...Importance of Writing and Communication Abstract From a business’s point of view having the ability to write and communicate well is a fundamental attribute one must have in order to move forward. Writing intellectually and reading will ultimately equip an individual with the communication skills one needs to participate effectively amongst their peers. Your writing will reveal to the readers who you are and how much pride you take in your work. It will be foretelling about your educational background and even your level of business expertise. By developing your writing skills early in life, this can help you enhance your ability to solve problems and think critically. It is very important to use correct grammar as well as spelling as this will say many things about your character. Communicating impeccably during an interview helps sell yourself and present to the potential employer what type of conversationalist you will be and how well you will be understood by your coworkers and management. Importance of Writing and Communication Especially in the over stimulating technological world we live in I feel that it is extremely important to hold on to our writing and communicating abilities. We are no longer following the regulations of proper writing and communication. People now are failing to use correct verbiage and punctuation due to the auto correction of everything option. Today, technology has constructed numerous principles of writing that is simply attainable;...
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...NAME: UGWU JESSICA UKAMAKA MATRIC NUMBER: 14NE1039 FACULTY: EDUCATION DEPERTMENT: ART EDUCATION (ENGLISH) COURSE: CREATIVE WRITING COURSE CODE: ENG 208 LECTURER’S NAME PROF. GBENGA IBILEYE DATE: 23-11-2015 TOPIC FUNDAMENTALS OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING A. BRANCHING EGG: this is a branch of brain storming that organises the summary of writing in an egg form; placing the topic in the centre of the egg and giving it the necessary branches needed. COMPONENT OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING * Educational financing * School building * Educational status and headcount * Supply and demand of teachers FUNDAMENTALS OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING IMPORTANCE To avoid imbalances and enormous waste. OBJECTIVE * Political dimension * Economic dimension * Cultural dimension B. OUTLINE: this is a way of formally arranging and developing an idea on topic writing, which helps in guiding one to develop a proper and organise write-up. 1. INTRODUCTION i. Purpose: to explain the basics of educational planning ii. Is educational planning important in education? iii. What are fundamentals of educational planning? 2. BODY COMPONENTS OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING Educational financing i. Federal, state and local government ii. Individual and firms financing through scholarship School building i. Well ventilated doors and windows ii. Wide and comfortable classrooms Educational status and head count i. The numbers of pupil to be enrolled ii. The number of classes to be...
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...information and solve problems. A learning strategy is a person's approach to learning and using information. Students who do not know or use good learning strategies often learn passively and ultimately fail in school. Learning strategy instruction focuses on making the students more active learners by teaching them how to learn and how to use what they have learned to solve problems and be successful. One strand addresses how students acquire information. It includes strategies for learning how to paraphrase critical information, picture information to promote understanding and remembering, ask questions and make predictions about text information, and identify unknown words in text. A second strand helps students study information once they acquire it. It includes strategies for developing mnemonics and other devices to aid memorization of facts as well as strategies for learning new vocabulary. These strategies help prepare students for tests. A third strand helps students express themselves. It includes strategies to help students write sentences and paragraphs, monitor their work for errors, and confidently approach and take tests. No single strategy is a panacea. For example, we have reading strategies that help students figure out what a word is, comprehend what they're reading, acquire vocabulary, and understand the structure of text. All of these strategies are essential for a well-integrated, balanced reading program. Likewise, an array of strategies in other areas is necessary...
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...Fundamentals of Effective Communication in the Workplace Kelly Strayer University BUSS 100 04/29/2014 Fundamentals of Effective Communication in the Workplace Effective communication skills are very important in the workplace. Effective communication skills go beyond than a simple conversations, for that reason some companies are investing in training their employees to be very professional in the effectively communication skills. Employees must know how to express themselves effectively when writing reports and emails or expressing themselves by phone or by video conference. Once you understand the benefits of effective communication in the businesses workplace, you can develop a better effectively communication with coworkers, customers, and suppliers, thereby increasing the productivity. Three years ago I was working for a company named Tech Biz, I was the assistant manager and was given the task to assist the international sales department .The company’s environment in an effective communication was very important, because the company deals with both national and international customers and suppliers on a daily basis. The communication channels included email, phone, face-to-face meetings and video conference. In the international environment we used to work with various dealers, manufactures, and distributors from all different countries and different types of businesses. However, I have experienced effective communication with our International customers most...
