Essays on Punctuation

Many notable writers and educators have strong feelings against the elusive semicolon. Referred to “the mermaid of the punctuation world- period above, coma below- is viewed with suspicion by many people, including well-known people,” (Aneron, 1). Some well-known authors have boycotted the particular piece of punctuation all together, others claim they do nothing other than prove one gained a higher education. Most English teachers admit this part of grammar is also very difficult to teach and even more difficult for students to grasp. On the other hand, there are some who feel very strongly in favor of the mermaid ...

Janet Byron Anderson, the author of The Vocabula Review, discusses the merits and demerits of using a semi-colon in literature. In her article, The Enigmatic Semicolon, Anderson starts by describing the fascination human beings have over hybrid beasts and mythology. She uses the mermaid, a sensuous woman with muscular fish resemblance below. According to myth, the mermaid lures sailors with lovely songs, which makes them forget what they are doing and jump off the deck only to drown. Similarly, the semicolon tends to have comparable psychological influence, whereby a writer feels the urge to use it but fears that ...

The Greek word “dialogos”, meaning conversation, is the point of origin of dialogue writing.

Rule Governing Dialogue Some simple rules that govern dialogue writing include a purpose; convey the tone and plot of the conversation. It must give insights on character traits of people involved and must action the conversation forward. “As a writer, you draw on your lifelong practice of dialogue in creating your characters’ dialogue” (Weinman 5)

Punctuation of dialogues

Quotation marks must be used at the beginning and end of dialogue. The comma should be used after the speaker tag when it precedes conversation and inside the conversation when speaker tag succeeds it. The period is used inside quotation marks if the quote ...

Introduction

This generation, unlike the previous ones is experiencing a lot of sudden encounters that have been contributed to by various factors, including industrialization and globalization, which are associated with numerous problems including economic catastrophes among others. This means that they have to find out ways of coping with these new happenings so as to survive and fulfill their desires. It is in this case that the necessity for guidance and assistance arises. In the old generation, people lived in a closed society where few individuals were entitled with the responsibility of ensuring order and set morals were followed. The ...

One of the most popular means of communication and spreading information around the globe is by means of social media. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and many other social media applications have overtaken the means by which people have communicated in the past such as the television, radio, and telephonic conversations. Not that these are not used to the present day, but they have been replaced by the kind of trending communication present only on social media applications. People tend to communicate in short, terse phrases, selective jargon and use different methods to convey a message, which then trends on ...

Part 2- Analysis of Audience, Purpose, and Context

Technical communication is the method of passing scientific, engineering, and other technical information. Therefore, careful analysis of the audience, as well as the purpose and context, is essential since people in different contexts with varied professional identifications can engage in technical communication. Additionally, individuals that are designated as professional writers apply the research techniques during documentation and presentation of technical processes. Regarding the EGR 386w, my audience can change the tone and structure of the document by developing an effective argument. During the design for practice program, I addressed the expert audience because they are the category of people ...

The purpose is to explain the definitions of the different environment resources, including renewable, non-renewable, and continuous resources.

Text Type: Description Expected Text Structure: General statement- provides a general and simplified statement introducing or identifying the phenomenon and gives an introduction to core concepts that will be addressed Sequenced statements- provide evidence that supports the writer's position based on explaining the phenomenon in relation to the subject of the text.

Concluding statement- highlights the major points used to support author’s ideas about the topic.

Expected Language Features: Explanation text is meant to establish that the phenomenon is present and then there is an explanation on how this came to be. The text involves a clear sequencing and clarity so that it is easy to follow for the readers. Explanation texts have ...

Review 1: Virtual Machines

Introduction Conclusion Is the document motivated by a use case? The document explains the company’s need in the introduction. The company seeks to create a software but it lacks the proper machines for its development. Hence, the author comes up with suggestions towards solving the problem.

Does Author Clearly Explain Proposed Solution to Problem

Does the Author Clearly Explain How The Proposed Solution Solves The Problem? Is the Paper Formal or Informal? The paper follows the formal structure as per the proper tone used in the document. The author directs most of his points towards a learned person or official.

