...notebook is on my lap and a magic pen is in my hand. The pen doesn’t look that special, if you see it in my bag or on my desk. Just a black ink-pen with a cap. The magic begins, when I touch it to the paper. Two birds circling around each other in a wild fight. “Are they mad at each other or just playing?” My pen writes the question, before I have time to think of it. Weird. A squirrel buries some nuts in the next door neighbor’s yard, his bushy red tail moves energetically as he digs. “How will he remember, where he hid it?” my pen asks. I really don’t know. There are tiny yellow flowers hidden in the green grass. “Why do we call them weeds?” my pen asks again. Oh and there are eight downy dandelion-seed balls lined up against the side of my house. “Are they weeds too?” My pen kept asking many stupid questions. “You can make a wish, you know. What will you wish for?” my pen asks. I stop writing for a moment to think of all the possibilities. A beautiful, purple butterfly the size of my hand flies by. My pen records the butterfly in my thought. A gentle breeze cools the air around me, and my pen does his job. Writing my thoughts down on paper. I hear children playing down the street. My pen describes the sounds across the page. The sun goes behind a cloud, and then peeks out again, but I’m not looking at the sky. I know this because of the shadow of my pen that follows the in and out dance with the sun. What good is all this magic from a pen on such a pleasant day, I think...
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...Musa Mubarez MS. Mosher English1010 9 October 2014 Portrait of a Writer Setting lonely in a quiet room, laying down, in a red large couch, with blue pillows all over, each pillow about the size of a small laptop, listening to R&B music, eating cubes of cheese and drinking an orange juice half way filled with ice. Holding a black pen in the hand, tapping it along the song that is playing on the radio, having a piece of paper on the side and facing a red mac laptop as it’s curser is blinking on and off, writing down whatever come to mind then typing and organizing the thoughts to the laptop with the battery at seventy five percent. Typing with all fingers as if there is a race. Looking back and forth from the paper to the laptop. This...
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...CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional Unit 6 Academic Writing Assignment Full Name: Heather Taylor Two-digit Section #: 06 Instructions: Download this document to your computer before filling it out. Save using “Save As” and add your name to the front removing the phrase “YourName” All of the gray boxes below should be appropriately filled in and the document saved again before submitting to the Unit 6 Dropbox. Paragraph Writing Paragraph #1: Purpose: Describe Write a complete paragraph about a person who has influenced you in positive ways. Do not write more than 1 paragraph for this topic. Focus on at least one way in which this person has made an important impact upon you. Use specific ideas and examples to illustrate your points and make sure to refer to the Paragraph Structure Chart located at the end of the Unit 6 Reading. Include a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion (minimum 10 complete sentences). My pastor has been a big influence. He has influenced me in many positive ways. He is a role model for me to follow. He is always trying to brighten up a person’s day. He often visits people in the hospital. This gives them a reason to smile. He does food drives for many organizations. He collects food for Book Bags of Hope. He volunteers and gives out food to the less fortunate. He is a person that has a big impact on many lives. Paragraph #2: Purpose: Share an Opinion Write...
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...Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. This reminds of Haley Diaz, a young, but expressive author of her own works inside of a first grade classroom. She has the smarts, and the ability to reel you in with the words she applies with the use of pen and paper. Haley knows how to construct her papers from start to finish using conventions provided by her teacher. She connects you with imaginative thinking, real life events, and things she has seen. Her use of imagery, English-Language Arts conventions, and detailed illustrations will leave you in awe, and with a big smile. When reading through the first grader’s writing named Haley Diaz, the literary element imagery comes to mind. She allows for you to go with her on her journey from being an amateur writer to an advanced writer. She paints this picture of herself, the things she likes, her family, and what’s most important to her. She captures every single detail, unless it’s something that she doesn’t care about. She pays very close attention to detail to everyday life events, and replicates it in her storytelling. Her illustrations are vivid and provide us with much detail of things that have occurred regardless of the interest level. I see a developing learner with plenty of potential when I read the words she writes on such thick lined paper. This is a learner...
