effectively? Getting started: Planning an essay ■ Writing a first draft of an essay ■ Peer evaluation of a first draft ■ Incorporating sources ■ Writing introductions ■ 3 Thebusinessofscience 3a Stop selling out science to commerce 3b Is business bad for science? Over the past 20 years, commercial influences on scientific research have become increasingly detrimental. Discuss. Organizing and supporting ideas: ■ Generating ideas for an essay ■ Organizing ideas ■ Incorporating and referencing
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A VISUAL GUIDE TO ESSAY WRITING Dr Valli Rao, Associate Professor Kate Chanock, and Dr Lakshmi Krishnan use a visual approach to walk students through the most important processes in essay writing for university: formulating, refining, and expressing academic argument. ‘MetamorTHESIS‘ Your main argument or thesis is your position in answer to the essay question. It changes and develops as you undertake your reading and research towards the essay. how to develop & communicate academic
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Greene believes that students should not reproduce someone’s idea when they write an argumentative essay because writing in academic setting requires students to come up with their own idea about certain topic and present it to readers in a written form. Although repeating or summarizing other people’s arguments is appropriate and necessary writing technique
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GREAT ESSAYS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS Lauren Starkey ® NEW YORK Copyright © 2004 LearningExpress All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Learning Express, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Starkey, Lauren B., 1962– How to write great essays / Lauren Starkey. —1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-521-X 1. English language—Rhetoric—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Essay—Authorship—Problems
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We completed several assignments such as discussion posts, an essay using a data set, and a research paper. The most influential assignment, however, was the blog posts. Students were required to post blog entries targeted to their communities on Google plus. We researched our future careers and blogged about what
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We chose this topic because we've always been interested in the Secret Army, General Vang Pao, Hmong culture, and its history. When we talk about the Vietnam war in school they do not mention anything about General Vang Pao or the Secret Army. This inspired us to pick this topic and teach everybody about Hmong history. In school, it is very mysterious that very few people know about the Secret Army and General Vang Pao helping the Hmong people cross into Thailand. Also, Vang Pao helped the Americans
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FDNY Lt. Ray McCormack stated that the fire service needs a "culture of extinguishment, not safety…. Too much safety makes Johnny a poor leader and a terrible rescuer…. Attempting to make the job safer by teaching you to place yourself above those in need is wrong and goes against everything the fire service has ever stood for.” What do you think of this statement? Do you agree or disagree – take a position and defend it. I would have to disagree with this statement, it is a old style of thinking
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while another one succeeds. Brink Lindsey believes that the reason for the more educated or higher class having more success is the fact that they are more motivated by their parents before them than anyone in the lower class. In Lindsey’s paper “Culture of Success” he tries to determine where this divide starts. He starts the paper by saying, “Something is holding back lower-income Americans from going to college. It’s not that there aren’t major incentives for them to go” (Lindsey 1). What Lindsey
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Subsequently, in the Nazi culture, Hitler conveys the principle of Lebensraum, meaning “living space”. Behind this concept, the culture negatively influences the living space of the Jews, through restrictions and even destruction, in order to retriever back what they believe is “their” land, causing the Jewish population to suffer through these boundaries and change. The Nazi culture persuades a whole nation into reclaiming Germany’s “proper” territory from the Jews. The loss of home and business
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Corporate Culture John Doe Blank University Abstract This paper explores the corporate culture people face in the business world. The decision making model of ethics emphasizes the responsibility of individuals for the decisions they make in business. These decisions impact one’s own personal integrity and also have consequences for many stakeholders with whom business organizations interact. But, personal decision making does not exist in a vacuum. The case study in this paper is about Merrill
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