Excerpts from On Writing Well William Zinsser New York, Harper, 1998, Chapters 2 through 4 2. Simplicity Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon. Who can understand the viscous language of everyday American commerce and enterprise: the business letter, the interoffice memo, the corporation report, the notice from the bank explaining its latest "simplified" statement? What member
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contract that was verbally and written will help each team member stay fair and unbiased. As an educator in school settings, we will be working with administrators and parents so it is important to learn team dynamics. 2.3 Evaluate individual writing strengths and weaknesses. Two
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Donald Washington Ashley Shackleford ENGL 1023 5 March 2013 Usability Test Proposal Participants * College Students and Secondary School Students. * There isn’t any kind of experience needed, instructions are simple and to the point. * Anyone who have good comprehension skills will be able to complete this process. * 6 Participants. Setting * In a library, in a group study room. Anticipated problems * These instructions not working for some because they aren’t comfortable
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Writing is difficult to me. I have trouble writing about anything. The main reason is because I do not concentrate enough. No matter how much I try to concentrate, my mind seems to get distracted. Once upon a time, while I'm writing this small paragraph, my mind keeps on thinking about others topics. I don’t know if this happens to others, but this is a problem that I have trouble in. This could be why do not like to write. The best time and place for me to write anything would be during late
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hard to imagine in great detail whatever she describes. Leah’s diction is very wonderful and great and if she were to write a book it would be a pleasant experience for any reader. Her diction might be one thing, but structure or syntax of her writing is different. Since she is very descriptive some of her sentences are very long so Leah uses many commas and conjunctions. Sometimes her sentences can look long like when she tells us about Nathan’s travels: “He has already been to so many places
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In the movie, Finding Forrester, Jamal meets a man by the name of William Forrester. By the fault of Jamal, Forrester acquires Jamal’s journal which were full of his writing. Forrester, a renowned author, corrected Jamal’s work by adding his own thoughts. After Jamal’s journals were returned to him, he began working on his writing with Forrester. At the same time, he was offered the opportunity to play basketball at a private school. No one at the school believed Jamal had any academic capabilities;
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Write Your First Draft: Write Effectively This is a crucial time to remember that writing is a process. As you write your first draft, you’ll slow yourself down, perhaps even bog yourself down, if you worry about style, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Try to avoid composing, revising, and editing simultaneously. They’re three separate functions best done at three separate times. For the moment, concentrate only on getting your ideas down on the page. Just as you don’t need an outline that
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Jenisa Smith January 13, 2014 Everest University Generate a list of narrative essay components “The four components of essays are Expository essay, Descriptive essays, Narrative essays, and Argumentative essays.” (ack Baker Allen Brize) The expository essay is a essay” that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. This can be accomplished through comparison and contrast, definition
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Individual Research and Contribution Max Bosche #67766089 University of British Columbia MGMT 390 Section 003 February 10, 2013 Norine Webster At the beginning of the term, shortly after the assignment was announced, I set up and led a few meetings to get everyone started and organized on what needs to be done, during which we discussed the individual and group sections of the paper. My sections of the paper were the value chain of the industry and the supplier section of the porter’s
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Writing a student reference/letter of recommendation The Careers Service Centre is often asked for guidelines about what should be included in letters of reference. GENERAL GUIDELINES • • • • • • • • • (JB Aug 2012) Be specific and give examples to justify the points that you make. Request a CV or personal statement for additional information. This can inform your writing and enable you to be specific e.g. refer to anecdotes that back up points about a student's personality and ability. Raise
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