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<h2>
APA Referencing Style for Works Cited List</h2>
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Your reference list entries should follow the format of:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Author’s surname followed by initials<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The year of publication<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The title of the text in, with short texts in
standard format and longer texts in italics<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The place of publication <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The publisher’s name<o:p></o:p></div>
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The APA style is very similar to the Harvard style, yet the placement of
some punctuation needs to change. For example, a simple <b>book entry</b> for John Milton’s <i>Paradise
Lost </i>will look as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Milton, J. (2003). <i>Paradise
Lost</i>. London: Penguin Classics.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Notice the placement of commas and periods. Commas separate
the author’s initials from their surname. Periods separate the different
components of the reference, and a colon separates the place of publication
from the publisher’s name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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For books with <b>two or
more authors</b>, give the first (primary) author’s surname, a comma and the
initial followed by a period. Follow this with the second author’s surname and
initial, in this format:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Rollins, J. P., Thompson, P. W.,
& Johnson, P. (2007).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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For APA style, there is a limit of seven authors listed per reference,
so if you have more than seven, place an ellipse (…) after the sixth author’s
name and then simply give the final author’s details.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are using an <b>article</b>
within a book, or any shorter work which appears as part of a larger collection
like a poem in an anthology or a scholarly paper within a journal, then you
will include both the name of the short work in standard formatting as well as
the name of the long work in italics. You’ll also have to include the pages
that the short work appears on, if these are available:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="First">
T<span style="color: blue;">itus, J. (2006). The Raging
Sea. <i>Poems About Water </i>(pp. 25-33).
New York: Purple Publishers.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
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Notice the pages that the poem appears on are given after
the title of the larger work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For scholarly journals, you can also include the edition
details, such as the volume and the number of the journal. The volume is placed
next to the journal’s title after a comma, and the number is placed in brackets
directly next to the volume number. These are then followed by the pages on
which the article appears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Azua, M. (2003). Phenomenology
in the Workplace. <i>Journal of Workplace Philosophy</i>, 22(5), 38-77.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
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For electronic sources such as websites, you can keep the
same format and simply leave out any information which is not available, such
as author’s name or date of publication.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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You should include the URL of any sites that you visit in
place of page numbers, and the date that the document was published.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Rice, H. (2017). 10 Things You
Didn’t Know You Were Doing Wrong. <i>FuzzBeed</i>. Retrieved from http://www.fuzzbeed.com/10_things.html.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
<br />
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In this example, the date of publication is included. For
online scholarly articles, you can use the usual format given for physical
journal articles, and simply include the URL and the date you accessed it with
the ‘Retrieved from’ format.<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-49625863772749380902017-08-30T11:01:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:25:46.214+02:00Harvard Referencing Style for Works Cited List<h2>
<br />Harvard Referencing Style for Works Cited List</h2>
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Your reference list entries should follow the format of:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Author’s surname followed by initials<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The year of publication<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The title of the text in either quote marks or
italics, depending on whether it is a short work or a larger work respectively<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The publisher’s name<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The place of publication<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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In contrast to the MLA format which uses periods, the Harvard style
separates each aspect of the reference with a comma. For example, a simple <b>book entry</b> for John Milton’s <i>Paradise Lost </i>will look as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Milton, J 2003, <i>Paradise
Lost</i>, Penguin Classics, London.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Notice the placement of commas. Commas separate the author’s
initials from their surname, and the year of publication from the name of the
text.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For books with <b>two or
more authors</b>, give the first (primary) author’s surname, a comma and the initial,
and follow that with the second author’s surname and initial, in this format:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Rollins, J, Thompson, P & Johnson,
P 2007</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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There is no limit on the number of authors listed in the reference list
in the Harvard style, and the term “et al.” should only be used for in-text
citations. Each author should appear in the reference list.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are using an <b>article</b>
within a book, or any shorter work which appears as part of a larger collection
like a poem in an anthology or a scholarly paper within a journal, then you
will include both the name of the short work in quotation marks as well as the
name of the long work in italics. You’ll also have to include the pages that
the short work appears on, if these are available:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Titus, J 2006, “The Raging Sea”,
<i>Poems About Water</i>, Purple Publishers,
New York, pp. 25-33.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For scholarly journals, you can also include the edition
details, such as the volume and the number of the journal:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Azua, M 2003, “Phenomenology in
the Workplace”, <i>Journal of Workplace Philosophy</i>, vol. 22, no. 5, pp.38-77.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For electronic sources such as websites, you can keep the
same format and simply leave out any information which is not available, such
as author’s name or date of publication.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
You should include the URL of any sites that you visit in
place of page numbers, and the date that you accessed the information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Rice, H 2017, “10 Things You
Didn’t Know You Were Doing Wrong”, <i>FuzzBeed</i>, viewed 22 April 2017, http://www.fuzzbeed.com/10_things.html.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
<br />
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In this example, the date of viewing the site is listed
after the title of the website. For online scholarly articles, you can use the
usual format given for physical journal articles, and simply include the URL
and the date you accessed it.<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-59848815393316599622017-08-30T10:32:00.000+02:002017-09-10T22:25:37.094+02:00MLA Referencing Style for Works Cited Lists<br />
<h2>
MLA Referencing Style for Works Cited Lists</h2>
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a list of resources or a bibliography at the end of your document. The word <b>bibliography </b>typically refers to a list
of only books, which is why the more general headings <b>List of Resources</b> or <b>Works
Cited </b>are usually used for essays and dissertations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The list should be given as an appendix and started on a new page. You
should arrange the references alphabetically based on the surname of the
author, so that it is easy for the reader to find more details on a citation
that they notice within your written work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A list of references contains much more information than the in-text
citations. This is so that your readers can have everything they need in order
to find the original sources which you consulted if they wish to do so. A brief
guide to the various styles of referencing for the list of resources will be
given below. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>MLA Style<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Your reference list entries should follow the format of:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->Author’s surname followed by their first name (and
optionally middle names or initials where needed<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The title of the text in either quote marks or
italics, depending on whether it is a short work or a larger work respectively<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The publisher’s name<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .8in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]-->The date of publication<o:p></o:p></div>
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For example, a simple <b>book entry</b>
for John Milton’s <i>Paradise Lost </i>will
look as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Milton, John. <i>Paradise
Lost</i>. Penguin Classics, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Notice the placement of commas and periods. Periods are
placed after the author’s details, and again after the book’s title. Commas
separate the author’s first name from their surname, and the year of
publication from the publisher’s name.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For books with <b>two
authors</b>, give the first (primary) author’s surname, a comma and the first
name, and follow that with the second author’s first name and last name in this
format:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Rollins, Jacqueline, and Peter
Johnson.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For three or more authors, use the Latin term “et al.”:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Jansen, Keith, et al. <i>The
Vacation</i>. Bloomberg, 1977.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If you are using an <b>article</b>
within a book, or any shorter work which appears as part of a larger collection
like a poem in an anthology or a scholarly paper within a journal, then you
will include both the name of the short work in quotation marks as well as the
name of the long work in italics. You’ll also have to include the pages that
the short work appears on, if these are available:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Titus, Joe. “The Raging Sea.” <i>Poems
About Water</i>. Purple Publishers, 2006, pp. 25-33.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="First">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Note the use of “pp” in front of the page numbers. For a
single page, the letter “p” is used, but for multiple pages, “pp” should
precede the numbers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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For scholarly journals, you can also include the edition
details, such as the volume and the number of the journal:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Azua, Maria. “Phenomenology in
the Workplace.” <i>Journal of Workplace Philosophy,</i> vol. 22, no. 5, 2003, pp.38-77.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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For electronic sources such as websites, you can keep the
same format and simply leave out any information which is not available, such
as author’s name or date of publication.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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You should include the URL of any sites that you visit in
place of page numbers, and the date that you accessed the information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="First">
<span style="color: blue;">Rice, Harvey. “10 Things You
Didn’t Know You Were Doing Wrong.” <i>FuzzBeed</i>, 22 Apr. 2017, www.fuzzbeed.com/10_things.html. Accessed 15 May 2017.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In this example, the date of publication is included after
the title of the website, and the date that you accessed it is included at the
end. For online scholarly articles, you can use the usual format given for
physical journal articles, and simply include the URL and the date you accessed
it.<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-85891905772760095162017-08-30T09:51:00.003+02:002017-09-10T22:24:54.202+02:00Integrating Quotes into Essays and Dissertations<h2>
<br />Integrating Quotes into Essays and Dissertations</h2>
<br />
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order to make your writing better, it can be very challenging to integrate
these sources effectively into your own research. Quotes can often make the
writing of beginners sound clunky or unnatural. Good academic writing is able
to integrate quotes seamlessly into paragraphs so that they don’t become
intrusive, making the work disjointed or confusing the reader.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Quotes should always be kept <b>as short as possible</b>, and you should aim to always analyze and
discuss the quotes for most of your essay, paper or dissertation, rather than
spending the bulk of your time reproducing the ideas of others through large
block quotes. However, sometimes it’s necessary to use extended quotes in order
to share particularly important passages or to express very complex ideas which
can’t be paraphrased or summarized without losing some of the original meaning.
If you have to use long quotes, make sure that you follow the conventions of
your referencing style.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For quotes of four lines or longer, regardless of how many
sentences make up the quote, you will insert the quote on a new line. Make the
font one size smaller than the font of your paragraphs, and <b>indent </b>the quote so that it stands out
from the rest of the text. Indented block quotes also don’t require inverted
commas around them, since the quote is already clearly distinguished from the
rest of your text. An example of what this would look as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is an example of a block quote,
which is separated from the rest of your text by using a different font size
and indenting it. The quote should only be indented if it is four lines of text
or longer, and you should end it off with the reference based on the
referencing style you are using. (Andrews, 2017, p.9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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The indented block quote still forms part of the paragraph
which introduced it, and you should also try to spend a few lines after the
block quote to give an analysis or explanation of the contents of the quote and
how it relates to your research. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even when you have shorter quotes, they can often cause your
writing to become difficult to read if you don’t integrate them artfully. Many
students simply place a quote as a sentence on its own, and then proceed to
discuss it afterwards. The reader might be left very confused if a quote is
suddenly thrown at them in your essay without any context to prepare them. For
this reason, good academic writers integrate their quotes <b>within sentences. </b>For example, if you want to use the following
quote from a book by Oliver Stephens:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>“Every child deserves a good education.” (1935: p. 22)</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This quote would be much more effective if the reader knew <b>why and how </b>you were using it to
strengthen your research. Giving some context first will make the quote
resonate more with the reader. You could <b>introduce
the quote</b> first by doing something like the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="First" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Children benefit greatly from
education. Oliver Stephens believed that education should be seen as a basic
human right, and he argued that “[e]very child deserves a good education”
(1935: p. 22).</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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By first giving some context for the quote, it makes much
more sense to the reader, and your writing becomes stronger. The quote becomes
part of the sentence, rather than a separate entity which might cause the
paragraph to feel clumsy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Notice also how the capital “E” from the word “Every” has
been changed when the quote was integrated into the sentence. In order to make
the quote flow with the rest of the sentence, the letter was changed to the
lowercase “e”, and the change was noted with <b>square brackets</b>. This is a widely-accepted method for integrating
quotes and making slight changes in direct quotes to help the reader understand
the context.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at a final example of integrating quotes. If you
want to use the following quote in your research:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="First">
<i><span style="color: blue;">“Little did he know that I was already waiting for him at his
home.” (Warwick 75)</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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You could integrate the quote as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="First">
<i><span style="color: blue;">The character Donaldo is ready to pounce on Bertrand when he
arrives at home. He explains that Bertrand had no idea that Donaldo “was
already waiting for [Bertrand] at his home” (Warwick 75).</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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In this integrated quote, the word “him” was changed to “Bertrand”
so that the reader would know who it was referring to. Some parts of the quote
were omitted so that it flowed with the rest of the sentence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even though square brackets can help you to alter your
quotes slightly to fit in with your sentences, you should always reproduce the
ideas of the quote exactly with the original context. Misrepresenting the ideas
of another author is also a form of intellectual dishonesty, and could also
have implications for your academic career or your grades.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your
Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->•<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Block quotes of 4 lines or longer should be
separated onto a new line, indented away from the margin, and formatted to a
smaller font size.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .55in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]-->•<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Integrating quotes is important in order to make
your academic writing easier to read. Whenever possible, try to integrate
quotes so that they flow from your own ideas.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->•<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Square brackets can be used whenever words are
changed within a direct quote in order to clarify meaning or to help with
integrating the quote.<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-62863538339856715302017-08-29T15:58:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:24:44.320+02:00APA Referencing: In-Text Citation Style Guide<br />
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APA Referencing: In-Text Citation Style Guide</h2>
<div>
<br /></div>
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The American Psychological Association (APA) style is often
used within the social sciences. The main difference to the in-text citations
from the Harvard style is the inclusion of a comma after the author’s name:
(Peterson, 2004). <o:p></o:p></div>
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In-text citations are written in the format of surname of
author, year of publication and (only with direct quotes) the page number with
the letter p. in front of it. For example, (Perry, 2004, p. 35) for a direct
quote where the page number is needed, or, if a paraphrase, you can simply have
the author’s surname and year of publication: (Perry, 2004). There should always
be a comma between the surname and the year of publication, and another comma
between the year and the page number in the case of direct quotes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you already use the author’s surname in the body of your
work just before the paraphrase or quote, then you will only include the year
of publication in brackets: (2004). If you use <b>more than one text from the same author and written in the same year</b>,
you can use letters of the alphabet to distinguish the works, and then clarify
which works each letter refers to in your reference list at the end of your
work, for example: (Perry, 2004a) and (Perry, 2004b, p.<i> </i>35). The second reference in this example follows a direct quote,
so the page number is included as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have <b>two authors
with the same last name</b>, you can include their initials in the in-text
citations: (K. Perry, 2007) and (R. Perry, 2009). For texts with up to <b>three authors</b>, you can place all of
their names in the brackets, and use the symbol “&” before the last name:
(Harrison, Turner & Viveck, 2006). For texts with <b>more than three authors</b>, give the name of the first author (the one
listed first on the title), use the Latin abbreviation “et al.” to show that
some names are omitted. Make sure to include the period after the abbreviation,
and a comma after the period. For example: (Jameson et al., 1974).<o:p></o:p></div>
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When quoting <b>indirect
sources</b>, in the case where the author you are quoting from is already
quoting from another text, include the surname of the original author as well
as the author you are quoting from in the following format: (Jung, as cited in
Marin, 2012, p. 413). In this example, you are quoting from the work of Marin,
who is herself quoting from the original work of Jung. If you use Jung’s name
in the body of your work, simply leave it out of the reference.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For <b>electronic
sources or media</b> you should still include the author’s surname and year of
release, for example, (Cameron, 1997) for the film <i>Titanic </i>by director James Cameron<i>. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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For media or websites with no publication date indicated,
you should use the abbreviation n.d.. For example, (Julies, n.d.) or simply
(n.d.) if the author’s name is already in the body of your work. Media or
electronic sources with no author listed, such as certain websites, should
simply include the name of the media, for example (<i>Wikipedia.com, </i>2014) or (“Greensleeves,” 1845).<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-50823611577652846572017-08-29T15:55:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:24:27.726+02:00Harvard Referencing: In-Text Citation Style Guide<br />
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Harvard Referencing: In-Text Citation Style Guide</h2>
<br />
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The Harvard Style includes the year of publication for
in-text citations. All of the rules are very similar to the MLA style
highlighted above, so once you understand the basics, you can just adapt it to
the rules outlined in the previous section.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In-text citations are written in the format of surname of
author, year of publication and (only with direct quotes) the page number with
the letter p. in front of it. For example, (Perry 2004: p. 35) for a direct
quote where the page number is needed, or, if a paraphrase, you can simply have
the author’s surname and year of publication: (Perry 2004). There should be no
punctuation between the surname and the year of publication, and a colon
between the year and the page number.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If you already use the author’s surname in the body of your
work just before the paraphrase or quote, then you will only include the year
of publication in brackets: (2004). If you use <b>more than one text from the same author and written in the same year</b>,
you can use letters of the alphabet to distinguish the works, and then clarify
which works each letter refers to in your reference list at the end of your
work, for example: (Perry 2004a) and (Perry 2004b: p.<i> </i>35). The second reference in this example follows a direct quote,
so the page number is included as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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If you have <b>two authors
with the same last name</b>, you can include their initials in the in-text
citations: (K. Perry 2007) and (R. Perry 2009). For texts with up to <b>three authors</b>, you can place all of
their names in the brackets, and use the symbol “&” before the last name:
(Harrison, Turner & Viveck 2006). For texts with <b>more than three authors</b>, give the name of the first author (the one
listed first on the title), use the Latin abbreviation “et al.” to show that
some names are omitted. Make sure to include the period after the abbreviation.
