...After reviewing the editing changes that WritePoint suggested, I realized that I had very few grammar mistakes. One mistake I made was with the word e-mail. I originally left out the hyphen in between the ‘e’ and the ‘m.’ I was unaware that was needed. Another mistake I made was the use of a phrasal verb ‘find out.’ A phrasal verb is two words together that mean something different from their individual meanings. Leaving a space after a comma was another mistake I incurred. Although it is just a simple mistake that I overlooked, it still affects the professionalism of my paper. It was also revealed that you do not capitalize the word president unless you are referring a specific president or stating the President of the United States. I also learned that if two words function as an adjective, they should be connected with a hyphen. For example, real time should be real-time. My review from WritePoint was better than I thought regarding my editing changes. Regarding the revision changes, according to WritePoint brought out that I use the passive voice. When writing an essay the passive voice can tend to agitate the reader because your paragraphs become officious and tedious. You must remain consistent with the active voice while writing. For example I wrote, “Within the same study it was indicated that 35% of Americans watched political videos online.” To remain consistent with an active voice throughout the sentence the writer should write, “Within the same study statistic...
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...Proofreading and Editing is really important to make an essay strong and not difficult to understand. Proofreading always comes last when editing an essay to catch errors and to take of any unnecessary parts. Grammar and punctuations is really important when it comes to re reading an essay. It is very easy to make a silly mistake while typing in a hurry. At times when typing an essay it might sound correctly, but when re reading you catch many errors. I have learned that grammar and punctuation is really important not just for writing essays, but also for job applications, job resumes, job requirements, etc. You can avoid misunderstand your reader if the essay is confusing because of grammar mistakes. It is very easy to miss a mistake that...
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...How to Avoid 4 Common Negligence Mistakes on Torts Essays Wednesday, December 5, 2012 California Bar Applicants, Welcome to the latest issue of our California Bar Exam newsletter. For those of you preparing for the February 2013 exam or looking ahead to the July 2013 California bar exam, we consider the following in this issue: • Important Upcoming California Bar Exam Dates • Recent BarReviewSolutions.com California Bar Exam News & Announcements • California Bar Exam Essays In-Depth: How to Avoid Common Mistakes with Negligence on Torts Essays • California Bar Exam Newsletter Discount Important Upcoming California Bar Exam Dates ________________________________________ • Final Filing Deadline for February 2013 Exam: January 15, 2013 • California Bar Exam: February 26-28, 2013 Recent BarReviewSolutions.com California Bar Exam News & Announcements ________________________________________ A few spots remain for our February 2013 Ultimate program via Expedited Scheduling. Begin today... Just starting a February 2013 review or thinking ahead to the July 2013 California bar exam? Start your review off on the right track with our FREE Improve Your Bar Review Guide (2013 Edition). Obtain your copy today... For repeaters, July 2012 Assessments are now available. Sign-up today and learn from your prior exam mistakes as you prepare for an upcoming exam... California Bar Exam Essays In-Depth: How to Avoid Common Mistakes with Negligence on Torts Essays ________________________________________ ...
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...Running head: WRITING AN ARGUMENT Writing an Argument University of Phoenix Management 521 June 05, 2011 Writing an Argument: Option 1 Planning a strategy to write a successful argument starts off by merging deductive reasoning—which presents-related principles that coincide with the writer’s main point of view, and inductive reasoning—which shows proof of the writer’s point of view. “This style of writing an argument will effectively assist in building up tactics like: cause and effect or problem and solution; eventually helping the writer gain the reader’s understanding of “why” his or her point of view was formed [ (Spatt, Writing the Research Essay, 2011) ].” Cause and Effect or problem and solution Cause and effect or problem and solution are basically the same. This tactic verifies an informal relationship of two opposing positions. The opinion usually solves any uncertainty to the reader about “why?” For example, in the first class our group split up into two teams. Team Joe, Joe and Kurt were acting as the debate team in support of Wikipedia as a credible resource for research. Team Lisa, Lisa and Laurie were acting as the debate team against Wikipedia as a credible resource for research. Joe and Kurt’s debate attempted to solve listener’s uncertainty regarding “why” Wikipedia is a credible resource for research. Team Lisa’s debate attempted to solve listener’s uncertainty about “why” Wikipedia is not a credible resource for research. Team Joe mentioned...
