WILLIAMS SUMMARY CHAPTERS 5 AND 9 COHESION‚ COHERENCE AND CONCISION Joseph William’s book Style: Lesson’s in Clarity and Grace gives guidance to make sentences and paragraphs flow and read better (Williams p 65‚ p 123). In chapters 5 and 9‚ Williams shows how having cohesion‚ coherence and concision give the reader a smoother and inviting experience. Cohesion refers to how well a sentence ends as it relates to how the next sentence begins (Williams p 65). Williams says coherency refers to
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Dear Dr. Ducking I am still not able to afford a book at this time. Also I did not make time to use the book in the reading room and the library only had the 3rd edition of the book. So I wrote a summary of the class notes that you had put up on blackboard. Chapter 3 Summaries: Chapter 3 talks about descriptive statistics with numerical measures. These measures consist of location and variability. The measures of locations are mean‚ median‚ mode‚ weighted mean‚ geometric mean
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arguing even though it seems like a contradiction‚ but the summarizing other’s view may help to improve your writing. 5. Starting with an anecdote‚ like this chapter‚ is a powerful way to begin as well as starting with an illustrative quotation. 6. To present other’s opinion by your own view or experience. 7. To start with a summary of an ongoing debate can help you to make a clear for your argument. 8. To mention the other’s views several times; using “return sentences‚” it helps to remind
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Summary Chapter 8 of Creating the Opportunity to Learn by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera discusses why some schools are making more progress than others in closing the achievement gap. The chapter describes how two schools that are similar in the demographics and challenges hindering achievement‚ can have two different results in their efforts to close the achievement gap. One school saw improvements because they recognized the problems and implemented research based strategies to help all students
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Summary of Key Points: This chapter is based on two types of stories which are story line and testimonies. Story lines as the socially shared tales that are fable-like and incorporate a common scheme and wording (124). Testimonies are accounts in which the narrator is a central participant in the story or is close to the characters in the story (124). The book talks about four major story lines of color-blind racism. The first one is “The Past Is the Past‚” which mean that people must put the past
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Chapter One Summary Chapter One An internal auditor is one who is independent‚ knowledgeable‚ works well in a team and is a leader. An internal auditor adds value to a company by improving a business’s organizational operation and helps them achieve its objectives by improving the effectiveness of risk management‚ control and governance processes. Internal Auditing Processes A business’s objectives are classified into four categories: strategic‚ operations‚ reporting‚ and compliance. An internal
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Psychology 30 August 2017 Book Review Opening Skinner’s Box: Summary: This book consists of ten chapters each with its own short story‚ each of which containing an experiment. In the first chapter author Lauren Slater talks about the work done by psychologist B.F. Skinner‚ mainly about his experimentation and the controversy over his methods. He believed positive reinforcement worked better in establishing behavior than negative reinforcement. Chapter 2 talks about Stanley Milgram and describes Milgram’s
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1. The novel Life of Pie written by‚ Yann Martel’s tells the story of a young man named Pi‚ to be specific sixteen years old‚ which grows up in the south indian city of Pondiocherry. Pi was raised by a wealthy family‚ father being Santos Patel‚ and mother being Gita Patel‚ which owned a zoo‚ and that is where the Tiger(Richard Parker) comes in play. The next aspect of the story goes as follows: since all facet of government power was taken by Indira Ghandi in India‚ and Pi father did not want to
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Who really created or discovered the Americas? Many believe Colombus‚ many believe Lewis and Clark‚ some believe the Indians or Natives. Whichever the reader does believe is besides the point when The Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World written by the the anthropologist‚ Jack Weatherford goes in depth about the huge effect Indians have put on our cultural‚ societal‚ political practices as well as many agricultural products may not have been produced without the knowledge
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1. “There are a few crimes‚ the town is…..” (Page 4). Earlier to the murder of the clutter family‚ Holcomb is known for its innocence and a place where farmers can achieve their American dream through hard work. 2. “At the time‚ not a soul…” (Page 5). This quote shows that the collapse of the clutter family is done just by a few gunshot blasts‚ which creates the slaughtered Imagery. 3. Bonnie Clutter‚ who is Herb’s wife‚ is described as a “nervous” woman. This shows how she has been suffering through
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