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writing styles. To begin, I learned about using American Psychological Association in my writing and how to format my essays as my professor requested. Secondly, the fast pace class showed me how to manage my time successfully in order to focus more on my school work rather than other stuff. To finalize, the class overall help me out on how to find scholarly source in the University of Maryland library. Taken writing 101 has really helped developed my writing skills writing in APA style,…

worry as much about what to say to find a method by which they can express their ideas. It is easier to just express the ideas and later organize them. Furthermore, the process by which one approaches may differ; some might choose to read certain styles of writing to inspire good thoughts and others might exercise before. Julia Alvarez, author of “Writing Matters” acknowledges that she must read pieces of prose and essays in her native language and place a fresh bowl of water on her desk to help…

Walt more than his friends. Since Walt tended to approach a problem the same way that I did, I often resorted to explain the problem to him rather than his friends. After the class on different learning styles, I realized that it was my responsibility to tailor my tutoring to other learning styles as…

History and Development of Program The Systematic Training for Effective Parenting education program was developed by Dinkmeyer and McKay, who are used concepts from Adlerian and the Parent Effectiveness Training parenting ideas (Nystul, 1982, p. 63). Four of the five articles that were found on the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting education program, had different types of locations and populations. One of the articles uses parents that are in Lithuanian, and were mostly from…

For my ethnography project I researched both sides of my families to gain a better understanding of their development through the life stages, how they deal with crisis and their parenting styles. Through personal family research, material learned in class and scholarly journals I will better explain my family and their history. From the beginning to end of this assignment I gained knowledge about my family that I did not know prior. To begin with I will discuss my parents and then elaborate…

Major depression is a mood disorder that causes to have negative feelings for an extensive time as it could take a few days or even weeks. Those negative feelings include sadness, anger, loss, hopelessness and discouragement. They can interfere individual’s daily activities due to the lack of ambition and energy. Depression can be caused through different symptoms such as family history, stressful events, personality, loneliness, illness and physical changes. This essay will be exploring on…

There is a common misconception that all conflict is "bad." This word "conflict" normally yields a negative connotation and is precieved as a problem that must be fixed, in which a solution must be sought-- resuling in a winning party and a losing party. In the managerial world this is not always the case when it comes to conflicts. There is two types of conflicts that can occur within a work group, these are called functional and dysfunctional conflicts. While both of these types of conflicts…

Lory Hough and Corydon Ireland explore the idea of "The achievement gap, a look into causes" and "The achievement gap, a look into causes: Parents ' role". I believe the five main points of the two articles are, first, it will close the achievement gap if you target certain behaviors having a negative impact on poor children. Second, race and class, the achievement gap separates white children from children of color and middle-class children from poor children. Third, closing the achievement…

effectively. A publication from North Carolina State University called Learning Styles and Strategies written by Richard Felder and Barbra Soloman, discusses various learning styles and strategies that people use in order to understand material, and how those styles vary with each individual. In order to apply the results that Felder and Soloman found, a person had to take a quiz to figure out their preferable learning styles. Once completed, the test taker compared…

Mark Twain once said “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”, this quote has always stuck out in my head during any writing assignment. This quote reminds me that all I have to do is just say whatever comes to mind and cross out the words that do not fit. However, how do you know what is the right and wrong words to use in your assignment. This revision process has not been my strength in my personal writing process. Despite this obstacle, I have developed techniques…