Elements of Style William Strunk‚ Jr. CONTENTS Bibliographic Record NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM‚ 1999 Frontmatter ITHACA‚ N.Y.: W.P. HUMPHREY‚ 1918 I. II. INTRODUCTORY ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with ’s 2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction‚ use a comma after each term except the last 3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas 4. Place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause 5. Do not join independent
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Patterns of Organization Separating supporting points from main ideas is an important reading skill. The organization of the supporting details will help you understand how an author thinks. Detecting the patterns of organization of the major and minor details can help with comprehension and retention. The main idea… The thesis or main idea is usually a good predictor of the organization of an essay or paragraph. Main Idea Text Topic sentence Paragraph Thesis Essay
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What is Sherman Alexie’s notion of the reality behind a story as this notion is presented in “Flight Patterns” I think Sherman ‘s notion of reality is that life is full of contradictions. The society sets up so many rules for people to follow‚ and people are often judged by their ethnic group‚ gender‚ religion…etc. Accordingly‚ they have to behave properly in order to meet the expectations. However‚ in reality not every person can deal easily with the role he is supposed to be in. For example
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Cognitive Development Preschool children ages 3 - 5: Cognitive development refers to the acquisition and use of thinking skills. It a child’s increasing ability to think and reason‚ they are active participants in the learning process‚ they are learning how to learn. Like scientists preschool children are curious about what they observe‚ they ask questions‚ make predictions about what will happen and test their ideas‚ they recall past experiences and apply what they know to
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Three reasons why Children should be vaccinated Advances in medical science have enabled us to live free of diseases that were once global epidemics. However‚ in recent years there has been a reoccurrence of diseases like the measles. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)‚ outbreaks can occur from travelers and segments of the population who have chosen not to vaccinate themselves‚ or their children (CDC‚ 2015). There is three reasons why you should vaccinate your children. First‚ vaccinating
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Introducing philosophy to children is a very controversial subject. Michael S. Pritchard‚ the author of Reasonable Children‚ explores the concept of introducing philosophy to children within the schools before they enter their college years. Pritchard assumed that the study of philosophy should begin at a college level. At the start of this assignment my first reaction was similar to Pritchard’s‚ philosophy starts during the college years. I could never imagine discussing
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Assessment of the eleven Functional Health Patterns of Tohono- o’odham Nation‚ Arizona Values/ Belief Pattern • The ethnical and cultural groups in Tucson are:- • Tohono o’odham-24‚000 people • Lives in 4 reservations:- “Main” Reservation -Florence Village -San Xavier -San Lucy Other members also live in Mexico. • Nation’s capital is in Sells Community • Speaks several different
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Tessellation Patterns Sheela Lewis MTH 214- Mathematics for Elementary Educations II December 16‚ 2013 Roland Garbe Tessellation Patterns A tessellation is “the filling of a plane with repetitions of figures in such a way that no figures overlap and that there are no gaps” (Billstein‚ Libeskind‚ & Lott‚ 2010) . Tessellations can be created with a variety of figures‚ including triangles‚ squares‚ trapezoids‚ parallelograms‚ or hexagons. Tessellations use forms of transformations to show the repetitions
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20‚ 318–325 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00871.x Insomnia and cardiovascular activity Sleep onset and cardiovascular activity in primary insomnia MASSIMILIANO DE ZAMBOTTI‚ NAIMA COVASSIN‚ GIULIANO DE MIN T O N A ‚ M I C H E L A S A R L O and L U C I A N O S T E G A G N O Department of General Psychology‚ University of Padova‚ Italy Accepted in revised form 14 June 2010; received 3 December 2009 SUMMARY The transition from wakefulness to sleep is characterized typically by a shift
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traditional approach to child development study has been to emphasise “Normative Measure”. This is concerned with studying milestones or stages in a child’s development and show what most children can do at a particular age. In reality there is a wide range of normal development and this will be influenced by genetic‚ social‚ and cultural factors‚ so it is important to be aware that normative measures can only indicate general trends in children s development. Physical development By 6 months a child
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