For example: (Jameson et al. 1974).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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When quoting <b>indirect
sources</b>, in the case where the author you are quoting from is already
quoting from another text, include the surname of the original author as well
as the author you are quoting from in the following format: (Jung, cited in
Marin 2012). In this example, you are quoting from the work of Marin, who is
herself quoting from the original work of Jung.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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For <b>electronic
sources or media</b> you should still include the author’s surname and year of
release, for example, (Cameron 1997) for the film <i>Titanic </i>by director James Cameron<i>. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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For media or websites with no publication date indicated,
you should use the abbreviation n.d.. For example, (Julies n.d.) or simply
(n.d.) if the author’s name is already in the body of your work. Media or
electronic sources with no author listed, such as certain websites, should
simply include the name of the media, for example (<i>Wikipedia.com </i>2014) or (“Greensleeves” 1845).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<h2>
MLA Referencing: In-Text Citation Style Guide</h2>
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In-Text Citation<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Modern Language Association (MLA) style of referencing
is used in many liberal arts and humanities departments around the world. It is
a style that emphasises the page number of the source, since it is often used
in conjunction with many direct quotes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For in-text citations, the MLA style uses the format of only
placing the author’s surname and page number between brackets next to the
paraphrase or quote. For example, (Perry 35). Make sure that you don’t use any
punctuation for in-text citations in the MLA format.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you already use the author’s surname in the body of your
work just before the paraphrase or quote, then you will only include the page
number in brackets: (35). If you use <b>more
than one text from the same author</b>, you can use a shortened title of the
text (with a comma before it) in the bracket to distinguish the various works,
for example: (Perry, “The Reckoning” 27) and (Perry, <i>Times Gone By </i>35). Pay attention to the differences in format here:
short texts, like poems, short stories, titles of chapters or songs would be
placed in inverted commas in references, and longer texts, such as books,
anthologies, films or the titles of dissertations would be placed in italics.
In the examples from Perry, “The Reckoning” is the title of a poem, and <i>Times Gone By </i>is the title of a novel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have <b>two authors
with the same last name</b>, you can include their initials in the in-text
citations: (K. Perry 35) and (R. Perry 166). For texts with up to <b>three authors</b>, you can place all of
their names in the brackets: (Harrison, Turner and Viveck 47). For texts with <b>more than three authors</b>, give the name
of the first author (the one listed first on the title), use the Latin
abbreviation “et al.” to show that some names are omitted. Make sure to include
the period after the abbreviation. For example: (Jameson et al. 33).<o:p></o:p></div>
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When quoting <b>indirect
sources</b>, in the case where the author you are quoting from is already
quoting from another text, include the abbreviation “qtd. in” in your
reference. For example: (qtd. in Liebermann 291).<o:p></o:p></div>
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For <b>electronic
sources</b> like websites where no page number is available, you can give the
author’s surname and a shortened title of the text, for example (Erickson, “The
Haunting”) would be the reference for a blog post by Thomas Erickson entitled “The
Haunting of Elizabeth Priest in David Eileen’s <i>Wanderlust</i>”. The titles of individual web pages and articles will
be in inverted commas, and the titles of the sites themselves will be in
italics, such as <i>Forbes.com. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Films, songs or other electronic or non-print media will all
be referred to with surname and short title. For example, (Cameron, <i>Avatar</i>) will refer to James Cameron’s
film <i>Avatar</i>. You can also refer to
time ranges in your text if you refer to a specific moment in the film or
media, although this is not always necessary as long as you describe the theme.
The format of time-based references would be in hours, minutes and seconds: (Cameron,
<i>Avatar</i> 01:25:16 – 01:25:30).<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-17216252431680789962017-08-29T15:47:00.000+02:002017-09-10T22:24:06.645+02:00Referencing Style for Quotes and In-Text Citations<br />
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Referencing Style for Quotes and In-Text Citations</h2>
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especially for complex concepts or for capturing the full meaning and nuances
which the original author intended. Make sure that you use direct quotes
sparingly unless you are writing a literature or poetry analysis, in which case
it’s important to show the original text so that the context can be fully
understood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Direct quotes should always be placed in quotation marks,
and the in-text reference should be placed after the quotes but before the full
stop of the sentence. A direct quote will thus look as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>“Gene therapy has been shown to be effective in treating certain
types of developmental challenges” (Perry, 2014: 35).</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The reference used in-text, or next to the direct quotes or
paraphrases, looks different to the reference you add in the bibliography or
reference list of your work. It will be shorter, and only contain limited
information. Most in-text references include the surname of the author, the
year that the work was published, and, in the case of direct quotes, the page
number from which the quote is taken. The style will differ slightly depending
on the referencing method you are using, but these components are almost always
present. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For in-text references, if some of the information is
included in another part of your sentence, you won’t have to repeat it between
brackets after the information. For example, if you give the name of the author
within the paraphrase, you won’t have to include the surname again in the
reference. See the example below for how certain information is included within
the body of your work:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Jonathan Perry explains that developmental challenges might be treated
through gene therapy (2014: 35).<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">In his book Understanding Gene
Therapy, published in 2014, Jonathan Perry explains that “[g]ene therapy
has been shown to be effective in treating certain types of developmental
challenges” (35).</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Because the surname and year are included in the sentence,
it’s not necessary to repeat them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look briefly at some of the most widely-used
referencing styles and how in-text citations look for each of them.<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-61592541608193256872017-08-29T12:17:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:23:53.546+02:00The Importance of Quoting and Referencing<br />
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The Importance of Quoting and Referencing</h2>
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information and with analyzing data in meaningful ways. Since its inception,
the academy has become an industry which trades in knowledge and understanding.
Academics are employed by universities in order to do research and to produce
knowledge, data and analyses as <b>products</b>
that have great <b>value</b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The academic products produced by academics and researchers
include books, academic papers, seminars and courses, and all of these products
are part of a multi-billion dollar global industry. These products can be
extremely valuable to individual academics or researchers, as they can sell
them or use them to advance their careers. The products are also valuable to
universities and research institutions, who receive funding based on their
research outputs and teaching standards, or who sell their products to private
industry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For this reason, it is extremely important for academics and
research institutions to protect their <b>intellectual
property</b>. It is improper to use information which was produced by someone
else, and which carries such great value, and then sell it as your own work or
to advance your own career or qualifications. This is called <b>plagiarism</b>. If you use someone’s
intellectual property without crediting them, it is like stealing the ideas
that they have worked months or years to produce, and when you steal something
of such great value, you can be held liable both legally and in terms of your
academic qualification or career. Even plagiarizing <i>yourself</i> is an offense in some cases if you try to sell the same
ideas to two different academic journals, or if you don’t explain that you’ve
produced and profited from that intellectual property before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because of these factors, and because academia is also an
industry which relies on <b>building
knowledge and understanding </b>based on what came before, it’s necessary to
give full credit to the person who originally developed an idea. We do this
through citation and referencing. The system of referencing was developed in
order to make sure that we can use the information which others have produced
in order to create new understanding and develop ideas without stealing the
intellectual property of others. By referencing, you are acknowledging that you
were not the one who came up with a particular idea, and you give credit to the
person or people who built the foundation for your own research.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition, it’s important to refer to the works of others
because it shows that you have made an effort to understand your field as well
as you possibly can. If you can show that you’ve read the works of multiple
other researchers before conducting your own research, you demonstrate that you’re
part of the academic conversation, and you show that you have broad knowledge
in your field. It’s important to do a <b>literature
review</b> before embarking on new research to make sure that you are not
reinventing the wheel; someone else might have done the research in exactly the
same way that you’ve done it, or they might have already developed research
instruments that you could use in your study without inventing new ones. An
extensive list of references shows that you’ve considered these possibilities
and read widely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Citation can be done through <b>paraphrase </b>or through <b>direct
quotations</b>. You’ll use different methods depending on the context.
Paraphrase should be used most often, especially for studies that fall outside
of the literature analysis field. You should rephrase the information <b>in your own words </b>to show that you have
a good understanding of the meaning. Sometimes, when you only rely on quoting
information in the direct words of the author you refer to, you don’t show that
you truly understand what the work discusses. If you can paraphrase it and
explain it briefly for the reader, you demonstrate a closer engagement with the
source material.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For example, a quote in an article might look like this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">“The fundamental difference between the micro and macro factors
involved in utilitarian systems are the rights and perspectives of individuals.
