...waked up at 7:10AM. Found the time was early and slept again. But worried about oversleep, I could not sleep. Then I got up at 7:30 and did not have a good sleep. After I brushed teeth, washed my face and had a breakfast. I began to my today’s study life. I have five classes in a day. There are three classes in morning and two classes in afternoon. My favorite class is writing in the first time. I will go to the classroom ten minutes earlier every day. Writing class is a course to train students’ integrated English level. Because of this, I must learn it well. Other two classes in morning are listening and speaking. It was 12:00 AM When I finished these classes. All the students have to have lunch in Dining Hall. After the meal, I began to take other two classes in afternoon. Every class has homework, so I must do my homework after we finish the classes. Home work is a good way to practice and learn English. I would face them seriously. Commonly, I take two hours to do homework then have supper. In the evening, I will study until 9:00 PM, after talking with my family online. I will go to bed at 23:00 pm. Mostly everyday is similar. You can see my school life is single and repeated. But I felt it full of challenge and effort. I will learn morn new knowledge every day, Also this study process will be an experience for my life, I must cherish...
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...Peer Mentor Log Date | Time | | 12-1 | Work with Chen on his English worked 9/30/13 | 1-3 | Worked with Sam on his Democracy in America Work 9/30/13 | 3-4 | Worked with group of jose and travis on accounting homework 9/30/13 | Date | Time | | | Worked with Jasmine Dixon on her studying skills in the library 2/4/13 | 1:20-2:00 | Worked with Stephanie Posey on her Religion class in the library 2/5/13 | 3:30- 4:30 | Worked with Alaa on his English paper, peer edit his paper in the library 2/6/13 | 12:30-2:00 Worked with Jose on his English grammar skills in the library 2/7/13 Date | 3:30-4:20 | Worked with jasmine Dixon on her time management skill in the library 2/11/13 | 12:20-2:00 | Helped Stephanie study for her test on philosophy outside st. Edwards hall 2/12/13 | 1:30-2:20 | Worked with Alaa on his English vocabulary in the library 2/13/13 | 3:30-4:20 | Met with jose to work on his English class and edit his paper 2/14/13 | Date | 3:30-4:20 | Helped Hussam Babge on his English course and edited his paper in the library 2/15/13 | 1:30-2:20 | Worked with Jasmine Dixon on her preparation skills in the library 2/18/13 | 12:30- 2:00 | Helped Stephaine study for her religion test in the library 2/19/13 | 3:20-4:30 | Worked with Hussam babge on his English skills in the library 2/20/13 | | | | | Date | | | | | | | | | Date | | | | | | | | | Date | |...
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...reflection | |How would you define academic |I believe academic readiness incorporates many things. I can start with simple time management, | |readiness? |this includes the time you set aside for your classes including homework and study time. Next we | | |move into study habits. This can include note taking, time management, self control to stay on | | |task. Last but not least is the ability to keep an open mind and a positive outlook when it comes| | |to your schooling. If you can master these skills nothing will come in the way between you and | | |success. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |The only concern I have is with proper pronunciation, punctuation, and basic knowledge of proper | |with academic writing and reading? |writing. It has been many years since I first took English 101 and I find it very hard to | | |remember the basics when it comes to writing a college level paper. I do believe with a little | | |effort I will be able to overcome this quickly. As far as reading this has allways been one of my| | ...
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...is hard to be successful in American college. How the Chinese student to be successful, and what are the differences in education between two countries? I think there are three differences in education between China and America ways of studying was learning, and using different languages. First, there is a different way to study between China and America. In China, students study very hard every day because they have lots of homework. However, there is not much homework in the America. Chinese's teacher thinks homework is the good way to studying, but American student doesn’t have lots of homework. Chinese's teacher always gives a student some question out of the book because this is good for the GAO KAO exam. Chinese's student buy textbook each year, and it is cost more money. In America, the teacher wants to the student read book, and never give the student much homework. If you finish the lesson’s homework, it would be enough for exam. If you read the book, you will be easy past the exam. American teacher also don’t give extra homework because they know it is enough lesson for the student today. If Chinese student wants to be successful at an American college, they should study hard and read the book well. Second, there are two difference ways to learning between China and America. Chinese's teacher would like letting the student remember all of things in the book, and practice multiple-choice and the essay questions until students can remember these questions...
