American University of Sharjah Department of Writing Studies WRI 101: Academic Writing Spring 2014 Instructor: C. Horger Meeting Times: Mon/Wed 8:00‚ 9:30‚ 11:00‚ 12:30 E-mail: chorger@aus.edu Meeting Location: Lang 102 and 109 Telephone: 515-2717 Office: Lang. 220 Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 S/T Course Description Academic Writing challenges students to recognize‚ understand‚ and
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In the 1990 article “I’d Rather Kiss than Smoke” in the National Review‚ Florence King tries to persuade her readers to look through a smoker’s eyes in a smokist world. King has been around people smoking even before she was born. Her mother started smoking when she was twelve and she started this habit when she was twenty-six. Since she started smoking‚ she has been analyzing how non-smokers discriminate against them. Florence King expects everyone to be okay with smoking because it is what
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Thesis: While it would be easy to conclude that lifestyle is more likely than medicine to be the key to good health‚ the question itself is‚ on closer examination‚ untenable. The benefits of leading a ‘healthy’ lifestyle and using medication at appropriate times are impossible to doubt but any claim on one factor being ‘the key to good health’ is bound to be fraught with issues. TS1: There is certainly some truth to the adage that lifestyle is the passport to good health. Considering the soaring
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Snowflakes are Cooler Than You! As the glistening snowflakes fall from the sky‚ you might be thinking that the delegate snowflakes are just white specks that fall occasionally. However‚ they are so much more. Have you ever wondered how snowflakes are formed‚ the temperature it has to be for it to snow‚ or a snowflakes appearance/ It is so fascinating‚ lets go learn about snowflakes. To begin with‚ snowflakes have the most astonishing way of forming. According to the article‚ "Snow Day’’‚ it
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Why choose IT-Career When I am looking as the science‚ and I can see how it advances every day. Seeing that the computers are forming a very important paper in our lives. Where almost everything is driven through of a computer. To be overcome even sees that now it is possible using the computer. And knowing that it is very well a career paid. It is when I decide to obtain my degree in Information Technology. My family’s experience made me decide I needed to further my education. I noticed that
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1.1 Why Do People Communicate? People communicate in many different ways and also for many different reasons. There are a wide variety of ways in which people communicate however there are specific reasons as to why each individual does. For example: to give information to another individual to receive information from another individual to give instructions to another individual to retrieve information from another individual to discuss certain situations among individual(s) to make individuals
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The media is a dynamic entity inherent in society that is both powerful and important. It demonstrates this by playing a vital role in the development of a person ’s perspective on political‚ economic and socio-cultural issues. This consequently helps to shape individuals ’ viewpoints of the world and define their lives through the interpretation of media texts. (Newman‚ 2004). Bazalgette supported Newman ’s point by stating "Media studies open up your understanding of how things work‚ how people
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didn’t make me think oh ye ill buy Pepsi. It was all a bit worthless and if anything made the Pepsi brand look bad because the Pepsi guy wouldn’t let the coke person have the can and went as far as fighting him and smashing windows. It makes me think that the Pepsi representative is a bit of a bully if anything and I feel sorry for the coke person so from the advertisement I think that coke is better. 2nd advertisement: pepsi vs coca-cola (pepsi vanilla ad) A pepsi truck driver pulls alongside a cocacola
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from making mistakes rather than from our successful actions because we’re only human. Learning from our mistakes lets us know what we did wrong so we can fix it. We need to learn from our mistakes so we do not repeat them and so that we learn a lesson from it. Learning from our mistakes is essential to our growth so that we do not run the risk of repeating them. We must develop the wisdom and sense to make good decisions and choices. Good judgment will only develop if you truly learn from your
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Reason why people communicate People communicate to express their feelings‚ means of expressing needs‚ share experience give instructions‚ share opinion‚ give encouragements etc. Effective communication Individual communicate to express their needs and preferences and to ensure they are met. As a carer discuss the options and choice available to the individual to allow him to make decisions on the options and choice available. Observation in communication In face to face communication
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