US Higher Education: A "Local" Introduction. Summary: This handout is an introduction to some of the basics of working, networking, and living at US colleges and universities.
Tips for Writing in North American Colleges. Summary: This handout is an introduction to the basics of academic writing conventions for students who are new to American colleges and universities.
Contributors:Michael Maune, Hwanhee Park, Ghada M. Gherwash, Joshua M. Paiz, Tony CimaskoLast Edited: 2013-09-28 11:29:34 Successful writing in college and university courses isn’t only a matter of choosing a worthwhile topic and observing grammar and mechanics rules. This handout summarizes a variety of writing conventions that may be unfamiliar to students who are starting their college or university studies in North America. Look carefully at the contents of this handout below. Rhetorical strategies (also known as logic or persuasion)Writing from researchBibliographies and in-text citationsPlagiarismDirectnessUsing “I,” “we,” and “you”Tips for using Microsoft Word and other word processing programs Rhetorical Strategies Start big and get small Enrich your vocabulary Keep your language neutral New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft ever built.
Plagiarism and ESL Writers. Summary: This resource provides a look at plagiarism and the unique situation faced by many ESL writers working and learning in North American Academic contexts.
The Burning House. Plastic Surgery Among Ethnic Groups Mirrors Beauty Ideals. In South Korea, Plastic Surgery Comes Out of the Closet. Amazing Pictures Of Real People And Their Avatars. WP2 Reading 1-2: CHOOSE ONE. The Global Dominance of ESPN - Derek Thompson. Josue Evilla “This is the chart I was talking about.
This is powerful.” Artie Bulgrin, ESPN’s director of research, is hunched over an iPad in a wood-paneled conference room at the network’s New York City headquarters, on West 66th Street, swooshing through the slides of a presentation he’s prepared annually since 1998. Every year, in the second week of September, the company asks hundreds of random subjects for three “must have” TV networks. And every year, ESPN relearns just how much America loves ESPN.
Bulgrin swivels his iPad and shows me the money chart. Some critics sneer at the company’s boastful tagline—“The Worldwide Leader in Sports”—but it is unquestionably apt. ESPN’s cable channels collect more than $5 a month from each of the nearly 100 million American households that subscribe to pay-TV, more than any other channel by far. In short, the 34-year-old project out of Bristol, Connecticut, is likely the most valuable media property in the United States. Amanda Lindhout, Writer of The House in the Sky, Shares the Story of Her Terrifying Kidnapping in Somalia - Magazine. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, Vogue, September 2013 Kidnapped in Somalia, Amanda Lindhout spent fifteen months in terrifying captivity.
Only after meeting journalist Sara Corbett did she feel ready to tell her story. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr. Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop.
Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits. Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. Jeffrey Kluger: Why China's Moon Mission Is a Good Thing. Nobody gets to the moon by accident.
If you’re a rocket scientist and know what you’re doing, Earth’s little sister ought not be such a challenging target. It’s huge — a whopping 2,155 mi. (3,468 km) across. Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food. Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food. Annotated Bib Format (OWL) Overview For a sample of an entry from an annotated bibliography entry in PDF, click on the downloadable file in the media box above. University of Toronto, Canada. Printable PDF Version Fair-Use Policy What is an annotated bibliography?
An annotated bibliography gives an account of the research that has been done on a given topic. University of WI-Madison. Cornell University. An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents.
Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Sample Annotated Bib. Disc. Posts #10 & #11. Memos. Summary: This handout will help you solve your memo-writing problems by discussing what a memo is, describing the parts of memos, and providing examples and explanations that will make your memos more effective.
Contributors:Courtnay Perkins, Allen BrizeeLast Edited: 2010-09-24 02:19:39 Standard memos are divided into segments to organize the information and to help achieve the writer's purpose. Heading Segment The heading segment follows this general format: TO: (readers' names and job titles) FROM: (your name and job title) DATE: (complete and current date) SUBJECT: (what the memo is about, highlighted in some way) Make sure you address the reader by his or her correct name and job title. Opening Segment.