...UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I New or Used Car My daughter just got her driver’s license when she turned 18 years old now that she’s going to college and she is working a part time job, we are looking into different options of buying her either a new car or used car. We want to find the best car for her. Some of the factors we are considering are gas mileage, car repair bills, the reputation of the different dealerships, and would she be better off in a new car or a used car. We have fights everyday over to the use of my truck, if we were to get her a car of her own there would be no more fights. Regardless of what option we choose, new or used, it would still be new to her and she will be very happy about getting it. When she’s driving back and forth to school she is putting a lot of miles on a car. She has to go to school about twice a day for a short period of time. When she’s working, that’s not as bad as its, less than 2 minutes from our home. So on a normal day she starts outgoing to school, back home, where she does homework for about an hour, and then to work for 2 hours. After she’s done working she comes home and gets ready to go back to school for two more hours. With all the driving she does, we want to make sure she gets a car with good fuel performance. That way she’s not using all of her pay check to pay for gas. I don’t want her to buy a car and have to invest hundreds to thousands of dollars into fixing the car due to how much she has to drive...
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...TEAM COMPOSITION: IMPACT OF HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY INTRODUCTION A team is a group which has a common goal or common objective. Unlike groups, a team focuses on their collective outcome. Usually, teams have members with higher skills which help them in maximizing their strengths and minimizing their weaknesses accordingly. Every member in the team need to understand how to help other team members to build unity amongst them. Unity and understanding create a sense of responsibility among team members to participate and generate greater performance to attain their main objective. There are certain differences which arise due to instability in the team or its members. These instabilities can be referred to as ego, jealousy between the team members and differences due to incapability in work capacity etc. Team work effectiveness does not come automatically. Teams have to be set up correctly in order to determine the goals. Proper team member selection is very important so as to ensure every member is focused and dedicated towards their target. Hence, mutual commitment is required in order to achieve the objective by all members of a team. To get the work done by team members, team composition must be present. Team composition relates to the overall mixture of characteristics among the members in a team. They interact interdependently to achieve their main objective. To achieve a common goal, performance of every team member must be optimum. Team composition is combined with...
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...Philippine Normal University The National Center for Teacher Education College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH CONCEPT PAPER For Seminar Paper By JUVELLE S. CRISTOBAL MAT – ELA June 16, 2012 1st Semester, 2012-2013 A. Title B. Introduction * Rationale * Research Questions C. Review of Related Literature * Foreign References and Related Studies * Local Context and Related Studies D. Methodology * Respondents * Data Gathering Procedure * Research Design * Data Analysis E. Timetable for Research F. References TITLE A Syntactic and Comparative Analysis of Phrase Structure Rules Used in the Written Diagnostic and Term Composition of Freshmen Computer Secretarial Students in Bulacan Polytechnic College (Obando Campus) INTRODUCTION Rationale It is said that language learning is the product of formal instruction and it comprises a conscious process which results in conscious knowledge ‘about’ the language, for example knowledge of grammar rules. Although ‘language learning’ is considered less important than language acquisition, most of what is learned has been coming from the formal teaching in school. It is also said that the acquisition of grammatical structures follows a ‘natural order’ which is predictable. For a given language, some grammatical structures tend to be acquired early while others late. It can be derived that language learning could also be predictable and that grammatical structures...
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...of nature. The wonders of modern science are not fully illustrated in a short composition. Electricity is the first wonder of modern science. It is the first driving force of modern civilization. Electric-power is used for various purposes. Without it, the advancement of modern science is Impossible. Computer is a fairly recent invention. It has now become an essential part of modern life. It is often contribution of modern science. There is hardly any sector in our life where we do not use computer. In agricultural, medical, educational, communication and transportation sectors, we have been able to attain great achievements with the help of computer. Science has done miracle in the field of medical science. It has enabled men to fight diseases effectively. In our time everyone hopes to live longer than his forefathers Biopsy and Ultrasonography, E.C.G, Ultra-Violet Ray, X-Ray and Penicillin are the wonders of modern science in the field of medical science. Besides, there are many other inventions of modern science against many other fatal diseases. Science has created wonders in the fields of communication. Telephone, telex, fax, wireless, telegram, E-mail etc. are great wonders. They have brought the world closer to us. We can send news from one corner o to another of the world within a few seconds. Television, radio, face book, internet etc. are the main sources of mass communication as well as recreation. Television and radio are the popular mediums of communicating...
