My Academic Skills Plan for Taking Notes DIRECTIONS: In this activity‚ you’ll use the Wise Choice Process to design a personal academic skills plan to improve your ability to take notes. Following are the six steps for completing your two-page Academic Skills Plan. See attached examples of how to complete each of the steps. The goals of this Academic Skills Plan are that you: 1) master four new note-taking skills‚ 2) increase learning in your present courses‚ and 3) earn higher grades. Step
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Health & Academics The academic success of America’s youth is strongly linked with their health. Health-related factors such as hunger‚ physical and emotional abuse‚ and chronic illness can lead to poor school performance. Health-risk behaviors such as early sexual initiation‚ violence‚ and physical inactivity are consistently linked to poor grades and test scores and lower educational attainment. When children and adolescents participate in at least 60 minutes of physical activity every
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Focus on the best academic sources… 11 14) Focus on printed sources… 13 15) Find good examples… 13 STYLE 16) Write in clear plain English… 15 17) Write in proper sentences… 15 18) Write in the third person… 15 19) Write in active sentences… 16 20) Write in varied short sentences... 16 21) Write with confidence and conviction… 17 22) Avoid abbreviations and short forms… 17 23) Avoid rhetorical questions and exclamations…
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Determination and ambition have been the main reasons for my academic success to far. I personally believe that my academic performance would be improved as I would get more time to concentrate on my academic ambitions if I were to be awarded with this scholarship. I am dedicated to my studies and to my community. Receiving this scholarship will help take a lot of weight off my parents’ shoulders‚ and it will be an advantage to me in achieving my goals. First of all‚ I think I am a worthy contender
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Failure mode and effects analysis A failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a procedure in product development and operations management for analysis of potential failure modes within a system for classification by the severity and likelihood of the failures. A successful FMEA activity helps a team to identify potential failure modes based on past experience with similar products or processes‚ enabling the team to design those failures out of the system with the minimum of effort and resource
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10 TIPS TO BE A GOOD SUPERVISOR Make Expectations Clear It’s right there in the title‚ "boss." You’re supposed to tell people what to do. All too often‚ though‚ people in management positions forget to make expectations clear‚ so make sure your employees or supervisees know exactly what you want from them on every project. Make Expectations Reasonable With budget cuts sweeping the nation‚ more and more people are shouldering extra responsibilities. From volunteers at non profits to high level
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Christopher M Melton Senior Research Paper March 2‚ 2010 Key Factors to Consider when Deciding on a Mode of Transport It is Friday evening and you have just sat down at the fireplace after a wonderful meal. You and your spouse open a bottle of your favorite Italian wine and sip away. All the time you are sipping away I bet you never thought once about how that exquisite bottle of wine made it to your living room. Most likely it’s travels involved something like this……a truck
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Rhetorical pentagon Topic Reader Speaker Language – How is the topic presented; Vocabulary‚ Tone‚ Style. Circumstance Modes of persuasion/ Rhetorical appeals (Appelformer) 1. Ethos – The speakers ability to establish credibility /trust. 2. Pathos – Appeals to emotions‚ affects the subconscious‚ often use of adjectives. (Language) 3. Logos – Appeals to logic‚ via facts and statistics. Discourse- Choice of words/The way you choose to say something. Them/us‚ I/we President Obama’s
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Shruthivani Velrajan Mr. Harrison Pre AP English 10 11 August 2014 Academic Integrity Integrity is to follow high-quality morals when no one is observing. Integrity is a good quality to have because it makes the person more trustworthy and a better person in general. Academic integrity is when one is honest and fair when it comes to studies and to school. An example of academic integrity is when a person does not cheat even when the teacher leaves the room. If the person decides to take out
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The purpose of your writing is to entertain the reader through the situation you have imagined and also to explore that situation and the characters involved in it • Remember how much time you have in the exam. Don’t try to write too complicated a story. Examiners want quality not quantity. • Don’t fill your writing with direct speech; it causes problems with punctuation and it’s difficult to use effectively. Just use a little to show that you are in control of it. • Writing a story is not just
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