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Is Your Teen Ready to Write College Source Papers?
College instructors expect students to develop informed opinions about important issues in their disciplines. To make sure students cannot avoid thinking about issues in their disciplines, colleges require students to write source papers.
Instructors may call the papers essays, research papers or term papers. Whatever the terminology, the assignments require students to draw on the reasoning and evidence of other people–the students’ sources–to support their own opinions.
Instructors may require students to use a combination of published and unpublished sources as evidence for their opinions. Published sources include book, websites, and databases; unpublished sources include such things as the student’s own experience or an interview the student conducted.
Most college libraries offer classes in research skills to help students to use the library’s resources to find published evidence for assignments. However, it’s not the librarian’s job to find Caitlin a topic for her sociology paper or tell Josh Read the rest of this entry »
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The Importance of Handwriting
Most children today are lacking in reading and writing skills. These skills are important for adult life, and developing them early on is important to a child’s future success. Encouraging a child to read by rewarding them with custom trophies or custom plaques can help develop a child’s love of reading and writing. Parents must be responsible for helping their children develop into adulthood, and developing the communication skills that reading and writing entail is a vital step in this developmental process. Handwriting is a key that links all these things together. It may not seem important to us in today’s society, but handwriting is a powerful learning tool that is on the decline and needs to be taught to every child.
In today’s culture handwriting seems outdated. Our culture these days relies so much on symbols, fast food signs, traffic signs, brand names in television commercials, that the words involved are often an afterthought, or not present at all. In addition, computers and printing make handwriting seem out of date and a practice that is no longer needed Read the rest of this entry »
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Proofreading – 3 Tips For Better Writing
No matter whether you are in high school, college, or an adult, at some point you will find yourself writing something for others to read. It may be an email, a report, a term paper, a business brief, or any one of many other types of writing required in day-to-day tasks. One thing that you must do to be an effective writer, however, is proofread your work. But many times we proofread our work and still miss errors. It happens to the best of writers. Here are 3 tips to eliminate errors in your writing, or avoid them completely, no matter what you are writing.
1 – Start at the end of the written work, and working backwards, read one sentence at a time for grammatical errors, misuse of words, mechanics, etc. By starting this way, you won’t overlook errors as easily because you won’t be anticipating the next sentence. Mentally, you will stay focused on the single sentence at hand, not what’s coming next. Giving this type of attention to each individual sentence will eliminate many common mistakes.
2 – Have a friend read your written work to you, aloud. You will be able to hear the tone and emphasis as a reader might encounter it, checking to see if they are “hearing” what you intended them to hear. You will also catch the errors as your friend stumbles over any grammar or mechanical mistakes that show up in the writing. Your friend will not know what is coming next, so this is one of the best ways to catch mistakes. It’s like Read the rest of this entry »
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