Spelling and Grammar

Can the document be used by ...

Reflective Essay

Reflective Essay

Introduction

There comes a time when you need to take action and start working on basic skills that will alleviate your writing standards. After being pointed out by my teacher for basic grammar, sentence development, spelling and punctuation mistakes, I knew that I needed to make some changes. In addition, in some of my previous work, my teacher also asked me to work on my creative and descriptive writing skills and make them sharp with regular writing practice. I chose to enrol in the WRTG 101 course after finding out several gaps in my ability to write essays ...

Learning to write more effectively is one task that many university students struggle to complete, for a number of reasons. Many of them move through middle and high school learning to write to a particular formula that will help them to pass a standardized assessment that is often necessary for graduation but has almost no resemblance to the sort of writing that they will be expected to do down the road in the professional world. Once those students come to college and find that there are many more ways to write than that cookie cutter formula that they learned ...

Analysis of the Language of New Social Media

Introduction Recent technological advancements in computers, phones, and internet based communications have become an integral part of people’s lives. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn have attracted million of English-speaking users who communicate and connect via the sites on a regular basis. The use of the internet communication technologies has undoubtedly shaped the way people communicate. Users share their thoughts and photos, organize their social lives, or at the very least have their lives significantly influenced through some form of internet-based interaction. This has had a huge effect not only on the physical interaction but ...

Intro

Emily Dickinson is an American poet, who is probably the most recognizable name in American poetry. Not much is known of her motivation regarding her poems as only 12 of the 1800 she had written were published during her life time and she left little in the way of explaining her thoughts regarding what she had written. What is known is that she did not think the majority of her poems were worth public consumption and had told her sister Lavinia (Vinnie) to dispose of them after her death. This was probably due to her poems being heavily altered ...

As it regards common grammatical errors and errors of punctuation that appear in my writing, these include misuse of commas, improper use of designating prepositions and pronouns, and awkward syntax. As it concerns my misuse of commas, I often neglect to set off isolated or independent clauses within a sentence which are deserving of the reader’s pause before he or she proceeds within finishing the sentence. My misuse of commas has also produced a few run-on sentences in my writing, which could have been avoided if my commas were appropriately positioned within the text. Following the commas that ...

A language which does not change during a long period of time is considered to be a dead language. A language that is broadly used by people “is always changing, evolving, and adapting to the needs of its users” (Birner n.d.). The fact that the English language develops and changes significantly during the history proves that this language is alive and active. There are a variety of reasons for the language changes: social, political and economic factors. However, nowadays we frequently witness the changes in language because of the innovations in technology, industry and products. The connection between the ...

Pat Mora is an Hispanic-American author. She was born in El Paso, Texas in 1942. While growing up, Mora attended Catholic schools, although her religion is described as “Ecumenical.” (Gale n.p.). She was raised in a bi-lingual family, and her works have been written in Spanish and English. Mora has received many accolades for her writing of children’s literature, which speaks to young Hispanics. Her poem, “Gentle Communion,” reflects her Hispanic heritage, and Catholic upbringing. One cannot discern by reading the poem, if the persona is male or female. Since the author is female, further gender description, when ...

Sexuality and gender have no place in the modern world, but while reading the work of Diane Seuss and Emily Dickinson, it is clear sexuality and gender are a part of every aspect of life, similar to a universal truth that has no chance of changing any time soon. Poetry has the ability to tell a story through multiple verses, lines, or stanzas. This paper will focus on the works of Seuss and Dickinson, while discussing the formal elements of both poems. The first poem described is “Still Life with Self-Portrait” by Diane Seuss discusses the painting by Cornelius ...

Abstract

Educators need to understand the role of language and how it improves self-efficacy of gifted learners. Talented learners exhibit signs that demonstrate high personal competencies and have unique academic excellence which puts them ahead of others within a learning environment. However, educators need to understand the fact that it is important to provide such students with an atmosphere where they develop self-awareness, motivation, risk taking and confidence required to make them appreciate their giftedness. It is strategic for educators to employ advanced communication technologies to improve written skills of gifted learners. Besides having the ability to think critically and ...

