...Neutral question, the meaning neutral question itself to my understanding means a question that does not takes any side, a question that really is objective and not subjective to any side. This is the understanding of neutral question and this is the perspective that is going to be argued in this essay. Being born in a diverse cultural family, as my father is from Europe and my mother from Asia what I have learnt from growing up in with both European and Asian culture is that neutrality is an illusion. It is an illusion because people will never achieve or consider “something” neutral as long as that “something” is different from how or what they think. I agree to the statement, but I have some reservations that neutral question can exist. The fundamental of un-neutrality is clashing of opinions in other words clashing of knowledge. Something that is based upon knowledge is already un-neutral because people will have their own opinion upon something, people will have their own unique paradigm. Even in times where knowledge is neutral people will have different views in assessing the knowledge itself, some people might have the same views in knowledge. However having the same views of knowledge does not mean when a person creates a question the question neutral. Having the same view of knowledge is really difficult as there are plenty factors that builds up a...
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...expository essay that blends the viewpoints from Units 3 and 4. Specifically, you will bring together the writing techniques that you have learned throughout the course to compose an expository paper. Exposition is a type of discourse that is used to explain, describe, or inform. In an expository essay, the purpose is to give readers a balanced account of a subject with a neutral, objective tone (usually third-person point of view or voice) and offer the opportunity to incorporate a combination of writing techniques. Your final capstone project will involve integrating both viewpoints of your selected question topic that you worked with in Units 3 and 4. Your expository essay will present both sides of your controversial issue to explain, describe, and inform your audience using an unemotive, neutral, and objective writing style through the use of third-person voice and APA 6th edition format. For this final assignment, you will complete the following: Step 1: Using the thesis statement, outline, and essay that you developed in Unit 3, revise your content. Be sure to incorporate any instructor feedback and suggestions. Step 2: Based on the instructor feedback that you received from Unit 4 (opposing view draft), revise your content. Step 3: Integrate elements from Steps 1 and 2 to create an expository paper that reflects your knowledge of both perspectives of your topic question. You will write a balanced account of your chosen topic using an unemotive, neutral, and objective...
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...step and any environmental conditions that are required or determine the action of the molecules involved. (15 pts.) Note: You must use the table below for your answers. While you do not need to use every row, YOU CAN NOT CREATE MORE ROWS. Transferrin without Fe bound does not interact with its receptor and circulates in the bloodstream until it catches an Fe ion. Once iron is bound, the iron–transferrin complex can bind to the transferrin receptor on the surface of a cell and be endocytosed. under the acidic conditions of the endosome, the transferrin releases its iron, but the transferrin remains bound to the transferrin receptor, which is recycled back to the cell surface, where it encounters the neutral pH environment of the blood. The neutral pH causes the receptor to release the transferrin into the circulation, where it can pick up another Fe ion to repeat the cycle. The iron released in the endosome, like the LDL in Figure 15–33, moves on to lysosomes, from where it is transported into the cytosol. The system allows cells to take up iron efficiently even though the concentration of iron in the blood is extremely low. The iron bound to transferrin is concentrated at the cell surface by binding to transferrin receptors; it becomes further concentrated in clathrincoated pits, which collect the transferrin receptors. In this way, transferrin cycles between the blood and endosomes, delivering the iron that cells need...
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...2013 C Copyright ⃝ 2013 Educational Testing Service ISSN: 1530-5058 print / 1532-7574 online DOI: 10.1080/15305058.2012.690012 Writing Essays on a Laptop or a Desktop Computer: Does It Matter? Guangming Ling and Brent Bridgeman Educational Testing Service To explore the potential effect of computer type on the Test of English as a Foreign Language–Internet-Based Test (TOEFL iBT) Writing Test, a sample of 444 international students was used. The students were randomly assigned to either a laptop or a desktop computer to write two TOEFL iBT practice essays in a simulated testing environment, followed by a survey of computer experience. The survey results suggested that the participants had extensive experience using computers, had more experience with laptops than with desktops, and preferred using the laptop computers to the desktop computers. The computer type (laptop or desktop computer) was found to have a negligible effect on essay performance (essay score, essay length, and writing speed). However, other factors, including gender, regional background, daily experience with laptop or desktop computers, preference for a particular pointing device, and previous TOEFL experience, were found to be significantly related to essay performance but did not interact with computer type. Keywords: computer type effects, desktop, e-rater, essay length, essay score, laptop, writing speed INTRODUCTION When large-scale computer-based testing began in the early 1990s, testing centers were equipped...
