Plagiarism Plague

Plagiarism is the illegitimate use of words and ideas without properly recognizing the original author. It is like stealing somebody else’s intellectual property and taking it as one’s own. Most of us may have already done it, whether intentionally or unintentionally. We must all avoid committing plagiarism because there are risks that come with it. 

These links will give you tips on how to avoid plagiarism:

http://hustis.intrasun.tcnj.edu/avoid_plagiarism.htm 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-plagiarism.html

A Word for a Day

       I know that most of us knew  this method already, but I wanted to give it an emphasis since we were going to start  paragraph writing soon.

    Words are the primary tool in writing a sentence, and sentences are the primary tool in writing a paragraph.What I am trying to say is that, we need to have a wide range of vocabulary in order to express the idea that we are trying to convey. And one good technique that my teacher told me, back in my high school days, is that, we need to learn at least a word or two each day. Another one is by listing down and searching word meanings that are unfamiliar to us whenever we encounter them through movies or normal conversations.These techniques are the best exercise, aside from reading, to fill up our word banks.

         I hope you would try them if you haven't yet. Remember that there is no lost in trying. Good luck and God bless us all. 

It's my Life (Comparing Paragraph)

It is annoying that while you are drawing or writing, the lead of the pencil that you use suddenly breaks. Of course, you will sharpen it again especially if you don't have any pencils around. You can proceed to your work after sharpening it, and you will realize that the newly-sharpened pencil works better. The broken lead of the pencil represents my failures, and sharpening a pencil shows my learning from those failures. Furthermore, it also reflects that learning from my mistakes makes me a better person. Indeed, my life is correlated with the story of a pencil.

Writing an Analogy Paragraph

Since the class is going to have a writing activity about an analogy paragraph next meeting, I want to share a link where there are steps on how to write an analogy paragraph. I hope that the link would help us have an idea on how to write an analogy paragraph.



Here is the link:
http://www.ehow.com/how_8656753_write-analogy-paragraph.html



KYLE PASCUAL

10 Basic Rules For Writing an Essay

Since we were already told that one of the requirements that we must work on in English 1 is making an essay, I looked for some tips that may help us. I want to share this link, http://awesomeessay.us/content/10-basic-rules-writing-essay, with you. There are rules and tips that you can read about in the said site. I hope it would help.

Implied Main Idea

So far, we have discussed many types of sentences. Most of those sentences we have discussed contain explicit topic sentences. However, there is another type of topic sentence called implied topic sentence. This type of topic sentence doesn't directly state the main idea of the paragraph.

http://www.harbrace6e.nelson.com/test/topc.html

Transitional Words and Phrases

In a week or two, we will start working on our final essay. We should start gathering tips and important notes about writing so we can come up with a good one. Now, let’s take a look on transitional words. Their main purpose is to bring two ideas together and also to maintain the connection between sentences or paragraphs. Through using transitional phrases or words, we gain coherence, which is an essential element in a writing composition.

Follow this link for a list of transitional words:

http://www.whitesmoke.com/how-to-use-paragraph-transitions

Pay More Than You Would (paragraph writing)

When you go to the grocery store, do you look for a breakfast cereal, fruit drink, or soap powder with a famous name? If so, you probably pay more than you would if you bought another household product.
Name brands -- products with well-known names are sold across the country. As a result, name brands are usually more costly than regional products, which are sold in a limited area. Producers of national brands know the value of package design and spend money to give the product appeal. Television, radio, and magazine advertisements add to the price of the product. So do the recipe ideas and premium offers that often accompany food products.
A cheaper alternative is the house brand offered by supermarket. House brands are specially made for the chain in enormous quantities. Savings is promotional and package costs are passed on to the costumer.

Paragraph Writing Exercises

Since our classmates gave tips on writing essays, I searched a site that contains paragraph exercises. Here is the site I found. We need these exercises to improve our writings and to identify our mistakes. According to this site, the examples given are all original beginner papers. Enjoy!

http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm

400 Writing Topics

Hello. Since we're about to compose a lot of essays in our future meetings, I thought that maybe you're running out of topics. I decided to share this link that can give you an idea on what to write. It contains 400 different topics that can help you to have an instant subject. I hope that it'll be helpful to you.

http://grammar.about.com/od/topicsuggestions/a/causeff07topics.htm

Open up your minds & think twice: RH Bill is definitely pro-life (Paragraph Writing)

I believe that the RH Bill is the Filipino people’s best ticket to a decent and respectful life each person supposedly deserves to experience for the rest of their existence. That being said, I highly recommend the RH Bill be passed and approved.

 Contrary to widely popular but technically implausible allegations that the RH Bill supports abortion, RH Bill actually discourages any means that can cause abortion as indicated in Section 3 letter M of the proposal. Under this premise, a doctor can only perform abortive measures if and only the pregnancy is already risking the health and safety of the mother, and/ or the child. Thus, the government confidently claims that the RH Bill does not kill—it promotes and protects life, safe for both the mother and the child.

Contrary again to widely popular but impractical and unrealistic allegations that the RH Bill props up pre-marital sex and disobeys the law of chastity, the RH Bill actually offers the needed protection to both the man and the woman who engages in sex, and not unforeseen danger, as claimed by a lot. Media, with no doubt, promotes pre-marital sex, so should we therefore ban unmarried from watching the TV? In an ideal world, being chaste is the solution to prevent a lost virginity and unexpected pregnancy. But then again, let’s face it—we live in a world far from the ideal. As real as the fact that there are murderers despite God’s law Thou shall not kill, pre-marital sex is prevalent in our generation. The problem is already here. The act of being chaste needs a materialized help in order to lessen the problems brought about by unexpected pregnancies, the help which goes by the names contraceptive and sex education. Let us not coward and be ashamed to face the problem. Thus, RH Bill does not endorse pre-marital sex—it solves the problems brought about by pre-marital sex.

Last but not the very least, to those who are saying that the promoters of RH Bill are against God, think again. How can a bill which promotes responsible parenthood and decent lives be against God? As a final word, the government would like to point out—the RH Bill is God’s manifestation here on Earth. The RH Bill is definitely pro-life.

The ten golden rules

In the Bible, we have the famous ten commandments. In writing paragraph, there are also ten golden tips, which can also be rules, for writing a pleasant paragraph.

These helpful tips can be found here:
http://grammar.about.com/od/developingessays/a/quicktips.htm
I hope it can help. :D

Verbless novel

For us, an essay or a sentence without verbs would be like the Lewis structure on the picture below -- incomplete. Can you imagine writing an essay without using verbs?

Well, here's an amazing thing:
While browsing on the "Most ignored fact", I found something interesting. A french author Michel Thaler wrote a book with 233 pages without using any verbs on it. He said that, "The verb is like a weed in a field of flowers ... You have to get rid of it to allow the flowers to grow and flourish."
Fascinating, isn't it?

Essay Writing

Good day, classmates! I want to share this link with you! This link contains tips that can help us in writing a good and substantial essay. We will be needing these tips! I know that some of us are having difficulties when it comes to writing an essay. I hope you will visit this site! Thank you! :)

http://www1.aucegypt.edu/academic/writers/