1. “Notes on Punctuation” by Lewis Thomas - Summary The writers use punctuation marks in order to set the tone of the text according to Lewis Thomas. This differs from language to language and there are very few marks in English. It is important to use punctuation so that people do not write in an ambiguous manner. Commas are useful more than any other marks because they have many purposes. They should not be used in great amounts although they add a specific meaning. Lewis thinks that semicolons are important as well because they let the writer express themselves ...

This article by Kacey Keyko discusses the role of work engagement in the ethical nursing practice. The author highlights that most of the research majorly focus on the relationship between organizational outcome and the engagement while neglecting the ethical considerations in the field of nursing. To address the significance of engagement, the article highlights the conditions necessary to achieve this concept at workplace including safety, availability, and meaningfulness. According to Keyko, nurses must feel safe in their working environment without fear of any harm, and be psychological, emotionally, and physically available (880). The job should also be meaningful in ...

Klein, D. V. (1990). Foiling the cracker: A survey of, and improvements to, password security. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Security Workshop (pp. 5-14).

The article ‘‘Foiling the Cracker’’: A Survey of, and Improvements to, Password

Security by Daniel V. Klein was published in 1990. Klein looks into system security and discusses how people can hack passwords. He claims that the issue of security has always been a challenge to most individual accounts as there are people who know how to manipulate such accounts such that they hack them and get vital information about another party. He discusses the various ways in which technology has motivated the interference of system ...

Language assessment

In making the linguistic assessment of CG language, it is important to have knowledge on the standardized English language or rather the most accepted English dialect. There are three major patterns that are important including pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. In making assessment though it is also crucial to have a good understanding of the background of the person to which assessment is being made. This is because people from different background are likely to speak in different dialects of English (Hudley and Mallinson, 2010). These dialects are as a result of the first language influence or influence from the ...

For my discourse analysis, I have chosen the Lapse for Words Transcript since I found it interesting and I believe I can discuss many things through it. It was an interesting conversation since it does happen almost everyday – people dating and breaking over the phone, which of course, since two people conversing couldn’t see each other (speaker and the listener), would imply different things to each other. Also, the transcription used several overlap symbols, elapsed time, punctuation for intonation, stress (pitch and volume), aspiration, being unsure of accuracy and nonverbal sounds such as breathing and sighing. First, let ...

E. E. Cummings is a poet known for his strategic and unique use of punctuation, spacing, rhythm, and poem construction which combine to create a powerful piece of literature. This is particularly true of “pity this busy monster manunkind,” which uses rhetorical devices such as line breaks, asides, and punctuation choices to generate meaning within the reader. The poem is, itself, an indictment of modern civilization, but it is conducted in such an abstract way, and through such a distorted lens, and it requires a reader to be astute and focused to derive the true meaning from the work. ...

Craig Arnold’s “The Singers” is a contemporary poem which addresses a very poignant topic, namely the destruction of the environment caused by human activities. The poet chooses to focus on a specific aspect of this broad topic, namely the rapid extinction of bird species which is accentuated by the destruction of their environment. The speaker laments the fact that many species of birds are on the verge of extinction, and expresses concern over the disappearance of creativity together with the death of the natural world. The speaker dramatizes this environmental problem by illustrating the loss that humans face ...

Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summaries For any business professional to succeed and become a competent and successful professional, he must possess good communication skills. Communication skills such as written communication, oral communication, and interpersonal communication are necessary to survive in today’s competitive era. The same fact also stands true for accounting professionals. According to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), communication skills are and will remain in future as important a skill as any other professional skill. AICPA lists “effective business writing” as a necessary skill for competence in public accounting. Unfortunately, some of the entry level accountants do ...

