...RUNNING HEAD: TEN SIMPLE RULES FOR WRITING RESEARCH PAPER Rules for Writing a Research Paper Gwendolyn Burnett Webster University Gern: 5690 Dr. Gray Graves December 07, 2014 Abstract Most everything that has to be done and done right follows some type of procedure, guideline or rule. This holds true in writing research papers as well. There are rules for writing research papers, Zhang focus on ten of those rules: This paper will emphasize on the process that guides writers to writing professional and successful papers. Good research is vital to writing a good paper. This process will include the attitude of the writer and the principles he/she should uphold to establish the foundation of a well written research paper (Zhang, 2014). Writing should have a” driving force where research and writing are paired; less is more, less paper but more information with more meaning, you should know your audience, the paper needs to make sense have logic, a research’s cornerstone is a complete paper, the paper should be to the point (concise) yet simple, use a thesaurus to keep the paper from being boring and present a creative paper, format paper correctly, your attitude towards your paper is important be honest with yourself, is the paper a good job, revise over and over and over again, or you ready to test your paper by the opinions of others, be ready to accept constructive criticism, confer with others on your work, don’t get personal with their opinions...
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...Mastering Research Papers Submitted by WWW.ASSIGNMENTPOINT.COM Research papers of any size are the bane of many students’ academic existence. They can be daunting, demanding, and stress-inducing. However, they are an important and essential element of higher learning. They both teach and test students’ ability to research, evaluate sources, think critically, organize their thoughts, and express them persuasively. And, approached the right way, they can be an extraordinarily enriching and rewarding exercise. Following are some strategies for writing better research papers, and for making the experience a more satisfying—and less agonizing—one. I will focus less on the mechanics (APA style, etc.) of writing a research paper, and more on what it takes mentally and emotionally to not only survive, but actually thrive, in the process of completing so demanding an assignment. (And let’s face it: you will have many across your academic career.) I rely here on not only what I have gleaned from over 35 years of grading university-level research papers, but also from my own ongoing research and writing. So, what works? Here are seven keys to mastering research papers: 1. There’s No Wasted Motion As I reflect back over my research career, beginning with my master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation, I am aware of having read many more books, articles, and other resources than I eventually ended up using in my final research manuscripts...
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...Thinking & Decision Making Paper Tommie Carter, Theresa Gately, George Miladinovic and Sharon Romine MGT/350 December 17, 2012 Lisa Stewart Thinking & Decision Making Paper In everyday life, all individuals are thinking. To be a critical thinker, an individual must be in control of their thinking. Critical thinking is when an individual improves their mode of thinking by analyzing, assessing and reconstruction of their thoughts. It gives individuals the ability to build upon their knowledge, opinions, and ideas. Critical thinking lets individuals take information and make informed decisions without being influenced by their own opinions. It causes you to raise questions and problems, and then, solve them clearly and precisely. Critical thinkers research and re-evaluate their solutions to find the one that will be the best fit. There are many different types of thinking. Each type affects the process of critical thinking differently. This paper will discuss the thinking types of creative, inductive and emotional. It will also explore in depth the similarities and differences of these types of thinking and how each type affects the critical thinking process. Creative thinking is defined as taking the elements presented during a problem while planning, and utilizing them to the best of your ability. Creativity is bringing in something which did not exist before. Creative thinking is using your thoughts to change the way that someone else looks at something...
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...CREATIVITY THE WALK TO INNOVATIVE SUCCES! Abstract This paper is an analytical review about the possible relation between physical activity and creativity. Relative new research studies show promising results for a possible positive relationship between walking or standing meetings and increased levels of creativity at the workplace. By creating a conceptual graph and discussing several models, the potential role of physical activity in the creativity process is shown and the important role of the organisational environment. Although future research is clearly needed, stimulating physical activity might be a useful new management practice to enhance creativity in companies. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management Paper Introduction Artists, musicians, writers, have used body movement to help overcome mental blocks and lack of inspiration. Also, historical figures like Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Charles Darwin, frequently walked to find solutions for deeper questions and thoughts (Loehle, 1990). For example, Harry s. Truman woke up at five in the morning for a ‘vigorous’ walk of a mile or two, wearing a business suit and tie. More modern methods are also used by Steve Jobs who is well known for his walking meetings and Mark Zuckerberg who has also been holding meetings on foot. It seems that they all intuitively knew that physical activity may have helped them to find solutions or even enhance creative thinking. The traditional psychological approach to creativity...