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...misled by headings provided in the essay); and (2) answer the following questions: I. Outline II. Questions 1. (1) What is the topic of the essay? (2) How does Clinton introduce the topic? 2. (1) What is the author’s main claim (thesis)? (2) Is it clearly stated fairly early in the essay? (3) Does it reflect the purpose of the essay? 3. (1) List his subsidiary claims (those claims that he makes to support his main claim. (2) Are they clear and valid? Write your answer to question # (2) next to each subsidiary claim. (3) Are they related to the main claim? 4. List the kind of evidence Clinton uses for each subsidiary claim/idea (e.g., reasoning, facts, statistics, examples, personal experience, expert testimonies/authoritative statements, comparison, analogy). Remember to answer for EACH claim. 5. Discuss whether the evidence of EACH claim/idea is convincing. In other words, is the evidence sufficient, specific, relevant, and reliable? . 6. (1) List the opposing views Clinton addresses. (2) Does he address each opposing view fairly? (3) Does he counter each successfully? 7. (1) What is Clinton’s tone? (e.g., neutral, biased, sincere, respectful, dismissive, humorous, sarcastic, negative, positive, pessimistic, optimistic, and so on). (2) How do you know? That is, what makes you decide on a particular tone or tones? (3) How does the tone contribute to the argument? 8. (1) How is the essay organized? (2) Is the organization...
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...Argument Essay Drafts Step #1: Prewriting & Outline Directions: Complete all of the elements of the prewriting; otherwise, the content of your piece will not be accurate. My Topic: What do I believe about abortion. My Attitude: Abortion should be a decision that a female should make for herself. My Purpose: To inform women that it’s your choice to choose. My Thesis Statement: Abortion should be a woman’s choice. It’s her body, she shouldn’t be forced to feel that abourtion is murder. My Audience: 1. How much does my audience know about my subject? I feel my audience know a little bit about my subject. 2. Age? Gender? Race? Social Status? Location? Religion? Women ages 18-30 all races, social status, and religion. All over the world. 3. Where does my audience stand on the issue; are they Opposed or Neutral? My audience is neutral, not sure. Outline: 1. Abortion can be applied per the situation. A. Rape B. Too young/not ready 2. Bringing a child into this world, that’s unwanted for whatever reason can suffer. A. Child can be mistreated B. Abuse/not love 3. A right to choose is a very important right. A. It’s her body B. Her choice 4. Abortion other then adoption is a good option to me. A. Some women can’t afford children. B. The children will end up in a crowed foster home unwanted. 5. Step #2: Argument Essay Rough...
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...English 711 Auster’s “Immigration Threatens American Culture” After reading Auster’s essay critically, (1) outline his essay; and (2) answer the following questions: I. Outline 1. 1965 Immigration Act which opened US immigration. 2. There is no doubt that the cultural left hates American and wants to destroy it. 3. The patriotic and Christian Right supports exactly the same immigration policy that is supported by the anti-American. 4. American acknowledges abandoning American culture. II. Questions 1. What is the author’s main claim (thesis)? Where can you locate it? Is it clearly stated fairly early in the essay? Does it reflect the purpose of the essay? The main idea is immigration take influence to American culture. It’s clearly but it doesn’t reflect the purpose. 2. What are his subsidiary claims? In other words, what are the claims that he uses to support his main claim? Are they clear and valid? Are they related to the main claim? They are clear and valid and related to the main claim. 3. List the kind of evidence Auster uses for each claim/idea (e.g., reasoning, facts, statistics, examples, personal experience, expert testimony/authoritative statements, comparison, analogy). Remember to answer for EACH claim. Example, reasoning and comparison. 4. Discuss whether the evidence of EACH claim/idea is sufficient, specific, relevant, and convincing. I think each claim is specific and convincing. 5. List the opposing...
