COURSE CODE: COMMUNICATION SKILLS 1 COURSE DESCRIPTION: Communication Skills in English I is a course designed to develop communicative skills necessary for academic study at the university level. Effective communication skills are essential for effective teaching and learning as well as coping with different life situations. It will focus on improving your ability to speak and to understand spoken English through a variety of listening‚ pronunciation‚ and speaking activities. Active participation
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Interpretation by Arkadiy Kurakin The story of Herbert Ernest Bates "The Beauty of the Dead". The story is a unit of literary fiction. The author uses different expressive means and stylistic devices to show the reader the idea of the story‚ such as epithets‚ metaphor‚ similar‚ oxymoron‚ irony‚ hyperbola‚ understatement‚ etc. The protagonist of this story is Mr. Grimshaw. This is a complex character‚ reticent‚ gloomy. His surname is rather significant. The adjective “grim" means harsh‚ merciless
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worked at Microsoft‚ his employment with Microsoft beginning with an “agreement with Microsoft contain[ing] a limited covenant not to compete” (Ferrera‚ p. 320) for one year after leaving Microsoft. The agreement also contained a forum selection clause that if any litigation came about after his employment‚ it would be in Washington state. Dr. Lee was privy to “confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets” (Pagnattaro‚ 2007). By 2005 while on sabbatical‚ “Lee approached Google about
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IntroductionPresupposition is originated in the field of philosophy and it was proposed by German philosopher Ferge in 1892. In the 1960s‚ presupposition entered the area of linguistics and became a significant concept in semantics. Later in the 1970s‚ Keenan introduced presupposition to the pragmatics to describe a relation between a speaker and the appropriateness of a sentence in a context (Levinson: 177). Hence‚ presupposition can be distinguished into two categories: semantic presupposition
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Not To Use: 1) Being‚ to be (Both are considered to be passive) 2) Unnecessary ‘ing’ words should be removed‚ wherever possible. 3) Passive voice as far as possible e.g. His approach is different from the approach used by any other tenor is passive and hence incorrect on GMAT The correct sentence is His approach is different from the approach of any other tenor 4) Any Sentence construction with ‘preposition + noun + participle’ e.g. With
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Antithesis Juxtaposition Omission asyndeton ellipsis Parallelism Polysyndeton Repetition anadiplosis anaphora epanalepsis epistrophe Rhetorical Fragment Rhetorical Question Analysis of a Text Meaning and Effect related to parts of speech‚ phrases‚ clauses‚ sentences‚ and syntax Rhetorical Analysis Focused on Syntax Evaluate Create Composition Types (modes) Expository analytical cause/effect classification definition Structural Elements Introduction thesis Body use of commentary use of evidence
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Rodriguez 1 Isabel Rodriguez Mrs. Wingert‚ Mr. Hasse AS English Language Arts‚ AS American History February 23‚ 2015 Vegucated “The question is not ‘can they reason?’ nor ‘can they talk?’‚ but ‘can they suffer?’” (Peter Singer) Though we have practiced Animal Agriculture for many years‚ it is no longer like Old McDonald’s farm‚ the one we were told about as children It has now grown to industrial factory farms that mass kill animals that have been abused to the point of never really living their
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1. Which of the following is a run-on sentence? A. The house was owned by the mayor. B. Mike joined the army‚ and he became more disciplined during the training. C. Karen’s uncle arrives tomorrow she wants to see him. D. We like to take a walk after dinner. 2. Which sentence uses correct parallel construction? A. The painter wore glasses‚ gloves‚ and boots. B. Most people enjoy ice cream and the plant grows. C. You can either talk to the manager about your problem or writing a letter
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This was the first test of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Brannen 672). Article 1‚ Section 8‚ of the Constitution‚ known as the Commerce Clause allowed them to regulate all the interstate commerce (Brannen 673). The Commerce Clause gave the United States the right to regulate who could stay at the hotel (Hall 369). The Court ruled that under the Commerce Clause and Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Moreton Rolleston Jr. was found guilty (Brannen 672). The Court demanded that Rolleston Jr.
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Chapter 4 Planning Business Messages UNDERSTANDING THE THREE-STEP WRITING PROCESS Business professionals undertake a wide variety of communication tasks everyday‚ many in the form of written messages. To compete for an audience’s attention‚ the writer must produce messages that are purposeful‚ audience-centered‚ and concise. An effective method for producing written messages is to view writing as a three-step process: planning‚ writing‚ and completing. Planning‚ the first step‚ entails first
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