...When it comes to my own personal organization techniques for writing, I tend to use different methods to help me get to where I need to be. I most commonly use brainstorming lists or what I call grocery lists, web maps, and freewriting drafts. When I use lists I start off with just a list of items in a random order, then I organize them by subject/topic, and importance. If I use web maps, I branch off the ideas from one central location, continuously building off a section of the map until I can no longer think of anything else. When I free write, I proceed as if I were writing my first draft, inserting ideas and notes as I go on. I find that as I continue on with this class, my writing has become more organized in a sense that I now put more emphasis on pre-writing. I allow myself a chance to dig deeper into my ideas and notes without skipping ahead to free writing. I do not feel as if my writing per se has become different, but more effective. The great thing about this class is that I learned to ask better questions, for better ways to create notes and brainstorming, as well as adding more finesse to my pre-writing stage by using lists, maps and outlines. These techniques allow me to remain focused on my audience, purpose, and content. These techniques have been beneficial in allowing me to create more balanced and effective...
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...Chapter 2 Generating ideas through prewriting * Prewriting – is the first stage in the writing process, during which you discover what you think you know about a topic and then generate details and examples that will express and illustrate your understanding. * Ask and answer discovery questions – 1. What do I already know about this subject? 2. Why would someone else want to know about this subject? 3. What kinds of details and examples make it easier for me to understand this subject? 4. What’s the most interesting aspect of this subject? * Free writing - is a no-holds-barred prewriting technique that involves writing down all your ideas on a subject for a set period of time-typically ten minutes. 1. Write everything that comes to mind. 2. If you feel blocked write something like “I can’t think” or “I’m stuck here” 3. Highlight, underline, or circle your best ideas. * Brainstorming- Is a far less expansive technique than free writing. 1. Concentrate on a subject 2. Make a list of every idea directly connected to that subject. 3. A set time limit isn’t necessary. 4. You can also brainstorm using your computer, darken the screen so you cannot see what you write. 5. Print the list, highlight, underline or circle ideas you think have potential writing topics. * Clustering –is a visual prewriting technique that shows connections among the ideas you develop. 1. Write a general idea in the middle...
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...Effectively brainstorming is essential for writing essays because it allows you to develop your own ideas. Many essays at the same time are using free writing that can expand thoughts and all that can be organized by charting especially when preparing to write an effective paper. Brainstorming is an essential part of writing that concerning the subject you will be writing on and helps you organize it into a readable format. Failing to brainstorm leads to a disorganized paper filled with weak reasoning and logical fallacies. Spending time to make sure you understand your subject completely will allow you to assess the subject and identify areas of weakness in your argument. A paper that has been carefully thought out can then be written in a way that poignantly conveys meaning to the reader. You can brainstorm several times throughout the writing process. You can do an initial brainstorm to help you identify the subjects you need to study. Once you have studied on the subject you can use brainstorming to help you organize the information you have gained. If you get stuck any time throughout the writing process, you can stop and brainstorm to help you identify the information you need. Free writing can help you identify and shape your thoughts. It’s helpful when you only have a vague idea of what you want to write or need help fully understanding the subject. To free write, simply begin to write and continue writing any ideas that come to your mind on the subject. Don’t worry...
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...Collaborative Versus Individual Writing Processes University of Phoenix Collaborative Versus Individual Writing Processes “Collaborative writing is a slippery concept. It is clear that collaborative writing refers to writing in groups but there are as many ways to write in groups as there are possible combinations of individuals.” (What is collaborative writing?, 1991, ¶ 1) To write a team paper effectively many components are essential to think about before starting. For example, how does a team brainstorm, revise, edit, proofread, and deal with conflict together? How does a team combine each member’s different creative thoughts and ideas into one? Doing research about how teams write together before starting the project will help with the process once the team is ready to begin. Even though everyone has creative differences, collaborative writing is more effective than individual writing because each person brings a variety of thoughts to the table and five heads are better than one. “In an article on the technology and processes of collaborative writing, David Farkas offers four possible definitions useful in approaching collaboration through an analysis of processes. For his purposes, collaboration is: 1. two or more people jointly composing the complete text of a document; 2. two or more people contributing components to a document; 3. one or more person modifying, by editing and/or reviewing, the document of one or more persons; and ...
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...bell reverberated throughout Wallflower’s Cafe as Mai Hamilton came in. She looked for an empty table to sit at, with her diary in hand, and her face blushed at some of the people who stared at her curiously. Finally, she found a table in a secluded area and didn’t hesitate to take it. She took a menu out of a small box, browsing through on what they had. Mai bit her nails out of habit when she couldn’t decide on something. She was debating whether she should get a mango smoothie or an iced vanilla latte for her drink? As for food, she knew for a fact that she was getting a cheese danish, they were quite famous for having that delicious quality. “Hello, I’m Kit! I would be your server for this lovely, Friday...