The reviewed document dwells upon the basic rules that are essential for clean and concise academic writing. Generally, these rules are well-known and easy-to-follow; however, I have found a number of recommendations that I did not know, such as some of the rules on capitalization and punctuation, as well as details on the in-text citations in the MLA reference style. Some of suggested points were especially important to review, as they occasionally create difficulties in the process of writing. I find the information on stylistic aspects of writing of particular use, as I often struggle when it comes to ...

The non-verbal communication is an implicit way of delivering a message when the communicator is explicitly using words or not. Non-verbal communications could be intentional or not but ultimately affect interpersonal communication and the quality of work produced in many ways (Alberts Et al.2012). When conducting group meetings to deliberate on how to forge forward with the group project, we constantly communicate; strategize give opinions and inputs to ensure that we are in agreement. Non-verbal communication cues such as facial expressions, the gestures given by various body languages, and variation of voices are of equal importance as the ...

The act of communication has changed over the years due to the changes in technology. Advancements in technology over the past decades have affected how people in the society pass information and how they communicate amongst each other. The rules of communication that were applied fifty years ago are no longer applicable in this day and age. The use of mobile phones, computers and laptops has changed the way people communicate in this century. Back in the days, such materials were not available neither had they been invented. Communication between friends and family members had been narrowed down to ...

Introduction

As a writer, I have come to appreciate the exciting and lifting moment when my mind connects with the thoughts of another, through his or her piece of writing, which enriches the my experience of the world and the area of study. Further, it is because I – don’t only – get the opportunity to read the author’s piece, but I also get the chance to explore his or her true intention through the language and the literary devices employed. The overall purpose of the writer, about the piece they are writing, determines the techniques they adopt, as ...

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Writing skills are a must in today’s corporate scenario. Communication is termed as a key element in businesses and jobs these days. However, it has come to light that students belonging to various universities all over the world lack in basic communication and writing skills. The reasons for this can be attributed to a number of causes. My paper will analyze the problem areas in communication faced by students, the need for effective writing skills and my own experience in this field. Poor writing skills in students is a well ...

Part 1: Revising and Editing

1. Go through each section below and self-evaluate your first draft by checking if you did or did not complete the task. 2. If you did not complete task, give a brief explanation of why.

Revising and Editing Overall Tips

☒ Is your paper double spaced? ☒ Have you printed out a copy to read over? ☒ Did you visually scan your paper for paragraph length? Paragraphs that are either too long or shorter than the others may need some revision.

☒ Have you read your paper aloud to catch errors?

☒ Have you given your paper to a friend/instructor/CLA tutor to review? Revising ☒ Did you reread the assignment details? ☒ Now that you have a draft, ...

Review of Public Housing: The Way of the Future?

The article is informative providing the history, present and the future state of the public housing sector. The use of authoritative quotes from different articles and economists gives this article credibility. The use of an abstract provides the reader with a snippet of what is covered by the report, hence making it easy to read and understand even before you read the whole paper. In addition, this paper is long enough and covers most of the issues in the housing sector. The style of writing is friendly and easy to follow, making it an interesting article for any audience –whether ...

Abstract

English is a global language that started in Europe but has been adapted by other countries as a lingua franca. It is a language that is mainly used for communication between and among people. Just like any other language, English contains the four language skills that need to be mastered in order for an individual to manipulate the language for fluent communication. The four language skills include reading, listening, speaking and writing, the learners find them difficult, and this affects their education and communication. The focus is to explore strategies that help in the development of the four language skills taught in ...

Everyone that I know watches television. It seems these days that it is hard to find anyone who doesn’t watch television on a regular basis. I have a friend who rush home from work in order to make it home on time to watch Survivor. Another friend, who sets time aside each week, making sure she has the night off, just to watch Vampire diaries. I myself have a nightly routine where I watch TV to help me unwind at the end of the night. The question that I begin to pose in my mind is all this TV really healthy? ...

