...MASS COMMUNICATION: NEWS WRITING The development and evolution of our society demands the need for immediate and updated information to spread quickly within the community. For centuries, the news played a very important role in our daily lives. Whether it is a report on the latest matches score between our favorite football teams, weather forecast, information on election campaigns, or news on the recent death of a well-known celebrity, we always come back for more. Nevertheless, from the traditional role of messengers to recent digital age, the principle of news still remains the same;- providing the masses with the latest and current events of today’s world, be it through printed newspaper, broadcast, internet or oral messaging (word-of-mouth). Spreading news is without doubt one of the oldest human activities ever exist. Before the invention of newspaper in the early age, authorities appointed third-party messengers to bring word, spreading news and updated information. Some of these messengers traveled nearly thousand miles to deliver the news to the receivers. Most of the times, there were related to diplomatic, economic and political issues. After a well-formed country was established, only then the people started to exchange updated news among them in a larger scale than before. Before writing became a common skill to master, human beings spread news by word of mouth on crossroads, at alleys or markets. The messengers came back from battlefields to their homeland only...
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...It was Tuesday afternoon when Peewee and Sammy set out for Winnie’s new home, which was three houses farther down the street. Winnie would be inside because the red-haired young girl who was her new owner was at school. But this day, Winnie snuck out of the house when the cleaning lady came in the front door. Winnie was like her brother Bo. She liked adventure. Winnie jumped around on the grass and looked for other kittens on the street to play with, but none of them were outside. After awhile, she looked across the street and saw woods. All those trees. Maybe there was someone over there to play with. Minutes later, in the woods, she saw a snake. “Hi, I’m Winnie. What’s your name”? “I’m Slither,” he hissed. Winnie thought he could be her...
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...constantly on society’s mind and therefore has a large role in effecting the writing environment. As technology evolves, writing pursuits quickly afterwards, starting on walls and paper, writing is now much more than ink on a page. Writing adjusted to suit our technological desires and needs, allowing us to communicate and examine things in new ways. Communication technology has been shaped around writing and has enabled many writers to explore and develop new techniques with the help of, smart phones, laptops and social media. It is this multimodality that opens up new media possibilities and opportunities for great works to be presented and published online. Audiences can interact with works, stimulating creativity and allowing new experiences to be ‘breed’ in the dynamic writing ecosystem. Interactivness has been established thanks to technological advances, allowing pieces like, ‘Welcome to Pine Point’ (Shoebridge, P., & Simons, M) to accentuate the possibilities that interactive media has on writing environments....
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...Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers? ZANE K. QUIBLE FRANCES GRIFFIN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA ABSTRACT. Business professionals and instructors often view writing skills as one of the most important qualifications that employees should possess. However, many business employees, including recent college graduates, have serious writing deficiencies, especially in their ability to use standard English. As a result, American businesses spend billions of dollars annually to remediate these writing deficiencies (College Board, the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, Schools, and Colleges, 2004). In this article, the authors examine possible reasons for these deficiencies and offer evidence that a modified context-based approach, the glossing approach, and consistent error marking can reduce the number of sentence-level errors students make. Keywords: context-based approach, grammar, punctuation, rules-based approach, writing deficiencies Copyright © 2007 Heldref Publications T hat many employers in the United States are dissatisfied with their employees’ writing skills is not a surprise to individuals who frequently peruse the professional literature in nearly any academic field or discipline (Gray, Emerson, & MacKay, 2005; Wise, 2005). Although the expressions of dismay are frequent and often strong, educators have done little to rectify the situation. Costs of Employees’ Poor Writing Skills material to...
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...On October 26th, 2015 I decided to bring an old paper from community college to the UCF Writing Center. I wanted to bring in an old paper in order to see how much I’ve improved since then, and how I can still improve my writing. The paper I brought was an extra credit assignment, which I honestly did not put much effort towards because it was for my math class. This allowed us to find many aspects of my writing that I could work on. Thanks to my consultation with my amazing consultant Julie, I learned that it’s not incredibly hard to write a good paper, even if I don’t enjoy the topic. I chose this service because it was a service I was already quite familiar with. At my old community college, Eastern Florida State College, the school had a very popular writing center that I was also required to attend by some of my professors. Although both writing centers were very similar, the UCF writing center left me with new tools in order to...
