Immigration is a term to refer to the act of moving from one country to another for the purpose of permanent residence. People who live under this condition, is called "Immigrants" until their citizenship is confirmed.Immigration takes place due to a number or reasons, wars, security, marriage, religious freedom, employing opportunities, a better education or simply a better and happier way of living. In the past, world witnessed the immigration of people who escaped from dangerous countries in order to be safe or because they were persecuted. As another example, employment, is the usual reason for immigration nowadays, new job opportunities are in foreign places, so people have to leave their country of origin. Clearly, there are plausible reasons to migrate, good jobs, better education, safer ways of leaving that make people to take the decision of leaving their country. Immigration is an endless movement around the world, and the word "Immigrant" becomes more common among the inhabitants of a country, they are seen as people who found a new chance.
Travelling nowadays around the world is significant, we travel perhaps once in a blue moon or we take a train, a bus, a plane or a ship every week, every month, every year. We travel in order to see other countries and continents, we cross deep oceans, high mountains, rivers and vast areas. Through travelling we meet different people, we visit old or modern cities and consequently we can learn about other cultures. From any point of view, travelling is an unforgettable experience for everybody, because forces us to lose sight of all that familiar things, our home and customs. In addition one of the best thing about travelling is that we experience new things and face a completely new world, and everything will be in our minds, forever. There is no better way of learning than travelling, it is enjoyable and memorable, it is not impossible to find out something new in other country. Whatever the place is, wherever we travel, whenever we do it, every day, every month, once a year or once in our life, travelling is significant and it will be a treasure stored in memory for everyone.
The pleasure of travelling:
(Version of my mate Magalí)
Travel is important because it fundamentally transforms us. This
experience of waking up to the power of your own transformation fires you up to
“be the change you want to see in the world”. We travel in order to see other countries and continents, we cross deep oceans, high mountains, rivers and vast areas. Through travelling we meet different people, we visit old or modern cities and consequently we can learn about other cultures. From any point of view, travelling is an unforgettable experience for everybody, because forces us to lose sight of all that familiar things, our home and customs. In addition one of the best thing about travelling is that we experience new things and face a completely new world, and everything will be in our minds, forever. There is no better way of learning than travelling, it is enjoyable and memorable, it is not impossible to find out something new in other country.Travelling is important because it expands one's knowledge and
understanding of the world. Travelling opens up people to other cultures and
ideas.
Metacognitive analysis:
The peer assignment was purposeful. In the case of my second paragraph, the version of my mate Magalí changed the meaning of it. In her topic sentence, she refers to a transformation and that travelling is an experience which completely changes our mind whereas I talked about travelling as a hobby or something we do in our free time. On the other hand, her concluding sentence is similar to mine, but she supports the idea of that travelling expands our mind. For me, her concluding sentence is better than mine because is the most suitable conclusion of my paragraph, it gives a clear ending and best reflects the content of the paragraph. In comparison of my sentences to her sentences there are neither synonyms nor antonyms. Regarding wording, language has been taken into account by my mate and the elements of her sentences are developed in the paragraph.
English Academic Writing Introduction, parts of a paragraph:
Topic sentence.
The subject.
An interesting topic.
Give your opinion.
Body.
The heart.
Gives supporting details or arguments.
Details ordered by importance/ By chronology.
Closing sentence.
Remains the topic to the audience.
A little extraargument.
University of Massey, writing structured paragraphs:
Style
Correct punctuation
Paragraphing.
Clear and logical paragraphs.
Understandable material.
PARAGRAPH:
A distinct section in a piece of writing.
Indicated by a new line.
Started with a topic sentence.
Sentences related to each other (COHERENCE)
One main idea, one focus. (UNITY)
Cohesion
Main idea supported by examples and details. (DEVELOPMENT)
Concluding paragraph:
Main points summarized.
Short.
Main conclusion stated.
It must satisfy the reader.
Do not:
Introduced new material.
End with a generalization.
End with a quotation.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about the importance of what she terms “realist literature”, her discourse is fantastic and clear. She starts claiming books are the centre of her world. She affirms, writing is a private act which becomes a public one. Firstly, her writings are for readers, but not any kind of readers, for those who love the way she writes, an audience arises and moves right-wing from a concrete took public space and the result is, Chimamanda writes the kind of fiction she would like to read. Chimamanda writes for whoever enjoys that kind of fiction, due to she is a writer who is not interest in Hobbits or alternative universes for example, so readers who love fiction stories or live in a fairy tale would not be her audience; her books are about real human beings living in real places, what she means real literature. In addition, about which is the role of literature, she claims it is to delight and underlines that realist literature is to search for humanity with less cynicism as well. Literature is in deep how we are different and calls realist literature transmits the sensibility of citizenship.
Half of a yellow sun, one of her books.
About her books and writings, Chimamanda expresses where the inspiration comes from, which is for the writer is a challenge. The inspiration comes from the desire to write about love, friendship and family and how world changes all of that for instance. In addition, for Chimamanda, the inspiration comes from her father, from the eyes of her mother telling her stories. To sum up books and literature are her world, and realist literature makes her to be closer to the audience.
