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