...------------------------------------------------- Guidelines for writing a MemorialParticipation in the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition consists of an oral and a written part, the memorials. Through the years, many teams have lost vital points on editorial technicalities in their memorials even though these memorials were of a very high legal quality. Considering the fact that the memorials make up 50% of the total score, a proper presentation of the written arguments, in conformity with the Rules of Procedure, is vital in a competition that is getting more competitive each year. Why such an emphasize on presentation? Is the legal reasoning not the most important issue in this competition? Certainly so, but every participant should realize that also in legal practice, solidly and neatly presented legal documents are a "must". A well-written submission, a logically built-up argument is easier for a judge to understand. He or she is more likely to pick up counsel's line of argument and, hopefully, its submission. Uniformly used editing rules make it easier for a judge to find the documents, referred to in the Memorials and it will be easier for him or her to read through the document in general. A well written and neatly and uniformly presented document will show the judge that effort is being put into the case. Combine that with excellent legal arguments and most judges will at least be willing to listen to your case with an open mind.Clarity and consistency...
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...Ariana Timbol 1/29/2014 English 121 A Poison from the Future With Great powers comes with great responsibility as people use technology in their everyday life. Back in the days, people wrote to each other letters and that could take about a good few weeks to receive it and reply back or longer. Today, we have been gifted with social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other places for friends and family to chat on. Is social media really a gift or is it a curse? Who needs to interact with people in real life when you can just stay home for up to 10 hours a day during your weekends thanks to social media. Afraid of facing someone who spread rumors about you, just simply talk about them on the social media networks and there you go ruining someone's life even though the rumors about you might not be true. Social media today is looked at as something amazing and incredible for everyone to use in today's society, but underneath the amazing and colorful page are small networks filled with nasty secrets, harsh gossip, and photos not meant for the eyes especially your eyes. You decided to surf through the internet to find an image of what you're looking for and you find something that you did not expect to see; an image that probably scarred you and your eyes. You think that social networks are private, but once you or someone else submits an embarrassing photo of you without your permission, everyone will see it. People may have settings to keep things private, but...
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...Eye Contact | I tried to maintain eye contact throughout the debate to show the confidence in my argument to show that I was both confident and prepared with the answers I were giving, However whilst doing the recording, I had a script in front of me to prompt me of my arguments so I look down at the script quite a few times, For people that are unaware of me having a script in-front of me may assume that I am nervous or scared because this is what a lack of eye contact suggests | Sam, whilst I am making points, maintains constant eye contact with me, which shows levels of understanding and respect, However whilst making his own points, he had a tendency of looking down or into the camera, which shows lack of confidence in his arguments. | Tone of voice | My tone of voice differs throughout the video, at the beginning of the video my tone is consistently low, it is not until Sam makes a comment about racial impacts on the burka that my tone gets louder, this shows the anger I felt about the comment. Towards the end of the debate my voice has become mellow and calm as we decided to settle the debate, My muscle were relaxed due to the formality of the conversation, (Informal context). | Sam’s tone of voice was very consistent throughout the whole video, he kept his tone fairly low, this shows 2 things, 1. He is calm and not too excited/eager to be discussing the topic. In the middle of the conversation, I overtook Sam in the middle of his sentence so he raised the tone of...
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...SDENG3J – ASSIGNMENT 1 SAMEERA MANJOO 45909385 QUESTION A English in my school environment is used as a home language to 40% of the students in my classroom and as a first language to the remaining majority. The school is well resourced with textbooks, chalkboards, projectors and also writing books as materials and every student has a desk and chair to sit on during the school day. The school accommodates for students with the playground as well, they have a volleyball, basketball, and soccer and tennis court. All buildings of the school are well maintained and kept very clean, this allows for a comfortable learning environment. Each block of classrooms also has security guards that are visible to all students at all times providing a secure and safe schooling environment for students. The school is based on a diverse society, multi-racial students with different traditions and beliefs. This allows for students to intermingle with students that share a different value or trait, allowing for all students to see equality in our rainbow nation, South Africa. QUESTION B Social media applications have rules our youth for the past ten to twelve years. MXit is still one of the major applications used by majority of the students, as stipulated in the articles, “MXit also appeals to young people from poorer communities due to its low cost...”. The students in my Grade Ten classes come from the lower socioeconomic background. Students will be interested in...