#YOLO. 10 years ago if someone were to say that phrase you would have no clue what they were talking about. Since the rise of the Internet started in the early 90s, the network population has grown from millions to billions. Social media has become a regular stopping point for most, including actors, activists, government organizations, and the everyday citizen. To me, this raises an important question: Is current social media being used for what it was intended for? In the article “Small Change, Why the revolution will not be tweeted,” Malcome Gladwell insists that social media be nothing ...

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Target Audience Description 3 Procedure for Determining Information Processing Steps 3 Learning Objectives .... 7 Terminal Learning Objective .. 7

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Section B: Instructional Strategies, Specifications, Documentation .. 13

Background .13

Terminal learning objective 13 Expanded Events of Instruction 14 Introduction . 14 Body . 15 Section 1: Basic Words 15 Section 2: Advanced Words 15 Conclusion 17 Teaching Elementary Children To Read A Second Language Section A: Front-end Analysis - Target Audience Description The target audience is elementary school children. To learn any new language, children must start early. The ...

Ever wonder how to become a great writer? The answer is quite obvious, reflective writing that is the process wherein a writer can learn from previous works. While I agree with T.D. Jakes in Treetop Instincts about how one should be affected only by good criticism and not by negative criticism, but I would like to add that negative criticism should be viewed in a constructive manner. This is exactly what I have done through this course wherein by paying heed to my professor, Lawanda Dickens’ criticism (both good and bad) I have seen a stark improvement in my writing. I did not ...

Internet

The essay that I am revising is Essay#2 (The Shallows Essay) which entailed choosing an issue raised by Nicholas Carr in The Shallows and developing an argumentative essay around. I choose to revise this essay simply because I got a low grade D and believe that I deserve a better grade. I tend to believe that I am better off than a D grade and that if I can take care of the simple mistakes I did in my first essay and take into account the issues pointed out by my professor, I could easily score a much higher grade. I am going ...

[Critical Discourse Analysis of Transcript]

Introduction

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a branch of etymology that looks to see how and why certain writings influence readers and listeners. Through an examination of the syntax, it means to reveal the 'shrouded philosophies' that can affect a peruser or listener's perspective of the world. Investigators have taken a gander at a wide mixed bag of speech and composed writings – political statements, promoting, standards and regulations – trying to exhibit how message makers use second language (wittingly or not) in a manner that could be ideologically huge. A hefty portion of the apparatuses utilized as a part of CDA ...

Goals

This paper offers a resource curriculum guide and evaluation rubric for adult beginners at ELS Nashville Centre. This resource curriculum guide will promote successful learning of English at ELS Nashville Centre. The curriculum applies Nashville Standards for ELL (Adult English Language Learners). The ELL will be assessed on a weekly basis to ascertain their performance in English. This curriculum guide will be instrumental in achieving the following goals: - The curriculum guide offers essential conversation skills such as correction of mistakes, interpretation information, confirmation numbers and seeking clarification. - The curriculum guide will increase the learners’ understanding of the ...

I have recommended “Eating Alone” because it is tone and motif. The tone of the poem is nostalgic. The author mentions the earth now is “brown and old” while remembering before how he used to walk with his father. He cannot remember if he talked with him or not, but the memories of his, “left hand braced on knee, creaky—to lift and hold to myeye a rotten pear.” The memories are so strong he almost sees his father, only to find it is actually a shovel standing in dirt. The author also uses nature as a recurring theme of life, showing us ...

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is frequently used as a way to justify the freedom and uniqueness that comes from going down a path that most do not take. It is held up as an example of the way in which taking one’s own path results in positive, beneficial changes in one’s life, and in the way one sees the world. However, while this poem does seem to describe an individual progressing on his or her own path, the poem’s meaning goes far deeper than that. A surface reading reveals the meaning as one about individuality, ...

Basic composition

The Bachelor’s Degree course in Liberal Arts at Excelsior College focuses on proficiency in writing skills. Writing is an essential skill necessary for nearly everybody; good writing skills support educational and occupational success. The course deals with writing basic essays and the process of writing in general. A well-written composition is free from spelling and grammatical errors, and conveys ideas in a clear and concise manner. The organization and structure of a composition is also important, most compositions being divided into suitable paragraphs that are organized in a systematic fashion in order to convey a theme or thesis. These main ideas are ...

