Source text

Open Source Software Projects: A Balance of Trust and Control According to Jones et al. (2005), trust is the single most important driver for the success of virtual teams. However, as a result of Michael Gallivan’s (2001) case study on open source software projects, he now believes that there is another variable to this movement that can be found in control. He presents the McDonaldization theory by identifying four aspects of modern organizations: efficiency, calculability, predictability and…

the amount of force necessary to confiscate code, it might have to be considered because source code plays a big role in 21st century trade. In essence, “Regulation AT is a 20th…

is a book about depression, despair and ultimately, hope. The book follows a girl struggling with depression who, at the end of the book, finds hope in the form of a red tree. For a picture book to be successful, both the illustrations and written text generally can exist independently, but complement each other. There is a strong marriage between the written and visual language in Tan’s book that creates a harmonious connection to powerfully and effectively represent depression. The…

to write an information text. I chose to do a lesson about “What am I good at.” I felt that the time that I had to complete this lesson, twenty minutes, I didn’t have time to require them to write about something that they would have to research. From earlier classes that I have taken at USC, I knew that using the knowledge that the students’ already possessed was the best place to begin. Just like the reading lesson I opened with a class discussion on what information text was and how it was…

Part 1:Write a short commentary on either primary source extract A or Primary Source extract B. Extract Chosen= A This is a letter detailing the correspondence between the British foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey to the British Ambassador to Austria, Sir M. de Bunsen following a conversation he had on the morning of 23rd July 1914 (Great Britain Foreign Office, 1915). The letter was written when the July Crisis was at its peak and was written five days before the declaration of war from…

round robin. This lesson was targeted to eighth grade students so they could become experts on different Articles within the Constitution in order to teach them to fellow classmates. The objectives associated with the lesson are examining primary sources, explaining how our government works and knowing the different parts of our government system. The goal is for our students to be able to perform the objectives listed above. The lesson lasted for two days and was followed by a game that…

both in and through a text in order to receive a more sustained understanding of the concept. The two approaches are closely linked and, as a result, complement each other to quite a large extent. James Bradley’s novel Wrack and Raymond Carver’s short story So Much Water So Close to Home (So Much Water) contrast the effects of the process of deliberate discoveries evoked by necessity with sudden physical discoveries on an individual’s relationships. Similarly, through the texts Bradley and…

where teams have developers with different native languages (my first language is Portuguese) we all need some help. In this post, I 'll provide an overview of some techniques and tools that developers (or anyone else!) can use to write better texts. Why is writing so important? Do you think a developer only writes code? Communicating with clients/partners via email, giving updates in bug trackers and stories, writing the stories themselves, creating documentation, comments and help files…

for balanced content for the development of resources used in reading practices (code breaker, meaning maker, text user and text analyst) (Anstey, 2002). The first part of the Four Resource, code breaking, requires using semiotic systems used within texts to make sense of the “marks on the…

he became a medicine man because he let the natives control him. Resendez transitioned Cabeza de Vaca into being a medicine man because of his earlier practices of healing natives on Malhado, which aligns with the primary source. In David Frye;’s translation of the primary text of Cabeza de Vaca Relacion De Vaca reveals that since God our lord had been pleased to spare me through all my hardships and illnesses and lead me at last to their company, they resolved to flee. He is so that he…