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Writing
Perhaps the best thing to do for the eulogy is to express love, happiness, and warmth: the love you have, and especially, the love given in so many ways by your mother. Provide anecdotes from the...
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Writing
First, one should note that this is an essay prompt intended to have you think creatively. On a literal level, neither a pen nor a pencil is wise, as both are inanimate objects. On the most...
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Writing
There are many strategies students can use to improve their writing skills. Which strategies will work depends to a degree on the individual student. A middle school student learning to compose...
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Writing
There are many reasons why authors choose to tell stories in the first-person. One of the most important reason is the sense of immediacy and intimacy that first-person narration provides. The...
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Writing
Generally, when writing a paper, one should underline the title of a book. Depending on the writing style you are working with, you may have other options. When writing a paper according to the...
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Rhetoric
As I understand your question, you are answering a textbook assignment found in Style by John Haynes. If this is correct, you are studying le mot juste: "A very common view of style is that it is a...
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Writing
When writing a letter to the editor, remember who your audience is. Despite the name, you are not just writing to the editor. It is called a letter to the editor because you want the editor to...
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Writing
Strategies depend on the age and grade, but if we are discussing grammar school-age students, one of the standard techniques is to ask students to keep a daily journal in which they write both the...
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Writing
It's hard to tell exactly what your professor is looking for without knowing what texts you will be referencing. However, here is a general breakdown of what the question is asking: When you learn...
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Grammar
The task was introduced to the child using three practice items that followed the exact same format as the test items The first step is to remove the passive voice – “the task was…”....
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Writing
To complete this kind of assignment, you may be helped by thinking about different aspects of the caveman's physical character. In describing him, you can consider not just how he looks but how he...
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Writing
When writing a college application essay, you have a chance to fully develop an argument. If you are asked to do this in a couple of paragraphs, you need to focus on specific points. Your best...
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Writing
This is an important question. Essays can be hard to write. If you are writing an essay on personal responsibility, then you probably first want to define what you will mean by personal...
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Writing
In the preparation for writing a dystopian short story, the student may wish to peruse narratives already written as allegories or satires of such attempts to create idyllic societies. Among such...
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Writing
I think that you could take a variety of approaches with this. Allow me to make a suggestion. Find the scene online or on YouTube from the show, "Mad Men," that talks about "nostalgia." (It's a...
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Cinema
Characterization in Parker's film plays a large part in how the Civil Rights struggle is seen. Parker's film uses characterization as the primary lens through which one perceives the Civil Rights...
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Essay Lab
I had to edit the original question from asking multiple questions. I think that you have a good start, but I believe that the concept of developing "flow" in a writing sample is something that is...
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Writing
A good thesis statement controls the entire paper. If your paper is argumentative or persuasive, it needs to be written in the form of a claim. A claim is the argument statement (sentence usually...
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Writing
Parallelism from a grammatical or syntactical perspective can have various meanings. A writer can demonstrate parallelism if he uses the same word order (subject, verb, direct object) in phrases or...
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Essay Lab
I think that this is a really reflective writing assignment. I don't think it's a bad idea to speak with your teacher privately to gauge their thoughts on the topic because from what I can see,...
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Writing
If there are specific approaches that your teacher has outlined that you must take in your writing, I would pay attention to these first. From here, you can proceed. From what I am seeing in the...
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Essay Lab
As with all development of the thesis statement, I think that you need to ascertain what the requirements of the assignment are and what it is you need to assemble in the thesis statement. Once...
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Sports
Part of the author's main contention is that the spirit of amateur athletic competition which was intrinsic to the original spirit of the Olympics has been replaced by political nationalism being...
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Sports
The initial premise of the article is that the purely amateur and athletic spirit of the Olympic games has been killed through economic materialism and political nationalism. The author breaks...
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Writing
What is given in your question is fairly ambiguous and subject to wide open interpretation. Greater specificity could help in deriving insight and assistance to make your thoughts more focused in...
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Writing
I think that much of this is going to depend on the requirements of the assignment and how much flexibility you will be given in appropriating informal language in your writing. Different...
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Sports
The tone in the article is one of hopeful reclamation of the spirit of Olympic competition. The main contention of the author in the article is the idea that the Olympics have lost their...
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Sports
Based on the article, the writer's main arguments consist of explaining how the Beijing Olympics help to demonstrate the need to reassert the spirit of athletic competition in future Olympic...
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Writing
The reader will become interested in a story if the viewpoint character has a problem with which the reader identifies. A problem is always caused by a motivation, and therefore motivation is the...
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Writing
The easiest way to write a definition paragraph on "discrimination" is to first find a definition that clarifies its meaning to you. For instance, I would begin with a basic definition. To...
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Writing
I personally think technology is damaging the writing process. People read blogs, message boards, and discussion forums as much as they do books, but these electronic mediums are not edited...
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Writing
The Writing Process involves these steps: Brainstorming/Prewriting. It is essential to first get ideas down without concern for their organization. Thinking on paper about the topic and putting...
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Writing
Perhaps the first thing to understand here is the meaning of the word "revision." I do not know where you are from, but if you have learned British English, this quote may sound strange. In...
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Writing
The main purpose of a portfolio is to have students keep collected works of writing or art over time, so that they can demonstrate improvement and receive long term feedback. Especially with...
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Writing
All the tenses in the English language are available to an educated person. The tense you use should be determined by the question and your answer. I am answering your question in the present...
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Writing
This sounds like a very fun project. Let me give you a few ideas by way of giving you several sentences, which you can use as a springboard for other ideas. Lunch hour at my school was like a swarm...
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Writing
“Process theory” was a term invented by composition theorists in the 1960s and holding considerable sway over university writing pedagogy in 1960-2000. It reflected an emphasis on a multi-stage...
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Writing
Academic writing does indeed differ from other types of writing. Let me list three ways in which academic writing differs. First, academic writing is formal in style. Personal writing does not have...