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...doubts, and there still are. John Sutherland of University College London described emerging ‘text-speak’ in a 2002 paper as ‘bleak, bald, sad shorthand’ and accused it of ‘[masking] dyslexia, poor spelling and mental laziness.’ He deduced that ‘texting is penmanship for the illiterate’, however a multitude of surveys and numerous years of research show that texting can be harnessed to advance the literary proficiency of children. In order to abbreviate, use acronyms, elision and initialisms, children need a solid grammatical foundation on which to build upon. They must have the ability to differentiate the necessary sounds in a word in order to discontinue use of the unimportant or substitute them for another sound. A commonly used abbreviation is ‘cos’ in the place of ‘because’ as when spoken aloud, ‘-os’ sounds identical to ‘-ause’ The curbing of words in this manner isn’t a modern invention. Evidence has been discovered of Anglo-Saxon scribes abbreviating in this way when limited...
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...In recent years, there has been an extraordinary rise in digital communication, especially through mobile phones and social media; reading the newspaper has become reading a blog, watching the television has become watching YouTube videos. Younger generations have been pretty much born in a world that resolves around sharing and reading content on the web. Digital communication considerably influences the way we speak. But is this good or bad? Multi-modal language is simply any type of commination that isn’t in person, face-to-face. One of the most common forms of multi modal is through social media. Because of it’s popularity, social media is clearly having an impact on language, however there are advantages and disadvantages to the way they influence it. Advantages include that it is usually free, you are able to keep in contact with distant family and friends and make potential friends who have common interests as you. Disadvantages however are that there is legal and ethical issues such as cyberbullying and fraud, people may become addicted and distract themselves from reality and that people rely on social media and lose real life social skills. Majority of the people that use social media are teenagers. There are plenty different language features used in digital communication. They each have different purposes and effects. Emoji’s/Emoticons -- Emoji’s are used to show the overall emotion of the message. Through texting you are not able to see a person’s facial expression...
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...& Word Usage) 1. Dr. Cindy Boswick will be presenting the program on ethics at our April meeting of IAAP. Rule: Use standard abbreviations for titles immediately before proper names. Use periods in abbreviations before the name. 2. Rev. Jacob Mathias spoke at the evening service of Forest Hills Presbyterian Church. Rule: Use standard abbreviations for titles immediately before proper names.Use periods in abbreviations before the name. 3. The concert will be at 3 p.m. Rule: Use only one period when an abbreviation containing a period falls at the end of the sentence. 4. The company is located at West Apple Lane. Rule: Avoid abbreviating the following categories of words unless these words appear in tabulations or enumerations. Compass directions when they are part of an address. 5. The Hon. Eleanor Isenberg will speak at the commencement. Rule: Use standard abbreviations for titles immediately before proper names. Spell out titles such as Reverend and Honorable when preceded by the. 6. AT&T has expanded its operations. Rule: When an abbreviation includes an ampersand, generally, do not space before or after the ampersand. 7. We are scheduled to take an IQ test tomorrow. Rule: Use the article a before an abbreviation beginning with a consonant sound. Use the article an before an abbreviation beginning with a vowel sound. 8. The game is scheduled to take place March 15. Rule: Avoid abbreviating the following categories...
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...AN ABBREVIATED VERSION OF A RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR THE Micro-blogging Purpose of the Research Micro-blogging, it’s the abbreviation of micro blog. It’s a platform that based on a user's relation, communication and information sharing. Users may update information with around 140 words and realize the sharing in time through the WEB, WAP and various client components individual communities. The Micro-blogging is more and more used among the college students at present. We carry out this survey in order to accurately understand the condition about using Micro-blogging among the college students. 1. To make a survey among the college students about paying close attention to the situation, the way of understanding and the using condition. 2. College students focus on the group and the content by using the Micro-blogging. 3. College students using the Micro-blogging if they desire to be concerned by others and wish to share personal life. 4. Whether the Micro-blogging has become the main social platform for college students. Research Design The survey research method will be the apply research design. Each respondent will be interviewed in classroom. The personal interviews are generally expected to last between 10 and 20 minutes, although the length will vary depending on the previous tax-related experiences of the respondent. For example, if a respondent has never been audited, questions on audit experience will not be addressed. Or, if a respondent has never contacted...