Individuals might perceive micro factors as unfair; however, macro factors
might be deemed much fairer.”</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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If this quote is from page 35 of a book by Robert Phillips,
published in 2013, you could paraphrase it as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Robert Phillips holds that micro factors might seem unfair to
individuals, even when they understand macro factors to be more fair. The
individual rights and perspectives constitute the main disjuncture between the
micro and macro factors (2013, p.35).</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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You’ve given the same information in your own words, and
shown that you understand the point that the author was making. You won’t need
to provide quote marks around this paraphrase, since it doesn’t take the words
of the author directly. The reference is included at the end of the information
taken from the individual author. If the information comes from more than one
page, give a reference for each page next to the relevant information, or, at
the end, reference it as (p. 35-37). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Direct quotations </b>are
used when the author has given a highly technical definition which would be very
difficult to reproduce in your own words, or when the way that the author says
something is important for the work you are writing. In literature or poetry
analysis, it’s important to use direct quotations so that the meaning of the
lines won’t be lost. If you really can’t find a way to say something more
clearly than the author, or in a way that adds to the understanding within the
context of your work, then you can give it as a direct quotation. For most
fields, direct quotations should be avoided as far as possible, unless they are
absolutely necessary, as it comes off as though you are not processing the
information but merely reproducing it. Paraphrasing shows that you are taking
the work of others, thinking about it, and explaining it within the context of
your own work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the next chapter we’ll look at the style for direct
quotes and for in-text citation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->•<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Academic writing constitutes a product which is
the intellectual property of the author and/ or of the institution which
produced it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->•<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Plagiarism is using the ideas of others without
crediting them for their work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->You should try as far as possible to paraphrase
the information of other thinkers or researchers rather than giving only direct
quotes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-12659432617940677602017-08-02T15:33:00.000+02:002017-09-10T22:23:46.193+02:00Essay Writing Checklist: What to Include in a College Essay<h2>
<br />Essay Writing Checklist: What to Include in a College Essay
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Academic Coaching team has developed a free Essay Writing Checklist. You can
download the checklist and follow the guidelines in this outline to
make sure that your essay meets all of the requirements and academic
conventions.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/store222e/files/Essay%20Writing%20Checklist%20-%20www%20writeyourthesis%20com.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1" target="_blank">Download the Checklist in PDF format here.</a><br />
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Read all of the guidelines below. Remember, if you need additional help with any of these components, there are detailed guides on the <a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/p/resources.html" target="_blank">resources page of the Academic Coaching website</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Component<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 150%;">Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Check (X)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b>Context<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Give the reader some
basic background information which they can use to understand your
discussion/ argument. This should be one to three sentences. Your context
could include: book’s title, author’s name and plot points (for literature
analysis), introduce important dates, events and people that relate to your
essay, or a discussion of the major themes and concepts in your field that
your essay will touch on. For example, an essay on photosynthesis will have
to explain what it is, basically, in the context section, and then later you
can go into more detail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Thesis Statement<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Your thesis statement is
the main point of your essay, or the main argument you will make. You should
not simply repeat the essay topic or question, but <b>answer it</b>. For example, if your essay topic is to evaluate the
merits of eating eggs for breakfast, your thesis statement needs to say
whether eggs for breakfast would be good or bad according to your research,
not simply say that you will evaluate it later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Overview<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Give the main steps that
you will take to support your thesis statement throughout your essay. You
could list the three most important aspects you will look at, or the three or
four main elements that will form topics of your different paragraphs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Body Paragraphs<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b>Topic Sentence<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Your topic sentence is
the first sentence (or two sentences) of every body paragraph that introduces
the main topic that you will discuss in that paragraph. Your topic sentence
needs to be clear and show a direct link to your thesis statement, explaining
how the paragraph will build on your argument or discussion in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Evidence/ Support<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The second section of
your paragraphs needs to include evidence or support in the form of
citations, research, data or experiments. Every paragraph which introduces a
new topic should have some support. Each piece of support that you get from
external sources needs to be referenced properly (APA, Harvard, MLA, Chicago
or other referencing style). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Explanation<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">You need to spend the
bulk of your paragraph explaining the evidence or support in your own words,
clearly showing how it links to the topic of the paragraph as well as to your
overall thesis statement. You need to analyze, criticize, or explain the
evidence you’ve provided so that any reader in your field could understand
it. Your explanation section is where you use your own critical thinking
skills to demonstrate the significance and veracity of your evidence, and where
you show how the new ideas you’ve introduced take your argument or discussion
forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b>Summary of Ideas<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Briefly summarize the
main ideas you’ve introduced in the body of your essay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Show support for thesis Statement<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Explain again how the
evidence or support has linked to your thesis statement in one or two
sentences. Reinforce the main idea of your argument.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Logic and Coherence<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b>One Idea per Paragraph<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Is there only one main
idea in each paragraph? To test this, try to summarize each paragraph in one
sentence. If you use a conjunction like the word “and” in your summary, you
might have two ideas that require two paragraphs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Paragraphs build towards conclusion<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Do each of your
paragraphs add to your argument? Do they flow from one to the next in a
logical way? This means that each paragraph is placed in a position that
moves from one step to the next, and doesn’t take steps backwards. The
understanding or knowledge from one paragraph should be a building block
towards the ideas you introduce in the next paragraph.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Good use of signposting<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Signposting is the use of
words that allow the reader to follow the logical progression of your
argument. If one point leads into the next, you could use a signpost word
like “therefore” or “thus”. If one point contradicts another or shows an
opposing viewpoint, you could use a signpost like “however”. If you are
giving a second point, you could signpost it with “secondly”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>No irrelevant ideas or paragraphs<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Are all of the ideas and
paragraphs that you include in your essay necessary to build towards your
conclusion? Are any parts repeated? Are there paragraphs which could be left
out? Are there ideas that don’t help you to build your discussion or
argument?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Support for ideas/ contentions/ interpretations/ claims<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Every idea or claim which
you introduce needs to be supported by evidence. You shouldn’t use statements
like “As we all know…”. Rather, give a citation or refer to research that
makes the point you are trying to make. It might not be a self-evident fact
like you imagine it is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Evidence/ Support is Scientific and academic in nature<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">You should only use
evidence that follows the rigor of science and academic knowledge. Personal
convictions, religious ideals (outside of religious studies essays), or other
forms of support which are not academically peer-reviewed, produced by
experts in the field or empirically tested should not be used in academic
essays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Clarity<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b>Academic register<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">You need to write
formally and academically throughout your essay. Your language has to be
professional, like you are writing for a journal, newspaper or to an
important person who deserves great respect. Avoid conversational language or
informal conventions like contractions (“isn’t” in the place of “is not”).
Check your spelling, grammar and punctuation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Argument/ discussion clarity<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Is the “golden thread” of
your argument or discussion clear throughout the essay? This means: is there
a clear and focused main point that all of your other points link to?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Clarity of ideas<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 4.0in;" valign="top" width="384"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Do your ideas all make
sense? Do you overexplain or underexplain some ideas? Will the reader easily
be able to follow what you’re saying and not be confused or lost while
reading your essay?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.25pt;" valign="top" width="78"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<td colspan="3" style="background: black; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-background-themecolor: text1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><h2 style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;">
<span style="color: white;">Academic Conventions<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b>Title<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you provide a short
(less than 20-word) title that clearly explains your main point and that
would make sense to any reader?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.25pt;" valign="top" width="78"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Referencing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 4.0in;" valign="top" width="384"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you use proper referencing
for each piece of external information that you didn’t come up with on your own?
Do you have a good reference list/ bibliography which follows all of the conventions
of your department/ school?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.25pt;" valign="top" width="78"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Formatting<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 4.0in;" valign="top" width="384"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Do you format your essays
neatly, professionally and legibly? The requirements are usually either 12-point
Times New Roman font with 1.5-line or double line spacing, and 1-inch margins,
so that your professor or tutor will have enough space for comments if applicable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.25pt;" valign="top" width="78"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-86245998694109099452017-08-01T11:34:00.000+02:002017-09-10T22:23:36.677+02:00An Example Essay Generated with the Academic Coaching Essay Generator<br />
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An Example Essay Generated with the Academic Coaching Essay Generator</h2>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupC6UUaprWpQcS3TK6J1971WpMS7rmezR-JPl640k3LezwF2Qcq7t7ySHjziPwEMrxcWY5f9KuTmWtTxQXYaJsUpUw0RU-_cTOfN5WJP9h2ttAEjOoiVCC4rcENR272L52jTH5x94rAo/s1600/essay+free+generator+writer+academic+coaching+writeyourthesis+grant+andrews+editing+services.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupC6UUaprWpQcS3TK6J1971WpMS7rmezR-JPl640k3LezwF2Qcq7t7ySHjziPwEMrxcWY5f9KuTmWtTxQXYaJsUpUw0RU-_cTOfN5WJP9h2ttAEjOoiVCC4rcENR272L52jTH5x94rAo/s320/essay+free+generator+writer+academic+coaching+writeyourthesis+grant+andrews+editing+services.jpg" width="320" /></a>Writing an essay in English Studies can be very challenging. Many students don't know what to include or how to structure the various sections of an essay. The Academic Coaching team has put together an automatic essay generator which can help you to address some of these concerns.<br />
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<a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/2017/07/free-essay-generator-to-write-your.html" target="_blank">Download the essay generator here.</a><br />
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The automatic essay generator will put together an essay according the the formula for a well-structured academic work. It will fulfill all of the requirements, but there will be some repetition and some clunky paragraphs that you will need to edit in the final product. If you use the generator, be sure to make use of a good editing service to strengthen the language and style of your final product.<br />
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There are only 10 questions in the essay generator, and some of them will require a bit more work to answer than others. Below are the questions found in the essay generator and explanations on how to answer them, as well as example answers to construct our sample essay entitled "The Visual Splendor of Damien Warnick's Film <i>The Betrayal".</i><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Title
of your essay:<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="DA4DA75A25CB4812A61A53EAF045012C" id="957523999" sdttag="title"><w:sdt docpart="17C74512A05C4016BB2DB5C56250EF4D" id="182489450" sdttag="title"><b>The Visual Splendor of Damien Warnick’s Film <i>The Betrayal</i></b></w:sdt><b></b></w:sdt><b> <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The title should
be fewer than 15 words, and explain the main point of your essay. For
example, “A Feminist Analysis of Jane Austen’s <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><br /></i>
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<span style="color: white;">Title
of the text, poem or novel you are looking at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 467.5pt;" valign="top" width="623"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<w:sdt docpart="AB61AD7B82474EA8AE12311581B88B93" id="-1328364080" sdttag="novel"><b><i>The
Betrayal</i></b><b></b></w:sdt><b> </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Name
of the author:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="EE35958A531B42D7A1443A111F226377" id="378060203" sdttag="author"><b>Damien Warnick</b></w:sdt><b> </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;">
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<span style="color: white;">Summary
of the novel, poem or text:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="0EE44F9D853B47149261372B744D3272" id="-1626527577" sdttag="summary"><b>a heartbreaking tale of making sense of
the difficulties of the world and finding one’s own voice</b></w:sdt><b> </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Your summary
should be 15 – 30 words, and give only the main idea. Fill it in as if it
starts with the following words: The text deals with… (your response). For
example, “The text deals with <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">a man named John Carpenter trying to find his way back to Mars</span>.”
You only type the words highlighted in yellow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Type
of approach you are taking:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="31FDB4C17081457DB26F869ABDDC624D" id="-2079893672">argue that</w:sdt> <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are
writing an argumentative essay where you need to support a contention with
evidence, type “argue that”. If you are writing a comparative essay between
two or more texts, type “compare”. If you are writing a discussion or
analysis on a particular theme, character or idea, type “discuss” or
“analyze” as appropriate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">What
type of text is your essay about?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="31FDB4C17081457DB26F869ABDDC624D" id="-678118069">film</w:sdt> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Is it a novel,
book, film, play, drama, comedy, tragedy or something else? Give only a
one-word answer in lowercase letters, e.g. novel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The
main point you are looking at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="58EA5BE35EC04F72995793CF17BAC8D8" id="2107683762"><b>Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion</b></w:sdt><b> </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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You should list
your answer to the question in 15 words or fewer. Your answer should be very
clear and concise, and not simply repeat the question. For example, if the
question is “Which TV show is the best?” your answer should be “Game of
Thrones is the best TV show, and no other show compares”. If the question is
“Analyze the character of Lady Macbeth” your answer that you fill in could be
“Lady Macbeth is power-hungry and manipulative, and wants to control
Macbeth”. Give an answer here, or your main idea that you want to respond to
the question with.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="EA739AE6248F4795B10137B0715426FF" id="-1884946727" sdttag="evidence 1"><b>the visual effects in the first act show Melody’s
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<w:sdt docpart="D9C0FEAEC1F84ED4A1F45865B8BA6C30" id="-1262987870" sdttag="evidence 3"><b>none of the characters are one-dimensional, and each
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Your evidence to
support your main idea should be all of the biggest points from the text that
have led you to your answer to the question. For example, if you have to
explain why you think that Lady Macbeth is power hungry and manipulative, you
could give the following evidence: 1) she conspires to kill the king, 2) she
sees the prophecy in a positive way, 3) she shows more intelligence than
Macbeth. You will need at least 3 pieces of evidence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="8C1D95C47D1F4D8289B0B30593BDCAF6" id="1597669088" sdttag="quote 1"><b>“You made me wait for you, Melody. It was incredibly difficult”
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<w:sdt docpart="CA8862E46AC84CF38A97DBFBADE74E6C" id="-1567403753" sdttag="quote 2"><b>“There isn’t anything we couldn’t do with practical effects, but the
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<w:sdt docpart="6A77A7311F234F5995031EBF76FA3B88" id="864641439" sdttag="quote 3"><b>“Designing these characters was a passion project for me. I wanted to
show how many layers they had inside by giving them interesting dimensions
on the outside” (Carmichael, 2016)</b></w:sdt><b> </b><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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the quotes as follows: “Come, you spirits /That tend on mortal thoughts,
unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/Of direst
cruelty” (I, v), “Come, thick night,/ And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of
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<b><span style="color: white;">Your understanding of each of the quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="31FDB4C17081457DB26F869ABDDC624D" id="-1162623510">The fact that the character Johan says
this to Melody in the film is a clear indication that he is in love with
her, but she only responds by looking sad. Her eyes droop down and the
make-up even changes color, showing a great level of heartache at the
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<w:sdt docpart="31FDB4C17081457DB26F869ABDDC624D" id="168610433">The director, Marko Davies, says these
words in an interview with Moviemob, and he shows how important green screen
is to the making of the film. The green screen gives a flair of something
out of this world, and makes all of the backgrounds look animated with
watercolor edges. It feels jarring and otherworldly.</w:sdt> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<w:sdt docpart="31FDB4C17081457DB26F869ABDDC624D" id="414290612">The production designer Liev Carmichael
explains that the characters were designed in a way to make them seem more
interesting and more multidimensional. He did not simply choose to design
the characters in a way that was arbitrary, but took great care with each
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quotes mean to you? How do they support the main point that your essay is
trying to make, and how do they help to clarify the evidence that the quote
is linked to? Explain each quote in at least two sentences. Use proper punctuation
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The Visual Splendor of Damien Warnick’s Film The Betrayal </h3>
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This essay will look at the film entitled The Betrayal by Damien Warnick , which deals with a heartbreaking tale of making sense of the difficulties of the world and finding one’s own voice . The essay will argue that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion . In support of this argument, the essay will refer to the textual evidence that the visual effects in the first act show Melody’s sadness , the use of green screen is not overdone, and adds to the aesthetic of the scenes and none of the characters are one-dimensional, and each one has a unique visual style .</div>
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The first piece of evidence to support the contention that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion is the fact that the visual effects in the first act show Melody’s sadness . This can be seen in quote(s) from the text, namely: “You made me wait for you, Melody. It was incredibly difficult” (Warnick, 2014) . The quote(s) support the aforementioned point in the following ways: The fact that the character Johan says this to Melody in the film is a clear indication that he is in love with her, but she only responds by looking sad. Her eyes droop down and the make-up even changes color, showing a great level of heartache at the thought that she has lost Johan forever. . Ultimately, it is clear that the visual effects in the first act show Melody’s sadness , which links to the main contention that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion .</div>
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A second element of how Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion is the fact that the use of green screen is not overdone, and adds to the aesthetic of the scenes . This point is supported in the text as follows: “There isn’t anything we couldn’t do with practical effects, but the green screen made the film much more fantastic” (Davies, 2015) . To understand the importance of this textual evidence, it is important to note the following: The director, Marko Davies, says these words in an interview with Moviemob, and he shows how important green screen is to the making of the film. The green screen gives a flair of something out of this world, and makes all of the backgrounds look animated with watercolor edges. It feels jarring and otherworldly. . It becomes clear when analyzing this point that it supports the main contention of this essay, namely that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion .</div>
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In addition, the contention that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion is also supported by the fact that none of the characters are one-dimensional, and each one has a unique visual style . This third point is evident in the text in the following quote(s): “Designing these characters was a passion project for me. I wanted to show how many layers they had inside by giving them interesting dimensions on the outside” (Carmichael, 2016) . The significance of this quote should be clearly understood. The production designer Liev Carmichael explains that the characters were designed in a way to make them seem more interesting and more multidimensional. He did not simply choose to design the characters in a way that was arbitrary, but took great care with each character. This shows in how colorful and strange each character looks. . This point thus further demonstrates that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion . </div>
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In conclusion, the various points explored in this essay all serve to reinforce the main contention of this essay. Through close textual analysis, it is evident that Warnick’s film is masterful at using imagery to convey emotion .</div>
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Paragraph Structure: Explaining your Evidence</h2>
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paragraph is explanation. This is the section where you <b>explain the significance</b> of the evidence and support you’ve
provided and <b>closely analyze it</b>.
