...The world’s fate down a different and new path with different forms of advancements, good or bad. Fewer people are getting college degrees and more and more students head down a different route. Consequently, there are less educated people and the world must counter that, receiving a college education is far more beneficial than other routes because it delivers higher salaries and stable jobs. First off, those with a college degree earn a significantly larger salary than those without, although there are some extremely successful people who spent class time better elsewhere. However, there are many who have attempted that path yet they failed. Thus, in the argumentative article “Actually, College is Very Much Worth It” Andrew Rotherham claims...
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...Characteristics of Expository Essays What Characteristics make these essays expository? The two essays I chose to read were “Cochlear Implants” and “How to Clean a Fish.” When reading “How to Clean a Fish” the characteristics that make this an expository essay is that the author used facts to back up his or her opinion. The essay was very informational and used a great deal of detail on “How to Clean a Fish”; also the essay broke it down for you with diagrams and details. The essay was also presented in a non-bias manner. When reading “Cochlear Implant” the characteristic that make this an expository essay is that the author uses the facts to back up his or her opinion, the essay is very informational and gives examples of why the implants will work for someone that was deaf. This essay also was presented in a non-bias manner as well. Indentify the type of organizations each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process? Why do you think each author chose that type of organization for his or her essay? In what ways does this organizations choice make the essay effective? What effect might the author have achieved with another type of organization or another type of expository essay? I believe the author in “How to Clean a Fish” uses the informative process to arrange his or her essay. The author chose this process because his or her essay is on “How to” essay, what this means is that the essay is meant to teach...
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...Effective Essay Writing 14 August 2011 What characteristics make these essays expository? Art of Cookery This is definitely an expository essay because it is actually listing steps to successful restaurant. The thesis at the beginning of the essay states the reasoning behind why the following steps are needed to create an attractive dining experience. The steps are mostly relating to how the dining area is set up. How to Filet a Fish This expository essay was an informative piece that detailed the parts of fish and how to filet it for food. The essay tells how different fish are cut and prepared. The best part about this essay was that it gives details on whether it is appropriate to filet or steak or cook the fish whole. Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process. I believe that the “Art of Cookery” essay is a topic essay because it organizes the logical things needed to set up an attractive dining area. It was difficult deciding if this was topic or informative process but since it didn’t seem to list the data in step by step process I felt that topic seemed more accurate. Topic and informative essays seem to me to be similar and may be easily confused. The “How to Filet a Fish” essay is most definitely an Informative essay. The essay tells exactly “how to” decide what cut is appropriate for what type and size. The essay meets all...
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...complex purposes to his writing. Atul Gawande commonly uses narratives and informative data/research to expound on his greater persuasive purpose. Two of Gawande’s works that present a good example of his skillful use of the narrative and informative modes are “Letting Go” and “Hellhole”. Both “Letting Go” and “Hellhole”, by Atul Gawande, are complete works of literature that consist of minor topics that build up to a major hidden meaning. By using the minor topics of discussion, Gawande seems to relate and point to the more major meaning of the essay which is not as tangible as the minor topics. In “Letting Go”, Atul Gawande brings discussion to the end of life and the difficulties doctors, families, friends, and sick individuals have understanding and grasping certain death. Gawande starts of the essay...
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...PHI 105 Types of Communication Matrix When communicating your critical thinking about a concept, you choose how to present it to your audience. To explore this further, we will look at three ways to communicate: informative, explanatory, and persuasive statements. A quality persuasive essay includes a mixture of informative, explanatory, and persuasive statements because to persuade someone you must: Inform people about the topic Explain your argument, and Convince your audience of your point of view. Complete the following matrix by: Choosing a concept (different from the topic of your persuasive essay) and writing it first as an informative statement, second as an explanatory statement, and third as a persuasive statement. An example has been provided for you in the Matrix. Provide examples from your persuasive essay of one informative statement, one explanatory statement, and one persuasive statement (all areas in green should be complete before submitting). Concept Informative Explanatory Persuasive Baseball (Example) Baseball is a sport. In baseball, infielders should creep toward the batter during the pitch because it is easier to react when in motion. Quality pitchers are more important than power hitters, because keeping runs off the board could give the pitcher’s team more opportunity win. Sex Trafficking Women, girls and sometimes males are enslaved for sex, in an act that is called Sex trafficking Sex trafficking is an epidemic that affects...
