Department of Lifelong Learning: Study Skills Series Note taking skills - from lectures and readings Introduction When you are at university‚ the sheer amount of information that is delivered to you can be daunting and confusing. You may even think that you have to copy down everything you hear or read. When you are at a face-to -face lecture it is sometimes difficult to tell what is important and what is not. Distance learning students might feel the need to copy out fact after fact from
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Earthquakes: Why do some places suffer more than others? Whilst earthquakes are perhaps the most frequently occurring natural hazard‚ their impact on people‚ property and communities varies enormously from one place to another. It is possible to identify a number of factors that cause some places to suffer more than others. Whilst some are large scale and are to do with tectonic location‚ others are decided at a much more local scale‚ and relate to building design and levels of preparedness. Perhaps
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has shown that you forget up to 90% of what you’ve learned in less than a week (Sid Savara‚ 2007). In order to understand and comprehend what is being taught one must take notes and only write down the important information given. Studies show that having important information inside notes gives the learner a 34% chance in being remembered (Longman‚ D. & Atkins ‚ R.‚ 1991). This essay will give a couple of different ways of taking notes and learning new material. In order to learn one must simply
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To understand issue of XP (Extreme Programming) as a methodology is important to mention some of it´s background. XP came to the picture in 1999 in Kent Beck´s book named Extreme Programming Explained. The book was originally aimed to programmers but the Extreme methodology reached others areas as well. XP as a methodology in the early 2000 gained a lot of followers as a new outlook of doing programming and systems design. But this new methodology also arose questions about its effectiveness and
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46 The McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Number 1 David Williams E xtreme competition Extreme competition The forces of globalization‚ technology‚ and economic liberalization are combining to make life harder than ever for established companies. William I. Huyett and S. Patrick Viguerie Jack Welch once said that the 1980s would be a “white-knuckle” decade of intensifying industrial competition—and that the 1990s would be tougher still. Despite history’s greatest bull market‚ rising
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Courtney Thomas Ms. Klein Soci 1 Jul1‚ 2011 Breaking the Norm Society is a box and in this box are the normal things that people do and the values that people believe in and different sanctions. Different cultures have different values that they abide by and different norms. What I do here in the California may not be normal to the way they do things in Florida or any other country. When learning people you learned about that person values and standards that they go by. Every culture has
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and Cultural Norms of Apple October 7‚ 2010 Diversity and Cultural of Apple As our society continues to evolve‚ technology has created an outbreak of shortcuts for humans to make use of each day. As our ancestors has left us with such creations as electricity‚ the telephone‚ transportation and much more‚ geniuses of today’s world has taken society to another level. The technology that we use today allows us to do so much although we are physically
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described as a body of individuals living as members of a community’ (Oxford Dictionary‚ second edition). To define society‚ the expression‚ individual‚ has to be used and therefore this could suggest that one cannot survive without the other‚ rather like the chicken and the egg scenario; which came first? Durkheim‚ a sociological posivist‚ believed that society was the creator of individualism and to prove this‚ he utilised and investigated into the reasons why individuals committed suicide; whether
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how things are presented to us in our social environments. Think about the things we get from teachers‚ family‚ television‚ movies‚ music‚ and even casual social interaction that influence us to behave in a certain way. Not only in telling us what to buy‚ but telling us how to act. These are the norms we are taught to follow. Norms are social rules which we are taught by society to adhere. Some are laws‚ like killing and stealing‚ and some are just socially regulated. More severe norm violations
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Social norms are rules of certain kind of behavior that society uses to evaluate the population and provides normalcy. When it comes to responding to the breaking of social norms people have different ways to cope or react to it. Some reactions can be pleasant‚ some could be horrible or even judgmental. Some people believe breaking a social norm could be needed to help govern or control the society. On the other hand others believe breaking social norms are un-normal and that no one should break
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