to erase the degrading behaviours that are shown to woman all over the world. 2
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Course: Workshop in Essay Writing (ENG1100)
University: University of Ottawa
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