This is also the section where you link your ideas introduced in the paragraph
back to your <b>main thesis statement</b>.
The explanation section is usually longer than the other sections of your
paragraph, ranging from two to four sentences. This is the part where you can
use more of your own voice and apply your own critical thinking to the idea that
you’ve dealt with in any particular paragraph. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Your job as an academic researcher, even if you are still an
undergraduate or new graduate student, is not simply to parrot information from
other sources. You also have to <b>assess</b>
that information, and use your own mind to <b>increase
understanding </b>of that information. This is the part of your paragraph where
you have the chance to do that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s again take the example of the first body paragraph of the essay on
sleep duration. Let’s combine the previous two sections and repeat them here
just to refresh your memory:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Sleep is a fundamental part of maintaining health and mental
functioning. For example, a severe lack of sleep has been linked to weight gain
and a reduced immune system (Pietrangelo & Waterson, 2017). Animal research
even suggests that a lack of sleep can be fatal (Palmer, 2009). In addition, a
lack of sleep can have a negative effect on performance, memory, cognitive
functioning, and even injuries due to factors such as occupational or
automobile accidents (Breus, 2009).</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, you’ve provided some interesting food for thought to
your reader by introducing this topic and providing evidence to support it, but
you still need to tell your reader <b>why
this information is significant</b>. You need to show that you’ve thought about
the information and that it supports the main contention of your essay. You
could add explanation as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">These factors clearly demonstrate that sleep improves physical
and mental health, and it is clear that good sleeping habits should be part of
any healthy lifestyle. The right amount of sleep can ensure that someone
performs optimally and that they can potentially live a longer life. However, despite
the obvious benefits of sleep, there is still debate about the amount of sleep
that leads to the greatest health effects. These studies show that almost none
of the scholarly literature focuses on the effects of excess sleep, instead
only showing the effects of sleep deprivation. Analyzing the differences in
functioning under different sleep durations could provide answers as to how
much sleep individuals should get on a nightly basis.</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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In this section, we’ve looked very closely at the studies
and data that we provided in the previous section. We’ve not just parroted the
information, but we also applied our minds to it and picked up on themes and
ideas that might not have been explicitly stated. For example, you would have
to really think about the data to notice that none of them discuss excess sleep
and how this can also have negative effects. This is the type of point you can make
in the explanation section of your paragraph. You also use the final sentence
to link your paragraph back to the overall mission of your essay, which is to
compare sleeping times and to say that 7 hours is the best. In the next
paragraphs of this mock-essay, you can go on to look at each of the different
times, and in the explanation sections, you can explain why that time is a good
or a bad amount of sleep to be getting per night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You might not be able to easily separate the evidence and
explanation parts of your paragraph like this in every essay, and they might
flow into each other. For example, you might provide explanation for a certain
piece of evidence directly after you cite it, and then move on to the next
piece of evidence which still falls under the same paragraph. These two
sections can be adapted depending on the style of your essay, but you need to
make sure that you include both of them in every paragraph that you write. If
you include all three of the sections from this guide, the <b>topic sentence,</b> <b>evidence,
and explanation, </b>you should have a good, logical and clear paragraph with
one main idea that takes your discussion or argument one step forward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at one more example of a full body paragraph. If
the topic is the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Write an essay in which you discuss the impact of technology on
learning styles and classroom habits.</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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You could have a thesis statement as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">This essay will discuss how technology has led to a negative
effect on learning styles and classroom habits due to higher distraction levels
and the decrease in adolescent self-esteem with the pressures of social media.</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Your paragraphs might be structured as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Body 1: <b>Explain
young people’s use of technology</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Body 2: <b>Change
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The body paragraphs in bold are explanatory in nature,
giving us more information which helps to inform the paragraphs which directly support
our thesis statement, namely body paragraphs 3 and 5. Even though these
paragraphs will involve more background information, they still need to have
the same structure of <b>topic sentence,
evidence and explanation. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at how paragraph 2 might be structured. I’ve made
it easier for you to identify the individual parts of the paragraph below by
changing the font style of the different sections. The topic sentence is <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">highlighted in yellow</span>,
the evidence or support <b>is in bold</b>,
and the explanation <u>is underlined</u> to make it easy for you to see the
differences. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Society has
seen a massive shift in the use of technology by young people.</span> <b>Even though the minimum age for services
like Gmail and Facebook is 13-years-old, studies have shown that children as
young as five-years-old are using social media (Lewis, 2015)</b>. <u>This has
led to many prepubescent children becoming hyperaware of body-image norms and
even news articles which might be inappropriate for their age groups</u>. <b>For teenagers between 13 and 17-years-old,
Instagram and Twitter are the main social media sources, with 92% of young
people in this age group using one or both of these services (Chopra, 2017).</b>
</i></span><u><span style="color: blue;"><i>This incredible proliferation of social media has changed the way that young
people interact with their worlds, with many spending hours on their cellphones
while consuming social media. These changes have impacted every aspect of young
people’s lives, including the way they learn and how they see themselves.</i></span><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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The paragraph contains a topic sentence, as well as two citations and
two explanations of the information provided. The final sentence ties the
paragraph back to our thesis statement, showing how the information links to
our overall argument that technology has had negative effects on learning. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your
Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The third section of a body paragraph is
explanation. It gives more clarity about the support or evidence you’ve
provided for the topic of your paragraph<o:p></o:p></div>
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and show why the data or information you’ve provided is significant</div>
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•<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Your explanation ties the points in your paragraph back to your thesis statement, explaining how you’ve advanced your discussion or argument</div>
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Providing Citations and Textual Support in Body Paragraphs</h2>
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The second part of your body paragraph is the evidence and support
section. This is where you provide all of the ideas and references which <b>illustrate, support or clarify </b>the
point you introduced in your topic sentence. This is where the citations from
experts or the research from other studies would go in your paragraph. Once you’ve
introduced your topic, you need to support the point as thoroughly as you can
with as much evidence as you can.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You should try and find at least one piece of support for every
paragraph and every idea that you introduce into your essay, article or
dissertation. Make sure that you use the proper referencing style after every
idea that’s not your own to avoid plagiarism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are various types of support and evidence that you can find for
your points, and you should be sure that you find <b>appropriate support </b>for the type of essay that you are writing. If
you are writing an argumentative essay, it is better to rely on the research,
data and statistics that you can find in academic journals, newspapers or government
reports. If you are writing a paper for literature studies, you will need to
provide <b>textual support </b>for your
points, which means that you need to show which lines or sections of the text
you are analyzing support the idea you’ve introduced. If you are writing a
report on a study in natural sciences or medical sciences, you will need to
provide data from your findings to support your points.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whatever type of academic paper you’re writing, there will need to be
evidence for your ideas. Let’s look at an example from the first paragraph of
the mock-essay on sleep duration. Remember, the topic sentence for the
paragraph was: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Sleep is a fundamental part of maintaining health and mental
functioning.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, if we follow this up with support and evidence, we’ll have to
illustrate the point and refer to studies that support our assertion. A good signpost
to introduce the evidence section of our paragraph is the phrase “for example”.
Your first sentence of support could look like this:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>For example, a severe lack of sleep has been linked to weight
gain and a reduced immune system (Pietrangelo & Waterson, 2017). Animal
research even suggests that a lack of sleep can be fatal (Palmer, 2009). In
addition, a lack of sleep can have a negative effect on performance, memory,
cognitive functioning, and even injuries due to factors such as occupational or
automobile accidents (Breus, 2009).</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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You’ve provided a good amount of evidence that all supports the main point
that you were making with the paragraph, namely that sleep is important to
health and cognition. You’ve demonstrated that you’ve done your research, and
that you didn’t just base your topic sentence on your opinion or on “common
sense”; instead, it’s supported by lots of academic studies and you’re relying
on the ideas of professionals. You’ve also shown that your ideas are logically
linked by using good signposting. The words “For example” in your first sentence
show that you’re about to <b>illustrate</b>
your point. The second sentence uses the signpost “even”, which shows an added
element to the discussion. In the third sentence, the words “In addition” show
us that you’re again adding to your list of ill-effects.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at a quick example for those doing essays for English literature
or poetry studies. If you are writing an analysis, you could have a topic
sentence like the following: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Juliet presents a longing for Romeo, and struggles to go without
him.</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now that you have a topic sentence, you need to show some
support for this with <b>textual evidence</b>.
You could include something like the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>This longing is clear to the reader when Juliet stands on her
balcony and calls out, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (Shakespeare,
Act II, Sc. 2).</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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You’ve now made an assertion about the play that you are analyzing in
your topic sentence, and then supported that assertion with some evidence from
the text.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s move on to the final part of a good body paragraph, namely the
explanation of the evidence or support.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your
Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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evidence and support section.<o:p></o:p></div>
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your topic sentence, and support them with illustrations, citations or textual
evidence</div>
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Writing a Topic Sentence in a Body Paragraph</h2>
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The topic sentence is the first sentence of a body
paragraph. It introduces the point that your body paragraph will explore. Each
topic sentence has to accomplish a few key things:<o:p></o:p></div>
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A good topic sentence can do all of the above at the same
time. It needs to clarify the new direction that you are taking your discussion
in, but do it in a way that doesn’t confuse your reader.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look at an example to clarify what a topic sentence
should look like. For the essay topic on sleeping times we introduced above,
your first paragraph would be on why sleep is important and how it affects people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your topic sentence could be something like the following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Sleep is a fundamental part of maintaining health and mental
functioning.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, the reader knows that the paragraph will explain why
sleep is important and how it affects health and functioning. You’ve
effectively transitioned into your new paragraph. You’ve also linked to your
thesis statement because you are talking about the effects of sleep, and laying
the groundwork for the comparison of different amounts of sleep which your
essay will do later. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, there are times when your “topic sentence” might be
<b>more than just one sentence</b>. You
might have to spend a bit more time establishing the important transitions from
the previous idea and setting up your new idea. For example, if we were to
write the topic sentence component of the third paragraph, about how less than
seven hours is detrimental, we might write it as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>However, despite the aforementioned benefits of sleep, one has
to consider that different amounts of sleep affect individuals in different
ways. Studies have shown that sleeping for less than seven hours per night can
lead to a loss of functioning and less mental acuity.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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These two sentences were needed here to perform the function
of introducing your topic or idea for this paragraph. One sentence was used to
transition from the previous paragraph, showing that not all sleep is equal by
using the signpost word “however”. The second sentence indicated that this
paragraph will talk about the detrimental effects of getting less than seven
hours of sleep.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Make sure that your topic sentences clearly state what your
paragraphs will be about. This makes it easier for readers to scan the contents
of your essay by only reading the first sentence or two of each paragraph, and
still being able to easily find their way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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the start of each body paragraph<o:p></o:p></div>
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paragraphs, show a link to the thesis statement, and introduce the main idea of
the current paragraph<o:p></o:p></div>
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flow of your paragraphs<o:p></o:p></div>
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-17269452798293186662017-07-25T18:31:00.000+02:002017-09-10T22:22:49.748+02:00The Structure of Body Paragraphs<br />
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The Structure of Body Paragraphs</h2>
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essay or a well-structured chapter in a dissertation will have at least three
body paragraphs, each looking at a different component of the main contention
or <b>thesis</b>. Your body paragraphs
follow your introduction and come before your conclusion, and they contain the
bulk of the points which you use to advance your discussion or make your
argument. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The <b>thesis statement </b>is the component that
informs what your paragraphs should be about. Your thesis statement is found in
your introduction paragraph, and it is the main point that your essay will
address. You need to have a clear, well-formulated thesis statement in order to
know what your paragraphs should be about. To find out how to write a thesis
statement and a full introduction, there are free guides available on the
Academic Coaching website, <a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/">www.writeyourthesis.com</a>,
but we’ll look at a basic example here if you are already familiar with what a
thesis statement should look like.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A thesis statement is
the <b>answer to the question</b> that is
asked by the topic. For example, if your topic is to write about how different
amounts of sleep affect daily functioning for individuals, your thesis
statement could look as follows:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>In this essay, I will demonstrate with data that the average
adult functions optimally with seven hours of sleep per night, and that any
more than eight-and-a-half hours is detrimental to functioning.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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You have clearly answered the question here, and the reader
knows exactly what the contents of your essay will be. They will want to see <b>evidence</b> that seven hours of sleep is
the optimal amount, and that too much sleep is bad. Your paragraphs thus need
to <b>logically </b>deliver this evidence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You could therefore have the following paragraphs in your
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Your essay structure is an extension of the ideas contained
in your thesis statement. You will have to have certain ideas, discussions or
evidence in your essay in order to show all the parts of your thesis statement,
as well as to explain certain things that the reader needs to know to make
sense of your essay. Every paragraph becomes essential to delivering the points
which support your thesis statement. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The second thing you’ll notice is that each of the
paragraphs in our essay outline deals with only <b>one point</b> of the discussion. This is much easier for the reader to
make sense of. Our minds can only really make sense of one new idea at a time,
and our essay structure should make the ideas as easily understandable as
possible. We break our paragraphs with line breaks so that readers can understand
each section as a new thought which takes the discussion one step further. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A good way to test if you only have one idea per paragraph
is to try and summarize each of your paragraphs in one line. If you use the
word “and”, you might already have two ideas in that paragraph. Do your best to
keep your paragraphs short and clear; around four to eight sentences should be
enough for most paragraphs, as long as they accomplish all of the goals that
paragraphs are meant to accomplish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The final element of good body paragraphs is that they
should have coherence and logical flow between them. Your paragraphs should
build on one another, and not feel redundant, irrelevant or out-of-place. If
your reader moves from one paragraph to the next, the transition should be as
smooth as possible, and you should try and clearly show the reader why the next
point you make is the logical one to make.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Redundancy </b>is
where you say things that don’t need to be said, or you repeat certain ideas.
