Revision

conflicting views of liberty, democracy and largely the revision of the constitution and its consequences or lack there of. James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution, believed that constitutional revision should be infrequent. While John Dewey argues for change, while not specifically on constitutional revision but rather for “effective liberty” for the state of democracy as a whole, which ultimately relates to that of constitutional revision. In James Madison’s Federalist 49, written in…

During the court hearings and revisions, men dominated the proceedings and they attempted to silence the women who were some of the main contributors of the legislation. Gleason discussed, that the battle over VAWA was due to men making arguments that made sense to men, but ignored the…

needed before responding. Experience takes a person a long way, but wisdom allows for a learning experience. Revising is probably most easily done on paper as it takes more time and allows the thought process to catch up to the emotion. Verbal revision is not so…

knowledge I acquired from the English 3003 class, I can proudly say that, I successfully improves my writing skills to meet the WST requirements, because I have mastered the abilities of analysis of a text, citation of external sources and essay revision. Recognizing the rhetorical triangle significantly improves my text analysis ability thereby improving my writing skills by learning advantage and avoiding disadvantage of writing. The rhetorical triangle is a technique that has been widely…

The Publication Process: The New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is the world’s leading medical journal (NEJM, n.d.). The journal receives approximately 5000 submissions a year and the majority of them are from authors not based in the United States. Upon receipt of the manuscript, at least five experts edit and review it prior to it being published. The review process is stringent and NEJM accepts only five percent of articles submitted for publication…

For my first revision I have decided to do a PowerPoint for my second essay that I wrote. The second essay was about North Carolina Science Olympiad (NCSO). In the essay, it talks about how it is an organization for kids from Kindergarten to twelfth grade that competes in science competitions. There are many things in the science field and in NCSO there are many things that it focuses on in the essay I talked about two of those things engineering, and technology. For the second revision I have…

Linda Flower says that “a good piece of writing closes the gap between you and the reader” (184). Meaning that the writer is able to make the reader see things the way the writer does. The writing process is generally long and requires constant revision. I would characterize my writing process as lacking in essential qualities, but improvable by taking more time during planning and revising, and thinking about the needs of my reader. I start my writing process in the comfort of my own room. I…

Chapter Eight: In this Chapter, Graff and Birkenstein discuss creating connections in writing. Connections keep writing from becoming confusing for readers. To keep this confusion from occurring, the authors suggest four ways to create connections in writing. The first of these is using transitional words or phrases to show the reader how the sentences connect. The second is using “pointing words”, such as this, that, or it, so the reader must refer to the previous sentence in order to…

of jus in bello rely on a distinction between combatants and non-combatants. Stephen Coleman has questioned whether this distinction is relevant to conflicts in the twenty-first century. Write a paper in which you: a. Explain the distinction and the justification for it. b. Describe the features of contemporary wars that make the distinction harder to describe or harder to apply d. Explain whether you think the distinction should be accepted as traditionally defined, accepted but…

entries portray different aspects of writing skills I learned through out the class. Such as things that I exceled in were prewriting, critical reading, research, rhetorical analysis and style and genre. In addition, I also have weaknesses that include revision and creating a proofreading. In my essay “Life Goes On”, I had profiled my friend on how she has lived her life as an orphan. It was difficult to make a decision when it came to choosing whom to profile. We were given a pre-writing…