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...Home +1.617.933.5480 Login +1.866.649.0192 Like 6.5k 1.3k Chat now Home / Questions / "Stereotyping and Individuality Go to... Search Your Question Here... English Comp 102 "Stereotyping and Individuality Go to the resources tab and use the EBSCO host link to search for the following articles: Woodson, J. (1992). Where my mother touches me.Kenyon Review,14(4), 94. Lun, View complete question » Tags: Writing, Academic writing, Coursework, College “2” Academic writing experts Online Posted On: Aug 25 2013 11:28 AM ask a similar question» Ask Your Question Now Copy and paste your question here... Jeff Bradley (65 Reviews) Bought 5 times (3 Reviews) Cancel Attach more files Solution Preview: Posted 9 months ago She is a girl and moreover, a dark skinned girl, who, according to the male dominated society, doesn’t have the right to play with toys other than dolls reinstating the fact that girls are treated as mere dolls that should remain inactive in the realm of decision making in the familial or social... Get Answer Download Complete Solution Priced at $20 Now at $15 1,775,739 Questions Asked 3,092 Experts 255,678 Questions Answered Topics covered in Writing Academic writing Related Questions in Coursework English Comp 102 week 5 November 30, 2013 Academic Writing The number of students seeking quality academic writing help is increasing every year, resulting in a revolutionary growth in online... Go to the resources tab and use the EBSCOhost link to search...
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... St. Gelais 1 Mrs. Trouville English CP III 15 December 2015 Should Schools Be Done with Homework? Have you ever enjoyed a day of relaxation? Have you ever experienced the thrill of having a day just to goof off? Has homework kept you away from that? Kids hate homework. Some kids say that homework is just what they learned in class the same day and they are just repeating it. Why do students need to repeat what we did in class that day? Is it necessary? Some reasons why homework is not effective is that many teachers give too much homework, and often teachers do not coordinate the quantity given. Secondly, unnecessary assignments raise the stress level of the students. However, the main argument against homework is that most of it is just boring practice. Teachers give too much homework to kids and it’s not necessary. In an article written by Lance J. Falk it states that “kids have lives beyond school and schoolwork. About 65 percent of kids, ages of 6-13, play competitive sports. But, unfortunately, some of those kids quit playing the sport they love due to the fact that they have too much schoolwork to tackle during their evening” (Falk). If a student has three soccer practices a week, which consumes 2.5 hours of his Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, how do you think he or she feels? He or she would obviously feel very tired, right? But now if that same student had two hours of homework three of the five days that he or she has...
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...Student Performance in Introductory College Accounting Courses? Darwin D. YU Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Abstract Background: Financial accounting is a skills course which to a large extent can be best learned through deliberate practice. Teachers implement this by continuously assigning homeworks, encouraging good study habits, asking students to budget time for studying, and generally exhorting students to “work hard”. Aims: This paper examines the impact of “study habits, skills, and attitudes” (SHSAs) on the performance of students in an introductory nancial accounting college course. Sample: 395 2 nd year business students in a Philippine university. Method: Data related to variables found to have inuenced accounting performance in previous researches as well as SHSA variables are collected through student survey and school records. They are treated as independent variables using multiple regression analysis, with the accounting course nal grade as the dependent variable. The paper also examines the factors that differentiate high- from low-performing students. Results: The study found that math prociency, English prociency, high school accounting, and academic aptitude inuence accounting performance, supporting the ndings of many previous researches on cognitive factors. Among the SHSA factors, only student perception of teacher effectiveness and level of effort inuence accounting performance....
