How to Write Accomplishment Statements 1. Always start with an action word. * Good: "Responsible for leading team for classroom assignments." * Stronger: "Directed team of 3 classmates to complete assignment on time." 2. Use colorful and unique action words. * Good: "Started a new program." * Stronger: "Created and implemented a new mentoring program with 80% participation of residents." 3. Avoid wordiness and unnecessary adjectives. * "Coordinated
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four choices with different forms of grammar such as, who/whom, a/an, and I/me. Now I thought this test would be a breeze, unfortunately I was wrong. I thought I would do pretty well and knew what I needed to know about how and when to use certain words with certain phrases. I did not. While taking this test I realized I did not know as much as I thought and needed to study my grammar. I learned while taking this test that I use the wrong form of grammar when I write and when I speak. I am probably
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But this is not really an answer: these powerful mechanisms are there because language is ambiguous. If it weren’t, they wouldn’t have developed. Moreover, these mechanisms must require extra processing time. We know that all senses of an ambiguous word are accessed first, and only then does disambiguation occur (Swinney, 1979). If language were not
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metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences. Example: "The sky steps out of her daywear/Slips into her shot-silk evening dress./An entourage of bats whirr and swing at her hem, ...She's tried on every item in her wardrobe." Onomatopoeia is a word designed to be an imitation of a sound. Example: “Bark! Bark!” went the dog as he chased the car that vroomed past. Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical
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slide show of the words to be memorized and a timer on an Apple brand iPhone to time the participants after the slide show to see how many words they were able to recall from the word list shown on the slide show. Stimuli The stimuli used for our experiment was a word list generated from the Vancouver Word List. We used a number generator to randomly select number and then matched the corresponding number from the word list and used the word that went with that number in our word list. We also made
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5/17/2016 WEEK 3 The Essay An Overview of Essay Development The INTRODUCTION The BODY PARAGRAPHS What it contains? Background information, which attracts or ‘hooks’ the reader. What it contains? Topic sentences which follow the thesis statement. Transitions introducing each sub topic. Relevant and generous convincing support (unity) and coherence. A closing remark (concluding sentence) showing the relevance of the support. A thesis statement, which limits the topic and
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Headwords |Other words in the family. |Definition* | | |abandon |abandoned, abandoning, abandonment, abandons, e.g. |abandon | |abstract |abstraction, abstractions, abstractly, abstracts, e.g. |abstract | |academy |academia, academic, academically, academics, academies, e.g. |academy | |access |accessed, accesses
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system of signs and each sign is the result of the relation between meaning and word and a signifier or sound-image and a signified (referent). He also claimed that signifiers and signifieds are unchangeable but they can make sign itself by signifying more complicated fabulous signs
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redundancy : the act of using a word, phrase, etc., that repeats something else and is therefore unnecessary : a word, phrase, etc., that repeats something else and is therefore unnecessary : a redundant word, phrase, etc. : a part in a machine, system, etc., that has the same function as another part and that exists so that the entire machine, system, etc., will not fail if the main part fails. Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular
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this. Cresswell’s use of language in The Visitor strongly suggests to me that McGill is isolated and lonely. The use of the word “frosted” when describing the outside of McGill’s home could be seen as a metaphor for his personality. The writer also states that the “frosted grass” could be “anticipating the approach of an intruder”. The word intruder is a strong choice of word, as opposed to guest or visitor, suggesting that the idea of a visitor is baffling. Another example is shown on line four where
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