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...The Case for Writing Studies as a Major Discipline Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara Literate activity, directly and indirectly, occupies much of the day of people in modern society. Literacy in its basic and more elaborated, specialized forms is the cornerstone in the education of the young. Literacy and symbolic artifacts underlay the information age and its information economy. Literacy along with its enabling technologies and consequent forms of social, political, and economic organization, has supported ways of life that distinguish us from humans of 5000 years ago. Literate engagement is also associated with forms of belief, commitment, and consciousness that shape modern personality. Yet the study of writing--its production, its circulation, its uses, its role in the development of individuals and societies, and its learning by individuals, social collectives, and historically emergent cultures--remains a dispersed enterprise. Inquiry into skills, practices, objects, and consequences of reading and writing is the concern of only a few people, fragmented across university disciplines, with no serious home of its own. How is it that all this enormity is the interest of a few linguistic anthropologists, a very few psychologists, an occasional sociologist, scattered cultural historians and scholars, some applied linguists, some education researchers, and an increasing but still limited number of people in the teaching of writing in higher education...
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...Iris 05/31/2015 084A Writing in reverse The Principles of Good Writing The average student finds it surprisingly easy to acquire the usual tricks of poor writing. To do a consistently good job, however, one must grasp a few essential principles: 1 Consider the reader. 2 Be concise, clear, and down to earth. 3 Revise Consider the reader Keep your mind between reader and the subject. This is fundamental. Constant and alert consideration of the probable reaction of the reader is a key point to good writing. A logical argument is that if you write good enough, your readers will merit any attention. Consider the reader wherever possible. If the proposed title, for example, means something to you; think further. Similarity, all the way through you must write for readers. Keep your facts and ideas on the different level of emphasis with telltale hints of relative importance or logical sequence. Don’t use long sentences containing many ideas loosely strung together. Do not use and frequently in good writing; because and semicolon appear in good writing. Use transitions in good writing such as moreover, nevertheless and on the other hand. A good sentence begins with the subject or with a phrase that needs emphasis. Don’t hide antecedent or offer wrong antecedent. Consider the reader and use parallel constructions which give the thought away to easily. In every technical paper do not omit a few items that most readers need to know. Use defining symbols: specify...
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...Writing is largely an iterative process that improves with practice. We have done a great deal of writing and revising in this course. We have also read Timothy Flood’s Business Writing in its entirety. Reflect on your writing skills and confidence five weeks ago and consider the progress you have made. Specifically, what new skills have you added to your writer’s repertoire that will help carry you through your graduate program? Discussion I Professor and Class, What an interesting five weeks. I am so happy we’re almost done! Five weeks ago, I struggle with getting started on writing. Today, I feel my writing skills have improved tremendously. I no longer struggle with getting started and I feel I am a much stronger writer compared to five weeks ago. I think the best advice I’d obtained from Flood and Thomas was being able to communicate to a diverse audience. Both Flood and Thomas brought awareness to writing clear and concise and using proper grammar, punctuations and to reframe from using slang, big words or using words that could have multiple meanings, which can be confusing to international readers. I also learned the importance of being able to convey my written intent to my audience the first time. This will ensure that my reader understand my intent and is able to respond to my request or instructions accordingly. Lastly, I discovered when writers incorporate business-writing techniques as part of their normal writing process (writing business or...
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...In the song "Five More Minutes" written and sung by Scotty McCreery, the use of fundamental writing techniques is employed to greater impact the influence of the song; as well as the rest of the album it is a part of. Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and Kairos are all tactfully used to help influence the listeners. McCreery verbally constructs a beautiful picture of, what could be, essentially any person's life. Throughout the entire song, it is as if he is shaping and molding the perfect dream, prepared to fill the listener with a wistful memory. As most country music generally seems to go, this song follows the progression of life and the longing to relive favored moments. The rest of McCreery's album is closely written around this theme as well. "…Can't you give me five more minutes, Time rolls by the clock don't stop, I wish I had a few more drops, Of the good stuff, the good times, oh but they just keep on flying, Right on by like it ain't nothing, Wish I had me a pause button, Moments like those Lord knows I'd hit it, And give myself five more minutes…" He effectively uses Pathos by methodically and meticulously pulling at the listeners heart-strings. He emphasizes the fact that time is elusive and is a force that does not stop for anything. He finds the single string that inevitably unravels...