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...Focus on Essay Writing Essay writing is a process and a product. You need to focus on the process in order to achieve a high quality product. What is an essay? The word ‘essay’ originally meant ‘to test’ or ‘try out’. The academic essay, however, now has the more usual meaning of a short piece of analytical writing on a given subject. Why write essays? Essay writing is an essential part of the learning process. It involves: • • • • • • • • time management – meeting the deadline for the essay gathering information – appropriate resources and references interpreting and analysing the information organising and structuring your thoughts and ideas planning what you are going to write following a set of writing conventions communicating those thoughts and ideas clearly on paper reviewing the marked essay for future improvement It’s a learning curve. Your essay writing style will develop through practice and you will begin to write more clearly, objectively and persuasively. As your writing improves, your assessment grades should reflect that improvement. Finally, being skilled in writing clearly, objectively and persuasively must be an advantage to you for the rest of your life. Preparation Start your preparation early. Read the assignment as soon as you can. Devote about 20 minutes to reading it in detail. Write out the full title, don’t be tempted to shorten it as this can be misleading. Highlight or underline key words. Display the title so that you can always see it. It acts...
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...Revision Matrix Following the syllabus instructions, prepare a response to the feedback you received on the Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Essay by completing the matrix below. Use Microsoft® Word® formatting features to add rows to the template, as needed. Complete the template, save the document, and post your assignment according to the syllabus instructions. Learner’s Name: |Faculty Feedback |Faculty feedback in my own words |My detailed and specific action plan to integrate faculty feedback in my revised essay | |(Include comment numbers, as appropriate) | |(Include APA manual page numbers, as appropriate) | | | Title page should have five requirements |According to APA 6th edition page no: 23 the title page should have a title and it should be self | |Comments: Title page has five requirement: |which includes the |explanatory when standing alone. | |Title of Assignment |Title of the assignment |The recommended letter length for a title is no more than 12 words. Title page includes authors | |Student’s name |Student’s full name |name and the institutional...
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...Out of all the writing I did this year, my worst piece of writing was my Julius Caesar essay. This was my worst piece of writing because I did not have good preparation and I was slightly rushed while writing the essay. The essay could only be written in one class period, so I was not able to read over my paper and check for grammatical problems. Another personal detail that made me struggle during the writing was I forgot some parts about the play and didn’t understand specific sections. Without fully understanding some parts of the play, it was difficult to analyze my evidence. A third detail that made me struggle when I was writing this essay was bad time management. When I started the essay, I did not look at the time very often, so when...
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...in college. Professors are not scared to use profanity. Class styles are all different. Students are not babied in college. College is a time in a student's life to realize their dreams. However, first, they must pass basic courses. One of these basic courses includes English 101. Some students struggle with this course because they believe they are not good writers. But bad writing can be fixed, laziness cannot. As a student who has taken English 101 twice now, I have a few helpful tips for incoming freshmen on how to succeed at this course. Students who wish to end their English 101 class with a bang should avoid procrastination, correct essay mistakes, and celebrate successes and failures....
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...MBA Admissions Essay Powerful Tips for Improving Your Odds of Gaining Admission to the MBA Program of Your Choice Admissions essays are easily the most challenging part of the MBA application process, and it’s no wonder. Most people don’t like to write, and even those of us who do enjoy writing can come up blank when called upon to write about ourselves, especially when so much is at stake. The fact remains: If you want to go to business school, you have to be able to generate one or two thousand carefully chosen words that sum up your background and experience, your career goals, your reasons for seeking the MBA, and why you’ve chosen the program to which you’re applying. Step one: Relax. Writing admissions essays is stressful—it’s supposed to be stressful— but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Everyone who has ever applied to business school has written admissions essays, and so can you. All you have to do is submit essays that are a little bit better than most of the others, and if you follow the advice we’ll cover in the following pages, it will be a lot less painful. How to Write a Successful Most MBA essays are mediocre The good news is that most MBA admissions essays are mediocre at best. If you can at least come up with a marginally compelling narrative, and if you can spell and punctuate everything correctly—or know someone who can—you’ll automatically have an advantage over much of the competition. This guide is designed to help you get started (the hardest...
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...On the first day of the class when Mrs. Shannon said peer review makes people very vulnerable to the words they get from the peers. I thought she had psychic power to read minds. Ever since I took a regular English class and had first peer review I felt guilty, because I wasn’t capable enough to provide advice or find their mistakes. I felt I was the only one getting helped and I was afraid they might judge me by my writing. This made my habit of revising the essay fewer time and not asking for help. Eventually making me avoid writing. For the past month, I have learn how important the peer review is, but it did not change me to like the writing. From this English comp. 1 I have learned that peer review and revision is essential to produce...
