...TRIDENT UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL NAME BUS303 Business Communication MODULE 4: Integration and Reflection Assignment: Self Reflective Course Essay INSTRUCTOR: This Business Communication course has helped me overcome my fear of entering the real world and preparing for my military retirement. Being in the service for all of these years will place a small amount of fear regarding entering the civilian workforce because of the leadership style you are taught in the military. However, with the tools I have gained from this class; I feel that my transition from military life to the civilian sector will be easier than I thought. We as military personnel have learned how to wear a uniform properly and how to greet personnel with respect but we have not been taught how to properly prepare for retirement. When asked to write a resume in this course, I felt this assignment would be a challenge because the first thing I thought about was “the future”. Asking myself what exactly does my own future have in store for me and how do I prepare. Immediately, I took this assignment serious; gathering my thoughts to put into my resume because what if there was no tomorrow for me in the U.S. Navy; what if I had to get out today “what would I do”. I really enjoyed this assignment along with the cover letter because it challenged me to “think, what if” and “how do I prepare”, so this really hit home for me. “The Tips for Writing Resumes” was a great source to refer to for this...
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...English course, and one of those goals is to get into the habit of writing more. By getting into the habit of writing more I am going to accomplish my second goal which is to fix my spelling and grammar. For example learn where to put my commas and periods and learn how to spell words I don’t really use. Another major goal I have for this course is to learn how to target my audience, learn who my audience is and write to the appeal of that audience. My final goal and the most important goal I have for this course is to get an A+. My plan is to try and hand in everything on time and not miss a class. I hope I can accomplish these goals. I also always set up goals when writing an academic paper. For example, I try and get the least grammar spelling errors as possible. I also set goals to finish my papers a paper a certain time so I have time to proofread and revise my paper. And the most important goal I set when I write is to hand in my paper on time. With these goals I hope to get a better grade. I have many challenges when I write. My biggest challenges when writing for others is trying not to have many grammars and spelling errors, but I always do. Another challenge I have is that I don’t know if I’m getting through to my audience or not. I’m also always concerned if I’m giving enough information to the person I’m writing to, in other words being informative. And my biggest challenge might be that the audience can’t hear my voice. I hope that someday I can overcome these challenges...
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...the car. Back at Annie’s she introduces her pet pig named Misery to Paul, she then explains why she named her pig Misery. She first started reading Misery when her husband left her because reading the book helped her block her from the problems she had to face outside. When she purchased one of Paul’s newest books she had started reading it but later that night she went into his room angry asking why he killed Misery in the book then angrily started to shake the bed violently. She goes into the bedroom and forces him to burn his newly written book just so he can bring Misery back from the dead. Paul stops taking his pain killers because he thinks they are not helping him at all. He decides to save the medicine powder from the pills in a paper envelope. Annie buys him a used typewriter and the materials necessary to begin...
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...writing the introduction to the paper. Next, I do the actual writing of the paper and describe each topic in more detail. The last step is to, I revise it in case of any errors. I also revise it to make it better. Each step is important in order to make my writing good. I will discuss in depth and detail about each part of my writing process. As soon as I get the topic and know what I am to write about, I think to myself of some of the ideas that I have that could relate to this piece of writing. Often times, I come up with a story in my own life that can relate or something that I know of that can influence my paper to have more meaning, not only to the reader, but also to me. It will make writing the paper easier if you can make a connection to the topic and relate it to yourself somehow. If I don’t really have a way to connect it I just brainstorm for things or ideas that can be included or used in the piece. I make a list of things pertaining to the paper so I can go through the list easier. If it is a really detailed piece, I sometimes use the web process. If it is necessary to the paper, I will research the topic and try to gather more information about it. If not, I just stick to the list or web. Each one of my idea gathering processes has its benefits and is used depending on the type of paper I need to write. At this point, I would now have all of my ideas and my “helpers” in writing my paper. I would start with the introduction of my paper. In a few paragraphs, I would...