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...Jolina Munsayac English 99 Murphree 09 September 2014 How I Got Smart Reading Response This article’s title says it all. It is a story about how a guy got smart. In the first few paragraphs, the author talks about how students view teachers as bookworms who would study a lot rather than playing and end up to be a teacher anyway. He mentions that he tried to explain that the image that they are picturing during his adolescence is wrong. He hated compulsory education with a passion. I believe that the author’s argument is that everyone is smart in their own way. He argues that he did not get smart by the way most of the students would assume right away that just because ones a teacher, then they have been a book worm and just studied a lot during their adolescence. This is why the author told a story about an experience that changed his life. An experience on how he got smart and this is because of a girl named Debbie. Just like a typical high school student, he fell in love with Debbie at first sight and since she was an intelligent lady, the author felt obliged to be intelligent as well to impress her. Though the storyline ended as the incentive being gone because the author just got led on by Debbie, he says that “Having savored the heady wine of knowledge, I could not now alter my course”. Reading this article made me think how we all have different backgrounds on why who we are now and how we all have our own ways on how we become who we are and what we are. I believe...
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... Background of the Study In the society nowadays the demands of high level of education and skill for the success of each student is increasingly important for the students’ welfare as well as the society’s hope for success. Yet, it is crucial that teachers should recognize certain basic elements in learning to help students to gear up for greater advancement. One of these basic elements is study habits. In the global setting, Igun (2007) of the Nigerian Universities and Delta State University library stated that the study habits of students in some universities is a common problem because of some factors such us barriers in creating a study environment. In the national setting, Philippines ranked second and third to the last in the English and Math National Achievement Test result (National Framework Plan for ICT’s Basic Education, 2005). The cause of this drastic decrease in the performance of the students was supported by a study conducted by Acido (2010) who identified students in public high school in Manila who performed low due to poor study habits. In the local setting specifically in Davao City, Nacito (2006) and Azarcon, et.al. (2004) found that Grade Six students enrolled in Piedad District of Toril S.Y. 2005-2006 as well as the Freshmen students of Erico T. Nograles National High School both need to improve their study habits due to their low academic performance. In addition, college students of the University of Mindanao, where the researcher is currently studying...
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...I was busy. Busy enough to always keep myself away from my homework, busy checking my Facebook status, poking my friends, writing comments trying to embarrass Kevin, a friend of mine, and playing Warcraft. “I’m just taking a break.” I said to myself, as though I don’t know I’m lying to myself, or I actually did a bit of work. “New message from Felix!” a message pops out on my Facebook page. Felix: “Warcraft?” Me: “Heck yeah!” I turned away from my English homework which I’ve been staring at for the past five minutes, and got myself lost in the world of dota (Defense of the Ancient). I knew all along that I was procrastinating. I steer myself into anything else rather than homework, and after hours of dipping myself into games, I’ll eventually totally forget about what I was supposed to do. I perfectly know that if this essay was not due tomorrow, I wouldn’t be writing it right now. As my mind is still here, I wonder how poor homework completion due to procrastination can take its toll on me. The first thing my laziness hits directly is my grade. I got a big fat B for my English, or it might get even worse than B, which is not what I expected -or what I wanted. I have the embarrassment among my family that I haven’t been delivering the great things they expected from me. And all through my life, I will only have one set of family and one set of parents. How can I go back and try my life again? How can I do a “do over”? When I was a boy, we played games in...
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...Arian Lucatero Ms. Casey English 1 1 February 2012 The Benefits of Accountability “Where are you? Who’s with you? What are you doing? What time are you going to be home?” Don’t you hate it when your parents or significant other always seem to ask these questions? Seems like your being grilled sometimes, doesn’t it? It can be quite irritating to many of us at times; however, it’s a perfect example of the point I will be trying to convey to you, accountability. Accountability, according to Webster’s definition is: “Being subject to the obligation to report, explain, or justify something; responsible; answerable.” Ultimately, it’s holding you liable for your decisions and actions. Accountability is not a quality that one innately desires to abide by, but it is something that is instilled and developed over a period of time through a variety of sources including parents, teachers, coaches and mentors. Accountability has become a value that my personal mentor has helped me to develop and I personally believe it is a value that everyone regardless of age, gender or social status should desire in order to improve their life and become a better person, someone of integrity. Due to family situations during my adolescence that were out of my control, I didn’t always have my parents, or anyone for that matter, in my life to answer to. I didn’t have the guidance or authorities to follow that most kids are subject to. I was free to do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and with...