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...Presents facts, information in a clear way by being neutral in choice of words and tone. Neutral a. Neutral, uses descriptive/informative word choice, e.g. said, told b. The passive voice (one, you, they + be + kort tillægsform: they were told) c. No or only little use of figurative language (billedsprog) d. Lack of words of negative/positive connotations (adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs) e. Might be written in the past tense f. Use of technical terms g. Use of the appeal form logos (quotes, studies, statistics) to appear credible h. Clear structure and use of cohesive devices to create structure: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~doregan/Writing/Linkers.html i. | informative articles (like Ritzau, Reuters), summaries, news reports, encyclopaedia,news analysis,background article,manualsabtracts | Directive texts (directive text functions)They are instructive, biased and tell the reader what to think (even if implicitly) They try to appeal to and manipulate the reader’s opinions. | Biased | a. Uses persuasive language like * The imperative mood: e.g. do, don’t do, open, chop, set etc. (bydeform) * Modal verbs: must, must not, should, would, could b. Imagery and figurative language: similes, metaphors c. Rhetorical appeal through: word choice/quotes/references/pictures/diagrams etc. d. Uses pronouns to address/to include/to exclude, e.g., you, we, us, them e. Exclamation marks ! f. Rhetorical questions: “why would I want to scrape around…?”, “were these...
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...discussion question by clicking on Reply: • Review Ch. 10, Section 9.3, of Writing for Success. Everyone has biases. Biases are not always negative; they can help you construct a strong argument. How can a bias negatively affect your essay? What can you do to prevent this? I think when you get too attached to the topic that you are writing about it can negatively affect your essay. Way's you can prevent this are not getting emotionally involved into the topic. You can also try to distance yourself from the topic so you can write about it in a neutral light. Sometimes when there is too much emotion or too much of yourself in a paper it can turn a reader off. I think to be an effect writer you need to know how to make a strong argument without being biased. I know when I read the news I would prefer non-biased articles but that is hardly ever the case. So I eventually stopped watching and reading the news. I think as an academic writer you should not be biased in your writings and just show the facts and truths that you find for your essay or paper. DQ 2 Post at least a 150-word response to the following discussion question by clicking on Reply: • The use of the first-person I in academic writing has been a source of debate. How do you feel about using I in an academic essay? What issues arise with the use of I in an academic essay, and how can you prevent it? DQ 3 Post at least a 150-word response to the following discussion question by clicking...
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...these two are expressed in different ways, so Mark Doty implies in his essay and poem “Souls on Ice”. The essay can be seen as the progression of Doty’s epiphany about himself as a person, which is idealistically described in his poem. Doty begins his essay by recounting a time in a Stop ‘N Shop in which he was star struck by the beauty and luminosity of a stack of mackerels. Metaphors are used to describe the event and are also claimed to be what makes us as an individual person. Upon Doty’s gaze at the mackerels, metaphors served as his thinking which he knew were unique and his very own. Moreover, descriptions formulated about the fishes brought Doty to the realization of what he perceives reflects his own psychic state, but can easily be mistaken for “neutral” thinking. “Soul, heaven” were put in the poem for the sole purpose of yielding depth. These two words engaged Doty to argue whether or not he, or you, could lose oneself “entirely in the universe / of shimmer”. Now, it is important to note that he did not distinguish between each mackerel, but instead saw them as a whole, hence why he questions what it means to be a self. After realizing the poem’s “subject-beneath-the-subject”, it is then he decides what it means to be a self. Doty explains how even though the mackerels were dead; they still seemed to live on through the very essence they gave off as a whole. Thus, stating that the moral of the essay and story are “the limits of “me” are our hardest lesson”, but the idea...
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...For this assessment I have been required to compare English with another language. I have decided to choose Mandarin as my language of choice. A major elements of languages will be compared in this essay. That being phonology. Phonology is defined as being “the study of the way speech sounds form patterns”.(Victoria Fromkin 2009). As (Hammond 1999) describes, every spoken language has a unique system whereby sounds are organised. This unique pattern of pattern can be termed phonology and varies widely in geographical and social differences. English is the most widely spoken language in the world with up to a total of up to 1.8 billion speakers in the world.(Lewis 2009) It is generally regarded as being the international language or lingua-franca of the world. English is the official language for Australia, New Zealand, England, America and Canada. It is also the joint or semi-official language for many other countries. Each of these countries English differs slightly in phonology and there even exists regional differences inside these countries but in this essay Australian English will be used as the standard. Australian English consists of 24 consonants and 20 vowels, 12 being monophthongs and 8 being diphthongs. Below are charts with the list of consonants and vowels. (http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/ipa.htm) All these sounds...