If you are talking about chairs, you don’t need to explain that chairs are used
to sit on. This point is obvious and redundant. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Irrelevant ideas</b>
are those that don’t add to your argument or don’t fit with the rest of your
points. For example, in our essay about the optimal sleeping times, it would be
very irrelevant to begin talking about how much you enjoy sleeping and the fact
that you wear cotton pajamas. The reader doesn’t need to know that in order to
understand your discussion. Leave out any points that might be distracting or
leave your reader confused.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you move from one paragraph to the next, it’s important
to try to use <b>signposting</b> for the
reader. This means that you use certain words to show the logical links between
your ideas, like “therefore”, “thus”, “hence”, “in addition”, and other terms
that show them some logical links in your discussion. There are some resources
on signposting on the Academic Coaching website if you are interested in
learning more about how to use them. For now, just be sure that the reader is
never lost in your essay. Your paragraphs should follow the roadmap that was
laid out in your introduction, and you shouldn’t take any detours along the
way. Your introduction tells the reader where you are taking them and how you
will get there, your paragraphs do exactly what you set out to do in as
straight a line as possible, and your conclusion is the end point that your
essay or chapter works towards.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Next, we’ll look at the three components of body paragraphs,
starting with the topic sentence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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statement. You shouldn’t include any paragraphs which don’t help you to reach
your conclusion in some way<o:p></o:p></div>
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-81321427774722784172017-07-23T21:47:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:22:39.865+02:00 Harnessing Your Strengths and Overcoming Your Challenges in Thesis Writing<h2>
<br />Harnessing Your Strengths and Overcoming Your Challenges in Thesis Writing</h2>
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thesis success. Once you understand them, you need to make sure that you’re
taking the steps to develop yourself in all of the areas where you have a lot
of room for growth, and to use your strengths to your benefit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Below are some tips to make sure that you stay on top of the work of
your dissertation, and that you don’t fall prey to the difficulties associated
with thesis writing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Have a clear plan<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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One of the biggest mistakes that students make, especially at the start
of their dissertation work, is going in without a plan. This usually results in
students spending months reading work that might not fully be relevant, or
being unsure of what exactly they should be doing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your proposal should have a clear plan for your work, but you should
also have your own personal plan that is much more detailed. This could even be
as detailed as describing which articles you will read on which days, or which
sections of your chapters you will write and how many words you will use to
complete those sections. The more detail the better. Once you have a very
detailed plan, you can adjust it after a few weeks of work if you see that it’s
too rushed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It becomes very easy to get overwhelmed when you don’t know what lies
ahead, and when the task feels impossibly big. But the sooner you start
planning, the easier it becomes to see that the work actually is manageable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once you know your academic strengths and challenges, you should also
plan ways to improve on your areas for growth as early as possible. If you
struggle with endurance, you should make an appointment with a writing group.
Many colleges and universities host writing marathons on a weekly or monthly
basis, like the “Shut Up and Write” campaigns worldwide. Schedule writing goals
and make sure that you attend these sessions if they help you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you struggle with your confidence, there are many ways that you can
improve it. For example, you could improve your knowledge in the field by
attending seminars or conferences, or talking to colleagues about your research
and hearing about their own interests. This will boost your sense of being
capable of doing research in your field. Alternatively, you could download
self-esteem apps or take online courses, or make use of an Academic Coach or
even a life coach. Take the steps early before your lack of confidence causes you
any problems with writing your thesis. Plan how you will work on this
challenge, and you’re much more likely to succeed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In your Thesis Readiness Report, you’ll get some advice on how to
improve any of the major challenges that you face in a lengthy section about
developing your skills. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Journal your
experiences<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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One of the most powerful tools to improve your skills is to journal
about them regularly. This way, you can take stock of where you are at and you
can have a better sense of the direction you need to go. Journaling can be
incredibly useful in reaching your goals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You could try keeping a “thesis journal”, where you dedicate fifteen
minutes every day to talk about any progress, problems, goals or frustrations.
You could reflect on how you are developing your skills in the journal so that
you can have a record of your progress. Additionally, you could write about
which of your goals you’ve achieved and which ones haven’t been met yet, and
then try to reflect on why those goals are still challenging you. You could
also use the journal to reflect on the articles or books you are reading, and
how they add to your understanding of your own study.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many academics keep a research journal in order to structure their
thoughts and keep tabs on their work. It’s a practice that you might find will
drastically improve your journey towards earning your degree.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Give yourself
space for mistakes<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Many researchers are very self-critical. The imposter syndrome is very
prevalent with academics and students. This is a condition where, even though
you might be very capable and you might be very high-achieving, you still feel
like you are a fraud, like you aren’t worthy of being where you are, and that
sooner or later everyone will figure out that you are completely out of your
depth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The very fact that you were accepted to your program means that you’re
more than capable to do it. You have already done well in your previous
endeavors in order to qualify for even working on your dissertation. It’s
important to realize that many people around you, even those who you think are
brilliant thinkers, writers or researchers, still suffer from the imposter
syndrome because of how competitive academic work can be and how challenging it
is to complete a dissertation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is why, when you make a mistake or have a setback in your work, you
shouldn’t chastise yourself. Take it as part of your learning experience. Be
gentle with yourself and give yourself another chance to get back on the horse.
Being a student means that you are still learning, and in the academic field,
you are a lifelong student. You’re not expected to be perfect, and you should
be humble enough to want to improve but also confident enough to not see a
setback as something that means you’re incapable or worthless. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These tips for harnessing your academic strengths and improving on areas
for growth might help you to see the journey as more of an adventure. There is
a lot of fun, fulfillment and pride to be gained from doing academic work and
doing a good study. Try to maintain your perspective, keep your eye on your
goals, and take the journey one step at a time, and you can reap the rewards of
your research.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Review Your
Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Having a clear plan of every step of your thesis
writing allows you to track your progress accurately and makes the mammoth task
seem more manageable<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Keeping a research journal will be useful in
improving your skills and regularly taking stock of your achievements and
challenges<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->No researcher is perfect, and giving yourself the
room to make mistakes is vital to thesis success<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-53644976731644366512017-07-23T13:12:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:25:04.808+02:00The 10 Core Components of Thesis Success<h2>
<br />The 10 Core Components of Thesis Success</h2>
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components to dissertation success. We’ve found that these skills are vital in
making sure that those writing a thesis can work effectively and complete their
thesis in good time. We structure each of our resources and coaching materials
around one or more of these core components.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 10 core components are: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Motivation: </b>The
ability to find energy and drive to do your research and writing. You need good
reasons to keep working on your thesis, and you need internal motivation to
return to it as often as possible even when you might have other commitments or
feel discouraged. Being motivated means that you can be positive about your
work and have clear goals that you are driven to work towards.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Endurance: </b>Mental
endurance is the ability to work for long stretches of time and to be
productive when you sit down to work. Having endurance means that you push
through feelings of frustration, boredom or intimidation when you sit down at
your desk, and you can complete sessions of work that get you closer to your
goals without procrastinating or being distracted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Confidence: </b>Having
confidence is one of the most important ingredients in thesis writing, and
might be the single factor most responsible for the majority of
discontinuations. You need to be confident in your ability to work on your
thesis and to do a good job of your research. You need to have adequate
self-esteem and see yourself as a skilled thinker and as adding to the academic
discourse. Confidence is about recognizing your own strengths and being willing
to face challenges head-on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Knowledge: </b>In
order to do well as a researcher, you need to have a good background of
knowledge in your field. You need to know a fair amount of the conventions and
the ideas of the major scholars. You need to be able to speak with some
authority and carry on a conversation with others in your field. Without a good
foundation of knowledge, new information will be difficult to integrate, and
you might not be able to put together a coherent thesis or develop new ideas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Congruence: </b>Congruence
is about how compatible you are with your chosen field or topic of study. If
your abilities and interests line up with the requirements of your field, you’re
very congruent with your work. If you are passionate about the research you are
doing, and if you believe in the merits of your work, it becomes much easier to
work on your dissertation. Congruence is about being well-matched to the dissertation
you’ve chosen to write.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Social Support: </b>Along
with confidence, social support might just be one of the biggest determining
factors of thesis success. You need support from friends and family during the
very difficult times that usually arise while writing a dissertation. You also
need a good relationship with your supervisor, with a study group and with
other support structures in order to do well. Finally, social support is about
having someone to talk to or blow off steam with when the stress of your
dissertation becomes too much. If you feel like others aren’t supporting your
work, you’ll probably struggle to find the motivation to keep going. If you’re
not getting help and advice from people you trust, you might feel like you’re
completely isolated and begin to dislike your research.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Inquisitiveness: </b>You’ll
be learning a lot while you work on your dissertation, and dealing with large
amounts of data and information. A love for learning is usually an important trait
for a successful researcher. If you aren’t curious about your world, and if you’re
not open-minded and a critical thinker, you might find every new article or
book to be frustrating. Developing your inquisitiveness could help you to begin
to truly enjoy working on your thesis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Tenacity: </b>Tenacity
is closely linked to endurance, but it is more long-term than only pushing
through individual work sessions. Tenacity is the ability to not give up on the
very long road to completing your thesis. It is also called grit, perseverance and
hardiness. If you are tenacious, you can roll with the punches and push through
the hard times. You can stick to your goals and you can maintain your
motivation all the way to the finish line, rather than simply feeling motivated
for short bursts. Tenacity and grit are almost always defining characteristics
of highly-successful people in any field; they had to keep going even when
things got tough. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Mental Health: </b>Your
mental health is a very important factor of an undertaking as stressful and
taxing as writing a dissertation. You need to be sure that you are constantly
taking care of your mental health, and not allowing yourself to burn out or to
become overwhelmed with your work. Those with good mental health can take time
for themselves, and they have good emotional resources and coping strategies to
work through hardships and setbacks. Your mental health is about understanding
your feelings and getting help when you need it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Writing Ability: </b>Finally,
a factor that might feel very demoralizing for students and researchers is
writing ability. All of us have something to learn in writing, and there are
many conventions in academic writing that make it especially challenging.
Working on your writing ability is about going through multiple drafts, and
finding an editor and advisors who you can trust. Many guides on developing your
writing ability can be found on <a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/">the
Academic Coaching website</a>, and you can also find our professional editing
and coaching services.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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These 10 core components all work together to help you make
a success of your thesis. The key is to recognize where your personal
challenges lie, and then to work on those aspects as early as you can in your
dissertation writing process. If you allow certain areas for growth to go
unchanged, you might find that your dissertation suffers because of it. <o:p></o:p><br />
<a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/p/dissertation-readiness-survey.html" target="_blank"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/p/dissertation-readiness-survey.html" target="_blank">Take the dissertation readiness quiz now to find out what your strengths and challenges are.</a></div>
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<b>Review Your Learning:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Each of us has certain strengths and challenges
in our academic writing. Understanding your strengths and challenges can help
you to ensure that you succeed at your thesis<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The 10 core components of thesis success are
writing ability, mental health, tenacity, inquisitiveness, social support,
congruence, knowledge, confidence, endurance and motivation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->If you have challenges in any of these fields,
it can cause you to have serious setbacks in your dissertation writing.<o:p></o:p></div>
Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-17315131701066442292017-07-22T17:10:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:21:30.769+02:00Working on Your Dissertation: What Lies Ahead?<br />
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Working on Your Dissertation: What Lies Ahead?</h2>
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dissertation is an important part of earning an advanced degree in most fields.
It shows that you’ve mastered the skills of research and that you have gained a
large amount of knowledge in your field, especially the particular aspect of
your field that your dissertation is focused on. It also shows that you’re
familiar with academic conventions; you know how to do structure your thoughts,
how to reference and incorporate information from other scholars, and how to extract
and analyze data from a focused study. All of these skills are very important in
many careers, and having an advanced degree like a master’s can be a great
stepping-stone towards career progression. But getting there is not always
easy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For a full master’s
degree, you’ll be expected to write between 40 – 100 pages, or up to 50,000
words on your topic in some disciplines. (You can find a full guide on exactly
what’s expected of you for a master’s degree, including an outline of your
chapters, at the <a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/p/resources.html">Academic
Coaching resources page</a>). For a doctoral degree, these numbers are usually
doubled, and unlike with your master’s where you merely demonstrate the skills
and perform a limited study, you’ll be expected to expand on your field in a
significant and new way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These are very high
expectations, and it can put a lot of pressure on a budding researcher. You
might have had moments of feeling overwhelmed or wondering if you’re up to the
task. You might still be unsure of exactly what is expected of you, or how you
will get through the months or even years that it will take you to do the
research and writing for your dissertation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The truth is that
even an undergraduate dissertation or “half-thesis” can still be very
challenging. You’re being required to demonstrate all of the academic skills
which are tested in advanced degrees, even if the size of your dissertation and
study aren’t as large. That’s why it’s important to recognize the requirements
as early as possible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For some
researchers or students, they struggle immensely with the work on their
dissertations, and they might not know why. It can be a real challenge getting
words on paper, and lots of factors can hold you back from working efficiently
and effectively. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Academic Coaching
team has identified 10 core components which are vital in dissertation success.
