org/10.M65/amr.2012.0165 EDITOR’S COMMENTS: REFLECTIONS ON THE CRAFT OF CLEAR WRITING Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time‚ or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard‚ it’s because it is hard (Zinsser‚ 2006: 9). Most of us struggle with our writing. We thrash and hack our way through paragraphs‚ writing and editing and rewriting until we think we’ve made some progress on that God-forsaken
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reality‚ brought out the humour and energy of ordinary life‚ and displayed compassionate humanism in his writing. Narayan’s short story writing style has been compared to that of Guy de Maupassant‚ as they both have an ability to compress the narrative without losing out on elements of the story. Narayan has also come in for criticism for being too simple in his prose and diction. In a writing career that spanned over sixty years‚ Narayan received many awards and honours. These include the AC Benson
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Personal Reflective Essay You always hear about it‚ but you never think it would happen to you or one of your loved ones. The word ‘cancer’ is enough to scare you. That’s exactly what it did to me…when I was told almost four years ago that my dad had cancer. That moment‚ it was like my life came crashing down around me. It was the time of my older Brother and Sister‚ Umar and Sehar’s exams. We had all noticed a change in our Mum and Dad. They had been acting strangely for the past few
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Individual Reflective Journal From the course “People in organization” I learnt about the importance of people and how to value a person in the organization. This subject thought me to respect every one working in the organization and I also learnt how to manage time and stress‚ to resolve conflict‚ to communicate‚ to maintain relationship‚ to motivate and to work in diversified team. interactive sessions and presentations during the lectures and tutorials increased my confidence. After the course
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Accordingly‚ I thought it was better to spend those ten minutes in listening to her to let it all out even though the issue was not connected to the one we were working on. After refocussing the client on the core issue‚ I used reflective listening to confirm and clarify the statements. While rephrasing‚ I managed to reinforce the statements that indicated the client was affirm about change. We explored together the underlying meaning of the certain situations as to why they were
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USING CELLPHONES AND COMPUTERS MADE COMMUNICATION AMONG PEOPLE MUCH EASIER. AS A RESULT‚ LETTER- WRITING COULD BE LOST IN THE FUTURE. TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE STATEMENT? GIVE YOUR OPINION. Some people prefer letter writing than using cellular phones and computers as mode of communication. This is because to them writing a letter with the use of pencil and paper is more personal‚ that the sender took time and effort in composing and sending it in the mailbox. The sender
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Baltimore County"). My academic goal is to become a Programmer and gain expertise in technical communication skills like writing‚ speaking‚ presenting‚ and collaborating. As a writer I have little experience. I did lower level English courses and ENGLISH (101) course at " Frederick Community College". There I learned many things like verbs‚ noun‚ pronoun‚ run on sentences‚ and writing research paper. But‚ as English is not my first language I still do some grammatical mistakes. So‚ I decided to take
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There are many learning theories‚ each of them emphasizing various aspects of the teaching and learning process. I support the claim that adult learning should be looked at as a distinct style of learning and is unique to that of child and adolescence learning. Adults bring their life experiences into the classroom. They bring past knowledge as well as past biases and beliefs. Adult students want to be acknowledged as adults. They need to be actively involved in determining how and what they will
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1. OVERVIEW The report puts across a non-bias personal reflective contribution to an event planned and delivered by Event Management students from Greenwich University. It sets out the rationale behind the event in an introduction and briefly discusses the roles of group members in the focus. Through out the focus‚ the report reflects on incidents leading up to the delivery of the event‚ and through a critical discussion‚ points out possible improvements. The discussion refers to aspects of communication
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In the last week‚ the overview of the term was taken with introduction to genre analysis. However‚ according to assessment in the course. There are 4 compulsory assessments. One of these tasks is writing academic case study‚ which includes several different aspects of issues to do it. For example‚ make interview with postgraduate student which has relative to my major and intensive reading about the topic. The second one of mandatory assessments is the presentation‚ which should I present my case
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