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...concept of „S.O.S. Notebook “is producing A5 sized notebooks with formulas and rules of different subjects for high school students. There would be 10 different kinds of notebooks with different subjects like physics, mathematics, chemistry, Danish, German, English, literature, biology, history and geography. Notebooks would also contain games (Sudoku, crosswords, and drawings), advertisements from student organizations and companies, information about events and other relevant information for students. Finance of the notebooks would come from advertisements that the notebooks consist and the Notebooks will be handed to students for free to use. Background information Name: „S.O.S. Notebook“ Website: SOSnotebook.com Established: 17.03.2014 Phone: +45 91267497 E-mail: ottoppimine@gmail.com The Executive Board members: Equity: 61000 DKK Owners, their share of the capital: The company's field of activity: Education The company's area of operation: Denmark Executive summary This business plan provides an overview of our business concept about educational studying tool named „ S.O.S. Notebook“. There would be 10 different kinds of notebooks with different subjects like physics, mathematics, chemistry, Danish, German, English, literature, biology, history and geography. Notebooks would also include games (Sudoku, crosswords), advertisements from student organizations and companies, information about events and other relevant information for students...
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...Communication barriers in public discourse Document Design 4(1), 22–41 © 2003 by John Benjamins Publishing Co. 23 Inger Askehave and Karen Korning Zethsen Communication barriers in public discourse The patient package insert Keywords: Public communication, asymmetrical communication, target group, genre, patient package inserts The production of expert-to-layperson documents in private and public companies is an area of research that is gradually gaining ground in research communities throughout the world. This article discusses the nature of public communication written by experts or semiexperts and aimed at a large and heterogeneous audience, often potentially the entire population of a country. The article analyzes common barriers to this kind of communication, and considers topics such as the implications of very broad target groups, expertto-layperson communication and the legislative introduction of mandatory genres as opposed to genres which have evolved naturally over time. The case of the patient package insert is outlined as a prototypical example of ‘public communication’ su¬ering from the problems brought about by the existence of these common barriers. Introduction Public documents have long been considered problematic and have attracted the interest of document designers and discourse analysts, not to mention entire movements such as the Plain English Movement. Numerous organizations, committees, and boards have been set up at national and international...
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...Position paper From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A position paper is an essay that presents an opinion about an issue, typically that of the author or another specified entity; such as a political party. Position papers are published in academia, in politics, in law and other domains. Position papers range from the simplest format of a letter to the editor through to the most complex in the form of an academic position paper. Position papers are also used by large organizations to make public the official beliefs and recommendations of the group. In academia Position papers in academia enable discussion on emerging topics without the experimentation and original research normally present in an academic paper. Commonly, such a document will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward with evidence from an extensive objective discussion of the topic. In politics Position papers are most useful in contexts where detailed comprehension of another entity's views is important; as such, they are commonly used by political campaigns, government organizations, in the diplomatic world, and in efforts to change values (e.g. through public service announcements) and organisational branding. They are also an important part of the Model United Nations process. In government, a position paper lies somewhere between a white paper and a green paper in that they affirm definite opinions and propose solutions but may not go so far as detailing specific plans for implementation...
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...boys walk home together as a group, that way they can take the short route home, through the white neighbourhood without having to be afraid of being beaten up. Because Jolil is held back after class, he has to take the long route home, so he wont have to pass any white children on his way to the flat where he lives. His family discusses the issue on the first night of the story, his older brother says that there will be war, after a Bengali teen has been stabbed by white teens. Jolil has big issues with the way his father deals with life in general in the UK, for one, he keeps Jolil home from school whenever his help is needed in the family business, which is sewing . This off course has resulted in Jolil having big problems reading and writing in English, which again makes things difficult for him. The father doesn't speak proper English, and it seems to bother and embarrass Jolil. Jolil and his father go to a market to buy two chairs for Jolil´s mother, and the salesman, who is white, is extremely rude to Jolil s father, but because he doesn't understand the nuances in the English language, he doesn't pick up on it, only Jolil does. That a sales person in that way insults potential customers, tells us that there is absolutely no respect for the immigrants in this community. On their way home they are attacked by two white teens, who beat up Jolil, and take the two chairs that they have just bought, and instead of fighting back, his father tells him to run. again it says a...
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...objected that the act from 1882 violated previous treaties signed by the United States with foreign nations. The Court stated that a treaty is the law of the land as much as an act of Congress is, and that the constitution gives “it no superiority over an act of congress in this respect, which may be repealed or modified by an act of a later date.” This was the first time the Supreme Court made use of the last-in-time rule. B. Facts In Whitney v. Robertson, the plaintiffs brought suit to recover duties paid on “centrifugal and molasses sugars” imported from the Dominican Republic. The defendant, the customs collector, imposed duties pursuant to an 1870 federal statute. The plaintiffs claimed that the goods should have been admitted duty free, since an 1867 treaty between the United States and the Dominican Republic provided that the U.S. would not impose higher duties for Dominican imports than for imports of similar articles from other countries. The plaintiffs argued that an 1876 treaty between the U.S. and Hawaii, which provided duty...
