parallelism

Peers Educating To End Rape has some corrections that would make the flier appear more balanced.
Through volunteering you could:

• receive service
• learning credit

Schedule a presentation with us for:

• your class
• your conference
  
• your group

Crocker Science House has more balance to the structure than the other handout, primarily through the use of the Harvard comma.

• Beautiful architecture, classic interiors, and fully furnished, quiet, comfortable living space.

This next structure is balanced in two parts.

• More than 125 high-achieving students live in the ten homes on Officer's Circle.The student residential living complex ranks among the nation's finest.

An example found would be, Fred likes to swim and candy. this is incorrect since it has an infinitive on one side and a noun on the other. More correct structures would be:

• Fred likes to swim and to eat candy.
• Fred likes swimming and candy.

Previous Methods of Research

Thinking in Print

This particular area really stood out to me as I have written many times, giving myself ideas and thoughts that provoked while I wrote. There are many times I have reviewed my papers and asked myself, where did this come from? I have been able to reiterate ideas and information that I have struggled with while writing as well. I think that any time we are using more than one sensory input it helps to reinforce the idea or topic that we are discussing.

Making a claim and Supporting it.

This has always been an area I have been aware of as an amateur writer. There are to many times we see people push their beliefs off on others as facts when the really have no concrete evidence. This can be particularly evident in the political climate that is a part of our lives in the US. Too many times we accept what others tell us and regard it as true rather than take the time to research and prove the idea incorrect.

Preparing to Draft, Drafting, and Revising

I have always written the papers for the most part from the cuff, as I have always been told to get the ideas and words down on paper, then go back and modify them. Finalize the process with a final editing of the paper before submitting it. It wasn’t until around a year ago that I started to create crude outlines to guide me through the process of the paper. This began while I was writing Critical Analysis Arguments that required research and evidence to support my claims. I learned that it was a lot easier to write the paper if I was prepared with the evidence in advance. I always take the time to go over my papers and writings multiple times before I submit them for review, it can be a painful process to read a paper that has grammatical errors, or sways off topic, not following a format from A to Z.

Possessive Practice Questions

Possessives

1. Homes of my sons’ in laws.
2. rivers’ of Arkansas
3. house of Jim and Joan’s
4. Research of the PhD’s
5. Advertising’s of McGraw-Hill, Inc.
6. estimates’ of Fred the electrician
7. idea’s of anyone else
8. depositions’ of the witnesses
9. The upper level’s of the airport
10. The daughter of one of my best friend’s

Apostrophe or apostrophe’s with an S

1. The tree surgeon could not save the white spruce’s limb.
2. The user’s manual for the new software package was so confusing that most consumers returned it to the company.
3. Windows’ initiative commands make it easy for users’ to move from one application to another.
4. I will be in Hawaii on Mother’s day, in New Mexico on April Fool’s day, and in California on Veteran’s day.
5. Grover Cleveland was the peoples’ choice.
6. Each participant filled out the Reader’s Comment Form.
7. Now that he has his bachelor’s degree, he plans to get his master’s, and possibly his doctorate.
8. For appearance sake, the feuding vice presidents’ kept their differences to themselves during the monthly staff meeting.
9. The National Secretaries’ Conference will be held in Houston this year.
10. My brother’s in law idea was to have the family reunion at the spa.
11. We have been invited to a holiday party at the Roth’s
12. The telephone company’s president’s idea was to offer discount rates to seniors

Craft of Research

Research, researchers and readers

This is an area that I found rather interesting, especially the area regarding Thinking in Print. When we write it creates a method of interpretation that solidifies our thoughts and ideas in order to formulate an idea for further research. The part of Chapter 1 I really found interesting is when it discusses the reasons we write.

1. We write to remember.
2. We write to understand
3. We write to Gain Perspective

It is important that we have the ability top connect with the reader and be able to recreate who we are as a writer. We do this through creating role and relationships with the readers. When we write as groups it is important we understand they can be more critical of collective work than individuals. Groups also have a greater ability to bring research to the table if all the members bring their information to the table. The book discusses three things that are critical to working together successfully.

1. Talk a Lot
2. Agree to Disagree
3. Organize and Plan

Making a claim and supporting it

This are is of particular importance as having the ability to make sure your claim are legitimate and true are the basis of any argument, otherwise it is nothing more than a personal rant. In the chapter making good arguments there is a list of items that make particular sense to me. They are:

1. What do you claim?
2. What reasons support your claim?
3. What evidence supports your reasons?
4. Do you acknowledge this alternative / complication / objection, and how do you respond?
5. What principal (warrant) justifies connecting your reasons to make the claim?

Preparing to Draft, Drafting, and Revising

The process of creating a draft for a project seems to be no specific procedure that every person needs to develop as they become comfortable in the writing. There are no set points or methods that work for all people. As a writer there are some basic preparations though that may be useful when preparing to create a draft.

1. Create a noun based outline of statements that can be used to guide the outline process and put ideas down in a brief format that will be expendable as ideas mature. This is a series of topics that highlight the main stages.
2. The draft is a series of points that highlight your main reasons. This is the process where you start to test your argument, giving yourself a medium you can use to see your ideas. These ideas are more complete than the outline and specify more accurately the direction of your argument.

Hyphens

The first part of the real world examples is of the 2 bedroom special, this one would be improper to use bed-room as 2 separate words tied together with a hyphen, although they are followed with a noun. The second example is proper as this brings 2 words together as a single adjective before a noun.