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How to Write a Good Thesis for an Essay
0Essay writing is a commonly used tool that checks your creative skills. Whether it is a five-paragraph text for your high school essay writing or a story about yourself for college essays, you need one thing that keeps everything together – a thesis.
Thesis writing can turn into a real problem. Students often start wandering around the topic while writing an essay. A thesis has to be focused and specific enough to be “proven” within the boundaries of your essay paper. In order to fulfill successful thesis writing, focus on your topic. Do some researches on it and ask yourself whether your theme is worthy of your efforts.
Next step in thesis writing is deciding, what is the main idea. Stating the main idea is essential in essay writing. If you don’t have it, you are lost in you own text. As a result, your essay writing lacks unity, and your readers don’t understand you.
On the other hand, a clearly defined thesis can also be of little help in writing an essay. Why? Because when you are writing a thesis, you are narrowing your topic down to a bearable amount of work. If a thesis is too broad, you end up lost in confusion.
Tips to Balance Academics and Relationships
0There should never be a “tug and pull” in love and academics. Relationships ought to serve as an inspirational tool for one to excel in academics and therefore, eventually, succeed in life. A relationship must have the power to motivate a person or partner to persist, achieve, and succeed. Because only by doing so can relationships truly flourish.
Sometimes, we get too focused on getting the best grades; we forget our relationships with our loved ones. We unconsciously neglect them, forgetting that getting good grades should also be fun. On the other hand, some of us do not even care about what marks or grades we get in high school or college, because we think our interaction with others is what’s more important. If you truly want to succeed in life, you need to find a balance between your academics and social life.
A balanced life means a happy life
If you want to be happy, you ought to be balanced in everything that you do and want; that’s why it’s important to know some strategies for a balanced relationship and academics; and therefore, achieve a happier and more fulfilled life. Read below the two tips that can help you have a balanced life:
Benefits Of Scholarship Search
0526 days
by lionjkt1
in Scholarships
Benefits of Scholarship Search
Whether you want to continue your college or begin your pursuit in the university, looking for a good school is your top priority. But what it you don’t have money to finance your education? Surely, the first thing you should do is not to search for your school; but to look for something that could help you get your first step at the doors of any university or college of your choice. You would look for a scholarship.
Okay, you begin searching for scholarships but after sometime, you end up with nothing. What seems to be the problem? What tool should help you in order to get your dream scholarship fast and effective?
With all the searches failed, you should now consider seeking help from scholarship search.
What is a scholarship search?
Scholarship search is a helpful tool in order for you to arrive at the any scholarship available for you. It is an online site the gives you the access on the list of scholarships that might be good for you. We say, “might be good” because there are certain types of scholarships that are not suitable for you. Reasons for this vary. It might be because some scholarships available on scholarship search only grants those within a set age bracket, status, needs, merits, ethnicity, and more.
Resilient Adult Learners and the Sham of Academic Writing
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Dr. Elizabeth Hoult, Director of Knowledge Transfer of Canterbury Christ Church University UK, made a presentation which she deliberately titled ‘Reading Bourdieu and Cixous to recognize and escape the sham of Academic Writing’. Her talk was part of an International Seminar on Innovative English Language Teaching organized by the Centre for English Language Teaching, University of Kerala and the Government College For Women, Trivandrum on 26th July 2010.
Dr. Elizabeth was the main invited foreign speaker-cum-delegate. She made profuse use quotes from her study and authoritative texts along with visuals using the PowerPoint to illustrate her points. The following are notes prepared from her presentation:
We have come to recognize a new category of learners called the ‘Resilient Adult Learner’. They are successful despite 1. Traumatic events in their lives 2. Lack of capital 3. Being non-conformist. These are mature students in the UK who return to studies after long years at ages ranging from 30 to 60. They are mainly working class people who didn’t have cultural, economic or symbolic capital. They did not have accents similar to that of their Professors in universities and did not have the right connections. Some of them were non-conformists who refused to play the ‘academic game’.
Pierre Bourdieu in his writings discussed about Higher Education and the inequalities in Education. According to him, it is not possible to remove inequality in society as it exists now. What happens is that the “Already privileged are given more capital”, as in Banking. The system doesn’t liberate anybody. People outside the system have no access. Each field in Higher Education is policed by gate keepers who keep out those who disagree.
The quantum studies done in the UK show that the rich people go to the Universities and acquire more knowledge. Yet there are those in Higher Education who survive despite lack of capital. Such people are ‘Le Miracule’. And for them what happens is a Transformational Adult Learning!. On being interviewed, this is what they had to say:
Five Basic Tips For Academic Success In The University
0Once you get admission into a university or polytechnic, your ultimate aim is to have academic success. So as a new academic session starts, it is again a big journey for the students. Life and studies in higher institution may be fun as well as challenging too. In the university arena, every student wants to get academic success. So, I am going to provide you with five solid and proven academic tips that will help you in getting academic success in the university.
1. Always be Punctual:- If you attend your lectures late, you miss important information and strong ingredients delivered by the lecturer. On the other hand, if you are punctual, you leave a positive impression in the minds of your fellow students and the course lecturer. You get all the stuffs given out by the lecturer. You also make your notes the way you understand it from the horse’s mouth (the lecturer). Besides, you will also be in tandem with the lecturer’s core points and minds as it concerns that particular course.
2. Ask Questions As Many As Possible:- Many of the students are introvert and do not want to ask any question to the lecturer (why?). But a student should ask questions as many as possible to improve his knowledge in the course. Let me tell you, lecturers like those students who ask questions to them because it shows the interest of the students in the class, and it automatically increases your interests and attention in the course. Moreover, it shows that you really want to know more and more about the course.
Finding More Scholarship Sources
0528 days
by lionjkt1
in Scholarships
It takes more than making the grades and scoring high on the SATs for students to be college-bound. Each year, students are faced with the burden of figuring out how they are going to pay for their college education. Knowing how and where to search for aid can make the difference in rather or not many students will be able to attend college.
Outside from personal or family savings, there are government grants, federal or personal loans, and scholarships. Government grants are almost always limited and only cover a fraction of the total cost of attending college. Federal and personal loans are debt, which has to be repaid after graduating. Loans are great resources for covering expenses left over after there is no other source of income available. Scholarships are, for some students, the only hope for attending college with little or no upfront cash and without piling up thousands of dollars of debt.
Each year, there are billions of dollars of free scholarship money that goes unclaimed. Students are just not aware that this money is available. The most visible scholarship monies are offered by large corporations and charities. These scholarships receive thousands of applications for a small pot of available money. It is usually the local, community based scholarships that are overlooked by students.