Struggling with any of these 10 core components can mean that you begin to
develop bad working habits and might even be unable to complete the work on
your dissertation. Alarmingly, a high number of students who enroll for a
graduate program don’t complete the program. For PhD students, the number of
students who discontinue their studies is <a href="http://www.chronicle.com/article/PhD-Attrition-How-Much-Is/140045">as
high as 50%.</a> Many students suffer in silence, thinking that there must be
something wrong with them if they can’t get their dissertation to work, or that
they’re just not cut out for earning their degree.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For a large number
of these students, it might mean changing their perspective, identifying areas
for growth, and being focused on these areas in order to form good working
habits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of the help you
need to make a success of your dissertation is out there. You can find a lot of
help at the Academic Coaching website in the form of free ebooks, guides,
outlines, examples and even your <a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/p/quiz.html">free dissertation readiness
report</a> which will highlight your strategies for success. Additionally,
there are student advisors at your college or university who are prepared to
give you as much help as you need. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s look closely
at the 10 core components so that you can begin to unpack your own barriers to
thesis success, and correct any problem areas as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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sustained academic research, and shows that you are knowledgeable about your
field and can perform a substantial study<o:p></o:p></div>
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you correct any problem areas before they begin to impact your research and
writing.</span></div>
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-65235707859072894722017-07-22T14:45:00.000+02:002017-09-10T22:21:23.069+02:00Writing a Thesis: Using Your Strengths and Challenges<br />
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Writing a Thesis: Using Your Strengths and Challenges</h2>
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will do in your life. You will have a love/hate relationship with it; at some
points, you will feel like you are learning so much and you’ll feel capable and
proud of yourself for your work, and at others you will feel completely lost
and frustrated, and you might even wish that you could forget about the dissertation
forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of us have certain strengths and challenges in our academic lives.
Maybe you’re very inquisitive, and you have a natural love for learning, but
someone else might struggle with new concepts and find learning frustrating.
Maybe you’ve got great mental endurance, and you’re able to sit for long hours
to put in the work that is needed to complete your dissertation. Or you might
become easily bored, frustrated and distracted, and procrastinate from doing the
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Whatever your strengths and challenges, it’s a good idea to get a handle on them as early as you can in your thesis writing process so that you can use your strengths to your benefit and mitigate or improve on your areas for growth. In this short guide, we’ll explain all of the aspects that go into being ready and capable for writing a thesis. You can measure yourself in each of the 10 core components of thesis readiness to see where you might need to grow. You can also take the quiz on the Academic Coaching website and our team will send you a free report with your greatest strength and your greatest challenge, as well as your “Ready for Success” level. In addition, your free report will contain graphs, info and advice about your personalized confidence score and your mental endurance score. We’ll explain all of these concepts in this short guide, but if you’d like to take the quiz right now and find out about your greatest strengths and challenges, head over to the<a href="http://www.writeyourthesis.com/p/quiz.html"> Academic Coaching website to get your free report</a>.</div>
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Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-2058747036277254172017-07-19T14:06:00.002+02:002017-09-10T22:21:14.367+02:00Surviving Setbacks to Your Success<br />
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Surviving Setbacks to Your Success</h2>
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unlocking your full potential and living your best life, it’s important to
clear your head and your life of anything holding you back, and instead fill
them with things that will take you forward. Below are some ideas you can focus
on to prime yourself for success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177066">Remember
that you</a><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">’</span>re
worthy of success</h3>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="rememberthatyoure"></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
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Even when some people are following all the right steps,
their confidence holds them back. They don’t really believe that they deserve
success or that they’re good enough at what they do to have it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You need to remember that everyone is on a journey, and
everyone feels like an imposter at some times. No one really feels like they
have everything under complete control. If you had the opportunity to hear the
thoughts of a highly successful person throughout their lifetime, you would probably
have heard the words: “Who am I to do this?” at some point. These doubts are
natural and part of the human experience, and no one is immune to them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Worse than this, all of these people have been criticized by
others and told that they were worthless, bad or damaged. Successful performers
like Fred Astaire, Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier were all told at some point
that they were bad at what they did. Poitier was told by the casting director
after his first acting audition, “Why don’t you stop wasting people’s time and
go out and become a dishwasher or something?” If these people had given up
after these messages, or listened to these voices telling them that they were
not good enough, they would never be the successes that they became.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The key is to move past this type of negative thinking and
to ignore messages that you’re not worthy of what you want. You need to
remember that there’s nothing different about you than anyone else who achieved
great things. There’s nothing inherently wrong or damaged about you that is
holding you back from living up to your potential. You can have everything you
want, and you deserve to have these things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Keep reminding yourself often that you’re worthy of real
success and that you’re good enough. And keep working at improving every day so
that you can silence those people who criticize you.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="holdontoyour"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177247"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177160"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177067"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264598">Hold on to your dreams in the hard times</a></h3>
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<o:p></o:p></h2>
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Being patient is one of the most important ingredients to
success. Success almost definitely won’t come on your first try. Probably not
on your second, third, fourth or fifth either. But eventually, if you keep on
working at it, you’ll find that you’ve reached great heights. For some it takes
only a year, but for most it takes at least five or even ten. But those who
persevere are usually richly rewarded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people who get there say that they’re actually grateful
for the bumps in the road, because it helped them to keep on working hard and
improve themselves along the way. If things came easy, you wouldn’t be forced
to be your best in order to get them. The accomplishments wouldn’t mean as much
to you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be tenacious in the face of obstacles. Be unflinching in
your resolve. Keep your eyes on the life of your dreams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even if it doesn’t work out for a long time, if you are
continuously making the effort to get better, being innovative and putting
yourself out there, success will come. In one form or another. Believe this and
hold on to it when you reach a period of struggle. And remember that every
single person who came before you on the road to success had to face their own
obstacles and had to be patient for it too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Robert T. Kiyosaki
said: “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the
process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="eatsleepandbreathe"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177248"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177161"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177068"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264599">Eat, sleep and breathe success</a></h3>
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<o:p></o:p></h2>
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Surround yourself with success and with symbols of your
success. Expose yourself to constant reminders of where you want to be, and
make plans accordingly. Don’t entertain the possibility that you are destined
for failure. Don’t allow yourself to be distracted from what you want to do
with your life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who achieve success are those who live a lifestyle of
success. It’s a shift that needs to take place from the inside out. Get your
mind into a place of success by reading and learning about it constantly.
Immerse yourself deeply in the life you really want.<o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;">If you want to be a
writer, write. If you want to be a businessman, start your business. The more
you live this life, the more it becomes who you are.</span>Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-44538964181155633972017-07-19T14:02:00.001+02:002017-09-10T22:21:07.327+02:00The Key to Success in Life<br />
<h2>
The Key to Success in Life</h2>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177057"><br /></a>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHlWeHoIK43M7ZLazVeYFc0L9diyno826zP9ruM7FtJ_BDkiZ3Gt6yvCr94azOBz68bEW0qoLxU2e7hdQYUMaOTk0buBN9KzzjDNKnZRtYxYv6y3tx8GJXYItrGm2ukh159IE19pM8XM/s1600/key+to+success+life+failure+unlock+potential+reach+goals+how+to+academic+coaching+writeyourthesis+grant+andrews+editing+services.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHlWeHoIK43M7ZLazVeYFc0L9diyno826zP9ruM7FtJ_BDkiZ3Gt6yvCr94azOBz68bEW0qoLxU2e7hdQYUMaOTk0buBN9KzzjDNKnZRtYxYv6y3tx8GJXYItrGm2ukh159IE19pM8XM/s320/key+to+success+life+failure+unlock+potential+reach+goals+how+to+academic+coaching+writeyourthesis+grant+andrews+editing+services.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177057">Focus your energies</a></h3>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="focusyour"></a><o:p></o:p></h2>
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The truth is, no matter how much you want to do in life,
those who accomplish the most are the people who choose to focus on being as good
as they can on only a few things. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The old adage is true: you can be a jack of all trades, but
usually it will go along with being a master of none. If you want to have
incredible success in your life, you need to find one or two things to really
focus on and become an expert in. To give yourself the best advantage to being
as successful, you need to have focus and clear direction. If you dedicate
yourself to only one or at most two particular fields, all of your efforts can
go to making yourself better in those areas. People will start to recognize you
and trust you to know what you’re doing or talking about when you show them
that you have years of experience in doing something right, rather than it
being just a passing interest to you. If we’re seeking medical advice, we’re
much more willing to listen to someone who finished their medical degree rather
than someone who did a single year of seven different degrees.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you really have a wide range of interests and have a lot
of different goals in life, try and find a way to make your goals complement
one another. For example, if you want to be a medical doctor and a writer, try
writing about health issues so that your books can boost your medical career
and vice-versa. Build up a public profile as an expert in as narrow a field as
possible, and then you can expand by doing different things within that field
of expertise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is called finding a profitable niche. Look for
something that you’re both naturally talented at, that you are passionate
about, as well as something that people are interested in or already spending
their money or time on. Do your research before deciding how you want to make
yourself stand out from the crowd. For example, within the very profitable
niche of smartphone apps, you might find one that makes people’s lives a lot
easier or gives them a great new experience that no other app can give them. If
you find some way to set yourself apart in an already profitable niche that
you’d love to pursue, focus your energy on that and pursue it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Narrowing your focus might make it sound like you’ll be
missing out on being everything that you can be, but this is a misconception.
Having a strong focus allows you to reach the greatest heights of success and
experience that wouldn’t be possible if you scattered your energies. Most
people who achieved great success usually did it with one thing that they were
great at. Olympic athletes focus most of their energy on their sport, and only
through their constant dedication to this one focus are they able to win
medals. Most great writers have a clear, single voice or message that they are
known for, and that is why they keep on selling books. Find that one thing that
you would be happy to spend the rest of your life, or at least many years,
working on in order to be the best that you can be at it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Focusing your energies also means that you spend the hours
in your day on improving the things that will help your area of focus. This
involves a lot of sacrifice. If you want to be a guitarist, you might have to
stop gardening as much as you used to so that you can spend more time
practising the guitar. Jimi Hendrix had to practise for hours each day in order
to be as good as he was. He spent a large amount of time listening to other
talented musicians and learning as much as he could. All of this dedication was
the reason he is now considered one of the greatest musicians of all time.
Because of his strong focus he was able to achieve what very few others could.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177238"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177151"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177058"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="workextremely"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264589">Work extremely hard to get what you want</a></h3>
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<o:p></o:p></h2>
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This is the one step that can’t be ignored or avoided. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The truth is that it takes an incredible amount of work to
fulfil your potential. There is no way to reach real success without a lot of
hard work. It will mean more work than you even imagine at the outset to really
reach your big goals in life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, not all hard work will get you to where you want to
be. Lots of people work long hours but do not progress in their careers, doing
jobs they hate but needing to stick with these jobs because they have no other
options. The poor in our societies especially have little career mobility or
control of their time, and working hard for a boss only makes the boss rich
instead of fulfilling your potential.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This kind of work, while it might be necessary, won’t help
you to make your dreams a reality. If you want to live up to your potential,
you need to find ways of expanding beyond these jobs in order to really build a
worthwhile career for yourself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You need to work hard in ways that take you closer to what
your personal goals are. If you are currently working two jobs in order to make
ends meet, but you really dream of being a teacher, you could consider making
time for a night class so that you can educate yourself. You could get some
free financial advice online or at a community center to learn how to save a
bit each month, giving yourself a bit more financial freedom. You need to make
time to do the work that will really get you to where you want to be, rather
than just doing work that will keep you in the same place. If you ever want
your life to change, you need to change how you are spending your time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You need to develop a strong work ethic. Push through the
pain and discomfort of doing the things that you need to do so that you can
start doing the things that you want to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soichiro Honda, the founder of the multinational automobile
and motorcycle manufacturer Honda, started out as an extremely poor and
uneducated apprentice in a garage at age 15. He saved for years and eventually
started his own auto-repair business at age 22. Two of his manufacturing plants
were destroyed in World War II, but Honda persevered and through innovation he
was able to expand his company into the multi-billion dollar manufacturer that
it is today, producing the best-selling motorcycles in the world. Only through
hard work was he able to follow his passion and make it a success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The easiest way to work hard is to love what you do and to
know why you are doing it. If, like the many examples listed throughout this
book, you can really find something that excites you and makes the work feel
worthwhile, you will have a reason to keep going. Knowing why you want to
achieve your goals will give you more drive and determination to make them come
true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This still does not mean that you will love every minute of
it. Sometimes the long hours can be very frustrating. It might feel like a
distraction working towards your dream when you could rather be earning more
money doing something else. Remember in these times that your real, authentic
potential can only be unlocked by sticking to something that you believe in.
Live your life to be the best that you can be. Aim to thrive, not simply to
survive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people will tell you to work smarter, not harder.
Remember the 80-20 rule: roughly 80 percent of your success comes from only 20
percent of your actions. Only a very small amount of positive effects comes
from the remaining 80 percent of your actions. This means that if you work on your
new business every day, you might spend most of your time tidying your office,
but this only improves your business by a tiny margin. Instead of wasting your
own time on this, hire someone else to do it and spend more time on the things
that actually lead to more success. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Find out what gives you the best results, and cut out
wasting time on other things. Maybe a whole branch or department of your
company is only bringing in a tiny amount of your profits. You might have to
make the tough call and stop wasting resources on it, no matter how sentimental
you feel about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, if you want to really fulfil your potential, you’ll
work both smarter <i>and </i>harder. You’ll
do even more of the effective things every day than other people are doing.