“The Tyger” – William Blake

“Haiku” – Matsuo Basho r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r – e.e. cumings Over the centuries human civilization has tended to have an exploitative relationship with nature: we plunder the earth for old, precious stone and minerals; we consume grain and fruit, nuts and berries; we kill wildlife – sometimes for food but also for pleasure. Humankind has also meddled in nature – genetically-modified crops are simply the latest example, since before them skilled horticulturalists have for centuries produced hybrid plants for practical or aesthetic purposes. The popularity of zoos and wildlife parks demonstrates our fascination with the other species that inhabit our world. Poets have ...

When Arabic speaking three year old children are introduced to English as a second language how does this affect the “use” of both Arabic and English?

Introduction

The subject of research in this paper is Emergent Literacy Inquiry. The main objective of this paper is to explore the difficulties and challenges faced by Arabic children, when they are exposed to using both Arabic and English language together. Young children face difficulties in learning languages, when they are exposed to more than one language at their initial stages of learning to speak. They tend to get confused with the languages and suffer ...

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Almost everything in our world has such important feature as development. We can say it about person’s skills and abilities in doing something too. According to this, I strongly believe that my personal, writing, and language skills have improved dramatically during our course. First of all, completing of such tasks as those summaries we wrote prepared me for more serious works. Here I trained my spelling, punctuation, learned how to find the main idea in text and write this down within a few sentences. Next significant thing I did was writing ...

The word revision is a noun that is derived from the verb revise. To revise has more than one meaning depending on where it is being mentioned. In the US it refers to changing something or to reconsider it based on newly acquired information. This may be a book, an assignment, an article, or even statement. In Britain to revise refers to studying especially in preparation for examinations. Revision thus refers the work that has been revised in the US and the act of revising in Britain. In this article, Revision will be discussed in light of the US definition of ...

The analysis has provided a general idea of the business as well as the external environment factors that are likely to affect the business in various ways. Exploring both the internal and external factors that impacts business operations and success are necessary and this analysis paper has touched on all these important aspects. The analysis is also detailed and conducted thoroughly. Analyzing the external environmental factors (PESTEL analysis) to understand factors that affect the business operations and general market including the economic, legal and social issues has outlined the general overview of what to expect in case the company decides ...

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This essay is going to discuss the five steps of writing process whose mastery will ensure efficient and effective writing at any level for any category as in creative and academic writing. It will begin with the conceptualization of the writing process, which will entail its definition and steps. It will then discuss each step in detail to facilitate proper understanding for an outstanding inscription. We observe that writing has become a very important language literacy skill in the modern world. In the Research and Evaluation Report (2007) titled The Writing Process: ...

Introduction

This paper has discussed the relationship between slangs and the society The paper is based on the argument that people use slangs in order to demonstrate their membership with a particular class or a culture. Slang can be defined as the information language, which is created for a specific purpose. However, slang is not used by all people in a society (Moore, Bindler & Pandich, 2010). Slang is made by people, themselves. Once slang becomes a trend, it is also introduced to other societies. In the modern society, slang is used to express ideas and feelings. It is also used to make a conversation more interesting ...

Introduction

The emergence of electronic-mediated communication has changed the face of written communication through a number of ways. For example, teenagers now modify conventional English punctuation to suit their tastes when using online and mobile communication platforms such as the email, text messaging and instant messaging. Although a number of scholars have researched whether these texts reflect written and spoken language, a lot is unknown about the existence of gender differences when responding to text messages. This is the reason why this study examines whether males and females differ in the way they respond to text messages. Specifically, the study addresses the question ...

Revision by nature is not a predictable procedure but a strategic and adaptive process. In the past revision was viewed as a tiding-up, copy-editing activity and it is only recently that it has been viewed as a complex activity. Revision was aimed at doing away with grammar surface errors, spelling, punctuation, and diction. Revision refers to the changes that occur once an essay draft has been completed and it is simply does not only look for errors in punctuation and grammar, but true revision is more than this. The reason why I chose the topic revision is because it is a subject that ...

