In conjunction with the first reading "Entering the Conversation,"" Graff and Birkenstein demonstrate in detail how to make a perfect summary of what other people said in order to make your own argumentative writing. ... To write a really good summary, a writer must play a "believing game ", which suspends his own belief for a time and put him in the shoes of someone else. Otherwise, a writer might produce a summary with his own unfair presumption instead of what really expressed in the original author's view. ... And again, remember the important rules: good summary means playing the be...

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Software Developers using management frameworks such as Agile and Scrum use various types of reports to manage their workflow, such as: - Product Backlog - Sprint Backlogs - Increments - Burn-down Other development teams may write small summaries of their day which include any obstacles they face and the progress as it stands for their product leads. ...

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The famous Renaissance author, courtier, and father of deductive reasoning, Sir Francis Bacon, once said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." Sir Bacon could not have been any more correct, especially when speaking of writing. Even in today's society...

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Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From Outside, In" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reports her own childhood as a little girl of two diverse, but similar languages. One of her mother tongue, "Black English," which she could use with her own community in a warm environment, and the other of the "others," "Standard English," which was used for articulate communication with the public that made her more influential and persuasive, as well as appear to be more educated. As a...

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