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...sking-04@yahoo.com or sanking-04@yahoo.com. If the first account name has been used by someone else, change or switch some words around and try again. Please note that several attempts may be required before you can get a unique email address. Since the ISP provides you a FREE email account, the disk space may be limited. Compose and write an error free and grammar sound 1.5 – 2 page essay on “The effect of the recession on HBCUs”. Your paper must be original and of substance and your last paragraph must be conclusions or inferences that you deduced from your previous paragraphs. YOU MUST CREATE A JSU EMAIL ACCOUNT IF YOU DON’T HAVE ONE. YOUR JSU EMAIL ACCOUNT IS THE ONLY ACCOUNT THAT HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM IN THIS CLASS. You must submit the following: a. Email a copy of your paper to your JSU email account. b. A hard copy showing that you created a new free email account and your jsu email account by logging into your jsu email account and opening the email that you sent from the new free email account. Print that email. It should show both accounts in the printout. If you decide to submit this to me by email, you will have to use the print screen key to copy and paste it to a word document and send it that way. c. CC your free email account so that you will have a copy on record d. A printed copy of your paper If submitting by email, I should only receive 1 email. In that email should be 2 attachments: the hard copy obtained by using the print...
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...life. Right away they have contact with different types of communication from the start. Most children can identify basic signs and logos by the age of 2 or 3. From there they will begin to experiment with written forms of communicating long before they can read by scribbling. Reading and writing develop at the same time in young children who are unified or consistent. Children love to make marks on paper. As they do this, they begin to realize that the symbols on pages are letters that form words. This will help with the attempt to put their thoughts down on paper as well. The development of writing skills consists of stages that children go through. Parents can promote early literacy development for infants by presenting cloth or cardboard books with bright pictures, reading books that have rhyming words, surrounding children with fiction and nonfiction books, magazines or games, reading simple stories with one main character and a simple plot, responding to questions your child might have about print in your house or elsewhere, and supporting early writing by making sure that paper, crayons, pencils and markers are always available. Parents can also promote early literacy development for toddlers and preschoolers by...
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...A Guide for Writing a Technical Research Paper Libby Shoop Macalester College, Mathematics and Computer Science Department 1 Introduction This document provides you with some tips and some resources to help you write a technical research paper, such as you might write for your required capstone project paper. First, congratulations are in order– you are embarking on an activity that is going to change the way you think and add to the overall body of human knowledge. The skill of gathering information, deciding what is important, and writing about it for someone else is extremely valuable and will stay with you for the rest of your life. Because we humans have been doing this for quite some time, we have some reasonably standard forms for technical research papers, which you should use for your capstone. You should do this because your paper will better understood by readers who are familiar with this form. Before you can begin writing your paper, you need to have a sense for what research entails, so I’ll start there. Then I will give you some tips about writing, including connecting with your readers, defining your topic, the format of your paper, and how to include references from the literature. I am a computer scientist, so be aware that parts of this paper are biased toward my discipline. 2 What is Research? A short definition of research, as given by Booth, Colomb, and Williams (Booth et al., 1995) is “gathering the information you need to answer...
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...desperation writing, which were both helpful to reader writing in future. In short, free writing is doing an unplanned writing without stops and thinks. The main point of free writing was to keep writing, and try to not to make a stop. Also, writer didn’t need to edit the paragraph while in process writing; sometimes, it was even incoherent. And the non-edit function also became the advantage of free writing because most of time people were being stuck in how to write the paragraph right, which would omit the content of the paragraph. Therefore, Dr. Elbow encouraged writer to apply free writing to improve writing. In addition, free writing is considered a workout to the writing; the more you do the more your writing gets shaped. As to desperation writing, it is a method to help people who have had trouble writing; or to save people who were hard to produce a coherent speech or thought. The main point and key of this method is to keep writing as though you were drunk. Keep on doing this until you will find out that there are some usable materials on your paper. Moreover, you can take a piece of paper or pad or card to write down your ideas, feelings, thoughts, perceptions, etc. this would help you build up your writing ability as well. Afterwards, you reorganize the papers or cards and you will receive some new ideas, which should be the return of your work. And it will give you more inspiration. And just keep on writing, make as many as metaphor as you can to improve and build...
