SELF ASSESSMENT WR 100 H7 - Sirman Final Due : Friday‚ September 6 "If writing seems hard‚ it’s because it is hard‚ it’s one of the hardest things people do." -William Zinsser Writing is a process in which people put their thoughts onto paper to express ideas‚ concerns and sometimes apprehensions. People from different backgrounds and cultures express themselves in numerous ways giving the readers insight into their
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Time Management University of Phoenix Kam Zinsser Part 1: Self-Evaluation How do you establish priorities? Priorities to me are things that have to get done by a certain time or with certain urgency. Establishing priorities is one of those things that are going to change from person to person or from day to day. For me as far as my schooling goes I have set a priority to not start on any assignments Tuesday-Friday until all of my responses are done for the day. Then I can start on one
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The Rhetorical Mode of Narration Any time you “tell what happened” or “tell a story” you are using NARRATION. Strictly speaking‚ narration is any writing that lays out the events of a story in a dramatic and climactic order. Narration typically uses the chronological organization of events to make a point. It may also include flashback (analpsis) or begin in medias res (L. “in the middle of things”) a classical method of telling a story in which the narrator works backward from
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Self-evaluation To be honest‚ my level of effort on my essays this semester so far has been not so great than what I wanted it to be‚ even though I truly know that the writing is a practical skill which close related with my future life. Previously‚ I have been trapped by fear emotion of writing and even become lazy to think about how to write a great essay. Beyond that‚ I have found myself need to taking more risks and challenging my prior writing style. Therefore as this semester has begun‚ I
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hosts. The rickettsiae have very small genomes of about 1.0-1.5 million bases. Rickettsia prowazekii‚ the cause of epidemic typhus‚ is the prototypical rickettsia. Typhus has plagued humanity throughout history. The American bacteriologist‚ Hans Zinsser‚ to whom this textbook is dedicated‚ was able to grow the elusive intracellular pathogen and develop a protective vaccine for typhus fever. He wrote a book about the bacterium‚ published in 1935‚ Rats‚ Lice‚ and History: "being a study in biography
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A child’s play is not simply a reproduction of what he or she has experienced‚ but a creative reworking of the impressions that he or she has acquired (Vygotsky). This simple phrase is meant to carry the notion that observation and documentation is key in understanding young children as learners. Observation and documentation of children has been an important part of early childhood teaching throughout history (Stuart Reifel‚ 2011). In the early nineteenth-century German educator Friedrich Froebel
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Student Handbook BADM 200W~Analysis of Business Issues A Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Course The George Washington University School of Business Fall‚ 2010 Warren Sharp‚ PhD Visiting Professor‚ School of Business Table of Contents Page Introduction 2 Format of the Course 3 Learning Objectives 4 Methods of Communication 4 Critical Thinking 5 Revision and Feedback (Peer Review) 5 Research and Analysis 6 Career Management Strategy 6 Business Terminology 7
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Origins of a Memoir/ Autobiography I’ve read a lot of memoirs‚ autobiographies‚ personal essays‚ collected letters‚ and autobiographical novels in my life‚ but this is the first time I’ve studied the memoir/ autobiographical form as a genre. An interesting fact I learned right away was that the word “memoir” comes down to us from the Latin “memoria‚” meaning memory or reminiscence‚ through the Anglo-French memorie in the mid-1500s‚ meaning “a note‚ memorandum‚ something written to be kept in
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Seminar 2: Women in Medieval Life Questions and Issues: What sort of different means of power and influence did women wield in the Middle Ages? Medieval women faced some serious problems - a cultural rife with misogyny‚ a legal system based on assumptions of female inferiority‚ and a social structure that invested men with considerable power over women’s lives. Class was the critical marker of differences among medieval women (according to Power). Family connections - Eleanor of Aquitaine
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One of the main occupations that children actively participate in is play. Play shapes development for more mature skills later in life based on resources‚ environment‚ opportunities‚ parenting style‚ and many other factors. Without play‚ children are often delayed in the development of their skills and not able to fully integrate reflexes or reach developmental milestones within a normal time frame. Play is essential for a child’s development because it allows for the child to explore their environment
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