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...108 respondents have been surveyed. Findings from descriptive statistics reveal that the perceptions of three categories respondents are different about the various aspects of cosmetic accounting .It also shows the opinions of internal auditors, external auditors and accountants raised some concerns as to whether these circumstances will last. 3 Field of Research: Accounting. Keywords: Cosmetic Accounting, Accountants. External Auditor, Internal Auditor, 1. Introduction Creative accounting is referred to also as income smoothing, earnings management, earnings smoothing, financial engineering and cosmetic accounting. The preferred term in the USA, and consequently in most of the literature on the subject is „earnings management‟, but in Europe the preferred term is „creative accounting‟ and so this is the term that will be used in this paper. It should be recognized that some accounting manipulation involves primarily balance sheet rather than earnings management. Definitions of creative accounting vary, and include „Is the deliberate dampening of fluctuations about “some level of earnings considered being normal for the firm” (Barnea et al. 1976). „Is any action on the part of management which affects reported income and which provides no true economic advantage to the organization and may in...
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...Argumentative Paper “People with innovative and cutting-edge ideas have likely spent much of their lives swimming against the tide”(In-Text Citation Here#1).This means that they have had to go against what they have been told and have gone against the set “lesson plan” that the teacher has set(In-Text Citation Here #1). They have questioned and worked around to find every possible path of learning that they can. They have taken their mistakes as a way of learning rather than taking it as being unsuccessful(In-Text Citation Here#3).School’s give many opportunities to be creative, but they have so many rules that create brain blocks and don’t allow you to use your creative ideas. Children, such as kindergarteners, had a tremendous creativity drop in the early 1990’s. Studies...
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...Paper work : http://creativeoverflow.net/how-to-enhance-creativity-in-school-children/ Most people when they hear the word creativity will instantly think of art. Most of pople didn’t understand the meaning of creativity. Being creative is about finding innovative ways to solve problems, generating new ideas and finding ways to make things better to name a few. Research has shown that enhancing student creativity may offer benefits academically, developmentally and emotionally. Behind every activty in the school, there is a hidden creativity that indirectly train the children to think creatively. There are so many activities that can improve creativity, for example : * Word Games Word games is very a good way to encourage creative thinking for the childern. With this games, the childern can make a connections between different words. * Visual Thinking Games This game uses visual thinking. This game is useful to enhance children's imagination. We just need an abstract picture, then show the picture to childern. Let them tell you what they see. From here we will know from which side they saw. Have them look at it from all different angles and perspectives. There’s no judgement from this games. * Drawing Games We could hand out sheets of paper with a squiggly line drawn on it. The students could use this as a starting point to make their own drawing. After that, they can discuss with other how they came up with their own picture. If you are a teacher, we can...
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...Creativity In Schools: A Maltese Perspective Paper presented during the First International Conference on Strategic Innovation and Future Creation, Malta, March 2009 Shirley Pulis Xerxen 1 The knowledge and skills needed in the future may not even be known at the time a person attends school or university. As a result, these institutions cannot limit themselves to the transmission of set contents, techniques and values, since these will soon be useless or even detrimental to living a full life. (Cropley, 2006, p. 136)1 Introduction In this paper I attempt to provide some insight about the teaching of thinking and creativity in schools by drawing parallels between what is found on this subject in the literature, my experience as a teacher of thinking skills in Primary schools in Maltai and from findings that emerge from a questionnaire that I conducted with Maltese Primary and Secondary school teachers to analyse their perceptions on the teaching and learning of creativity, compatible with the educational values of current pedagogical practices. Facing today’s challenges Educators are being increasingly faced with the ever-growing call for entrepreneurial citizens who value openness, diversity and creativity, who are able to design the future in all areas of their life. This demands that a school’s curriculum must be open and flexible enough to accommodate these new perspectives. This paper focuses on the need for a holistic approach to creativity in education, an...