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...Assignment 1.1 Experiences as a Writer Emily Ramage ENG090 Writing Fundamentals Writing for me would be labeled as difficult. Considering that I haven’t had to write an actual paper since grade school, writing is not a part of my everyday life. Being a professional cosmetologist I’m not given the opportunity to write while on the job. The most I write at work would be the clients name and there service requested. I don’t have to write notes there; all my focus is on hair. With the way technology is today, most of my “personal” writing is done through text. I wasn’t the type of person that kept a journal. I found myself being able to vent more when it’s just freelance. With the iPhone the note pad is my best friend. Not checking for spelling or grammatical error would be the type of writing that I’m used to. Making sure every T is crossed and every I is dotted is something that never crosses my mind while freelancing. Being a college student, I try to write as much as possible. I now keep a notepad in my purse and jot down anything that comes to mind. I still find that the most writing that I do outside of my assignments is a grocery list. Nothing has really changed as far as me being a writer. I write because I have to not because I want to. Not writing for a long time truly shows my roughness. Starting this paper would be classified as my bad experience as a writer. I wasn’t clear on where to start because I don’t write often. I tried to jot down my thoughts...
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...A Systematic Approach to Writing and Rating Entrepreneurial Business Plans KEVIN HINDLE AND BRENT MAINPRIZE KEVIN HINDLE is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology. Melbourne, Australia. khindle@swin.edu.au BRENT MAINPRIZE is the core professor of entrepreneurship in the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Canada. brent.inainprize@royalroads.ca T here is a small but growing b o d y of research that details many desirable attributes a n d qualities that, at a general level, any entrepreneurial business plan should contain. It is a reasonable proposition that this research, and any principles it may contain, can and should provide the basis for a systematic approach t o b o t h the writing and evaluation of entrepreneurial business plans. Despite this, the majority of entrepreneurial business plan writing and evaluation is unsystematic—if systematic is taken to mean "based o n empirical evidence and developed theory." T h e vast majority of the a b u n d a n t literature on " h o w to write a successful business p l a n " is n o t research-based (Hindle [1997]). T h e espoused criteria of its authors far o u t weigh the formal application of the k n o w n attributes of successful ventures (Hindle and Mainprize [2002]). This article seeks to articulate a research-based system for assessing the c o n t e n t quality of e...
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...EMR 6400 Fundamentals of EMR Guidelines for Literature/Review Proposal DUE APRIL 9, 2008 Introduction The introduction to the literature review/proposal orients the reader to the problem under study and has three parts. First, you need to provide a statement of the problem. This statement sets out the general reasons that the research area is important. You might indicate the prevalence of the problem, its relevance or cost, its importance to theory, the relative absence of knowledge, some contradictory research, etc. Prevalence statistics, knowledge gaps, contradictory research, the need for theory testing, presence of puzzling anomalies, etc. help to make your case here. Secondary sources (books, chapters, review articles) or tertiary sources (newspapers, magazine articles) can be helpful in making a general case for research in his area. However, do not rely on tertiary sources to make your case. I expect you will use a majority of primary sources with a limited (small) number of secondary/tertiary sources. The second section of the Introduction sets out the purpose of the proposed study. This can be brief and simply clarifies how your proposed study will address the problem you have identified. The third part of the Introduction is a statement of the research question (or hypotheses). Write your research question according to the guidelines for good research questions discussed in class. Parts one and two set the stage for the research question. Recommended length:...