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...Cierra Kidd Adv. Comp/ 3rd Hr Ms. Huter 30 November 2011 Strengths and Weaknesses Writing is the dominant foundation upon which most communication is based. Efficient writing is used to convey distinct information or ideas. Great care is essential to ensure that a message is interpreted correctly by the intended audience. Timing, grammar, vocabulary, and other writing skills are vital techniques to master. Planning for college and a career demands consideration of these skills. Advanced composition will assist in reaching my goals of utilizing current strengths, overcoming specific weaknesses, and preparing for a college career. Writers often develop personal strengths. Personally, it is easy to be creative, persuasive, informative, and precise. Creative writing is used to express the writer’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Persuasive writing may be expressed by convincing readers of the writer’s viewpoint. Informative writings are used to familiarize the reader with the topic at hand. Various people often face the challenge of remaining focused when writing. Generally it is easy for me to stay focused and proceed with the correct topic. Writers often cultivate weaknesses when writing. Individually, it is difficult to grasp the concept of proper punctuation, extended vocabulary, unwanted repetitiveness, and accurate grammar. Proper punctuation is very important...
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...argue that my team was particularly effective as a result of composition, decision-making ability and alignment with rewards. Our effectiveness could however have been improved by better ease of communication, tighter boundary management and more attention paid to maintenance behaviours. Through this task I have learnt that an effective team requires focus on many other factors than merely the task alone. Using the Ancona Team Effectiveness Model, effectiveness is measured by four components; performance, member satisfaction, team learning and outsider satisfaction (Ancona et al. p13) (example from lit: why is this relevant). My team was effective in the member satisfaction component (example from lit); prior to this assignment we had never met but we shared a similar work ethic and there was mutual trust that all individual tasks were completed by our specified deadline. (individual needs: work was shared evenly and all had high hopes for grade & primary example.) My team was also effective within the performance component (example from lit), with particular regard to timeliness and efficiency. (primary example). The extent of the groups’ effectiveness affected by a number of underlying factors, both positively and negatively. Firstly I will discuss those factors that most positively affected the group’s effectiveness with emphasis placed on the contextual facilitators of composition and rewards. Composition of the group is most commonly explored and rated using Belbin’s...
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...Thus, in the words of Joseph Kerman and Alan Tyson, "Beethoven appears to have been reaching for a more direct and intimate mode of communication." Kerman and Tyson claim that this search for direct human communication was "in the best early Romantic spirit." Both classical and romantic elements can be seen in Beethoven's expanded use of musical form. Beethoven began his career as a classical composer, and the forms of classical music remained with him throughout his life. However, in his later compositions, Beethoven also began experimenting with the expansion of those forms. The basis for this experimentation was Beethoven's powerful individualism. Thus, his works indicate that "there is a will to use the language to his advantage, to bend the form to his personal design." Mies points out that Beethoven's compositions were often longer than the average classical composition. As a result, Beethoven was constantly seeking innovations in the classical form in order to "avoid boredom and longwindedness." He continued to use the classical forms that he had learned in his youth; however, he extended and enriched those forms in a new and exciting way. In the words of Mies, "this step by step expansion of old resources and the employment of new ones set the seal on Beethoven's unique development." This expansion of traditional forms also shows how Beethoven was a pivot between the earlier classical style and the later romantic style. One of the classical forms that Beethoven...
