Close Reading Close reading is an essential task that demonstrates key skills; it is used throughout the Language and Literature course. Specifically‚ it is used mostly in Part 4 (Detailed Study of Literature) where students complete an IOC (Individual Oral Commentary) on a text studied. Process Skills 1. Read the passage/extract 2. Reread it 3. Annotate for key areas 4. Plan a response 5. Write your response 6. Edit your response Understanding – show the teacher/examiners that you understand
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CASE 8-1 Mountain Bell Telephone Company Jim Martin‚ marketing research manager for Mountain Bell‚ studied the final research design for the hospital administrator study that had been prepared by Industrial Surveys‚ a marketing research firm in Denver. He realized that he needed to formulate some recommendations with respect to some very specific questions. Should individual personal interviewers be used as suggested by Industrial Surveys‚ or should a series of one to six focus-group interviews
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English 01A Silvia Plath’s The Bell Jar: A Book Review The Bell Jar is a semi-biographical novel of the life of Sylvia Plath‚ set in the 1950’s‚ the story follows the life of Esther Greenwood a college student from Massachusetts. Esther travels to New York with 11 other girls as guest editors for a magazine. In New York Esther battles with herself and social prejudices; she knows that she is in a seemingly ideal situation; however‚ she struggles with her ambitions of becoming a female writer in
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Close Reading There are those things in life that hardly take any time to become an expert at. Close Reading is not one of those things. Close reading can most simply be defined as the technique of taking a piece of writing piece by piece and hyper-analyzing every little bit of it. The concept may not seem too difficult and complex‚ however‚ most of the thinking behind it is metacognition. Metacognition is the word for thinking about the way you think. Both of these concepts are incredibly important
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Trust It’s the close friend who betrayed me and made me who I am today. Having your heart broken by someone you cared for‚ teaches you an important lesson. It has taught me to be careful on who I trust and to keep moving on in life. Even though this was a painful event‚ it has made me a stronger person. Losing someone you once cared for shouldn’t be seen negatively‚ it should be looked positively. This friendship I had was very special because I never had a close friend who I could tell everything
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a few of the mass shootings that took the United States by storm. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is considered a crisis and I will use the Life Cycle of a Crisis and Social Media and the Internet Effects of a Crisis to dissect this crisis in detail. The first ‘step’ in the life cycle of a crisis is the preconditions. This is the series of events
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that women participate in casual sex‚ but is this what they really desire? All signs point toward women desiring commitment‚ love‚ or romance. Young men in college‚ especially “frat stars” are known for preying on attractive young girls that they can hook up with. They find this advantageous to the standard dating. There is less pressure for the man. In dating‚ typically‚ the man must muster the courage to ask the girl to go on a date with him for fear of rejection. Once this hurdle is overcome‚ the
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bell hooks: “Seeing and Making Culture” Summary In the essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor”‚ hooks proposes a different perspective on issues regarding people of higher class compared to those of lower class. In doing so‚ she clarifies and illustrates assumptions made about the poor‚ how they are viewed in popular culture‚ and in the media. To further validate her points‚ she utilizes ideas that stem from her own personal experiences with poverty‚ as well as examples from pop
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So Much Water So Close to Home By Raymond Carver Raymond Carver 1939-1988 Raymond Carver (United States) is one of the world’s most respected writers of short fiction. The motto for his fiction might be: “I’ve seen some things.” “So Much Water” was adapted to a screen play by Australian Andrew Bovill and then directed in an Australian film by Ray Lawrence (“Jindabyne”). The Story Four buddies – Stuart‚ the husband of the narrator Claire; Gordon Johnson; Mel Dorn; and Vern Williams – encounter
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Juan Diego Ribadeneira Enrique Wong ENG 0100 14 April 2014 Close to the Edge The unscrupulous American writer Anais Nin once wrote that‚ “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one ’s courage.” (125). When it comes to difficult situations she’s right. If you find yourself in a complicated‚ nerve-wrecking scenario you’ll find out that your life can‚ literally‚ expand if you have the guts to overcome the circumstances. Having courage in life can sometimes be rewarded with unique sights‚ heart-filling
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