Academia

Many important life-changing decisions in my life have been made by others. As I have matured and gained more freedom, it is now time for me to make a life-changing decision of my own. The time to make the decision of which university I will choose to attend is rapidly approaching. This decision will change the entire course of my life by dictating the people I will meet, the knowledge I will learn, the disciplines I will instill in myself, and my future occupation. Both the University of Toledo…

The Hurried Child provides an eye opening reality that we as adults place a huge about of responsibilities on young children that aren’t ready to deal with the challenges. Children are losing their childhood due to society. Chapter one indicates that we are treating our children like miniature adults. Elkind’s states, “Today’s pressures on middle-class children go grow up fast begins in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a change…

Susan Blum’s article, “Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism: A Question of Education, Not Ethics” and “Studies Find More Students Cheating, with High Achievers No Exception” by Richard Perez-Pena both centralize their articles on the causes behind the cheating epidemic in higher education. This is a worthy topic for college students to discuss because college is the point in students’ education where they are the most desperate to maintain high grades in order to receive their degree in the…

What is a Student athlete? In this essay I will be addressing the definitional issues associated with the term student athlete. The importance of this issue is momentous because of how frequently the term is used in the wrong context. Reading my essay will resolve or cease any confusion or misconception of the term “student athlete”. A student athlete is not someone who puts their sport before any classwork. A student athlete is not someone who doesn't take any pride in doing their own work. A…

Reflection The aim of ACR (Academic College Readiness) is to provide all students with the proper tools and necessary information to prepare them for success in college and beyond. ACR`s aim is to also assist students in their regular high school courses and in standardized testing such as the SAT and the ACT. This course has some basic rules. The two basic rules are to complete the assignments given by the instructor and to maintain high grades. I think that I contribute to the environment…

Home and Away: The Tensions of community, Literacy and identity In this well-constructed discourse, “Home and Away”, Brownyne Williams, emphasizes on how the discourses that we learn from our home and community shape us in into who we are as a person, how we view the world and how we approach different discourses including academic writings. Williams’s main purpose is to convey the idea that, how being brought up in a well-educated and scholarly family influenced his way of thinking and…

Throughout this semester I have developed in many ways in my writing and I’ve been able to recognize and learn from my mistakes. There are five major areas that I was graded on with each of my essays. Those five areas are unity, development, coherence, grammar/-spelling/punctuation, and overall. Out of those five areas I had two strengths that was consistent from essay one through essay four, these two strengths are unity and development. Not only did I have strengths but I also have major…

Doing Honest Work in College Reflection Paper Charles Lipson breaks down the three principles of academic honesty as how to demonstrate work done by yourself, how to correctly cite, and how to present truthful data (Lipton 3). The book discusses how to demonstrate these principles and how to avoid situations where academic honestly is questioned. These principles will mold a person to be an honest student and an honest person when preforming any work in or out of school. The three principles…

This week the topic of Academic Integrity was discussed in reference to rhetorical situations. Normally when someone mentions the idea of academic integrity a person normally thinks violating the rule. Initially that was my first thought when I heard the phrase as well. The book mentions other ways a person might refer to the phrase such as plagiarism and lying about the work one did. For the purpose of the book refers to academic integrity in such “is not a question of “correct” adherence to…

Assessment Findings Record Review Background Britney is a 7th grade student at Ann Arbor Middle School. She currently lives with her mother, father, twin sister, and younger brother (7 years-old). Britney enjoys writing short stories and playing the violin. Medical History Britney’s medical records indicate that she is a healthy 13-year-old with no evident medical conditions. She passed a hearing screen and vision screen with glasses on in 2016. Academic History Britney attended Ann…