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...Kaplan University Writing Center Writing an Informative Essay Did you ever pick up a magazine or newspaper and after reading the article say, “Hmm! I didn’t know that!” That article is an informative essay. Informative essays, also called expository essays, seek to inform or educate the audience on a given topic. The goal is not to persuade the reader but to give the reader more information, to provide the reader with insight, and to support the writer’s interpretations with factual information. The essay should make the reader say “Aha! I didn’t know that.” Informative essays do not express the writer’s opinion. Views, pro and con, can be included but they must be presented in an unbiased fashion, pointing out comparisons and contrasts of viewpoints. One way to do this is to imagine that the audience holds a common view of the topic; the writer’s purpose is to give the audience a surprising new view based on research. To do this you can: • • • • Enlighten your audience with new facts and/or statistics. Give them usable material that they can apply. Present sufficient information to explain the new findings about the topic. Make clear from the beginning of your paper its purpose. Here is an example of an informative essay topic: a student wrote about technology invading churches in the form of ATM machines. He called it “Technology goes to Church.” His purpose was to inform readers that because of the decrease in weekly donations some churches are now installing ATM machines...
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...“Dissect an Ad by Esther Thorson is is a informative essay about the importance of evaluating political campaign ads, which contains a guide that lists and explains the persuasive tools used in them. Thorson stresses on the importance of citizens to closely look ad the ads of the political ads and examine them. In the guide, Thorson states that it is important to recognize and analyze the candidates mythologies, background, props, emotions, appeals, music, editing, clothing, depicted actions, and exaggerated and code words. After each category, or structural feature, the author explains the effect the specific aspect of the ad has on the viewers, what the politician is trying to convey, and uses examples to back them up. This essay reminds of the current presidential election because ads and the way the candidates portray themselves and the opponent are very important. This also isn’t the...
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...com/shop/comm600-full-course-latest-2016-feb-all-weeks-discussions-all-assignments-and-all-quizzes/ week 1 i Learners! :) For this discussion topic, you will make your main post by Saturday of Week One (January 9) and post two substantive replies to classmates by Tuesday of Week One (January 12). This topic is required and graded, and your main post will be worth 60 points, with your two thorough, substantive replies to classmates being worth 20 points each. You will be graded on the quality, depth, and level of expansion and detail in your main and reply posts. Instructions: This semester we'll be exploring the topic of "Millennials" in articles that you be assigned to analyze, evaluate, and use as references for the assigned essays in this course. To begin thinking about this topic, please view either of the two videos on millennials that follow. Please note the attached critical thinking strategies to consider as you view. Then respond in the attached Discussion area to at least ONE of the following questions.: 1. What information was new or surprising to you, and why? 2. What information or concept left you confused, and why? 3. What comment(s) did you disagree with, and why? 4. What information do you find most important, and why? Please include the title of the video you viewed in the subject line of your post. Millennials: 60-minutes documentary This "60 Minutes" video about the millennial generation is 12 minutes long. Feel free to watch it in segments...
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...Dr. Syrjanen, I must admit, I have enjoyed every aspect of EH 1010. The information for each unit was very informative. Also, looking and listening to your feedback on various videos throughout the units explaining the lesson in depth was remarkable. However, Dr. Syrjanen, one of the questioned you asked was what do I feel was my best essay in EH 1010. According to my grade and your feedback thus far, it would most definitely be the comparative essay. Although each essay has a significate meaning and they were all written from my experience on each topic, this made my writing process more gratifying. Additionally, even though I had some knowledge of each subject before starting my writing process, this also assisted me in gathering the...
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...com/shop/comm600-full-course-latest-2016-feb-all-weeks-discussions-all-assignments-and-all-quizzes/ week 1 i Learners! :) For this discussion topic, you will make your main post by Saturday of Week One (January 9) and post two substantive replies to classmates by Tuesday of Week One (January 12). This topic is required and graded, and your main post will be worth 60 points, with your two thorough, substantive replies to classmates being worth 20 points each. You will be graded on the quality, depth, and level of expansion and detail in your main and reply posts. Instructions: This semester we'll be exploring the topic of "Millennials" in articles that you be assigned to analyze, evaluate, and use as references for the assigned essays in this course. To begin thinking about this topic, please view either of the two videos on millennials that follow. Please note the attached critical thinking strategies to consider as you view. Then respond in the attached Discussion area to at least ONE of the following questions.: 1. What information was new or surprising to you, and why? 2. What information or concept left you confused, and why? 3. What comment(s) did you disagree with, and why? 4. What information do you find most important, and why? Please include the title of the video you viewed in the subject line of your post. Millennials: 60-minutes documentary This "60 Minutes" video about the millennial generation is 12 minutes long. Feel free to watch it in segments...