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...Gastric Cancer COM/172 - ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION II August 22nd, 2012 JULIA REEVES Gastric Cancer Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States next to heart disease. Cancer is not only a disease but it is a general term for many different types of disease. It is a disease from which abnormal cells are divided without control and then invade into other tissues within the body. Cancer begin in cells, the body’s basic unit of life. Cells grow, divide, and produce to make more cells for the body to remain healthy and productive. When cells are damaged or old, they die and become replaced by new cells. However, sometimes the process does not carry on properly and cells that should die do not but, instead they divide uncontrollably and become extra cells. These cells form into a mass of tissue, known as a tumor, which is often spread through the blood and lymph systems. As the cardia tumors continue to increase and grow, the gastric cancer decreases. There are over one hundred different types of cancer including breast, lung, prostate, colon, bone, lymphoma, brain, skin, thyroid, and pancreas. Among the different types of cancer there are many categories of cancer, which are are grouped into carcinoma, sarcoma, leukemia, central nervous system cancer and lymphoma and myeloma. Cancer has grown to become one of the world’s most common killers annually. Cancer has a high mortality...
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...essay is a paper, which does not have a reservoir of definitive information as in the case of general studies. All this constitutes a challenge. It is vital to understand that an essay is a reflection of the personality - ideas, views, analysis, assessments and inferences, values, attitude, aptitude, orientation and communication (written) abilities, all the attributes that are wanted by UPSC in an aspirant. An essay is considered a complete composition. The essentials of essay writing would be the format (framework, structure), information (content, substance), language (expression, presentation), and logic (analysis and information). The conventional design of looking at essay writing in terms of the introduction, body and conclusion is only the format. Although, this is fundamental to essay writing, the concept of an essay is quite intricate. An essay is expected to be a topical text that is self-explanatory and comprehensive, concise, composite and unambiguous, informative and logical. For every effective composition one should ideally begin with clarifying the purpose of the composition to oneself. This is true about all written and spoken communication. It's best that this principle be applied to essay writing. Although, the question cues that are recommended at this point may appear archaic, they are useful and often overlooked. At every critical juncture, while writing a topical text all applicable queries must be asked to oneself about the issue in question,...
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...Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis Jane Mathison Fife The attraction of Facebook is a puzzle to many people over the age of thirtyfive, and that includes most college faculty. Yet students confess to spending significant amounts of time on Facebook, sometimes hours a day. If you teach in a computer classroom, you have probably observed students using Facebook when you walk in the room. Literacy practices that fall outside the realm of traditional academic writing, like Facebook, can easily be seen as a threat to print literacy by teachers, especially when they sneak into the classroom uninvited as students check their Facebook profiles instead of participating in class discussions and activities. This common reaction reflects James King and David O’Brien’s (2002: 42) characterization of the dichotomy teachers often perceive between school and nonschool literacy activities (although they are not referring to Facebook specifically): “From teachers’ perspectives, all of these presumably pleasurable experiences with multimedia detract from students’ engagement with their real work. Within the classroom economy technology work is time off task; it is classified as a sort of leisure recreational activity.” This dichotomy can be broken down, though; students’ enthusiasm for and immersion in these nonacademic literacies can be used to complement their learning of critical inquiry and traditional academic concepts like rhetorical analysis. Although they read these texts daily...
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...thinking correctly. The first thing is the State Exam. It’s an imminent threat which we should get rid of as soon as possible though it seems that this exam is way too profitable for some people in the higher authority and they won’t let us decide whether we need it or not. In past pupils would write a composition at their graduation exam. And I was told that it was almost impossible to cheat or write a good composition without reading a book that is mentioned in the topic of the composition. And what do we have now? We are writing a test, just think of it – a test, a very primitive test. And yes, also at the end of the test we are to write a composition of 180 words or so. But it’s nothing. One doesn’t have to read books to write this composition, one doesn’t have to amaze people by their individual style. All that a pupil needs is to write short simple sentences not to make mistakes. Profound thoughts are not required. One just have to state the content of a text and give a short comment on it to prove an idea if one agrees with it or prove the contrary if one doesn’t agree. The mind is not developing; it seems like a template – if you managed to write one good composition, you would be able to write thousands of them. The next thing is the constant and rapid development of technologies. How did people communicate in past at a distance? They would write letters to each other. And they paid lots of attention to the way they wrote, to their style, grammar, syntax. Their letters...