Introduction

The Tale of Genji is among some of the best quoted literature legacies. The tale constructed and written by the famous Murasaki Shikibu is an excellent example of a clean and organized literature work. Murasaki exercises his exclusive artistic talent to create a wide range and styles of punctuation in his essay (Murasaki, 3). In the Tale of Genji, the writer puts his punctuations in a manner that outranges the vital importance of disambiguating meaning of the writings or sentence. He specifically varies on the types of punctuation along the article to maintain his reader attention throughout the whole text. The ...

The SMS language or texting has evolved to be a popular form of communication in this digital era where mobile phones are easily accessible to millions of people around the world. Further, the SMS language or texting is preferred by many persons engaged in it on both gender. The preference for texting can be attributed to a number of reasons. The early mobile phone messaging had a number of features that necessitated the use of abbreviations in testing. For instance, it was difficult to make text entry since it required multiple pressing on the keypad in order to generate the required letters. ...

Essay 1: CUTS FOR BAIL

(1)In the past decade, college tuition has risen three times as fast as the consumer-price index and twice as fast as medical care. One of the most important factors driving price at public colleges and universities has been the decline in state support for higher education. With rising tuition and declining state financing, students and families are assuming a growing share of college costs. Tuition revenues now make up about half of public university revenues. And with colleges facing larger pensions, health care and technology costs, the pressure to keep(2) raising tuition is intense. Critics of higher ...

John Agard’s, ‘Checking out Me History’ is an intricately written poem pointing out on the observation of the English Curriculum as biased to only white people. In the poem, Agard notes that all the English literature, is written by white people for white people. He reveals that the Curriculum intentionally leaves out, distorts and hides important information about black women and men who similarly deserve to be recognized (Seeto 2009). His analysis portrays the fact that controlling what people learn about their past, controls their thoughts, self- identity, and the present (Seeto 2008). There are wide varieties ...

Introduction

This book report considers an intercultural Communication book, Principles of Intercultural Communication, by Igor E. Klyukanov. The book was published in the year 2005 by Pearson Education Inc. The author of the book is an experienced professor of Communication studies at the Eastern Washington University. On top of serving as an editor for the international Journal of Communication, Igor E. Klyukanov has written at least 50 articles as well as books in the field of culture, communication, and language. With his experience Klyukanov has authored this particular book configuring it within ten essential principles, “Principles of Intercultural communication. “ He ...

Legal writing is an important skill for lawyers because the demands of the legal profession will require drafting of briefs, motions and pleadings in defense of their clients. Lawyers must possess effective writing skills to be able to convince the courts to rule in the favor of their clients since most courts render decisions on appeals even without argument. Courts require lawyers to follow their own legal format in the preparation of briefs which must be concise and direct to the point (Karabin 1). Thus, it is essential for all lawyers to be equipped with good communication skills because ...

Introduction

It is rightly said that English is not just a funny language, but also a vastly tricky language. In each word or sentence, it has its own meaning and significance in its own ways. To understand this fact, the two sentences “Let’s eat, mummy” and “Let’s eat mummy,” there is a presence of comma as punctuation that creates a huge difference in the meaning. Believe it or not, it is only the little comma that can make the difference. In the given sentences, on the one hand, the first sentence implies asking mummy to eat, whereas, on the other hand, the ...

Critical Summary for A Heroine's Choice

Judging the paper based on Marius’ crucial steps to writing a splendid essay as well as the proposed writing process that would distinguish an excellent paper out of a mass, the Heroine’s Choice is a well-written, well-organized paper that abides by what defines a paper of great value. In detail, the writer’s choice for their paper’s title is quite interesting and definitely prepares readers for what they are about to read. It could be a little bit catchier, though, in a way to create more enthusiasm and more eagerness to read further on. However, the writer gets straight to the point ...