ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC STUDY ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015/16 SEMESTER: JAN 2016 ASSIGNMENT – 35% The Issue Analysis assignment for this subject is divided into two parts which are (1) Group Essay and (2) Group Presentation. TASK 1- Synthesis Essay Writing - (20%) In your LECTURE class: 1. Get into groups of 4-5 students. 2. Each group is to choose a theme (e.g. Petroleum). This theme has to be agreed by all group members before given to the lecturer. Lecturer is required to approve your theme
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Critique writing - The Visitor This essay will provide a critical view of Patricia Cresswell’s “The Visitor”. It will look at the use of language, point of view, use of imagery, characterisation and setting to name but a few. I will provide my opinions on the piece of writing and explain my reasoning behind 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
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Assignment: 1.) What is Technical Writing? * Technical Writing is a specialized form of exposition: that is, written communication done on the job, especially in fields with specialized vocabularies, such as science, engineering, technology, and the health sciences. (Along with business writing, technical writing is often subsumed under the heading of professional communication.) 2.) What is the importance of Technical Writing? * The importance of Technical Writing can be seen in a variety of
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Christie Agatha Reflective Essay The introductory paragraph of this piece recognizes the proper writing structure when constructing an essay. It began with a question to get the attention of the reader and to allow the reader to connect immediately. Next, it began to explain the genres she writes and compared her works to two exemplary authors such as Stephen King and Dan Brown to reinforce the idea that the essay is pro- Agatha. She then separated her comparison with the two great authors and
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Michael Wainman Ms. O’Reilly ENG4U-01 July 5th, 2016 Plagiarism – to Katrina Hello Katrina, I am writing to you in order to clear up your confusion on why I believe that your passage on Middle English, in your essay on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, is plagiarized. First of all, I do not believe that you intentionally plagiarized it although based off of the sentence structure it is a paraphrase of C. Hugh Holman’s definition of Middle English from A Handbook to Literature. You did reword
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Are We to Blame For Obesity? Fast food is becoming a major issue world-wide causing problems and disease such as obesity, asthma and diabetes. Fast food has become an addiction to almost the entire nation but who is to blame? In the articles, “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko and “What You Eat Is Your Business” by Radley Balko two different viewpoints are expressed on fast food and what it does to the individual as well as the economy. In the articles both authors show their awareness of
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The Elements of Writing a Graduate Paper and Successful Strategies Ruth A. Buissereth University of Phoenix Abstract This paper is based on 3 articles that collectively report how to effectively write a paper at the graduate level. Researchers, Woeste and Barham (2007) have gone to many lengths to prove the differences in levels as well as styles of writing based on their learning approach. They include how to communicate through your writing so that your message
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I have been thinking about and planning for college for a very long time. During this time, I have changed my major several times from Business Administration to International Relations, and the list goes on and on. This search that began sometime during third grade did not include tuitions until recently. Tuitions have always been important, but I have never worried about them. I grew up being taught that if you do your work and make good grades, money will fall into your lap. The reality, however
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The audience for this core reading is going to be the instructor of English 111 online course, Ms. Emily Ford, as well as my fellow classmates. I will be writing this essay for an Ivy Tech course. I believe there will be many levels of knowledge regarding this reading. Each individual will have varying opinions and thoughts. I am sure my fellow classmates will have already read something in relation to this specific reading. I believe everyone in the audience will have a sense of understanding on
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A news article discusses current or recent news of either general interest (i.e. daily newspapers) or of a specific topic (i.e. political or trade news magazines, club newsletters, or technology news websites). A news article can include accounts of eyewitnesses to the happening event. It can contain photographs, accounts, statistics, graphs, recollections, interviews, polls, debates on the topic, etc. Headlines can be used to focus the reader’s attention on a particular (or main) part of the
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