Award winning African author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells Jon Snow why her latest book Americanah mirrors some of the central issues of her own life; race, immigration and the power of hair.
Biography:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka and completed her secondary education at the University's school, receiving several academic prizes. She went on to study medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half. During this period, she editedThe Compass, a magazine run by the University's Catholic medical students.
At the age of nineteen, Chimamanda left for the United States. She gained a scholarship to study communication at Drexel University in Philadelphia for two years, and she went on to pursue a degree in communication and political science at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Chimamanda graduated in 2001, and then completed a master's degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
It is during her senior year at Eastern that she started working on her first novel,Purple Hibiscus, which was released in October 2003. The book has received wide critical acclaim: it was short listed for the Orange Fiction Prize (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2005). Her second novel,Half of a Yellow Sun(also the title of one of her short stories), is set before and during the Biafran War. It was published in August 2006 in the United Kingdom and in September 2006 in the United States. LikePurple Hibiscus, it has also been released in Nigeria.
Chimamanda was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005-2006 academic year, and earned an MA in African Studies from Yale University in 2008.
Her collection of short stories,The Thing around Your Neck, was published in 2009. Chimamanda says her next major literary project will focus on the Nigerian immigrant experience in the United States.
Chimamanda is now married and divides her time between Nigeria, where she regularly teaches writing workshops, and the United States. She has recently been awarded a 2011-2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
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APA citation style refers to the rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for documenting sources used in a research paper. APA style requires both in-text citations and a reference list. The examples of APA styles and formats bellow include many of the most common types of sources used in academic research.
Works
by a single author
The last name of the author and the year of
publication are inserted in the text at the appropriate point.
from theory
on bounded rationality (Simon, 1945)
If the name of the author or the date appear as part
of the narrative, cite only missing information in parentheses.
Simon (1945)
posited that
Works
by multiple authors
When a work has two authors, always cite both names
every time the reference occurs in the text. In parenthetical material join the
names with an ampersand (&).
as has been
shown (Leiter & Maslach, 1998)
In the narrative text, join the names with the word
"and."
as Leiter
and Maslach (1998) demonstrated
When a work has three, four, or five authors, cite all
authors the first time the reference occurs.
Kahneman,
Knetsch, and Thaler (1991) found
In all subsequent citations per paragraph, include
only the surname of the first author followed by "et al." (Latin for
"and others") and the year of publication.
Kahneman et
al. (1991) found
Works
by associations, corporations, government agencies, etc.
The names of groups that serve as authors (corporate
authors) are usually written out each time they appear in a text reference.
(National
Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 2007)
When appropriate, the names of some corporate authors
are spelled out in the first reference and abbreviated in all subsequent
citations. The general rule for abbreviating in this manner is to supply enough
information in the text citation for a reader to locate its source in the
Reference List without difficulty.
(NIMH, 2007)
Works
with no author
When a work has no author, use the first two or three
words of the work's title (omitting any initial articles) as your text
reference, capitalizing each word. Place the title in quotation marks if it
refers to an article, chapter of a book, or Web page. Italicize the title if it
refers to a book, periodical, brochure, or report.
on climate
change ("Climate and Weather," 1997)
Guide to
Agricultural Meteorological Practices (1981)
Anonymous authors should be listed as such followed by
a comma and the date.
on climate
change (Anonymous, 2008)
Specific
parts of a source
To cite a specific part of a source (always necessary
for quotations), include the page, chapter, etc. (with appropriate
abbreviations) in the in-text citation.
(Stigter
& Das, 1981, p. 96)
De Waal
(1996) overstated the case when he asserted that "we seem to bereaching ... from the hands of
philosophers" (p. 218).
If page numbers are not included in electronic sources
(such as Web-based journals), provide the paragraph number preceded by the
abbreviation "para." or the heading and following paragraph.
(Mönnich & Spiering, 2008, para.
9)
The following list provides the information necessary to identify each source:
Order: Entries should be arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the author. Sources without authors are arranged alphabetically by title within the same list.
Authors: Write out the last name and initials for all authors of a particular work. Use an ¨&¨ instead of the word ¨and¨ when listing multiple authors of a single work. e.g. Smith, J. D., & Jones, M.
Titles: Capitalize only the first word of a title or subtitle, and any proper names that are part of a title.
Pagination: Use the abbreviation p. or pp. to designate page numbers of articles from periodicals that do not use volume numbers, especially newspapers. These abbreviations are also used to designate pages in encyclopedia articles and chapters from edited books.
Underlining vs. Italics: It is appropriate to use italics instead of underlining for titles of books and journals.
In addition for works accesed online:
Internet Address: An Internet address should be included and should direct the reader as close as possible to the actual work. If the work has a digital object identifier (DOI), use this. If not, use a stable URL. If the URL is not stable as well, use the home page of the site you retrieved the work from.
Date: In the case of a journal article, the date within the main body of the citation is enough. However, if the work is not dated and/or is subject to change, as in the case of an online encyclopedia article, include the date that you retrieved the information.
