Final word count _______________ / 400 words minimum This writing sample fulfills the first writing assignment in the course. Instructions: According to The Little Seagull Handbook‚ “A descriptive writing provides specific details to show what something looks like—and perhaps how it sounds‚ feels‚ smells‚ and tastes” (Bullock‚ Brody‚ and Weinberg 23). Descriptive arguments should make a “clear dominant impression” (Bullock‚ Brody‚ and Weinberg 367) and should prove a point. To the
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Words to avoid in proposals Crutch words – used when writers don’t understand what to say We understand… Never use the word “understand” in a proposal‚ other than in a section heading. To say “we understand your requirements” obfuscates any understanding and is‚ by definition‚ an unsubstantiated claim. On the other hand‚ if you say something insightful about how you will fulfill the requirements‚ the reader will see that the bidder understands the requirements. Understanding should be demonstrated
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show you some of the unique Ribbons‚ Tabs and Groups of each application. If you have 2007 Office installed on your computer here are a couple of hints on how we’ll proceed. To open an application‚ Double click quickly on the application icon (Word‚ PowerPoint‚ Excel‚ etc.) on the Windows desktop. Or‚ click the Start button‚ in the lower left corner of the screen‚ then click All Programs‚ move the cursor over Microsoft Office and select the application you desire. In this tutorial‚ when we
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Promise – a creative response to ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ Teaching notes The aim of this task is to encourage students to write creatively using some of the ideas from ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ before reading the poem as a way of helping sensitising students to its ideas and language. The task could be developed by asking students to give feedback to one another on their work‚ and the most able or creative could be asked to redraft‚ then analyse and explain aspects of their work.
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The Power of a Word A single word can be used to belittle‚ hurt‚ and humiliate. One word can cause so much hurt to a person that they burst into tears or spiral down into a damaging hole that they can ’t get out of for an extended amount of time. Throughout history‚ names have been used to keep a population in its place. Insults have been hurled to make a single person understand what another thinks of them. Words are used all the time to cause damage to a person or an entire peoples soul
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Currently our country is in moral decay because we are not raising our children under the authority of God ’s Word. For example‚ some parents feel as though their children should not have to do chores around the house. It is our responsibility as parents to educate our children on what God ’s Word says about all of life ’s issues‚ including chores. In Jane Smiley ’s‚ The Case Against Chores she attacks parents that have their kids do chores saying that it alienates children from the family
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“A man may die‚ nations may rise and fall‚ but an idea lives on.”- John F. Kennedy. The Legacy of John F. Kennedy November 22‚ 1963‚ President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. This was a shattering event that would change the pace of the 1960’s. Due to Kennedy’s death‚ many of the things that he had started would then be forgotten or finished by his successor‚ President Lyndon B. Johnson. The sudden death of President Kennedy brought the sudden succession of LBJ. John Kennedy left this world
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the second word problem of “Mrs. Higashi displayed 57 student drawings on 3 walls in her art classroom. If she divided the drawings equally‚ how many drawings are on each wall?” After introducing the word problem‚ we broke apart the word problem by circling the information the word problem provided us with such as 57 student drawings and 3 walls‚ I also asked students what operation we needed to solve this word problem. The students could determine we needed to divide to solve the word problem. Then
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him saying this to me. The word‚ love in the romantic sense‚ is something that would take so much out of me to say to a person. Love is something that you express to someone that you can not‚ in any way‚ see living your life without. The last time I saw the young man who supposedly loved me‚ was on my seventeenth birthday when he told me I was a waste of his time. Love is the strongest emotion and most powerful word anyone can say to someone else. Some people use the word love everyday as though it
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The word spondee is short for the term spondaic words. In audiology‚ spondees refer to a two syllable word such as cupcake and butterfly. In the textbook titled Introduction to Audiology‚ Martin defines the term spondee as a “two syllable word pronounced with equal stress on both syllables” (Martin 450). They are often seen in the audiological test battery by being presented to the patient either through a microphone or a voiced disk that has already been recorded and stored on an audiologist’s drive
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