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...108 respondents have been surveyed. Findings from descriptive statistics reveal that the perceptions of three categories respondents are different about the various aspects of cosmetic accounting .It also shows the opinions of internal auditors, external auditors and accountants raised some concerns as to whether these circumstances will last. 3 Field of Research: Accounting. Keywords: Cosmetic Accounting, Accountants. External Auditor, Internal Auditor, 1. Introduction Creative accounting is referred to also as income smoothing, earnings management, earnings smoothing, financial engineering and cosmetic accounting. The preferred term in the USA, and consequently in most of the literature on the subject is „earnings management‟, but in Europe the preferred term is „creative accounting‟ and so this is the term that will be used in this paper. It should be recognized that some accounting manipulation involves primarily balance sheet rather than earnings management. Definitions of creative accounting vary, and include „Is the deliberate dampening of fluctuations about “some level of earnings considered being normal for the firm” (Barnea et al. 1976). „Is any action on the part of management which affects reported income and which provides no true economic advantage to the organization and may in...
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...EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE CREATIVITY Abstract: This paper is organized as follows. First we explain the theory on psychological empowerment and various leadership theories to develop a relationship between empowering leadership and employee creativity. Secondly it provides case studies to support the empowerment theories. We argue that the use positive psychology, specifically empowering leadership, contributes to employee success within an organization. The paper cites research by various highly esteemed professors and the primary sources were various internet articles, journals and websites. Introduction The use of positive psychology, originally proposed by Martin Seligman in his 1998 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association, has been garnering support in recent studies. It focuses not on why people fail, but rather why they flourish and excel. Recent studies have shown that Empowering Leadership can affect employee creativity. By use of the word “creativity” we refer to the “out of the box’ ideas used in production and problem solving. Professor Alex Linley of the University of Leicester maintained that part of the empowering process calls for the leader to delegate authority which empowers the employee to make decisions and implement actions without direct supervision. This expression of confidence in the employee results in developing the employees feeling of self-efficacy which manifest “in four cognitions: meaning, competence...
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...achievement are orientated primarily toward assessing memory skills, and secondarily, toward assessing analytical skills. They rarely tap creative or practical skills in any meaningful way. However, prospective students from alternative backgrounds may have developed creative and practical skills to a greater extent than they have developed analytical ones. Particularly if their upbringing has been under difficult circumstances, being creative has become a prerequisite for survival. Conventional assessments of intelligence are not relevant in a multicultural context and fail to include other integral parts of intelligence in order to represent the whole of intelligence.( Thus, it is incumbent on researchers to develop broader predictive frameworks that take into account the diversity of skills likely to be found in populations.This paper describes the design and implementation of such a broader predictive framework at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), based on the Triarchic Theory of Intellectual Abilities (Sternberg, 1985, 1996) and the Theory of Mental Self-Government (1997a). The hypothesis of this underlying research is that triarchic abilities, thinking styles, biographical information and past achievement will predict academic performance beyond the prediction provided by assessments of academic abilities. The paper concludes with research findings, conclusions and recommendations for further...
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...Faraday Discussions Cite this: Faraday Discuss., 2015, 183, 327 Open Access Article. Published on 11 June 2015. Downloaded on 15/12/2015 18:00:51. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. PAPER View Article Online View Journal | View Issue Investigating public perceptions of carbon dioxide utilisation (CDU) technology: a mixed methods study† C. R. Jones,*ac D. Kaklamanou,b W. M. Stuttard,a R. L. Radforda and J. Burleya Received 5th May 2015, Accepted 10th June 2015 DOI: 10.1039/c5fd00063g Carbon dioxide utilisation (CDU) technologies hold promise for helping to limit atmospheric releases of CO2 while generating saleable products. However, while there is growing investment in the research and development required to bring CDU to the market, to date there has been very little systematic research into public perceptions of the technology. The current research reports upon the findings of a series of six qualitative focus groups (and an associated questionnaire) held with members of the UK public in order to discuss the perceived benefits and risks of CDU technology. The findings reveal that public awareness of CDU is currently very low and that there is a desire to learn more about the technology. While our participants did, on average, appear to develop an overall positive attitude towards CDU, this attitude was tentative and was associated with a number of caveats. The implications for the findings in terms ...