EXAMPLES:
ONE AUTHOR, PRINT SOURCE
Gallagher, T. E. (1992). Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller, and the premature demise
of ethnography. MACLAS Latin American Essays, 7, 121-133.
ONE AUTHOR, FULL TEXT ONLINE SOURCE (periodical)
Ozawa, T. (1999). The rise and fall of bank-loan capitalism: institutionally driven
growth and crisis in Japan. Journal of Economic Issues, 32, 351+. Retrieved
October 6, 1999 from Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac) on the World
WideWeb: http://www.infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/
TWO AUTHORS, QUOTATION
Economopoulos, A., & O'Neill, H. (1995). Bank entry during the antebellum period.
Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, 27, 1071
MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS
Chambliss, C., Pinto, D., & McGuigan, J. (1997). Reactions to managed care among
psychologists and social workers. Psychological Reports, 80, 147-154.
DAILY NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Landler, M. (1995, May 9). Jingling the keys to cyberspace, cable officials sing a new tune. The New York Times, pp. D1, D6.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, ELECTRONIC SOURCE
Brown, M. W. (1994, July 26). Comet that shook Jupiter may probe planet's secrets. New York Times, Late Edition, Final, Sec. C: Science Desk, p. 1. Retrieved from ProQuest database, (New York Times Ondisc, CD-ROM)
ARTICLE IN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
Oboler, R. E. (1995). Nandi and other Kalenjin peoples. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Vol. 9, pp. 231-234). Boston: Hall.
(November 2002). APA Citation Style. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa. [Last Accessed May 3, 2013]. J. Fryer (1999). APA Sample citations. [ONLINE] Available at: http://myrin.ursinus.edu/help/resrch_guides/cit_style_apa.htm. [Last Accessed May 3, 2013].
I am a writer: (Original version) I am a writer because I am a dreamer and I do not want to wake up. if you have marvellous dreams, you will share them to the rest of the world.everybody deserves to be pleased with incredible dreams expressed by words, strong ones about love, friendship,
shearing and peace. I am a writer because I want to be one, not famous but unforgettable by years. It is not necessary to write a thick book, sometimes words are lost in long chapters, but it is primordial that every word goes through people, their mind and heart.
Since we are a little a baby, we are unconscious writers. our life is of plenty of moments that then are memories, fabulous ones! Perhaps we do not write them on a paper but they are written in our mind and make us vulnerable when we remember them. I am a writer and I wish my readers enjoy my lines, enjoy my dreams and my way of living. They can take my thoughts and follow them without being authoritative. I am trying to be gentle and to be an example to the whole society. I wish when readers read my stories they contemplate a wonderful landscape, a green landscape of hope and happiness.
After being reading models and working into groups, I realised that some steps were forgiven by me. Firstly, I did not consider to which ages my written work was (adults or children) and did not do a research due to it was not an informative or investigational writing. According to step number two (Drafting) I think I did it correctly, I wrote paragraphs and sentences even they were not perfect but I did not show it to others and ask for suggestions. In a way I made my writing better, I read it twice (Revising) and rearranged words, I replaced words using the dictionary. About proofreading nobody checked my work, so I am not sure if is it understandable, and if it transmits the idea that I wanted to express. The fifth step was completed absent, I did not read it aloud to a group or sent a copy to a friend, and I had never congratulated myself on the job! But it is important to say that I illustrated it!
I am a writer because I am a dreamer and I do not want to wake up. if you have marvellous dreams, you will share them to the rest of the world.everybody deserves to be pleased with incredible dreams expressed by words, strong ones about love, friendship, sharing and peace. I am a writer because I want to be one, not famous but unforgettable by years. It is not necessary to write a thick book, sometimes words are lost in long chapters, but it is primordial that every word goes through people, their mind and heart.
Since we are a little a baby, we are unconscious writers. our life is of plenty of moments that then are memories, fabulous ones! Perhaps we do not write them on a paper but they are written in our mind and make us vulnerable when we remember them. I am a writer and I wish my readers enjoy my lines, enjoy my dreams and my way of living. They can take my thoughts and follow them without being authoritative. I am trying to be gentle and to be an example to the whole society. I wish when readers read my stories they contemplate a wonderful landscape, a green landscape of hope and happiness.
I will show readers that everybody can write, but that is not as simple as taking a pen and a sheet of paper, we need dreams, amazing not complaint ideas, neither aggressive nor competitive words, the world damages to us, harm is a resulting from injustice, death and loneliness, so we need to be distinguishable from the rest. Our handwriting may bright, the pen becomes a magic one, which transmits luminous ideas, and the pages one step forward! I enjoy writing, I can put into words my feelings, my dreams and all my internal world. It is a kind of gift to the humanity.
Welcome back! There are a lot of things to do so let´s go! My name is Florencia Tovagliari and I study at the training teaching college N°41, Adrogue. This is the second part of my blog, and I will be sharing with you my work again! I hope you enjoy it!
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