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...suppliers | Preference to A-one | Can opt for any supplier | No confidence in A-one | Preference to A-one given it proves its quality | | | 450 supply by A-one | | | | | | Whole demand is 3000 | | whole demand is 500 tonnes per year | | Whole demand is 6500 tonnes/year | | Quality conscious | Quality conscious | Quality conscious | Quality conscious | Quality conscious | Not quality conscious | Constant composition of glucose in products | No constant composition | Constant Composition | Constant composition | Constant composition | No Constant composition | | Complaints of above company:- | Complaints of above company:- | Complaints of above company:- | | | General concerns of company | Bad drums(containers) | Faulted on delivery | Hazy liquid glucose | Advantage | constraints related to liquid glucose | Too much expenditure in sales administration | Summer leakage | Quality problems | | Packing and transportation contributed to revenue | High competition | High price to customers | No proper communication | Need MS drums not plastic drums | | | Regional...
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...Composition Pedagogy, Race, and the African American Student: An Annotated Bibliography Bernstein, Susan Naomi. “Writing and White Privilege: Beyond Basic Skills.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.1 (2004): 128-31. Evaluating the relationship between white, middle-class privilege and both standardized testing and standard conventions of writing, Bernstein offers a classroom strategy for underprivileged students (either from racial or class position or both) to counter the negative effects of academic standards in relegating them to remedial positions in order to acquire basic writing skills before being granted access to the university at large. Encouraging her students to explore their previous educational experiences related to both testing and writing through a workshop format, as well as to evaluate their own imaginative writing and the reading of creative texts, Bernstein found that these can be used as means of critical resistance to their remedial designations. Ultimately, though, she concludes that it is not the student’s responsibility alone to resist relegation but also educators as well, who need to address and seek to resolve the conditions that produce “basic writers” even before their arrival at the university, and this, according to the author, will produce an awareness and restructuring of white privilege in determining academic success. Campbell, Kermit E. “ ‘Real Niggaz’s Don’t Die’: African...
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...four critical thinking objectives. As mentioned throughout the course, you can use our six-step process whenever you are approaching a problem to find a solution. Specifically, your Capella assignments are excellent problems to solve using the six steps. You have practiced this for assignments in units 3–7. Now for this assignment, reflect on the Critical Thinking Six Steps that you used while completing your drafted plan, which was your individual team contribution posted in your team’s Unit 8 discussion topic. Further, you will see that each step is one criteria on the scoring guide. Refer to the Critical Thinking Process study in Unit 3 as needed. Use this template by completing the items requested on it, which will guide the composition needed for your assignment. Have fun and be sure to submit by Sunday of week 8 to assure you can be successful in the Unit 9 peer review and revising your plan. Note that this is the final assignment that has the six steps of critical thinking integrated into the instructions. You are now to be assessed on your mastery of explaining your reflection about using the six steps. Rationale: Once you have drafted your individual contribution (drafted plan) for Unit 8, you have finished the new...
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...Email etiquette is the proper and acceptable behaviour expected from an email sender. It is primarily concerned with matters of courtesy in email communications. When you use the right email etiquette it shows professionalism and efficiency. When you use the wrong email etiquette it gives a bad impression to the recipient and its shows a lack of care and respect. Email etiquette is important because our correspondence says a lot about us and it gives an instant impression to the person receiving the mail. There are certain things that are acceptable when writing to another party and certain things that are simply not. Another reason why it is important is because I want to make sure I come across as respectful, friendly, and approachable. I don't want to sound curt or demanding, back to impressions, I don’t want to give the wrong ones from the wording of our email. In the book Email Etiquette it is stated that there are 8 ways to write great email which are; 1. Clearly identify the subject matter of the email 2. Be as concise as possible 3. Check your spelling and punctuation 4. Use an appropriate style 5. Request the action or information you need. 6. Explain how urgent your message is. 7. Use attachments to provide detail 8. Include further contact details If you follow the 8 above steps you’re on your way to writing an effective email which will be clear, professional and get your desired message across to the recipient. When you use the proper etiquette...
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