...“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough” Robert Haller. This quotation suggests that an instinctive judgment is not enough to draw conclusions. Ways of knowing need to verify our gut feelings. Before we can actually jump to conclusions, we require ways which we can use to understand the world around us, these are ways of knowing. Sometimes we need to make sure that what our innate feelings tell us; is true. Therefore, we require something to justify and verify our feelings; that is why we examine these feelings or sentiments as to establish our own satisfaction. Instinctive judgments are natural and impulsive responses to current situations. Hence this title implies that ways of knowing seek to authenticate our instincts which come to pass without inference or reason. Instinctive judgments are not like reflex actions which occur without thought. They just occur so quickly that we are not subconsciously aware of the fact that ways of knowing are actually in place. Ways of knowing really are a check on our instinctive judgments because they help us make sound decisions even after an instinctive...
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...Essay title: Compare and contrast, using examples, how ‘knowing’ something has a different meaning for a psychologist compared to a member of the lay public. Introduction 1: According to the Heinemann English Dictionary, ‘knowing’ something simply means ‘to understand’. However, before actually looking at the difference between knowing something as a lay person and as a psychologist, it is paramount to establish what psychology actually is. The definitions of psychology have changed over its lifetime; nonetheless, it is considered a science which looks at part of human behaviour. Introduction 2: There are many facts in life that all people will lay claim to ‘knowing’. But in broad and uneasily defined areas, who can say what they ‘know’ and what they simply believe to be true. This essay will look at how ‘knowing’ something can have a different meaning for a psychologist compared to a member of the lay public. To ‘know’ something is ‘to feel certain’ or ‘to have in the mind or memory as the result of experience, learning, or information’ (Webster’s Handy Dictionary, 1992). This essay will evaluate how a psychologist and a member of the public might each reach conclusions or form matters of opinion of which they ‘feel certain’ and how the meanings attached to what they ‘know’ might be different. Introduction 3: This essay will aim to draw comparisons between the way in which Psychologists gain knowledge and the methods which are used to gain knowledge...
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...understanding of the terms and process of research throughout this first week of class. The first subject will be a breakdown of new terminology found in this week’s readings. The paper will then take the time to explain and give examples of how the new terminology will be able to be applied to a career in criminal justice. Lastly the paper will take the time to express the problems that can arise from not knowing the terminology as well as the benefits of knowing these terms when it comes to researching. The goal of the essay is to give a greater understanding of important subjects throughout week ones reading and overall how the new terminology studied can help in a career for criminal justice. New Terminology and How it Applies to Criminal Justice Throughout this first weeks of reading there has been many new words that needed to be learned, however as in anything there are a few terms that stood out as more important than others. Many of the terms that will be discussed through this essay are also highlighted as objectives for the week. Some of the most important terms that this essay will go over are: qualitative and quantitative research, pure and applied research, and lastly research ethics. The reasons behind these words being picked are the fact that many are new terms and also that the terms are important to the course and have been discussed throughout more than just the...
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...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 on Reply: • In what situations are compare-and-contrast essays effective? When would that style be ineffective? What is the difference? Explain. ...
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...lot in writing essays. I have learned to use subordination and coordinating conjunctions in my essays when I never thought of using them before and I have become more proficient in preventing fragment and run-ons sentences and I have learned to write a great complete argumentative essay. I have learned to use subordination and coordinating conjunctions in my essays when I never thought of using them before. I have learned to use subordinating conjunctions that introduces a dependent clause by joining it to a main clause. Words like because, when, if and more that help build a sentence better. I even learned that coordinating conjunctions are joining two similarly constructed words or phrases within a sentence. Words like for, or, yet, and more that help in a sentence. I have uses both coordinating and subordination conjunctions in my papers. One sentence that I used a subordinating conjunction “People need to understand that there are people out in our world who do not care about their privacy, when they post everything online” (Gallego) and I used a coordinating conjunction in this paragraph “Think about the idea that everyone achieved a college degree, for all people would be equal in...