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...you imagine a world where homework does not exist? In high school especially, you are up all night doing at least two hours of homework for just one class. You start to wonder if all of this homework is going to benefit you in the long run or if it is worth it. All of the hard work you spent on that 2 hours of homework doesn’t even pay off when you get to school the next day and the teacher doesn't even check in the homework or take it as a grade. How many times have you done all of the homework and still do poorly on the test? This constant cycle makes kids stop doing the homework all together. Homework is not helping students of the twenty first century get to where they need to be to succeed in the work force. In the article, “What Students Would Do If They Did Not Do Their Homework,” Dorothy Suskind points out that it's not enough just to have less homework or even better homework. Suskind believes that we need to change the expectation in our schools so that students are asked to take schoolwork home only when there's a reasonable possibility that a particular assignment will be beneficial to them. She discusses how researchers have consistently failed to link homework with achievement and could only imagine what children could do if they were allowed to go about what they wanted after school, instead of doing homework. It is said that “teachers in top-performing nations, such as Japan, Denmark, and the Czech Republic, assign less homework compared to their low-performing...
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...Mirvis: Hello, my name is XXX, and I am an international student. The library is being the most popular place in Univerisity of Bridgeport because of your work hard. However, most of the students say that the network service needs to improve. If students are satisfied with the network, they would prefer study in the library. The solution is to upgrade network service which just cost few money. It benefits for everyone who studies or works in the library. There is a serious problem be concerned University of Bridgeport students who study in the library. I often study in the library. One of the network problems is network instability. For example, I have to research some information about my assignment, because my first language is not English, I always research more academic information after class or look up the unknown words in an online dictionary. However, I have to connect the UB network approximately every five minutes. I was really bothered by the unstable network here. This action which is frequently loggeing on to the internet makes my learning efficiency lower, because I cannot focus on the studying. The unstable network not only bothered me, but also bothers my friends. There are a statistic for this issue. My four friends with me went to the library to study. When they log on the network, one of the my friends disconnect after four minutes, and he logged on again. After 3 minutes, other friends disconnect from the internet. About seventeen minutes later, we are...
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...style, strategies, and the VARK learning strategy guide. This essay will go into depth with the writer, ways a person can improve their learning strategies, their learning styles, and other learning style. The writer thinks it is important that learning styles is thought about often, because it could help you with tests, essays, and homework assignments. It helps to know a person’s strong points, and know to strengthen your weaker points, so a person can pinpoint ways to help them flourish in their studies. The learning style mainly used by the writer are reading and writing. This helps when there is a hard homework assignment or essay comes up and when the writer is unsure on what to do. The writer starts by reading the material that was given to the writer of this essay. Having a reading and writing learning style helps improve writing, because this writer sometimes rewrites things to get a better grasp on it. The writer also proofreads her work to see if there are any mistakes in spelling, grammar, or punctuation. The learning strategies the writer uses involves reviewing things by writing things out, rereading material that either was homework, or given to help with the...
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...Procrastination Procrastination is the act of intentionally putting off or not doing something that should be done. Most people deal with some form of procrastination in their lives and this is considered normal. However, delaying essential tasks and putting less important things ahead of them can cause negative consequences. Stress and anxiety are often a direct result of procrastinating as well as a lack of confidence and low self-esteem. Guilt is also associated with procrastination because of the perception of others and the potential disappointment of family and friends based on the lack of success. This character trait causes problems in all age groups and in many areas of life including college students and their achievement of educational goals. Unfortunately for me, procrastinating is a characteristic that affects me as a student and has impacted me greatly. There are many ways to sabotage academic success, but a guaranteed way is through procrastination. Procrastinators self-destruct by making choices that hinder their progress and achievement. This characteristic causes students to look for things to distract them and get them off task. Checking email, texting, and scanning social media like Facebook and Twitter are prime examples of distractions that force students to delay important responsibilities. Procrastinators often lie to themselves. Many are convinced that they will feel better about completing an assignment later or that they will work better...
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