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...Literary, the death of human beings is usually described in sad wording with a darker perspective. However, the essay “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain”, written by Jessica Mitford, is a contrast of the way people usually describing death, and she gives an almost full presentation about the process “embalming” in an interesting perspective, she also wants to introduce “embalming” to the readers through her article. This essay will analyze the author’s rhetorical technique, literary elements that Mrs. Mitford uses to inform people about “embalming” and burial process. To begin with, the rhetorical mode that Mrs. Mitford uses to write the essay is description. The author basically describes the steps of embalming to the reader in plentiful details....
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...Public Speaking Essay Exam 1 Hello Mr. Trump, I hear that next week you will be sharing your own favorite hobbies with business students in Queens, New York, so I am going to help you construct your speech. Anyone can deliver an interesting informative speech, for example, President Barack Obama is known for giving informative speeches to the United States. Let me explain exactly what an informative speech is; it is a speech that intends to educate the audience on a particular topic. This type of speech focuses on using description, demonstration, and visuals to explain a subject, a person, or in this case your own hobbies. An informative speech is not the same thing as a persuasive speech. Although the two can merge together, an informative speech relies more on communicating pure information to the audience. The invention of a speech is very important. Being organized is an absolute must when delivering a speech. If the speaker is unorganized and unprepared, it can definitely affect the presentation towards the group. Start off by constructing an outline for your speech. To start off, write down your favorite hobbies and narrow them down to a few. Make note to include the importance of hobbies in your speech. The three hobbies that I selected were shopping, baking with my grandmother, and reading novels. Time, style, and delivery are very important. The most important skill in speaking is storytelling. The arrangement of your draft should follow your outline. When drafting...
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...This source is a very helpful source to both my research and my understanding of my topic as a whole. This article is about one of the many medical uses of the drug Ketamine, treating burn victims. I know that this source is valid because I found on the EBSCO data network, which is a very trusted source of information for thousands, if not millions, of students every day. This data can help my essay by not only providing information to the actual medical uses portion of the essay, but helping me fully understand the topic and seem more knowledgeable in my writing. Coull, Jennifer et al. "Ketamine Perturbs Perception Of The Flow Of Time In Healthy Volunteers." Psychopharmacology 218.3 (2011): 543. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 11 Dec. 2012. This article is a very helpful source. In the article, it discusses the various side effects of Ketamine on healthy volunteers, a prevalent side effect being a distorted time flow. I know that this source is valid because I found on the EBSCO data network, which is a very trusted source of information for thousands, if not millions, of students every day. This can help in my essay when I discuss the various side effects of Ketamine. Curran, H. Valerie Morgan, Celia. "Cognitive, Dissociative And Psychotogenic Effects Of Ketamine In Recreational Users On The Night Of Drug Use And 3 Days Later." Addiction 95.4 (2000): 575. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 11 Dec. 2012. This article will be a great source for my essay. It describes the...
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...Then vs now! In this informative essay I will be sharing extraordinary information about the differences from the time period of Shakespeare and now. What was going on back in those days? How is it different from today's world? I will also be answering these questions in this short informative essay. Also about events that happen today and back in Shakespeare's world. The difference might surprise you. This paragraph is about the time of Elizabeth. The Renaissance was a time of reawakening or rebirth. That is what Renaissance means. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the most influential persons in this era. The Elizabethan period took place in 1558-1603. Back in this era woman where treated like animals. They could not vote, marry, or have a voice. It is slightly ironic because the most powerful figure is queen Elizabeth during this time (who was a woman). Also the Renaissance is considered a time of balance and order. That sounds a bit different from today's world....
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...Introduction For our Core 102-20 we were assigned to write a Reflective Memo to talk about the all the assignments we’ve done this semester and the steps we used to complete each assignment. The class theme is unsolved mysteries and conspiracy theories. This course requires you to complete four major essays. In order to receive credit for each essay, you MUST turn in every essay or it results in automatic failure of the class no matter what your grade is. The required texts & materials for this course is the Core Handbook; the PDF version is on the D2L homepage. You must have access to email and upload article to D2L by smartphone, tablet or laptop. You must bring paper, pens/pencil, journal and loose-leaf paper to class. You will not be able...
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