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...by your own. When you paste your text into this template choose the option ‘keep text only’, this way the formatting will remain correct. In the introduction you should mention assumption(s) of the topic. Challenge them as this shows you are thinking critically and independently. Write a thesis statement or mention, which issues you will explore and provide a short overview of which ideas you will discuss in your essay. Avoid dictionary definitions; rather focus immediately to knowledge issues (some which you have identified by challenging the assumptions of the topic). Remember to leave a space between each paragraph. In this paragraph take an example from an area of knowledge. Show how it supports your thesis. Discuss an area of knowledge but make it specific. Instead of talking about science in general, talk about a particular scientific theory or discovery. Remember to discuss counter-arguments i.e. what in what way this example may not provide comprehensive support to your argument. In this paragraph take an example from another area of knowledge, and do the same as above. In this paragraph discuss some of your personal experience and how they link to the topic. Try to keep personal voice throughout the essay. In next few paragraphs discuss how some ways of knowing (perception, reason, language, emotion) are linked to your topic. Tell how these ways of knowing affect what kind of knowledge we gain and reliability of knowledge. Remember to consider counter...
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...people who may not have graduated in the top of their class and who may not have had the best GPA in school to still qualify to enter the company with a degree. They can show off their good work ethic and dedication by starting off at the bottom and working their way to the top. Having said that, job loyalty is greatly promoted in industries that perform in this way. 2. Does Enterprise face any risks from its HR strategy? b. Of course Enterprise faces risks from its HR strategy, as well as any other industry hiring brand new employees. There is always the struggle of teaching new employees the rules and strategies of the industry they are working for. They have to go through a training session to tell them what is expected of them and how they should go about doing their job. One good thing to note about Enterprise’s HR strategy is that they like to hire former athletes and former people who have been in a club of some sort so that they at least know they are hiring someone who has been dedicated to something at some point, and hopefully they can be just as dedicated to their job. 3. Would you want to work for Enterprise? Why or why not? c. Personally, I wouldn’t see myself working for Enterprise. Knowing I went to school and took the time to earn my degree, as well as spending money in the process, I can’t see myself wasting what I earned on cleaning cars as a job. I understand it would be a job right out of college and I would be making some kind of money but...
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...University of Phoenix Personal Responsibility Essay: Research and Organizatio Resources: CWE Annotated Bibliography and CWE Reference and Citation Generator Review the CWE Annotated Bibliography. Prepare an annotated bibliography for the sources in your Personal Responsibility Essay. Include the following information: * Reference citation for each source * Summary of the information in the source and how you determined it to be reliable Write a 250-word explanation of the following: * How you determined the sources to be reliable and relevant, and whether or not there is an author bias * How this information might strengthen or weaken your essay Format your explanation consistent with APA guidelines. Thesis Statement: Even though someone with personal responsibility values the consequences of their acts; having personal responsibility is also knowing how to manage your time wisely, and recognizing what sacrifices will need to be made to meet deadlines, and puts special attention to its compromises in order to meet them. To be successful in college as a student, you must maintain good attendance, make substantial post in discussions, and turn all of your assignments in on time. Rough Draft Responsibility is a virtue that must be learned and practiced. Being successful requires taking personal responsibility for your actions. In order to be accountable in all aspects of life, it is important to be focused on what you want to accomplish. Establishing...
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...Drew Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway writer, achieves the role of literature by challenging the common beliefs of society in his essays. He takes the role of defending First Nations from the common criticisms and assumptions of Canadian society, in an attempt to change people’s perspectives. This is the purpose of many of his essays, each having their own problem or question. These essays raise the problems and issues First Nations people face that society may be unfamiliar with. Throughout his essays, he uses multiple logical strategies in his writing to support his arguments. Many of his essays deal with the concept of stereotyping. Taylor argues against these stereotypes and issues directed at First Nations people by using allusions, factual evidence,...
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...ENGL 112.07 September 3, 2010 Essay #1 As a student, there are few things that should be known before writing a essay. This includes knowing the research question, the process of locating effective sources, and the writing process. It is crucial to understand the research question fully before writing a research essay. Without comprehending what the question is asking, you are liable to writing an entire essay incorrectly. Thus being said, the research question needs to be understood because it will determine the direction of your essay. The research question will also make you think about what to write about in your essay. After you think of possible answers for the question, your mind will eventually decide the best way to write it down. When it comes down to locating effective sources, it important to understand what a effective source actually is. An effective source is a source that can be used and eventually be credited to someone who has creditability. If you happen to stubble upon a source that comes from a Yahoo Answers website, by “Jeff-Dog1992”, and was posted during 2006, then you should probably not use that source. In fact, any sources from a websites where random people can answer and edit such as Wikipedia are not to be to used during a essay. In order to locate an effective source you first need to access to the your school’s library database and books. The library database includes many approved sources that were written by creditable authors. Although...