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...Paper Chromatography Purose- the purpose is you will use paper chromatography to separate colors from ink. If the ink is soluble in water, it will travel up the paper with the water. Solubility is related to the type of intermolecular forces between the substances; substances with similar IMF’s will be soluble. As the solvent rises on the paper and evaporates, it leaves the colors in its path. Background info- I know that water is a polar solvent and that rubbing alcohol is a nonpolar solvent. Materials- 1. Chromatorgraphy paper 2. 2 Petri Dishes 3. Black felt tips pens 4. Water 5. Felt tip pens of other colors 6. Alcohol Procedure- 1. Obtain two pieces of chromatography paper. Trace a quarter in pencil, in the center of the paper 2. Poke a small hole in the center of the circle 3. Select 3 felt tip pens of different colors (one must be black). Make one dot with each en on each piece of chromatography paper along the line traced around the center, as illustrated on the board. 4. Use a pencil to label these dots with the color and “FT” for felt tip. 5. Select 3 permanent makers of different color (one must be Black). Make one dot with each marker on each piece of chromatography paper along the line traced around the center, as illustrated on the board. 6. Use pencil to label these dots with the color and “P” for permanent. 7. Remove the papers from the solvents when the solvent has moved to within 2 cm of the edge of the paper....
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...this week: $1.00 For going to the store for you: $.50 Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: $.25 Taking out the garbage: $1.00 For getting a good report card: $5.00 For cleaning up and raking the yard: $2.00 Total owed: $14.75 Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote: For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me: No Charge For all the nights that I’ve sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you: No Charge For all the trying times, and all the tears that you’ve caused through the years: No Charge For all the nights that were filled with dread, and for the worries I knew were ahead: No Charge For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping your nose: No Charge Son, when you add it up, the cost of my love is: No Charge. When the boy finished reading what his mother had written, there were big tears in his eyes, and he looked straight at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.” And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote: “PAID IN...
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...unhappy. My boyfriend and I broke up the night before my last exam. I would talk to my friends about it but I felt like it became too much for them. I knew they wanted to make me happy so they would listen but I didn’t feel right about putting them through it so I started writing. Whenever I needed a break from everyone around me, I would grab a piece of paper and a pen and just start pouring my thoughts onto paper. It was usually about how I was going through a tough time, which now seems increasingly petty, but at that time paper was my confidant. I wrote everything, even if it was a paragraph, or even barely a line. I used to transfer all the bad thoughts in my mind onto paper and just leave it there. I substituted my friends for paper. Paper wouldn’t talk back or tell me that it wasn’t god for me. It would just listen, absorb, and always be there. And that’s when I fell in love with writing. This is when writing became a habit. When I got over irrelevant boyfriend issues, I still had that craving to write something, anything, so I started writing about my day. If I had had a bad day, I would sit with my book and pen and just write till I overcame the bad thoughts. Those rare but sweet moments when I would go into a stream of consciousness showed me glimpses of certain peculiarities I didn’t even know I possessed. Sometimes I would re read things that I had written previously and I would be able to feel what I had felt when I was writing those words. All those memories would...
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...You almost have to be of a certain age these days to remember what it was like to sit down and write out a letter or to even have had to handwrite it. A handwritten or typed letter takes time, creativity and thought., which is why people prefer to text, email, or just jot down a short note, etc. There are times when all you want to say is "meet me at 8" and then a text or a short note is perfect. The problem comes only when you are required to put together a proposal letter for a business, a cover letter for an open job position or even when you want to journal some things so that you read it at a later date. It is with those opportunities that we find our skills have been reduced to LOL, k, brb, tc, cya. Letter writing is important as it reveals something about your personality that a machine can't. Your style of handwriting, choice of ink and paper all say something about you as an individual. Now almost everyone has become too busy so there is no time for anyone to put their words in thoughts. Writing love letters is no longer interesting to people. Lot of new technology has replaced the beauty of writing love letter. Sending email, messages, SMS has become the trend now. But when you express your love, the best way is to write a letter to your beloved one. And when you start writing your thoughts there are no limitations to convey what we think. The quantity and quality of contemporary written communication is fast flowing down the tubes of mindless entertainment devices...
