ESL 21b- Citing Your Sources and Paraphrasing Paraphrasing- preserve the author’s meaning‚ but use your own words. * Change Parts of Speech * Change Sentence Structure * Use synonyms (but sparingly) ORIGINAL Paragraph 11 Page 6 “Americans are trained to conceive of themselves as separate individuals‚ and they assume everyone else in the world is too.” (6) Acceptable or Not Acceptable? Why? 1. Althen explains Americans are trained to think of themselves as separate people
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Is Wikipedia an Acceptable Source for Academic Writing? Wikipedia is the ultimate source for information. It has articles on nearly every topic and has millions of editors around the world. However‚ just because it has a lot of information doesn’t mean that it is all good information. Academic writing is a very accurate type of writing that can require many unbiased‚ reliable‚ credible‚ and relevant sources. I do not think all Wikipedia articles are held to these standards and so‚ I do not believe
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Source A is supposed to be a valuable one because it’s adapted from Lenin’s April Theses for Peace‚ thus offering a perspective on the Revolution from the Bolshevik Party leader himself. However‚ the fact that it’s ‘adapted’ lowers its credibility‚ as the document might have suffered misleading changes‚ meant to portray Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a certain way. Moreover‚ the extract is published by the official communist newspaper which indicates a clear bias in favour of the Bolshevik Revolutionaries
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At the age of 12‚ Aurelius Augustinus was sent away to Carthage by his parents to get a better education. On November 13‚ 354 A.D‚ Aurelius Augustinus‚ also known as Saint Augustine‚ was born to Saint Monica‚ a Christian‚ and Patricius Aurelius‚ a pagan‚ in Thagaste‚ Numidia. As an adolescent‚ Augustine stole pears from his neighbor’s tree with the rough crowd. Soon after‚ his father fell ill and passed away. At the age of 17‚ through the generosity of his fellow citizens‚ Augustine went to Carthage
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Hitler’s other weapon Hitler did not rise to power completely through force; he used propaganda to convince German citizens that Jews (and other groups of people) were the cause of Germany’s economic problems. Hitler strategically blamed Jews for a majority of problems the German people faced‚ catering to all the demographics of the German population. In the book “Hitler’s Propaganda Machine”‚ the author‚ Roger B. Nelson‚ states that‚”…the Nazis embarked on a massive rearmament program that created
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Renewable sources of Energy Summary The potential of renewable energy sources is enormous as they can in principle meet many times the world’s energy demand. Renewable energy sources such as biomass‚ wind‚ solar‚ hydropower‚ and geothermal can provide sustainable energy services‚ based on the use of routinely available‚ indigenous resources. A transition to renewables-based energy systems is looking increasingly likely as their costs decline while the price of oil and gas continue to fluctuate
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a business - sources of business ideas Author: Jim Riley Last updated: Sunday 23 September‚ 2012 Starting a Business - Sources of business ideas Where does an entrepreneur come up with the idea for his/her business? In practice there are many ways in which the business opportunity and idea is first spotted. As we shall see‚ sometimes luck plays a big part; at other times there is a role for approaches which encourage deliberate creativity. Here are some of the main sources of business ideas
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entitled to receive their dividends from any domestic company without deduction of tax at source by the company in cases where - * the amount of dividend income received from the company does not exceed Rs. 2500 during the year; ------------------------------------------------- Interest other than interest on securities [Section 194 A]: This section deals with the scheme of deduction of tax at source from interest other than interest on securities. The main provisions are the following:
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Chapter - 1 INSURANCE INDUSTRY AN OVERVIEW 1.1. BACKGROUND OF INSURANCE INDUSTRY It has been established that village co-operatives insured against loss of profit in an industry in the early days of the Aryan Civilization. There were contacts safeguarding risks of transport by sea or land. Further these well renowned joint-family system rendered services similar to those of present life assurances. However expecting the system of joint family all other gradually waned and insurance in the
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Reliable Primary Sources Primary sources are original records created at the time or after historical events occurred. Primary sources may include letters‚ manuscripts‚ diaries‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ speeches‚ interviews‚ memoirs‚ photographs‚ audio recordings‚ video recordings‚ research data‚ and objects or artifacts from the time in order for it to be considered reliable. These sources are raw materials that help interpret the past. Not every primary source is completely reliable‚ because they
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