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...concerned about the new state-mandated, textbook-based curriculum for kindergarten, and you are writing a letter to the school board in protest of this new policy. In your letter, define DAP, describe the benefits of DAP, and explain why you feel the use of a textbook-based curriculum may be inappropriate. Describe potential negative effects of this curriculum and how it is developmentally inappropriate to literacy development. Recommend an alternative approach to developing literacy skills. In your letter, use the kindergarten standards from your state and the guidelines for DAP described in the course text as well as in NAEYC resources. The paper should be two to three pages in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least one scholarly reference in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of ECE 311 Week 3 Assignment in order to ace their studies. ECE 311 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/ece-311-week-3-assignment/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 311 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT Mandated Curriculum vs. Developmentally Appropriate Practices. You are a parent who is concerned about the new state-mandated, textbook-based curriculum for kindergarten, and you are writing a letter to the school board in protest of this new policy. In your letter...
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...keyboard has filled up my days, but it’s not just about how my essays were written on a computer. It is about how these repeated actions developed who I am as a writer, along with the quality of my work. I truly believe my writing has blossomed this year because I have finally imposed a step-by-step process of writing that works for me. In addition, I was able to fully connect with the literature I read, resulting in the reveal a new writer’s personality within me. Moreover, I am beginning to understand the piecemeal writer burgeoning inside me throughout the essays I have written in english class and how it has shaped my compositions through the different strategies I took, style, and organization. Writing essays in the beginning of the year was somewhat troublesome, to be honest, because my style, organization, and strategies for writing, were a complete mess. As a result...
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...stubborn contradiction you've uncovered in your own thinking: what do you do with that? Writing papers in college requires that you come up with sophisticated, complex, and even creative ways of structuring your ideas. Accordingly, there are no simple formulae that we can offer you that will work for every paper, every time. We can, however, give you some things to think about that will help you as you consider how to structure your paper. Let Your Thesis Direct You Begin by listening to your thesis. If it is well-written, it will tell you which way to go with your paper. Suppose, for example, that in responding to Richard Pipes' book, The Russian Revolution, you have written a thesis that says: The purpose of the Russian Revolution was not only to revise Russia's class system, but to create a new world, and within that world, a new kind of human being. This thesis provides the writer (and the reader) with several clues about how best to structure the paper. First, the thesis promises the reader that it will argue that the Russian Revolution was not simply a matter of class. The paper will therefore begin by saying that although the destruction of the Russian class system was important to the heart of this revolution, it was not its final goal. The rest of the paper will be broken into two parts: the revolution's vision of world communism, and (even more important) its vision of the new homo sovieticus - or soviet human being. I say that this idea of the homo sovieticus is...
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...Revision isn’t really looked on as important to some people; however, it’s actually one of the most important aspects in writing. Before I started my observations for Mrs. Miller I had gone to a different teacher at a different school. This teacher did not once acknowledge the importance of revision. I even spoke to him about it and he stated, “It’s not something that needs to be taught.” I figured that was cue for me to leave and find a new place to observe, and I am very well happy with my choice to leave because if it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t have found Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Miller loves revision. She has this really interesting approach to revision that I never would have thought of myself. So, she had mirrors that she brought in for every student. She asked them to look at themselves and write down anything they thought. She asks them to reflect on what they saw in the mirror. And a boy volunteered to share with the class what he wrote down as he looked at his reflection. He states, “I’m a professional football player...
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...Geography Programme, School of People, Environment and Planning ESSAY WRITING AND FORMAT GUIDE FOR GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS Essay Writing and Format Guide 2 Essay Writing and Format Guide Table of Contents Introduction: Why Write Essays? ........................................................ 4 Types of Essay........................................................................................ 5 Analysing the Question: Answering the Question............................ 5 Planning Your Essay ............................................................................. 8 Writing Your Essay................................................................................ 9 Introduction ..................................................................................... 10 The Body of the Essay.................................................................... 10 Concluding ....................................................................................... 12 Editing............................................................................................... 13 Writing Style ......................................................................................... 13 Spelling.............................................................................................. 13 Writing numbers.............................................................................. 14 Grammar: plurals and apostrophes .............................................. 15 Syntax: The...
