A REPORT ON WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE STUDENTS Prepared by: Ang Kar Yong Updated on: 3rd March 2013 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my supervisor‚ Ms. Sylvia‚ for the valuable advice and support she has given me in the writing of this report. I would also like to thank her for her encouragement and guidance. ABSTRACT This study was to investigate which aspects of written communication should take priority‚ and to provide the appropriate recommendations
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Take a look in the mirror. What do you see? Hopefully‚ you see honesty‚ integrity‚ trustworthiness and many other ethical principles. These are principles which do not disappear when you step away from the mirror. For as John D. MacDonald once said‚ “Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself‚ and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat‚ then you know he never will.” As with the individual person‚
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O. Henry wrote his own magazine entitled‚ "The Rolling Stone". The magazine did poorly and Henry stooped to stealing from bank accounts to which he became arrested. Henry’s writing came to a halt due to jail time and he eventually died nine years after being set free. The time period in which O. Henry’s finest works created‚ occurred in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s where he dazzled readers with his unorthodox‚ romantic style. A short story titled "A Retrieved Reformation" written by O
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Of Giants and Ice‚ by Shelby Bach‚ is the first book of The Ever Afters series. Rory Landon has spent her whole life being known as the daughter of a famous movie star mom and director dad. So when she begins a new after-school program and no one knows who her family is‚ Rory realizes something is different. That relief quickly turns to disbelief when Rory finds herself faced with a real live fire-breathing dragon on her first day and she realizes that at Ever After School‚ the kids look up to a
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39 Steps Essay During a musical event shots are fired. A scared woman asks to go home with Richard. He takes her to his apartment. She is nervous and tells him she is a British spy and that two men are after her and they are waiting outside his building. One of the men is missing his little finger. Richard allows her to stay and turns up dead with a knife in her back by morning. She was holding a map with a certain area circled and mumbled something about the 39 steps. Richard sneaks
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AUTOMATED TOLL GATES INTRODUCTION : The automated toll gates are the application of both the concepts of road pricing and intelligent transport system.Earlier motorists used to wait at a toll booth or a plaza to pay a machine or a collector for using a particular toll road.But it is not so in the case of a automated toll gate.Here the motorists need not stop or even reduce the speed of their vehicle.The whole process is completely automated.Road pricing is a type of tax sought by
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around the world‚ the Giant Panda is increasingly becoming the most rare. With only about 1000-2000 pandas out in the wild‚ action has been taken to protect the Giant Panda from extinction. (Smith‚ 2014). Although very few pandas are alive today the Giant Panda has a very thick evolutionary history. As long ago as 11 million years the first ancestor of the Panda lived. In 2012‚ fossils of the pandas earliest ancestry were found in a very surprising place. Although most Giant Pandas came from China
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oting the book “Through Gates of Splendor” which tells the story of five missionaries who sacrificed their lives in the jungles of Ecuador‚ this documentary film “Beyond the Gates of Splendor” takes us through that original journey to the events that followed half a century after. A thoroughly informed and accurate story‚ it has some limitations‚ but is well worth the watch. The well-known facts about this story are that five men‚ Jim Elliot‚ Roger Youderian‚ Nate Saint‚ Pete Fleming‚ and Ed McCully
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The Tale of the Lazy Giant Surely you’ve heard of a town they call Pinkleton‚ a small town somewhere down der in the south. Now‚ that be a mighty small town but for us northern folk it sure seems like a big city. I know I’m not tha best person to be explain’ng‚ but my momma always sed to make the best of things. A few years back‚ I headed aht to get out of dat city livin for once and I left New Jowsee in order to discover more of that place I call mah country. Der I wos a-praying and a-walking
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Analysis of the Gates of Hell Auguste Rodin brought the Gates of Hell to life to show his interpretation of Dante’s descent into Hell. During the years of Rodin forming the Gates of Hell the Gates changed numerous times‚ because Rodin created and removed numerous figures. Rodin never officially declared the Gates of Hell finished‚ and many wonder if Rodin really was finished or not. Rodin made the Gates of Hell to resemble his thoughts on Dante’s Inferno with his own twist. Rodin also placed various
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