Creative use of Techniques usually Associated with Fiction In both the two articles, the authors employ creative nonfiction to discuss the death of Aiyana and the rape of Officer Blumer. The situations in both the articles are real occurrence, but the storyline appears as an imaginary plot. Ultimately, the two essays convey the information in a way that makes it appear as fiction. The paper seeks to identify the creative use of techniques usually associated with fiction that are involved in the story
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Internal Accountant’s Report to Management | |Accountant | Memo To: Management From: Internal Accountant Date: 10/8/2011 Re: Government Bid Occupational fraud is defined as the use of a person’s job for individual enrichment through the purposeful mishandling or misapplication of his or her employer’s capital or assets (Wells
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How to Write A Report Reports consist of the following elements: Order in Report | Order Written | Executive reads | 1. Executive Summary | 6 | Always | 1. Contents | 7 | N/A | 1. Introduction | 1 (Unless academic Report) | Sometimes | 1. Findings (Main Body) | 3 | If interested in research | 1. Conclusions | 4 | If surprised… | 1. Recommendations | 5 | Nearly always | 1. Bibliography / sources | 2 Write as you research | If report shows area that needs further
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CHAP TER Separating Ideas and Shaping Content Writing Paragraphs 1. PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, TONE, AND CONTENT L E A R N I N G 1. 2. 3. 4. 6 O B J E C T I V E S Identify the differences between summary, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation paragraphs Identify the content in writing paragraphs Demonstrate how audience and tone influence content Apply purpose, audience, tone, and content to a specific assignment Imagine reading a poorly written review of a movie that you would like to see
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Academic Writing I. Some Basic Rules: Academic English is more formal than the language used in everyday conversation or in emails, letters, magazines or most newspapers. It shouldn’t sound ‘chatty.’ It avoids slang and colloquialisms such as: ‘The writer is out of order when he suggests...’ ‘These findings need to be taken with a pinch of salt.’ ‘The argument was ‘a bit over the top.’ Your writing should be clear so that the reader can easily follow what you are trying to say. Do not
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her own knowledge or experience with the product, she needs to evaluate the two alternatives suitably. The two alternatives are:- 1. Creative Zen Stone Plus which costs $59.99 and is recommended by her boyfriend’s best friend. 2. The Rio Carbon 5 costing $49.99 suggested by the store salesman. The next step is to examine these alternatives. The Creative Zen player is more aesthetically pleasing to her. It has color options which include Kade’s favorite color blue. It is within her price range
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As a businessperson should it matter how we read and write? Why worry about reading strategies when we are crunching numbers and focusing on making a business excel, right? Wrong. “How to Read like a Writer”, an essay by Mike Bunn, explains to us how one’s reading and writing strategies can deepen your understanding of a piece of writing. Specifically strategies and techniques of reading like a writer. Not long after reading Bunn’s essay for the first time I was searching for articles concerning
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My name is Amanda Beckford I am a Poet and a Writer. I was born in Homerton Hospital in Hackney on the 15th of December 1987. I’ve lived in East London all my life. I went to three different Primary schools. I remember always finishing my work before the others, and then becoming bored and making trouble. Even now, I never sit still, I’m always multi-tasking. I didn’t speak perfect English but Jamaican patois, and being of mixed ethnicity seemed to cause conflict. I didn’t look or sound, like the
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Financial Reporting Practices and Ethical Standards Paper Ebony Washington HCS - 405 05/02/2011 Donna Pearson Financial Reporting Practices and Ethical Standards Paper Financial reporting is a process that been under a great deal of problems. It is one of the most important functions that an organization has to pay close attention to; it requires a higher code of ethical behavior. Ethical standards are a set principal that promotes values such as trust, good behavior fairness, and
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1. Be mindful of the three: language, spellings and grammar, and format. 2. Write simple, short sentences that you can manage to write without grammatical errors. As a thumb rule, if your sentence runs into the third line in MS Word, it is long and perhaps confounding. 3. Do run proper spell check before submitting any document to anyone. It is unprofessional and rather rude to submit documents with spellings mistakes. The reader will immediately lose confidence in your
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