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...In high school, I hated writing essays for my English classes. At first, I did not have a reliable writing process. I would free write a rough draft and turn it in as a final draft. I would also write last minute instead of using the time to create a well-thought essay. I focused more on passing a class rather than boosting my writing skills. Now that I am in college, I take writing seriously. Throughout the years, my writing process has drastically changed. As a writer, I will continue to advance my writing skills. Prewriting is significant when preparing for an essay, although this step is most of the time ignored. The process of writing is just as important as the writing itself. Prewriting is great for writers to have an organized essay. Sectioning the writing process can make writing less stressful and gives the writer more time to go back and improve their paper. My writing process consists of brainstorming, outlining, rough drafting, and peer revisions....
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...My first year of university has proved to be a large platform for apprenticeship and progress. Through various projects and presentations, individual or group ones, and even more through feedback on my work, I managed to develop my academic and personal skills both as an independent learner, but also as a member of formal or informal groups. Having been assigned tasks such as literature reviews, research essays or reflective essays, all of them involving either an oral or written presentation, I employed a range of skills that could not have found a better environment to develop in; critical thinking, working with others and time management are just few examples. Aside from measuring our ability and understanding of the assigned task, evaluation allows us to progress on things we are performing well on and adjust our weaknesses. According to Marshall and Rowland (1998), evaluation can be performed by ourselves, assessing and judging our work in a subjective manner or by others. However, the drawback of being our own assessors is the risk of being accused of bias. Therefore, acknowledging the feedback received on my work has been a significant factor for the development of my skills. It not only helped me better identify my strengths and weaknesses, but also gave me self-confidence and enthusiasm, two key factors for a continual improvement of one's self. The module I have undertaken in the second term, Personal Skills for Business Management Students, has undoubtedly drawn my...
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...In this essay, George Orwell brings to light common mistakes that are found in contemporary English style of writing and argue that we, users of the English language, have the power to fix these problems through adjusting our own writing habits. The mistakes that Orwell brings up are not the typical mistakes of grammar, punctuation or spelling. No, he attacks the very way that a whole generation of English writers has grown accustom to writing and expressing their ideas, and I could not agree with him more. Orwell breaks these simple mistakes into four major types: dying metaphors, verbal false limbs, pretentious diction and meaningless words. When used, these mistakes create sentences that do not express ideas clearly and use common terms and phrases “copied and pasted” from one writer to another. This leads to a lack of originality and writing that is more of a conglomerate of catchy phrases and buzzwords rather than cohesive, well thought-out sentences. I agree with this school of thought. I have seen many students my age who are afraid of writing the wrong thing or having their ideas rejected, so they write in the manner which Orwell is concerned with as to mask their inner writing insecurity. Many also think that using dying metaphors, verbal false limbs, and pretentious diction makes them sound smarter or acceptable at the college level. However, these habits do nothing but make the readers’ job harder and make the writer sound like a politician trying to avoid answering...
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...University of Roehampton [pic] Department of Life Sciences Health Sciences – Undergraduate/ Postgraduate General Principles for Essay Writing (and reports) FORMATTING • An essay should be structured into three main sections: introduction, main body and conclusion. A good rule of thumb would be to divide the word count into these three sections as follows: 20% introduction, 60% main, 20% conclusion (this will be different for reports). For more specific guidelines on what to include in each section, please consult one of many study skills handbooks available in the library or speak to an Academic Learning Advisor. The following advice is based on the most common mistakes that students make. • Introduction: should present the general topic that you will write about as well as the structure of the essay • Conclusion should NEVER include new material. • Essays usually do not have headings (although scientific reports always do). You can choose to include them, though, as long as it makes sense and it assists with the flow of argument. Please note that the shorter the essay, the least number of headings there should be. • When writing your essay on microsoft word, make sure you select English (U.K.) as your main Language. This is also the language you must use when running spelling and grammar check – which you should always do to every document. • Graphs and figures should always have a number...
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...Edith Cowan University Academic essay Academic Tip Sheet This academic tip sheet: • explains the academic essay as an academic style of writing; • looks at the structure of an academic essay; • looks at the main types of academic essays; • explains how to write an academic essay; and • provides you with a quick checklist that covers most aspects of writing an academic essay. CRICOS IPC 00279B What is an academic essay? For our purposes, we can define an academic essay as a document that has a defined structure – an introduction, a body and a conclusion. What are the main types of academic essays? If we look at the intent of the academic essay we can define three main types: • Descriptive – describes a subject, e.g.; a person, place or event. • Expository – explains a concept or theory. • Argumentative – presents an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. 01/08 The argumentative essay Most academic essays will require you to present an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. In the process of planning and drafting your essay, you will need to respond to the assigned question by thinking, reading and writing your way to a considered position/stance, or thesis statement. The thesis statement is expressed as one or two sentences in the introductory paragraph of your essay, and supported in the body of the essay by a series of topic sentences, one in each paragraph. Each topic sentence is in turn supported by evidence and examples from...
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