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...An analysis of research and literature on CREATIVITY IN EDUCATION Report prepared for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority by Anna Craft March 2001 2 Contents Page Numbers 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Aims and purposes 1.2 Approach taken and areas covered 4 2.0 A summary of the research and literature on creativity 2.1 Historical overview 2.2 The early part of the twentieth century 2.3 More recent directions in creativity research 2.4 Lines of study stemming from the 1950s 2.4.1 Personality 2.4.2 Cognition 2.4.3 Ways to stimulate creativity 2.4.4 Creativity and social systems 2.5 Background to creativity in education 2.6 Broader claims for creativity in the curriculum 5-12 3.0 What do we mean by creativity? 3.1 Definitions or descriptions of creativity 3.2 High creativity 3.3 Ordinary, or ‘democratic’ creativity 13-15 4.0 The development of creativity in education 4.1 Research into the development of creativity in education 4.1.1 Comprehensive approaches 4.1.2 Educational approaches 4.1.3 Psychodynamic approaches 4.1.4 Humanistic approaches 4.1.5 Behaviourist approaches 4.2 Teaching approaches to developing creativity 4.2.1 ‘Creative cycle’ approaches 4.2.2 Single-strategy approaches 4.2.3 Multi-strategy approaches 4.2.4 System approaches 4.2.5 Overall pedagogic criteria approaches 16-22 3 5.0 Assessment and creativity 5.1 Recording and assessing creativity 23-24 6.0 Conclusions and key findings 6.1 High and democratic creativity ...
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...learning through play and creative arts Reem 2013 Active learning through play and creative arts Play and creative arts are important aspects of children’s learning that are being used in kindergartens. This action research project explores the using of play and creative arts in a kindergarten classroom. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and analyze how play and creative arts activities enhance and support children’s learning in literacy and numeracy lessons. Qualitative methods were used to gain data that reflect on the implementation of play and creative arts strategies and activities in teaching and the interpretation collected from participants. The three types of tools that used to collect data are observations, interviews and a reflective journal to ensure validity of results. After analyzing the data, two interrelated themes emerged. The first theme highlights the benefits of play and creative arts in early childhood. The second theme shows the benefits of using them can support literacy and numeracy development. Consequently play and creative arts seems to promote development in children’s learning processes and they also offer the learners’ confidence in their learning. To conclude, this study shows that play and creative arts may have positive effect in improving the children’s overall performance and attitudes. Play and creative arts are important aspects of children’s learning that are being used in kindergartens. This action research project explores the...
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...Strategy and non-technological innovation Assignment for part-time MBA Competitive Strategies, week 6 October 4, 2012 This paper describes the consequences of a non-technical innovation for the strategy of a firm that operates in cultural industry. The example chosen is that of the company Stage Entertainment. In the first part of this paper we will provide a brief history of Stage Entertainment, single out two non-technological innovations and discuss how these innovations have affected the strategic behavious of Stage Entertainment. In the second part we will discuss both the horizontal and vertical processes Stage Entertainment is involved in and argue why one of these should be considered more important to Stage Entertainment’s overall sustainable competitive advantage. Stage Entertainment is the brainchild of the Dutch creative entrepreneur Joop van den Ende (born 1942). Stage Entertainment is the result of a merger of several other entertainment companies owned and run by Van den Ende and was incorporated in 1999. It has seen rapid international expansion and is now active in 9 countries, employing 4000 people. The turnover is €600 million (Nispen, M. van, Jaekele S. and Charrington, J, 2009). Van den Ende describes the strategy of Stage Entertainment as a strategy consisting of three elements (Nispen et al 2009): 1. Venues: programming and managing a network of venues across Europe (i.e. theatres) 2. Productions: presenting a wide range of existing...
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