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...this poem, Morning is a new sheet paper for you to write on -the poet is comparing the day with a sheet of paper and your action with a pen without an eraser. Every word on this paper represents something priceless. Each sunrise symbolizes a new sheet of paper or a new day. The pencil that writes on this piece of paper can only relate to your action. It cannot erase or rewrite what was noted down. Whatever you want to say, all day, until the night folds up and flies away- May your words have a solid foundation that will bring joy and happiness to oneself. Every sentence that contains my words shouldn’t offend anyone but should bring joy and satisfaction to my fellow being. A sheet of paper completes when sunset appears, and no line can repeat itself because once it is gone it can’t return again. The bright words and the dark words are gone-May this pen always be exposed to light in order to continue to write the glory of positivity, and to never encounter darkness where all lines will disappear. Until dawn and a new day to write on-The light are fading away, soon dawn will appear, and there will be an absent of light that will resolve in darkness. Light will disappear, and darkness will appear and so there will be no more line on this sheet of paper. In conclusion- Only my pen can determine what the future holds for me. I hope that this pen have enough ink, to write about the glories of this sunshine. Now I will file this paper and put it away for I have no guarantee that...
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...July 13, 2015 Cognitive view writing is a very simplified and descriptive writing that paints a picture and allows the person reading it to comprehend and understand what they are reading. I recently wrote a brochure to hand out to my employees here at UPS on heat related injuries. I wrote simple steps to prevent getting overheated, and the dangers of what could happen if proper measures were not taken. I gave examples and illustrations that would make the employees stop and think about what to do as they are getting hot, and before they get over heated and tragedy occurs. Some examples of this would be proper amounts of water drank daily, and proper amounts of water drank while working in the heat. I explained how caffeinated drinks, sugary foods, and some medications will dehydrate the body, which can lead to heat exertion, heat stroke, or even death. I added many pictures to illustrate proper hydrating methods, and pictures showing foods and drinks that can quickly dehydrate a person. I also explained and illustrated what to do in case a fellow employee showed signs of heat exertion, or stroke. After brochure is read and explained each employee must take, and pass a test at 100 percent. Each employee must also verbally explain to me proper methods to helping a fellow employee that shows signs of heat distress. I have each employee to take the test to make sure each and every employee not only understands, but also remembers what they have read. The conclusion...
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...How Difficult Can It Be? The unpleasant feelings a person might get when attempted to write something about they mighty not even know can be very interesting. The writing can be a thesis, a simple task of a poor student or maybe just a personal diary. The feelings gotten during a write can be described in two different stages which are physical and mental. First of all the physical feelings will be mentioned are aches, sickness and urge to eat more and more which is both related in physical and mental feelings. The writer-to-be person sits at the table takes a paper and a pencil with a nice looking both happy and curious expression in the face then places the pencil on the paper but In the moment he starts to think about the topic he is not knowledged enough to write the first thing will come to their head is more likely to be a terrible headache feels one like there is a drum beats as your heart does, than an idea. After a while the beats of headache probably will get thougher as if there is a terrifying melody playing because it’s going to be a very scary scene in a movie. And then the scary scene comes, that feeling chokes your maw, tickles your stomach, absorbs all your life energy and the inevitable final throwing out. Poor writer has already quit writing and went to the kitchen to eat like the Cookie Monster in this phase. Enjoy your meal writer! Second and the lastly the mental feelings or with another saying emotions are another trouble while writing about an...