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...How to Write Distinction Essays Every Time: The Six Steps to Academic Essay Writing There are six steps to writing an academic essay. If you follow each of these steps correctly, you will find that you can write university essays that will earn you a distinction (or high distinction) every time. It is simply a matter of understanding what steps to follow, and then completing each of them thoroughly. This article provides an outline and brief description of each of these steps. It is an introduction to a series of articles that will examine each step in more depth. Reading just this article alone will provide you with assistance in learning how to plan, research and write your essays. However, reading all the articles in the series (available on this blog and on our website at http://www.eliteediting.com.au/support.aspx) will allow you to gain a more sophisticated insight into essay writing, and to improve your grades even further. These are the six steps you need to follow to write high quality university essays: 1. Analyse the Question There are generally two types of essays: argumentative essays and explanatory essays. In an argumentative essay, you are expected to put forward an academic argument in answer to the essay question and support your argument with academic sources (references). In an explanatory essay, you are expected to explain or describe a process or topic in answer to an essay question and support your argument with academic sources (references)...
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...Cortney Bramlette AP Language Mrs. Richards 3-21-14 Author Essay #9 The general argument made by Dave Barry in Turkeys in the Kitchen is the men are raised one way, and women are raised another. That does not mean that they are incapable of doing each others stereotyped jobs, it just means that women are born better at cooking and cleaning while men are born better at fixing cars and eating the food women cook. (Okay that might be a little sexist, but slightly true.) Dave believes that men not knowing how to do anything right in a kitchen and women knowing the in’s and out’s of every kitchen utensil dates back to the pre-feminism era and the sexism of it. When asked to cut up a turnip, this is what goes through Dave’s head. “Now to the woman, who had all the sexist Home Economics training back in the pre-feminism era, this is a very simple instruction. It is the absolute simplest thing she can think of. But to the man, who got his training in Shop Class, learning things he would never ever need to know for the rest of his life, such as how to make “dado” joints, this instruction raises many troubling questions.” It seems as though Dave almost finds it unfair that he was never taught the correct way to cut up a turnip. He goes on to say that even once he picked up a zucchini (hoping it would be the turnip he was supposed to be cutting up) his wife “much too patiently” took it from his hands and replied with “That’s all right. I’ll do it.” If he only would be taught...
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...that have a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding statement. I believe the Course Outcome is asking me to do is knowing how to write an essay. It is important to know how to write a paragraph. There are certain rules you should follow in order to write a paragraph and to know how to write a paper. I believe I had more than just two examples of activities I had completed during this course that helped me achieve the outcome of my selected but one of the activities that sticks in my mine was doing my final essay. It helped me to know how to create sentences and build them into simple, coherent paragraphs. Paragraphs need not only to be well-developed and unified, but also to be coherent. In a coherent paragraph, all sentences show their relationship to one another. One way to achieve coherence is to arrange the sentences in a logical order. Logical order means arranging sentences reason. For example, if you write about events as they are it is logical to use chronological, or time, order. If you describe an object or a place, it is logical to arrange details and it also helped me to do the following by creating topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding statement. The other one comes to mine is doing my rough draft. It is very important to learn these skill because you want you essay or paper to come out just right. Knowing how to create sentences and building them into simple coherent paragraphs will help you a long...
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...Write a 1-2 page essay in which you: 1. Address why you decided to go to college at this time in your life. 2. State the reasons behind the decision. Your assignment must: * Be at least 250 words minimum or up to 500 words maximum. * Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. * Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: * Write paragraphs and essays, and other assigned work with a clearly defined main idea, introduction, body, and conclusion. * Revise written pieces to improve clarity and organization Consider how the prewriting, writing, and revising processes can help you write the essay. Think about the topic, how to write supporting sentences, and how to organize the essay. 1. Audience, Purpose, and Subject * Each time you write, you should think about the audience, purpose, and subject for your piece of writing (Chapter 1 of Evergreen: A Guide for Writers). * The audience for this writing is your teacher and peers. * The purpose is to explain to your readers your reasons for going to college. * The subject is about your decision to go to college. 2. Prewriting * As noted in Chapter 2 of Evergreen:...
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...problem paper over assignment 1 for a variety of reasons. I felt like my problem paper challenged me more out of the two papers. I found it especially challenging having to present my problem for without sounding like I was complaining every step of the way. This made word choose extremely important and...
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