You’ll dedicate yourself even more to your goals than most other people are.
The rich and successful are not lazier than the rest of the population. In
fact, many extremely successful people still work very hard every day. The
difference is that they love what they do and they’re the masters of their own
time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is all much easier said than done, and it will be very
hard for you to do in practice. But hard work that takes you closer to your
goals is the only way to reach success.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="develophabits"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177239"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177152"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177059"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264590">Develop habits for success</a></h3>
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<o:p></o:p></h2>
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Successful people usually follow very similar habits in
order to reach the levels of success that they have. These might not be what
you’re used to, and you might find them annoying or difficult to follow, but if
you start acting more like a successful person, it’ll be easier for you to
become a successful person.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the most important habits shared by many successful
people is making the most of your mornings. The mornings are a time of feel
rejuvenated, alert and ready for action. Your midday or afternoon slumps
haven’t happened yet. Make the most of this time and get some important things
done.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You could try getting up an hour earlier and getting a
head-start on doing the important things for the day. Reflect on your list of
priorities and visualize success at any important appointments or activities
you have scheduled. Psych yourself up for making the best of the day. Have a
good, healthy breakfast and perhaps spend some time stretching or do a short
workout to build your energy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, once you’ve given yourself a great start every day, get
rid of a lot of your anxiety and do that one thing that you really dread doing
today or that causes you the most stress. If you need to write up a report by
the end of the day, instead of letting this task loom over you and cause you
unnecessary stress, get it done as early as possible. Do your one big task even
before checking emails, and you’ll feel a lot freer to deal with whatever else
comes along knowing that you’ve done something really productive already.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Have every hour of the working day scheduled. Even be sure
to schedule breaks and rest time. Try and find a rhythm that works for you –
some people definitely need more breaks than others. But don’t leave things up
to chance. Know exactly what you need to do throughout your day so that you can
track your progress. Then give yourself some sort of reward when you finish
important tasks. I like to reward myself with watching an episode of a comedy
show that I love. The laughing and leisure make me feel good about life and
create a positive association with achieving things that might have been
difficult.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another important habit of success is to value and nurture
relationships. This could mean relationships with your bosses, coworkers,
subordinates, or family and friends. Relationships are important for success,
and most people will tell you that they have not achieved anything substantial
in life without the help of others. People who are well-liked might even be
considered for promotions over those who are hardworking but don’t spend time
on relationship building. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You might send out an email once a week to someone who has
helped you to thank them, or arrange a networking lunch with a few colleagues.
You might even reach out to someone that you haven’t spoken to yet who works in
a similar field. It’s important always to see relationship building as places
of giving. The more you give to people, and the more you can offer them, the
more they will feel like they can trust and rely on you. They’ll be more
willing to help you in the long run as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Successful people also often have consistent healthy habits
to look after their minds and bodies. If you are not already exercising
regularly or eating well, start now. There are very few people who achieve
great things in life if their bodies aren’t up to the challenge, and it’s hard
to make tough decisions if your mind is undernourished or not stimulated.
Showing yourself the care and discipline which it takes to stay healthy gives
you a good foundation for success. Find an exercise routine and eating plan
that works for you, take up hobbies that challenge and stimulate you and become
an active, lifelong learner.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, at the end of the day, you can use some time to
reflect and to plan ahead. What did you accomplish in the day? What did you
fail to do? Schedule time tomorrow to do it instead. Be sure not to give
yourself the same reward that you would have gotten for completing your tasks –
rather save it for tomorrow. You can also remind yourself of your goals at this
time and be pleased and grateful that you’ve done things throughout the day to
get you there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is how most successful people live, and adopting this
lifestyle will help you to unlock your potential.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="takepridein"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177240"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177153"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177060"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264591">Take pride in everything you do</a></h3>
<h2>
<o:p></o:p></h2>
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In order to create long-term, sustainable and growing
success, you need to create things and do work that you are proud of. You need
to provide quality to others to make sure that your name and brands are
respected and widely marketable. If not, you could lose credibility and you
might eventually hit a dead-end in your career once people realize that your
work is not worth investing in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Providing quality and taking pride in your work helps you to
build trust with those who you are serving through your work. If you’re a
journalist who continuously writes fabricated or poorly written stories, you’ll
be out of a job very soon if you’re at any sort of respectable news agency, and
it’ll be very difficult for you to be hired again based on your poor portfolio.
But if you’re someone who takes pride in your work, even if you’re at a small
newspaper, you’ll start to build loyal readers who trust what you write, and
eventually you’ll be able to apply for bigger and better jobs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You’re definitely allowed to have a few hiccups and off
days. Sometimes we all just do something that we’re not particularly proud of.
But people will respect you if you pick yourself back up, learn from your
mistakes, and have a long list of positives to your name to counteract the few
bad days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Producing quality work will also show people that you have
integrity and that you’re someone who can be counted on. For most people,
they’ll rather hire someone they can trust to do the job well, or buy a product
from someone whose name is tied to honesty, quality and integrity. Give yourself
the advantage of knowing that whatever you’re trying to do will really benefit
the people who receive it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You need to think about building a legacy through your
actions. Do things that you can market yourself on and that make you proud to
put your name on. Each day, aim to do something that adds to your legacy or
moves you closer to your dreams. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You should also aim to do something that makes the world a
better place. Whether you’re bringing people beauty, laughter, new solutions,
happiness, connection, motivation, information, education or positivity, if you
really know that you’re giving people something worthwhile, you’ll find that
success can come a lot easier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, providing quality doesn’t mean that you should wait
forever until you feel that something is “perfect” before running with it. The
truth is that there is no such thing as perfect, and nothing you do will ever
be perfect. It’s better to do as much as you can to make sure that you’re proud
of something, and then let it go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A good practice is to give yourself a time limit. If you
think that you’ve worked really hard on something and it makes you proud, but
you’d like to do a bit more work to get it better, tell yourself that you have
to let it go after a certain amount of time. This could be a week or a few
months. Be very clear about the time that you still have to work on it, and
don’t delay it past that point. You won’t ever have success unless you put
something out there!<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="beconsistent"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177241"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177154"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177061"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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It’s very unlikely that your blog will take off if you only
post once every six months. It’s unlikely that you’ll get lots of subscribers
to your YouTube channel if you only post one video and forget about it. People
want to know that they can expect certain things from you before they’re
willing to invest their time and energy in you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you want to be successful, you need to be consistent with
your efforts. If you work hard for a short while, then give up for months
afterwards, and suddenly decide to come back to it, you shouldn’t be surprised
that you lost a lot of interest and momentum during that time off. This is not
to say that you should just abandon projects that you might have been
neglecting, but only through consistent effort can you make these projects
grow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you’ve discovered your profitable niche, and you’re
committed to producing quality, be consistent with your efforts. Commit to
create one new YouTube video every two weeks, at least. Or to write a new blog
post once a month. The more regularly you show people that you have something
useful, fun or entertaining to offer, the more they will show up with their
support.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="beopentochange"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177242"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177155"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177062"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264593">Be open to change and opportunities</a></h3>
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Ask anyone who has tried something new, and they’ll tell you
that most of the time it didn’t work out exactly as they had planned. Very few
things run completely smoothly, and very few people took exactly the road they
wanted to take to reach success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You need to be able to very quickly adapt in order to find
the best way to move towards your dreams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be perceptive of markets out there. If you love writing
about insects but very few people really want to read about insects, try and
find a way that you can sell your work in a new package. For example, you could
redirect your focus to writing children’s educational fiction about the relationships
between different insects. There might be a much bigger market for this, and
you can still do what you love while finding greater success with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The people who really reach their potential are innovative
and willing to compromise. Don’t be stubborn or inflexible with your dreams.
Rather, look at your circumstances and the realities you’re faced with, and
find ways to be successful within them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In order to be well-received, you need to make sure that
people are looking for what you are offering, in the form that you’re offering
it. If not, try something new or try to sell it in a new way. It’s useless
trying to sell ice to Eskimos. But some of them might be art-lovers and instead
you could sell them beautiful ice sculptures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maintain your integrity and follow your initial dream, but
still try to find ways to make your work accessible to a large audience. The
best way to do this is through research. Do as much research into your industry
and the markets available as you possibly can. Find out what people are already
buying, study the most popular products in your niche, and then visit message
boards of the communities who would be your likely target market. See what they
need, and ask them if you need to. These will give you a good idea about how you
can be innovative and find better ways to reach your goals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You might need to be very experimental to find out what
really works and what doesn’t. You might know that you want to work with music,
but the rock band that you want to start just isn’t taking off. Instead, you
could do a part-time internship at a recording studio, and see what record
labels are really looking for. You could put out demos on SoundCloud and see
how people respond to them. You could join indie communities and talk to other
musicians about how they succeeded. Be willing to try anything to get to where
you want to be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sad truth is, you might not get exactly the career that
you want. You might simply not be talented enough as a singer to be the rock
legend you want to be. But if you continue to explore your passion for music,
you might find that you work much better as a producer. Eventually, you could
help to launch the careers of many other artists and even own a record label
and have a great level of success in that way. Be flexible with your ambition
and you could end up in amazing places that you never even expected.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="bewillingtoput"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177243"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177156"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177063"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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Don’t be afraid of making yourself vulnerable in order to
get what you want. If you’re not willing to do things that might fail, you’ll
never put yourself in the position to eventually succeed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You need to be willing to potentially make a fool of
yourself, and then dust yourself off when it happens. Most people who attain
great success have a very long list of failures behind them, but they needed to
take the chance in order to succeed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Henry Ford’s first company failed. He left his second
company and his third faced financial disaster. At that point, he might have
thought that he just wasn’t cut out to be a businessman. Despite this, he
persevered and founded the Ford Motor Company, going on to be one of the most
successful entrepreneurs in history. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Each failure gives you the opportunity to learn and do
better next time. Even if it feels like a really big failure, try and take from
it as much as you can and keep on working towards your dreams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Putting yourself out there also means being willing to
market yourself. Don’t be shy to tell people who you are and what you stand
for. Claim your identity and your dreams. If you know that you’ll be a great
sportswoman one day, introduce yourself as a sportswoman. Being ashamed of your
dream will get you nowhere, but if people know what you want in life they might
be able to offer you help or support. Talk about your dreams instead of hiding
them away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s important to remember that you won’t start out as an
expert in the field you’re working in, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t
take chances. You need to fake it ‘til you make it. Show people that you’re
confident in your abilities and that you’re willing to work hard, and you are
setting yourself up for success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The final step to putting yourself out there is to ask for
help when you need it. If you’re focusing your energy on being great at one
thing, that necessarily means that you’re lacking in some other fields. Find
the help and advice you need instead of taking it all on alone. Usually, people
are very willing to help you if you show them that you’re confident in what
you’re doing.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="learnfromthesuccess"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177244"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177157"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427177064"><o:p></o:p></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc427264595">Learn from the success stories of others, and listen to
their advice</a></h3>
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Chances are, you’re not the exception to the rules that
other people had to follow in order to be successful. There are certain steps
within every industry that you might need to take in order to achieve certain
goals, and trying to bypass or circumvent these will usually only lead to
failure. Your ignorance is not an excuse here – you need to know the industry
you are working in as well as you can, and find out what worked for other
people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When people have been through all of the steps to success
before, they usually have some great advice to offer you. Don’t try to reinvent
the wheel. Listen to what these people have to offer you. Read autobiographies
of the people you admire. Read books by people who have achieved success or who
know a lot about your industry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The person who reaches his or her full potential is
constantly learning and growing. Learn the steps that other people followed,
try all of them, and see which ones work for you. The best way to do this,
again, is to ask others for advice and do your research. The more you know
about the industry you’re working in, the better you’ll be able to navigate
your road to success. </div>
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At the very least, asking for advice will be great for relationship building. Become an active member of the industry of your dreams. People will start to recognize you and you might find a lot of allies to help you towards your success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185484890529336542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705656357478031487.post-22999965781423411312017-07-19T13:51:00.002+02:002017-09-10T22:20:59.342+02:00How to Make a Success of Your Life<br />
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How to Make a Success of Your Life</h2>
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It’s important to have a clear vision of where you want to
be in life. If you know exactly what you want to achieve and where you want to
end up, it becomes easier to make decisions that will get you there. It takes
away a lot of the indecision and confusion about how you should be filling your
time if you know what the results are that you want to see.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you want to be a social worker, for example, you focus on
this vision clearly and make choices that will bring you closer and closer to
this dream. You will rather choose to spend your extra earnings on doing a
counseling course than spend it on a new DVD player, because the one gets you
closer to your dream. If you didn’t have a clear vision of where you wanted to
be, you wouldn’t be able to measure what you’re doing to get there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You also need to reinforce this vision very often. The more
often you remember what you want and remind yourself what you’re going for, the
less you’ll be distracted by things that don’t matter as much. Put up a
reminder of your vision for your life somewhere visible in your home. Put it as
a background image or screensaver on your PC, phone or tablet. Talk about your
dream often or even start a blog about it. Everything you do to make your
vision more real and to keep it alive will help you to get there eventually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be brave enough to claim your dreams. Don’t be afraid to say
where you’re going with your life. The more you talk about it and show that
you’re proud and confident of what you’re working towards, the more you might
be able to get others to believe in you and even support you along the way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A good tool that many people use to remind themselves of
their goals is by making a vision board or writing a list of the things they
really want. On your vision board you could put pictures of the life you want
to live. Make it clear, vibrant and happy. Fill it with positive, inspiring
messages. No one will believe in your dream unless you believe in it yourself
first, so be very clear about what you want for your life and start owning that
dream.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Having a clear vision for your relationships, work, hobbies,
interests or even the things you want to own or accomplish is a powerful first
step in living the life of your dreams and unlocking your true potential.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is your ultimate potential?</h3>
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The truth is that you have limitless potential to make your
life amazing. When you limit your goals and vision because you think it’ll be
too hard to get there, you’re feeding yourself the message that you’re not
capable of doing the amazing things you want to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those people who have the greatest success first needed to
believe in what they have to offer the world. You need to trust that your
unique contribution is worthwhile. Even if there are a thousand other bakers in
your city, you need to know that if your passion is to bake, you can make a
success of it. There is always room for another person with passion and drive
in the world. You might just have to find a new, unique way to do what you want
to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your ultimate potential, just like with everyone else, is
limitless. But you do need to remember that most of the time, things will not
work out exactly the way that you want, and you might not be able to reach your
dreams in exactly the way you thought you would.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For example, when she was a child, Hillary Clinton initially
wanted to become an astronaut and sent a letter to NASA, but she was told at
the time that they would not accept women into their space program. She
realized that she had incredible potential for greatness, but she encountered a
roadblock to her dream. Instead of simply giving up on reaching success, she
refocused her energy into politics and eventually became the Secretary of State
of the United States, one of the most senior governmental positions. Finding
new ways to use the potential that you have when you encounter certain dead
ends can lead you to discover dreams that you never even considered before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be willing to recognize your talents and to nurture your dreams,
but don’t be held down by them. If you find a new way of expanding yourself and
demonstrating your talents, go in that direction. Move in the direction of
opportunity and growth, and you can reach your full potential in life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is your true measure of success?</h3>
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Lots of people think that being successful means being
extremely rich, having a trophy husband or wife, and being in a position of
great power over other people. While this might give some people a feeling of
authentic success, it’s not the final vision of a truly satisfying life for all
of us. Sometimes, having all of these things might make you seem successful in
the eyes of others, but it could actually mean that you are squandering your
potential if you choose to simply live your life in order to be admired by
other people or to fulfil this simplistic definition of success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We definitely need to have enough money to do the things we
need to do in order to be successful. We definitely need to have power over our
lives. But more money and power does not necessarily mean more success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You can see this in the example mentioned above of J.K.
