“Tips for successful collaborative writing” by Stephen Wilbers If you ever have worked on a committee‚ task force‚ or project development team‚ you probably know the frustration of group work. If you’re lucky‚ you also know the joy.The nature of your experience depends on two factors: whether the individual participants share common‚ clearly defined goals and whether they know how to work together.All of this‚ of course‚ applies to collaborative writing‚ a collective activity that – perhaps as
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Alli Dippel 1-23-13 English 10 3rd hour A Patch Of Blue By: Elizabeth Kata 142 pages The story takes place in the 1960’s in Los Angeles. It is urban taking place in a city. The story takes place about two weeks. The point of view is told in a third person. The story begins with telling about the main character‚ Selina‚ she is a 18 year old blind. She is blind because when she was about five her father came home from the army unexpectedly‚ he caught Selina mom Rose- Ann with another
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how we respond to them. In the article by Beverly Tatum titled The Complexity of Identity: “Who Am I?” she discusses how we as a society can get past our differences through understanding who we are. She gives multiple examples of how we relate to our environment and how a better understand of that can bring us closer together and even open new channels of communication through discussion. Tatum gives us a very well laid out way to ask the right questions‚ to get an outside perspective that ultimately
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poem “A Patch of Old Snow” by Robert Frost a man is reminded of a past situation‚ which he has failed to reminisce about for a long time. The man notices a patch of old snow in the corner of the room‚ which later turns out to be a dirty piece of paper. The paper symbolizes an old memory that he has been reminded of‚ and he now feels regret about it. He states it is information that he has forgotten‚ if he ever read it. In the poem “A Patch of Old Snow‚” by Robert Frost‚ Frost reveals the theme of the
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Beauty has been defined in many ways. In some cultures beauty is everything‚ its what makes them who they are and in some cases represents where they come from. For example in America white teeth and pink gums are desired to fulfill a beautiful smile; however the women of Senegal and the Philippines believe this is not true. To beautify their smiles‚ Senegalese tattoos their gums black‚ and the women of the B’laan tribe file and blacken their teeth. These women also convinced themselves that they
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Running Head: BEST PRACTICES IN CRITICAL THINKING AND DECISION MAKING. Best Practices in Critical Thinking and decision Making paper Communication skills for graduate study/COM505 2 December‚ 2009 Best Practice in critical thinking and decision making paper. I would have to admit that critical thinking skill did play a big part within my decision in returning back to school in perusing the graduate program that I am presently doing. Today we are finding more and more
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The Complexity of ‘Innocence’ depicted through experience Poet Thomas Gray famously wrote with nostalgia of the felicity of childhood‚ that “Where ignorance is bliss‚ ‘tis folly to be wise” (Gray). His poem reminisces of childhood innocence with fondness‚ to be carefree‚ unmarred of the realities of responsibility‚ and pure of cynicism. ‘Childhood innocence’ simply stated is a naïve ignorance that is inevitably lost with maturity. Exposure to the harshness of the world shapes the identity of
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In order to improve on practice‚ it is essential to reflect on our personal experiences and emotional responses (Fook & Gardner‚ 2007). When viewing Cheryl’s case in the film‚ there was a mix of emotions. I felt empathy for her struggle as she was a frustrated single mother who was doing the best she could. But another part of me was shocked at the attitude she had towards Jasmine when she stated: “she should be a better daughter”. If I was to interview Cheryl and she said that to me‚ I questioned
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This assignment is a critical reflection on the in-class roleplay demonstration where I played the role of a social worker from the Department of Human Services (DHS) and another batch-mate played the role of Marika‚ the client. A social worker is bound to have a complete understanding of the objectives and goals of the process of counselling so as to be able to meet the client needs. (Geldard‚ 1989) My aim during the interview was to see how well I am able to demonstrate the behaviours and micro-skills
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Noah’s story from an ENT specialist point of view‚ there were a lot of communication barriers that could be avoided to prevent this tragedy from happening. I did notice that four of the sub-competencies of the Core Competencies for Interprofessional collaboration practice were not strictly adhered to on the part of the ENT specialist. These sub-competencies are RR6‚ CC1‚ CC2 and CC3. Clarification of each team member’s role in providing care to Noah was not communicated well. If there was clear clarification
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