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...ILM Level 5 Examples Think for a moment about your own team’s reaction to complaints. When a customer complains what is your work team’s usual reaction? Which answer best describes their usual behaviour and attitude? How does this reaction impact on your customer’s perception of you as an organisation? I try to encourage my team to regard the complaint positively and use it as an opportunity to strengthen links with the complaining customer. In many cases, however, I would say that my work team’s usual reaction would be to listen carefully and deal with the problem promptly and efficiently. Customer services training given to my team, together with guidance in team meetings, encourages each individual to take ownership of the complaint and use it as a learning experience that helps them to improve the service given to customers. I encourage discussion of complaints and how they have been handled and, as a team, we look at how something could have been done better. I try to ensure there is no ‘blame culture’ to avoid staff feeling the need to cover up mistakes or complaints. I am aware of other teams whose members have refused to accept complaints as a positive and they have been defensive and argumentative with customers which have caused enormous difficulties for our organisation. As a public sector body I feel it is even more important that we offer the best possible customer service. Just because our ‘customers’ cannot go anywhere else for our services ...
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...Instructions Complete the medical abbreviations chart. (Note that the medical abbreviations are the same as those highlighted in yellow in Jane Dare’s Health Record). In the second column, list what each of the individual letters in the abbreviation represents. In the third column define the context or meaning of the term that the abbreviation represents. Use simple terms. Finally, in the far right column, identify the source document. For example, face sheet, discharge summary, progress notes, or x-ray report. Abbreviation | Letters Represent | Context Definition or Application within the Patient’s Chart | Source Document | 1. ICD | International classification of disease | Jane dare’s disease | Admission summary | 2. CM | Cardiomyopathy | Structural or functional disease of heart muscle | Admission summary | 3. N/A | N- NotA- Applicable | Not availableNo answer | Admission summary | 4. ER | E-EmergencyR- Room | Arrived at emergency room | History and physical | 5. C/O | Complains of | Reason for Jane to go to the ER | History and physical | 6. SOB | Shortness of Breath | Having difficulty breathing | History & physical | 7. mg | Milligrams | 1/1000 of a gram | 25mg capoten orally 3x a day | 8. po | Peri/osteum | Takes furosemide 40mg orally daily | Medications/ history & physical | 9. tid | Times interval difference | 25mg capoten by mouth 3 times a day | medications | 10. qd | Quantum dot | MOM 30cc daily by mouth...
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...What is technology doing to and for us? Sitting on the playground with a tablet avoiding a couple kids; playing with jump ropes, draw with chalk on the ground, playing hop scotch, teeter totter and swinging on the monkey bars. A seven-year-old boy is playing basketball on the tablet and when asked by his friend to come play basketball on the court. He reply’s “I don’t wanna, I’m playing on my tablet.” In schools, students are learning skills that they will need to carry them through life and to find jobs. Schools use technology more and more everyday to teach kids and relate to them. Kids are allowed to bring their own devices to class such as tablets, Ipads, and Mini Laptops and use applications that the teacher may require them to. Clearly, technology is becoming increasingly essential to learning. Students with basic academic skills improve with the use of everyday technology. With the speed of technology solving problems is becoming achievable at a faster pace. A good example of that is finding out about schools closing during bad weather. You can have an email sent to you, or even a text message sent to your mobile device, letting know if you have class. Performing school tasks as in writing research papers, finding out your grades for the semester, and submitting work is so much easier. For example flipping through pages to find a word in the dictionary while looking over it once or twice became easier. Now, you can type it in online and in seconds...
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...Mai Lo PPA Summary The benefits using the abbreviations within a medical document is that Physicians spend a lot of their time with documentation. Abbreviations allow physicians to perform more work in less time. In other words, abbreviations will make your work flow a lot more efficient. However, the limitations outweigh the benefits. It can lead to confusion of what the writer is talking about or unsure of the abbreviation. The abbreviation could mean more than one thing and have to know what the abbreviation stands for. The medical abbreviation list constantly changes, so this adds to the poor communication in the medical field. Some of the abbreviations are permitted and some are not permitted, so you will need to know this information before using them. The abbreviations supports the diagnosis for Jane Dare’s encounter it is a very efficient way of maintaining a patient’s privacy. Everybody does not need to know a patient’s medical history or what is going on with a patient or resident and allows their privacy to be protected. Limitations of Medical Abbreviations. There are often more than one meaning for an abbreviation, which in turn can cause confusion if the person tending to the patient is unaware of their medical history. An example being the letters EP. This abbreviation could mean either an ectopic pregnancy or evoked potential. If the person reading the chart is not careful, a mistake could be made. If a doctor were to write and incorrect dosage, it could...