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...MEMORANDUM Date: 24 October 2013 To: All Employees From: Thad Johanson Subject: Conversion to Reader-Centered Writing format Effective immediately, this organization will be implementing a new policy that will require the use of reader-centered writing. Reader-centered writing is a form of writing that keeps the person who is reading in mind at all times. This form of writing is easily processed because it does not use terms and phrases that the reader doesn't know or could be misunderstood. The purposed and subject of the material are focused and clearly presented. We will be using this format in all internal and outgoing correspondence to our customers. Proper communication is a very important tool in any business. Having clear and precise correspondence reduces the risk of any misinterpretations that you or the consumers may have when reading. In the book written by Linda Flowers called Problem Solving Strategies for Writing, she conveys that you want whomever is reading your written communication to come away with the main idea of what you are saying. You don't want to leave the task of drawing inferences and forming concepts up to the reader. The needs of the reader must always be our main priority. The worst thing that can happen when we write is having the person it is developed for, draw his or her own conclusions and not get the point of written product. It is very important that we follow this concept because it is counterproductive and results in rework...
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...day to making you do an oral report on the origin of English, Mrs. Granger tries hard to apply the dictionary into the lives of all the children she teaches. Mrs. Granger’s love of this everyday language fascinates Nick and he proceeds to make up his own word: frindle. Who says you can’t make up a word? Sure, a pen is named after the Latin pinna, but where did pinna come from, anyway? Nick was a curious boy with an extravagant idea. “Frindle” spreads quickly. Almost immediately after the new word infects the school, Mrs. Granger, infuriated with the spread of the word, keeps students who say “frindle” after school and causes uproar throughout the community. Now, “frindle” spreads even more, and even Nick is surprised as the new word dominates the whole country. From San Fran to Times Square, Nick’s new word is being put in everyone’s vocabulary. Nick just watches (and enjoys) as money piles up into his bank account from wild sales of T-Shirts, hats, frindles, and who-knows-what all based on Nick’s word. Nick is on TV, in magazines, and he’s living the good life. As Nick says in the very beginning, “From this day on and for ever and ever, I will never use the word pen again. Instead, I will use the word “frindle”, and I will do everything possible so others will, too.” This is very true. And in the end, even Mrs. Granger is okay with the fact that her precious dictionaries have been altered with the word “frindle”. If...
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...final. Well when I went home after school, I had started to watch Hannah Montana, a teen show on Disney Channel. The episode happened to be the one where Hannah had to learn the same thing, so while she was singing “The Bone Song” she made; I had done some research on the lyrics. Well when the test came up in the next couple weeks, I quietly started to sing my version of the song. 3. Highlight textbooks and notes, create movies in your mind, create visual study tools, visualize pictures, charts, and diagrams, Edit your lecture notes, color code your notes and study sheets. I think these benefit me because, I really noticed that I learn with color, like my colored pens for different classes, say that when I’m in English 228, ill use my black pen to take notes, but when im in my Biology 111, ill use my blue pen. I tend to retain the info given, because ill remember the color. 4. Write word and question cards, Write self-test questions, Write questions in the margin and underline the answers is what I should work on because I very rarely do that. I study yes, but maybe this will help me more? Or be more useful? 5. I think you should adapt to the different skills because you really never know when you might need a different learning style for a different...
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...LETTER WRITING TYPES OF BUSINESS LETTER * Enquiry and reply Enquiries for information about goods or services are sent and received in business all the time. They should be acknowledged as soon as possible or business may be lost. * Complaint and adjustment Complaints about goods or services are inevitable and need to be investigated immediately. Steps should be taken to rectify matters if goodwill is to be retained. * Job application, offer and reference A wide variety of letters pass back and forth in the recruitment process. * Financial Collection letters, credit requests and credit rating enquiries all come under this heading. * Circulars and mailshots To promote goods, services or special events, an organisation may send a letter simultaneously to many recipients. Word processors may be used to personalise such messages. * Sales letters Attracting potential customers in future promotions, new products or services, and special writing techniques have to be adopted in order to put over the products or services in an interesting and enthusiastic way. * Congratulations, sympathy, thanks Maintaining goodwill is important in business. Thank you letters are often sent after a dinner or other function. Messages of condolence may be sent on the death of a business associate or colleague. Congratulations may be sent to associates on promotion or other achievements. FULLY BLOCKED LAYOUT WITH OPEN PUNCTUATION The fully blocked...
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