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...John Bean’s article, “Reading Rhetorically”, presents the different strategies of reading rhetorically and the reason why it is important to read rhetorically as an academic. As a rhetorical reader, you must be able to understand the content of the text along with understanding the author’s perspective as a writer. From an exert alone you should be able to make several assumptions about the context of the writing. An idea of the audience the piece was written for should be deductible, along with the language of the author. How the argument is presented and what the authors stance is, makes up the language the author is using in their writing. Reading rhetorically allows people to analyze and conclude several aspects of a writing piece that...
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...Throughout all of high school, students are taught in minimal ways to produce “perfect” essays and present them so that when they get to college they can pass their classes. This means that high school teachers only teach them to write so specifically and in such a hard structured manner, that many students hardly ever learn to write papers that flow. In high school, I always wrote really nice papers that my teachers enjoyed grading, however, I always hated writing them because if I did not use the cookie cutter format that they gave us, my teachers would not accept the work. The format that I am referring to goes as follows: hook, introduction, and thesis for paragraph one, three body paragraphs with two examples to support your thesis in each paragraph, and finally a conclusion ("Essay Template"). In total, there were five paragraphs, never any more, and never any less. The hook was always supposed to be a quote related to the topic or a factual piece of information...
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...In Michaela Cullington well-written paper, Does Texting Affect Writing, written on April 18th, 2010. The well-written document starts off talking about how texting is affecting the majority of humans living in the United States of America. Also talking about what texting is and how it is becoming a concern to cause humans to decrease their writing skill sets.Also how texting is becoming a huge factor in the business world. Michaela Cullington explains how texting is a great invention and also how it is a lousy invention for humans in the world. In the discussion of texting, one view is that texting hurts humans In her article she comes to her conclusion after she conducts some of her experiments regarding the issue. As well as analyzing other...
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...BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges Course Contents for Subjects with Code: ENG This document only contains details of courses having code ENG. Center for Undergraduate Studies, University of the Punjab 1 BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges Code ENG‐101 Year 1 Subject Title Introduction to Literature‐I (History of English Literature‐I) Discipline English Cr. Hrs 3 Semester I Aims: One of the objectives of this course is to inform the readers about the influence of historical and socio-cultural events upon the production of literature. Although the scope of the course is quite expansive, the readers shall focus on early 14th to 19th century Romantic Movement. Histories of literature written by some British literary historians will be consulted to form some socio-cultural and political cross connections. In its broader spectrum, the course covers a reference to the multiple factors from economic theories to religious, philosophical and metaphysical debates that overlap in these literary works of diverse nature and time periods under multiple contexts. The reading of literature in this way i.e. within the sociocultural context will help the readers become aware of the fact that literary works are basically a referential product of the practice that goes back to continuous interdisciplinary interaction. Contents: • Medieval Period • Renaissance and Reformation • Elizabethan Period • Milton, the Metaphysical...
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...Introdution: Fundamentals of Business Writing I. The major differences between school writing and business writing School writing, typically in the form of essays, is aimed at impressing the audience, i.e. examiners. To score high, student writers have to use fairly complicated vocabulary and sentences in their written work. Business writers, however, mainly aim to communicate information to their colleagues, clients, and other associated parties. They are relatively free to use what language that can get the business done efficiently and effectively. II. Seven steps in the process of wring 1. clarifying your aim 2. identifying your readers 3. making a general plan 4. sketching a synopsis (大纲) 5. drafting your text 6. putting the draft aside 7. revising and editing ★ Writing is a recursive and creative process. The detailed plan is not adhered to in actual writing. Writers frequently come up with ideas that are activated in the process of writing. Writers read the text they have already produced to help generate more ideas. In effect, the writing process is no linear at all but is characterized by recursive ness and creativeness. III. Three principles of business writing 1. Clarity – means setting your message across clearly. (See detailed information on page 4) 2. Consideration – good business writers take their readers’ needs, problems, and reactions to the writing into consideration. And they put themselves...
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