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...For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). An illustration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, depicting the fictional protagonist, Alice, playing afantastical game of croquet. Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical, cinematic or musical work. Fiction contrasts with non-fiction, which deals exclusively with factual (or, at least, assumed factual) events, descriptions, observations, etc. (e.g.,biographies, histories). Contents [hide] * 1 Types of fiction * 1.1 Realistic fiction * 1.2 Non-realistic fiction * 1.3 Semi-Fiction * 2 Elements of fiction * 2.1 Plot * 2.2 Exposition * 2.3 Foreshadowing * 2.4 Rising action * 2.5 Climax * 2.6 Falling action * 2.7 Resolution * 2.8 Conflict * 2.8.1 Types of conflict * 2.8.1.1 Person vs. self * 2.8.1.2 Person vs. person * 2.8.1.3 Person vs. society * 2.8.1.4 Person vs. nature * 2.8.1.5 Person vs. supernatural * 2.8.1.6 Person vs. machine/technology * 2.9 Character * 2.10 Methods of developing characters * 2.11 Symbolism * 2.12 Metaphor * 3 Types of plots * 3.1 Chronological order * 3.2 Flashback * 3.3 Setting...
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...Before going into the actual 7 habits, the author Steve Covey goes into few important concepts. Character Ethic (good) There are basic principles of effective living and people can only experience true success and enduring happines as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character. Personality Ethic (not so good) It is manipulative, deceptive, encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them. Personality ethic is illusory and deceptive and trying to get high quality results with its techniques and quick fixes – not effective at all. Paradigm The book talks a lot about paradigm shifts and I remember having to look it up in the dictionary to find the true meaning of it; paradigm meaning: model, theory, perception, assumption, the way we see world. Conditioning affects our perceptions/paradigms (old/young lady drawing example in the book worth checking out). We see the world not as it is but as ‘we are’ through our paradigms. Different people can have different views and still both be correct. The more aware we are of our basic paradigms the more we can examine/test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions getting a larger picture and far more objective view. Paradigm shifts move us from one way of seeing the world to another. They influence our relationship with others. Not all are good. If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives we can appropriately focus our attitudes and behaviours...
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...Gathering Information and Writing a Research Paper Writing a research paper for the first time can be a difficult task if not given the proper instruction to complete such an assignment. Breaking a research paper down into separate tasks and sections might ease frustrations for the researcher and give them some fundamental tools for future research projects. A good question to ask your self is “Where do I begin my research?” Some students that are tasked with writing a research paper for the first time might struggle with the topic that they will choose depending on the writing assignment given to them by the instructor. Generally, one main topic can be concentrated on is based off of a research question the student must be able to answer or expound upon described in the course syllabus. Within the syllabus the instructor should have provided several topics to begin the research. Also the instructor should point out what format he or she is requiring, according to a rubric within the syllabus, to be turned in such as APA, MLA or Chicago. Once an individual has selected a topic that he or she would like to discuss, it’s time to begin looking for the facts. There are numerous resources at your disposal when you conduct your research such as the library, The Internet, and. You have to decide which source is likely to be most useful to you. For example, if you are searching for information on a historical event the library is an reliable place to find a book that...
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...My writing is as good as a blind man’s driving. I can create what I think is a masterpiece, but what the reader thinks of it, most of the time, is yet to be desired. Writing requires an individual with not only good foresight, but an individual with great intellectual skills and creativity. My writing skills have become a significant challenge for me, like my driving skills, which I believe worsen due to the Cheetah’s speed I have to encounter on the streets. I am accustoming to writing simple, non-descriptive, age appropriate pieces. Now I am expected to create fluent, thought provoking creations. How is this possible when I have to endure all spectrums of parts of speech? Writing is not only an act that I hate, but it is an act that I have to do almost every day in order to interact with the linguistic world. Despite the fact that I have been writing most of my life, I have not gotten any better than a blind man’s driving no matter how much effort I put into it. My writing has left much to be desired. There could be a guideline, an outline or clear directions and I would still find ways to create a questionable piece. Did he even understand what I am asking, or did he even see the topic? The questions the cops would ask me after pulling me over for my continued stupid mistakes I make while driving, “Are you not accustom to road signals or is it your understanding of the road code that needs more to be desired?” I spend time and time again trying to express in...
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