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...is a good form of language because I can communicate well with my friends without being judged by the way I speak. Nick names are descriptive names added to or replaced by the actual names of a people, places, or things. I got my nick name Nene from my uncle. Nene is a common nick name for people with the name nisha in their first name. Everybody I know have a nick name and not everyone nickname is related to them. Nicknames are also good to use because people do not know your real name and you can get away with things. Abbreviations are a short form of a words or phrases used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form of words. For example, Massachusetts abbreviation is Mass. or United States Marines Corps is USMC. I always abbreviate long word and long names. There are many words that I abbreviate. Memphis Tennessee is the state and city where I live and its abbreviation is Memphis, TN. I always use Memphis, TN on my mail. The word abbreviation itself can be abbreviated as abbr, abbrev. Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. Acronyms are used in everyday writing and spaeaking. My name is Tenisha Boyd and some people call me TB. TB is my initial letters of my first and last...
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...The Style Guide is a handy reference tool for professionals who want a quick answer to everyday questions on a grammar and style. ABBREVIATIONS Do not use full stops in abbreviations and acronyms. Right: Mr Mrs Ms Dr Wrong: Mr. Mrs. Ms. Dr. Right: ie eg 11 am Wrong: i.e. e.g. 11 a.m Right: USA IRAS US dollar Wrong: U.S.A I.R.A.S. U.S dollar Right: FIFO AGM NEV Wrong: F.I.F.O . A.G.M. N.E.V. Do not use abbreviation in formal documents. Right: Singapore February page Wrong: S’pore Feb pg Do not abbreviate dates in formal documents. Right: 31 December 2012 Wrong: 31 Dec 12, 31st December 2012, 31/12/12, 31-10-12 Do not use commas in dates Right: 31 December 2012 Wrong: 31 December, 2012, December 31, 2012 NUMBERS Spell a number which start a sentence Right: Fifteen branches have missing records. Wrong: 15 branches have missing records. Right: Ninety-five branches have missing records. Wrong: 95 branches have missing records. Spell numbers zero to ten in full, 11 upwards as numerals. Right: Records for ten branches are missing. Wrong: Records for 10 branches are missing. Right: Records for 11 branches are missing. Wrong: Records for eleven branches are missing. Be consistent in a sentence. Right: “…..the number of supporters fell from forty-two to nine.” Wrong: “…..the number of supporters fell from 42 to nine.” Right: “…..the number of supporters fell from 21 to 9.” Wrong: “…..the...
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...character message on the social network Twitter. Social media’s been responsible for a lot of new words, for example tweeps, twitterverse and retweet. The word “friend” has become a verb, as in “she friended me on Facebook”. The term “check-in” no longer applies just to hotels and airports; these days it’s just as commonly used when someone reports where they are via a social network. Technology has also changed the way we write. Mobile phones have been responsible for a lot of the change, as users have moved towards texting as an everyday form of communication. For a start, WRITING IN UPPER CASE MEANS YOU’RE SHOUTING, while lower case writing is now the accepted form. Meanwhile, text language is full of abbreviations, missing vowels and acronyms. For example, the abbreviations LOL, OMG and gr8 are all widely used today but hadn’t been invented a few years ago. One of the drivers in this is that screen sizes and character limits are low, meaning that users need to abbreviate to fit their messages in. My Knowledge: ‘Emojis’ which are small digital images and ‘emoticons’ which are representation of a facial expression such as a smile or frown, formed by various combinations of keyboard characters are also now used because of technology. Their main purpose is to show how someone is feeling and their emotions rather than a person typing out how they are actually feeling. Technology has also enabled new words to be created such as ‘selfie’ ‘twerk’ ect. Without technology, there...
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