Rowling, who gave away a large portion of her wealth to charity and chose to
expand beyond the book series that made her rich so that she could follow her
creative passion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You can also see this with someone like Mark Shuttleworth,
the billionaire South African businessman, who stepped down as CEO of his
company, instead spending a lot of his time pursuing his passion for
spaceflight and developing his nonprofit organization which funds social innovation,
education and free and open source software projects.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many of these people know that the money and power alone
won’t equal the feeling of real success. It can help you to do the things you
want, but you can still pursue the things you want without needing more and
more money and power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even if you feel that success means having the newest car,
the most popular song or the most attractive partner, all of these things will
fade. There will be newer models of cars, a more popular song and a more
attractive person sooner than you know. If you only measure success on
superficial things, it will always be ephemeral and you’ll never be satisfied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Real success means achieving something that has real meaning
and significance to you, and living a life that gives you joy and fulfilment
every day. It means doing a job that you really love doing, where you
contribute in a way that makes you feel valued. It means working with people in
a way that is mutually beneficial. It means having strong, genuine
relationships with others. It means feeling satisfied at the end of the day,
not feeling like your energy is being wasted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you are reaching your full potential, you are finding
new ways to do the things that really make you feel this way. This means using
your talents in order to achieve goals that reflect the ideas listed above. You
should be able to know that every day you’ve done something challenging, but
you’ve done your best and you’ve grown. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Real success is giving your heart and soul to work that
makes your own life and the lives of others better.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You don’t need to be the best at something, the leader of
something or the wealthiest person around to feel this level of real success.
If you always measure your level of success by these things, you might be
missing out on really living the life of your dreams because you are living the
life that others want you to live. If you want to really reach your full
potential you need to begin measuring your success on things that you really
want, not what the characters on television, your parents or anyone else says
you should want to be or have. Being authentic allows you to truly be fulfilled
in life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The most successful people say that they are self-motivated.
This means that they don’t look at what other people want from them, but they
develop their own goals and have real, authentic reasons for pursuing these
goals.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are simply applying for a job to impress someone
else, you will never truly love that job or feel like an authentic success. If
you are only doing something because it’s seen as a respectable thing to do,
you won’t feel satisfied at the end of the day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Think of all the things that really make you feel happy and
that you really want to accomplish one day, no matter what other people think.
Use these things to frame the vision for your life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your past doesn’t define you</h3>
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While it’s definitely easier for some people to get certain
jobs and do certain impressive things with their lives because they were raised
with privileges, this does not mean that these people are successful. In fact,
lots of people doing things that you might find really respectable, like
businesspeople, doctors, lawyers or politicians, are deeply dissatisfied with
their lives and wish that they could be doing something else. Despite their
advantages in life and the fact that they have a lot of money, power and
prestige, they don’t really feel successful and they are not living up to their
full potential.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many of the people who achieve the greatest successes, and
who really feel fulfilled and satisfied with their lives, are those who have
come from the most challenging circumstances or have faced the most adversity.
These people know what they’re working for and why they want to achieve what
they are achieving in life. These are also the people who often use their
influence in order to make the world better for people who come from similar
disadvantaged backgrounds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oprah Winfrey is the prime example of overcoming adversity
and using her background to really change the world. She was born to a single
teenage mother in rural Mississippi. Her family was very poor. She was raped
and sexually abused throughout her childhood, starting at age nine, and became
pregnant at age 14, eventually losing her child in infancy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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However, she worked and studied exceptionally hard,
eventually earning her own talk show which ran for 25 years, and she is
currently North America’s only black billionaire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oprah did what she really loved to do, and found incredible
success doing it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The money, power and influence weren’t enough for her, and
she extended her reach to make the world a better place through many
philanthropic works, including building a leadership academy for girls in South
Africa. She also still takes chances and has greater goals, realizing that she still
has the potential for greater things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oprah is just one of many examples of people who overcame
the struggles of their pasts to truly make their lives a success. Your past
does not define what your life can become, and it doesn’t have to hold you
back. No matter what the circumstances of your life are right now, people who
were in similar circumstances achieved great successes. You can too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Find a story of someone who faced the same struggles that
you are facing and still went on to live the life of their dreams. Use this
story to motivate you to go for what you want in life. Don’t allow your
personal history to weigh you down from reaching what your life could be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anything really is possible for you</h3>
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The biggest problem is that people limit themselves in their
thinking. They imagine that all the excuses they can list for why they are not
successful yet, or the obstacles they are facing that make it difficult for
them to change, are good enough reasons to stay exactly where they are. They
don’t allow themselves to see that they are capable of so much more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t be one of the people who is constantly held back by
their fear or by the idea that they simply don’t have what it takes to succeed.
You have what it takes, and you can exceed your wildest dreams if you simply
follow the steps of success which many others have followed to get them where
they are today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are not any different from anyone else. If you do all of
the things that will take you towards your dream, eventually you will get
there. Maybe your dream will change a bit along the way, but it will still be
worth fighting for a life that you truly want to live and using your talents
and passions to make your life extraordinary. </div>
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In the next section I’ll explore many of the common strategies which people follow in order to unlock their potential. It won’t be easy to get there, but it will be worth it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why Do So Few People Reach Their Potential?</h2>
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It’s much easier for someone who already has a lot of resources to do things
that might be considered successful. If you are the son of a famous film
producer, it’s not as difficult for you to get a good job in the film industry
as it would be for someone who is born in rural Kenya who might have the same
dream and the same potential. We live in a world where some people have big
advantages and other people have to work a hundred times harder for even a
tenth of the wealth, status, quality of life, accomplishments or level of
success. While this definitely is unfair, and ideally it shouldn’t be this way,
it’s the state of the world we live in right now. Because of this, we can
understand why a lot of people are dragged down by their circumstances, and
social mobility is very difficult. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, this isn’t the whole story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are millions of people who are being innovative,
fighting against the odds and making their lives a success despite their
backgrounds. Even when realistically they should have been just like everyone
else who was born or lived in similar circumstances, they rose above and
managed to reach their full potential.<o:p></o:p></div>
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J.K. Rowling was a single mother who survived on state
benefits. Her manuscript for Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers, and she
was told by one publisher not to quit her day job and that she was not a good
writer. Today, she is a multi-millionaire author. She’s no longer listed as a
billionaire because she donated such a large portion of her wealth to charity
that she was knocked off of Forbes’s list. By all measures, she’s an amazing
success, and she has overcome the obstacles of her past.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Are the people who can accomplish these successes just the
products of miracles or of dumb luck? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Usually not. Usually, these are people who are able to have
perseverance and determination despite their circumstances, who constantly work
to improve themselves, and who do not listen to negative messages about what
they know they want to do with their lives. But they’re also people who are shrewd
and savvy, grabbing good opportunities and being willing to work extremely hard
and adapt in order to find success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The main obstacle to most people’s success is fear. Most
people think that it’ll be too much work, or that others will make fun of them
if they fail or if they’re rejected. They’re too afraid of what will happen
once they really start going after their success. They might even be afraid
that they’re not good enough to get what they want. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Getting past your own fear is the only way you can reach
your full potential. When you remember that the worst that can happen is a
momentary failure, and that you will live to fight another day even if you do
fail, it can help you to get past some of these fears. Believe me, I’ve had
many failures in my past, but I’ve fought through them and kept trying until I
found my own personal success in life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lots of people are also held back by their own pride. They
think that taking the long way around is undignified and they’d rather not try
anything at all instead of try something that they think is beneath them. So,
you might desperately want to be a singer but you won’t want to start out
singing at small clubs because you think you’re only meant for arenas. Or you
might not want to try out for a reality show singing competition because you
think it ruins your credibility. However, many people who have achieved great
success were willing to try anything to get there, and if you’re too proud to
take a chance at something that could take you to success, you’re holding
yourself back. Many famous movie stars started out doing very cheesy
commercials. They might be embarrassed about these commercials now, but it gave
them the start that they needed to get where they are today. You’re not too
good to get your hands dirty on your way to success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people also don’t reach their full potential because of
the fact that they’re not willing to put in the years of hard work that it
usually takes to get there. Anyone who makes anything substantial of their
lives will tell you that they had to work to get there. For most of us, nothing
is simply handed to us on a silver platter, and nothing comes easy. If you give
up after two weeks, six months or even five years, instead of finding better
ways of doing what you do, you will never know the success that could have been
just a few steps ahead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course, the vast majority of people who don’t reach their
full potential are simply not given the chance. The next Einstein might be in a
village in India right now, but she is simply not receiving the opportunity to
reach that potential. If you’re lucky enough to have some resources at your
disposal, you don’t have this excuse. If you have access to the internet, there
are a thousand resources you could be using to make your dreams come true.
Educate yourself, ask for help or advice and look for ways to make it happen.
The people who really reach their potential in life are those who take the
chances they’re given and make the best of them.</div>
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No excuse is worth missing out on your dreams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How to Unlock Your Potential</h2>
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fuller, happier, bigger lives. We dream of being in control of our own time,
doing things we really love and never being held back in life. We all want to
be the best that we can possibly be and make our dreams come true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’ve seen many people reach the heights of human potential.
There are people out there living lives that we wish we could emulate and doing
things that we admire. But for many of us, it’s a struggle to live up to what
we really want in life. Not many people actually reach their potential.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You might be putting yourself down, thinking that there is
something different about you that makes it impossible for you to do the types
of things that these people are doing. You might think that you simply don’t have
as much raw talent, drive or determination as it would take to live the life of
your dreams. You might find all kinds of excuses for why you can’t go after the
things you want to do. </div>
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Maybe you think you’re not smart enough, attractive
enough, or rich enough to be successful. Maybe you’ve been told these types of
things your entire life and you’ve started to believe them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But the truth is that there is nothing that can prevent you
from being successful. Wildly successful people have come from all walks of
life. It might be harder for some people than it is for others, for example,
it’s harder for someone who is born poor to become an astronaut. But it’s not
impossible, and it’s happened before. Telling yourself that you are destined
for failure is the surest way to find failure. Just like everyone else, you are
capable of incredible success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take one example of someone overcoming their circumstances.
José M. Hernández was the son of very poor farmworkers in California, and
worked the farms as a child. He only learned to speak English at the age of 12,
and participated in the Upword Bound program which helps educationally
disadvantaged youth prepare for college. He applied himself at college and
became an engineer for NASA despite his disadvantaged background. He worked
diligently until he was selected for his first space mission in 2008. When the
mission launched, he became the first person to use the Spanish language in
space through a tweet. Mr. Hernández did not allow himself to be held back by
his circumstances and went after his dreams. He is only one of many people who
overcame incredible odds to make his life a success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He could have given up on his dreams. He certainly had
enough excuses to. He was not a likely candidate for the level of success he achieved.
But he went after what he wanted, and he far exceeded what most people would
have expected from him as a child. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is nothing that is holding you back from living your
best life. Even though you might have obstacles along the way, if you think
that it’s impossible for you to be an incredible success, you’re simply wrong.
It’s possible, and other people are doing it every day, right now as you’re
reading this, despite the challenges they face. They are not letting their
circumstances dictate what they make of their lives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Think about it – if you’re struggling to reach your
potential, what really separates you from the people who are incredibly
successful? What separates you from the billionaire who took his own small
company to massive success? What makes you any different form the superstar
musician whose music is listened to by millions around the world? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The answer is, they followed a certain recipe for success.
Most of them faced rejection, criticism, seemingly impossible obstacles and
even a lot of failure, but they didn’t stop. They knew what they wanted, and
they found ways to make it happen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A lot of these people have written or spoken about their
journeys towards success. These stories show particular trends that you can
study in order to make your life a success as well. Even if you feel like
you’re on the right path to where you want to be, studying the tips for success
which these leaders can offer can be a very powerful way to remind yourself
that success is within your reach. You just have to go for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this book many of the strategies for success will be
shared. There will also be a few case studies to show you how successful people
achieved what they did.<br />
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The most important thing to remember is that you have an incredible amount of potential to do great things with your life. More than you can even know. The only way to realize that potential is to be persistent and to keep moving higher and higher until you achieve that dream that you might have thought was impossible.<br />
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