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...The purpose of this essay is to describe and analyze the cultural myths and ideologies that surround the knowledge that is being distributed to public schools by examining a history text. A cultural myth refers to “the dominant ideologies of our time” (Chandler). For example, a group of people could have a belief in a myth while another group might believe otherwise. I will analyze a seventh grade history by using the method of semiotics. An examination of the history book shows that children are being deprived from a lot of historical information. In this paper I will argue that the educational system only centers it’s purpose of education and learning on the human capital ideology. This subject is important because like Joel Spring states in “The Knowledge Industry: for many young children these textbook are the only source of knowledge and the information that’s is being distributed to our children is not necessarily true or complete. As a result students are being restricted from learning how to be thoughtful and productive because teachers are being forced to teach according to a strict curriculum. The method of semiotics refers to the study of the way people make meaning. According to Daniel Chandler in “Semiotics For Beginners, a sign is a fundamental unit in the method of semiotics. A sign has two components, a signifier (the carrier of meaning) and a signified (the meaning that has been made). To describe the relationship between the signifier and the signified...
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...In his essay, Fussell discusses the necessity of the atom bomb during World War II. Many claim that using the bomb on Japanese civilians was cruel and inhumane while others believe that utilizing such an explosive was the most successful way to prompt the enemy’s surrender. Fussell addresses the debate over the effectiveness of the atom bomb in his piece. Fussell makes several claims as to why the atom bomb was essential in making the Japanese surrender and bringing about peace among the two nations. He supports these claims with several facts about the war throughout his essay and uses quotes from numerous individuals to strengthen his argument. For example, John Kenneth Galbraith argued that the atomic bombs were “unecessary and unjustified” (18) because they only ended the war about “two or three weaks early.” (18) However, Fussell states that bombing Japan aided in saving a multitude of American soldiers would have otherwise died on the...
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...We live in a world where massive amount of information is presented in the forms of books, websites, and communications. Reception of knowledge is one of the ways information transfers, but some parts of information may be misunderstood and misinterpreted by people themselves, probably causing inaccurate reception and cognition. The reason why knowledge may be misinterpreted is that people’s thoughts or feelings may affect how objectively they judge and receive the knowledge. For the purpose of this essay, some key words should be defined in order to fit the context of this prompt. ‘Gaining knowledge’ will be interpreted as ‘ways people get and process information’. In order for us to accurately receive, interpret and understand knowledge, we first need to know the relationship between emotion and reason. Knowledge question 1: Does emotion help or hinder reason in the production of knowledge? For this knowledge question, ‘Reason’ will be interpreted as ‘the rational way people receive and understand information’ and ‘Emotion’ will be interpreted as ‘thoughts and feelings that may cause inaccurate reception and interpretation of information’. Emotion and reason make people intelligent and unique among all the organisms in the world. Some may argue that rational people always act...
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...Intellectual Standards and Logical Fallacies in the essay, “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” on pages 406-408 of your textbook. On pages 387-402 of your textbook, you will meet Tanya, Kevin, Elise and Dalton, Tanya encounters a series of discussions—the first with Kevin and the second with Elise and Dalton. The textbook describes how to critically assess the arguments in these discussions (Kevin and Elise and Dalton). Use these ONLY as examples for how to use critical thinking skills. In addition, you will want to review the Universal Intellectual Standards on pages 335-346 and the Logical Fallacies on pages 396-399 in the textbook. Individual Exercise 1: You are to assess the arguments made in the essay, “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops,” found on pages 406-408. Instructions: Read “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” on pages 406-408 and complete the following: • Part 1 – Applying the Universal Intellectual Standards o Provide specific examples from the essay that violate one or more of the Universal Intellectual Standards on pp. 335-346 o Specify what is needed to correct the error. o Minimum of TWO errors must be correctly identified to earn a passing grade (35 points) on this part. To earn an excellent grade (50 points), you must correctly identify FOUR errors and specifically state what is needed to correct each. • Part 2 – Identifying Logical Fallacies o Provide specific examples from the essay that are considered logical fallacies from the...
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