HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vii Organization 1 Clarity 11 Word Choice 21 Mechanics 39 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading 55 Untimed Essay Writing Strategies 67 Timed Essay Writing Strategies 85 Sample Essay Prompts and Essays 97 Resources 111 CONTENTS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS v Introduction n your preparations for college, you may find
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........................................... 5 7. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject......................................................................................... 6 8. Divide words at line-ends, in accordance with their formation and pronunciation.................................................................................................. 7 a. Divide the word according to its formation: ...................................
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Art as Technique 1. Defamiliarization is stripping objects or subjects from their individual or “familiar” characteristics and giving them unusual or “unfamiliar” traits to allow the reader to see it in a whole new perspective. An example of this is in Tolstoy's defamiliarization of spanking, explaining the act as “to strip people who have broken the law, to hurl them to the floor, and to rap on their bottoms with switches.” The crude description removes the disciplinary context it had and
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Elements of Religious Traditions Joycel Agay REL/134 February 7, 2011 James Scott Elements of Religious Traditions Believers practice religions. According to Malloy (2010), a traditional dictionary defines religion as a system of beliefs that involves God or gods, rituals, moral codes and prayer. There are many different religions, some has similarities and some do not. Some of these religions are carried from century to century, carrying old traditions and rituals. Relationships Though
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A word processor is a computer program used to write, edit, print, and publish documents for school, work, or even use at home. A word processor in general can be used to create any type of document in plain text, rich text document, HTML, and XML documents. It also has many templates for use such as tables, and graphs for use with your papers and many other features. Microsoft Word is the word processor made by the Microsoft Incorporation, and usually comes in a package known as Microsoft Office
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Cognitive therapy is based on the belief that problematic emotions and behaviors can be changed by modifying problematic thoughts. ANS: T 14. A classification system is only useful when its categories consistently and accurately fit the phenomena being classified. ANS: T 15. A classification system is only useful when its categories are reliable and valid. ANS: T 16. The main advantage of personality questionnaires is that they assess deeper, less observable emotional and personality
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it was 3000000/12=250000 in average monthly. On the other hand direct labor, variable overhead and fixed factory overhead were unfavorable because these were higher than those of budgeted income statement. Question2: What additional data would be useful in analyzing the firm's January performance? Why? Answer: In budgeted income statement, Operating variance such as direct labor, direct material, variable factory overhead, fixed factory overhead-spending, fixed factory overhead-volume were not given
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Rollnick, 2013). Improvements to my motivational interviewing technique may be made by including summary statements, focusing the conversation, and improving my ability to evoke. A summary statement toward the end of the conversation would have been a useful transition to the planning stages of change and a therapeutic way to reflect listening as well as the patient’s own change talk (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). I feel that we had an agreed focus for the topic, but I felt the conversation drifted at times
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Face to face conversation For persuasive messages, the best approach is to? Emphasize how your audience will benefit A euphemism is a word or phrase that is? A milder term for one with a negotive connotations The most common tone for a business message is? conversational Words such as nevertheless, however, and therefore? Are useful for making transitions The main task in completing a business message consist of? revising, proofreading, and producing When reviewing
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British inventor Edward de Bono coined the phrase "lateral thinking" as a counterpoint to conventional or vertical thinking. In conventional thinking people go forward in a predictable, direct fashion. Lateral thinking involves approaching the problem from new directions – literally from the side. De Bono defines the four main aspects of lateral thinking as: The recognition of dominant polarizing ideas The search for different ways of looking at things A relaxation of the rigid control of vertical
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