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...Thinking about my individual writing process has caused me to forget how I begin a paper. It’s strange to think about the concept of what writing is before you actually write something. After reading over the assigned pages to give me the help I need to discover what my individual writing process is I “skimmed” over freewriting. I tend to just start writing and let my thoughts flow and I feel like it’s what best suits my writing style. So here we go. My individual writing process includes freewriting, lists, and looping. I like to use freewriting because I enjoy continually writing and letting my ideas flow out. Sometimes when I get stuck, it helps me to have a list of the things that I want to include in my writing so I can elaborate and expand on them. After I get to a certain point, I use the process of looping. Looping can be considered a side effect of freewriting. I loop by rereading what I have written and decide if I like the order and the theme of my...
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...5 Forces Analysis on the Paper Industry Looking at the position of the paper industry relative to the five forces model I had to determine exactly what constituted the paper industry. I had to decide between the Paper Mills Industry and Pulp Mills Industry and ultimately decided to analyze the Paper Mills Industry specifically when it came to paper industry as a whole. The NAICS Code that corresponds to the Paper Mills Industry is NAICS: 322121 or SIC Code 2621. Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition includes the firm’s, or in this case the paper mill industry’s, position relative to current competitors, suppliers, customers, potential new entrants and potential substitutes. Over the next few pages I will conduct a five forces analysis of the Paper Mills Industry. Current Competitors: The degree of rivalry in the paper industry is the center of the five forces and the other four forces branch off of this. The first aspect to look at is the number and position of companies within the paper industry. There were 445 companies in 2009 and as of 2013 there are now 119 companies in the industry. This industry still has many competitors within the industry and therefor, there shouldn’t be any impact of any particular company. This industry is large enough where these firms can prosper without having to steal market share from each other and this is a positive for the paper industry. The second key factor is the industry growth rate and if there is room to increase revenues...
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...practice writing in formats, so that their papers could be presentable to the readers. Writers such as Paul Prior, Nancy Sommers, and Anne Lamott gave readers a discrete amount of suggestions on how to prepare a paper. Paul Prior has a ‘go with the flow’ type of mindset, while following the guidelines for essay organizations. When, it comes to writing Prior suggested that students should put into heart that they need time to organize their thoughts. Prior mentions ideas that help students to try to conduct their bodies to promote brain flow. However, most students do not use these tips which could benefit in their favor. Nancy Sommers found that a well amount of...
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...When entering a graduate class such as evidence-based practice, I didn’t think I would have challenges that I would face when researching a topic to write a paper, since during school we had to do several research writings. As I progressed in this class, there were a few challenges I faced when conducting a partial literature review for a topic that interested me. It was important for me to find a topic that I could understand and relate to that demonstrates quality work. I wanted to focus my research on a topic that I experience a lot when many of patients receive chemotherapy. The challenging part of writing a literature review was being able to find a topic that I will identify and locate an appropriate number of research articles that...
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...Writing can be difficult, very difficult. But something great to remember is that writing is difficult for everybody at some point or another. Almost nobody sits down and writes a perfect first draft. Writing is a process and it takes time. In the article "Shitty First Drafts", Lamott writes about how you should have three drafts. The first draft is about getting your thoughts down. The second about fixing it up and work on editing. And the third draft is to perfect it and fix all the little mistakes and for critiquing. I've never really wrote papers this way but after reading this article I agree with Lamott that it is the most efficient way to write a paper. In the first draft, you just want to get stuff down. A problem I tend to have...
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...In High school I hated reading and writing with a passion, I struggled with reading I would see words and have to sound them out and either the teacher or students would make fun of me because I didn’t know it which made me embarrassed so that made me not pick up books and read which I think I hurt myself in the long run, when I had to write a paper I would never do it because I didn’t know how to start or how to punctate correctly to be honest I still struggle with that today but I’m proud of myself instead of not doing it I try now. When I first stated Academic Literacy I felt stupid I was telling myself you should know this stuff you shouldn’t have to take a buildup class for English I I kept asking myself what’s wrong with you, I had to realize there’s nothing wrong it’s okay to get help in something this is preparing me for what’s to come and the fact I had a Professor who was really cool and she was always willing to help me and never turned me down no matter how simple the question could have been, she was the first person to tell me I was a good writer which was so shocking that made me feel great...
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