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...Postmodernism * Postmodernism: 1945-? * “Postmodernism named a shift in art, architecture,and literature away from the austere formalism and the sometimes sanctified tenor of modernism, often employing pastiche and transgressing the boundary between high and low art.” * “It also described a turn in literary theory and philosophy toward a focus on language itself, exposing the constructed news of what we had assumed were natural categories. In a word, postmodernism was meta.” * “Like ideas of the modern and the postmodern, the contemporary brings up the question of whether it simply designates a new style or more deeply captures the state of society and the feeling of our era. Key elements seem to run throughout discussions, especially the speed up of time and the reveling effects of globalization. If postmodernism was self-conscious about language, the contemporary is hyperconscious of time.” * Also referred to as contemporary literature, which is perceived as being “hyperconscious of time.” (The Sound and the Fury) * “Globalization is why many theorists set the starting date of the contemporary at 1989, because the fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the end of dividing the world between the capitalist West and the communist East. That is why postmodernism is no longer adequate.” * “That is a chief difference from previous eras, even the postmodern. Postmodernism might have responded to media like TV, but the contemporary arose with the advent of personal...
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...Implementation of Strategic Planning on Farm Businesses: Lessons from Danish projects Mogens Lund and Johannes Christensen Danish Research Institute of Food Economics Rolighedsvej 25 DK-1958 Frederiksberg (Copenhagen) The article contains a survey and review of the Danish projects directed the development and implementation of strategic management on farm firms. The aim of strategic management in agriculture, formulation and implementation of the long-term farm strategy and the functioning of research, consultancy and learning are the key issues addressed in the article Correspondent author: Mogens Lund, Danish Research Institute of Food Economics, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg (Copenhagen), Denmark. Email: mogens@foi.dk JEL Classification codes: Q12 & Q16 Keywords: Strategic management, farm firms, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, action research, strategic consultancy, learning 1. Introduction In the recent decades we have been working with the development and implementation of strategic planning in Danish agricultural research and consultancy. In this article we will evaluate the obtained experiences and draw some important lessons. The content of the article focus on the questions: • • • • What is the aim of strategic management in agriculture How to develop the vision and long-term strategy on business farms How to implement the formulated business strategy How can research assists in the development and implementation of strategic planning • How can...
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...model 25 Conclusion 26 Part IV 27 Targeting, penetration and expansion 27 Part V 29 Design specification 29 V.I Development strategy 29 V.III. Design and content 30 V.IV. Technology 32 Conclusion 33 Budget 35 Potential upsides 37 Risks 37 Part VII 39 Advantages, disadvantages, challenges 39 Part IX 42 Conclusion 42 Bibliography 44 Part I Introduction I.I Background During the last years the situation at the Danish educational market has changed. Some of the educational institutions have experienced the growth in the quantity of foreigners having a wish to study in Denmark. Students coming from different parts of the world have become a significant part of Danish Educational system. Lots of programmes in English were created and proposed to the foreign students in order to attract their attention. Six years ago the Market Economist programme came to some of the educational institutions all over Denmark. Two years duration has given the opportunity to Danish companies to have specialists with a great potential and fresh way of...
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...two great shapers of thought, French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. A The Romantic Spirit Rousseau established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit; his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.” Goethe and his compatriots, philosopher and critic Johann Gottfried von Herder and historian Justus Möser, provided more formal precepts and collaborated on a group of essays entitled Von deutscher Art und Kunst (Of German Style and Art, 1773). In this work the authors extolled the romantic spirit as manifested in German folk songs, Gothic architecture, and the plays of English playwright William Shakespeare. Goethe sought to imitate Shakespeare's free and untrammeled style in his Götz von Berlichingen (1773; translated 1799), a historical drama about a 16th-century robber knight. The play, which justifies revolt against political authority, inaugurated the Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) movement, a forerunner of German romanticism. Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774; translated 1779) was also in this tradition. One of the great influential...
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...1010-22 Seminar in Academic Writing: Satire Spring 2009, Tu/Th 11:00am-12:45pm BCH 443 Instructor: Brandon Hawk Office: CLAS 151 Office Phone: 860-486-3706 Mailbox: CLAS 210 E-mail: brandon.hawk@uconn.edu Office Hours: Tu 10:00-11:00am (I am also available by appointment--I will be on campus most weekdays, so feel free to contact me to schedule another time.) "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." -- Lawrence Clark Powell Required Texts (Prices are approximations based on Amazon.com listings) Henderson, Bobby, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (New York: Villard, 2006). ISBN: 0812976568. $11.16. Strunk, William, and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th ed. (Needham Heights: Pearson). ISBN: 020530902X. $9.95. Swift, Jonathan, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Mineola: Dover, 1996). ISBN: 0486287599. $2.00. Course Packet (provided on first day of class--but which will expand throughout the course). Various supplemental handouts I will give you throughout the semester (all of which you must keep through the whole of the semester). An email address that you check daily. This will be my primary out-of-class form of communication, so be sure to stay vigilant for any and all emails I will send to you. You are responsible for reading all email correspondences and acting accordingly. Course Overview This course is a four-credit, semester-long writing seminar designed to develop...
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