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Composition(3286) :: on 2009-11-05
- The first item is that the subject of this assignment is tied to your approved proposal
- 1. It should be made plain what the subject of comparison will be given your two articles. In addition, the purpose of comparison should be addressed in your thesis: what major conclusion are you coming to based on comparison.
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- - 2. You should make your audience aware through brief summary what the two articles are about and how they're connected.
  - 3. Your audience should be able to follow, through your method of organization, the relations you're comparing and the significance of the article to the “big picture.”
  - 4. You should make plain the conclusions you've drawn given your preparatory work: are you asserting that one of the authors has a greater handle on the subject, has a greater understanding of the consequences, or draws more reasonable conclusions given the evidence.
  - 5. You should use lots of in-text citations so that your audience knows to what and to whom you are referring.
    
    Expectations:
    Length: 750 words
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Doninger v. Niehoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-10-13
Ask Engadget HD: Best home theater setup for gaming? on 2009-10-08
- - Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
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- True surround sound systems are overkill if the room you're putting it in is on the smaller side.
  
  If you're sitting more than 10 feet from the screen no need for anything above 720p so you can save some money there.
  
  As for a TV and sound. Pioneer has some of the best built in sound available. Sounds absolutely amazing. They come with sub outputs to fill out the low end. When paired with a good subwoofer it kills any htib. If you have the dough get a Pioneer plasma, hands down the best tv.
  
  If you go with a TV that doesn't have great built in speakers I'd go for a Sony Soundbar. The high end model has a XMB on screen interface for input selection and setup, much easier than reading an amp three line screen from the sofa. Remember the main advantage surround sound has is the .1 not the 7. The surrounding speakers are cool for effects but bass is what's really immersive.
Edge: THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY By Don Tapscott on 2009-10-08
- - Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
    Can the net really replace Universities? Also, aren't Universities not just a source of information, but also a source of credibility? Isn't it obvious that anyone can get a free College level education provided there is a Library in town? Don't colleges provide an educated person with credibility so that when he or she goes out into the world and says he is educated he or she can prove so?
- - Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
    not to mention in grade school there is a two way interaction between students and teachers
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- - The old-style
    lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a large
    group of students, is still a fixture of university life on many campuses.
    It's a model that is teacher-focused, one-way, one-size-fits-all and
    the student is isolated in the learning process. Yet the students,
    who have grown up in an interactive digital world, learn differently.
    Schooled on Google and Wikipedia, they want to inquire, not rely on
    the professor for a detailed roadmap. They want an animated conversation,
    not a lecture. They want an interactive education, not a broadcast
    one that might have been perfectly fine for the Industrial Age, or
    even for boomers. These students are making new demands of universities,
    and if the universities try to ignore them, they will do so at their
    peril.
    Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
    Not to mention Grade school also gets students used to a two way interaction between student and teacher
  - big universities
    would be "relics"
    within 30 years.
    Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
    How will the net replace the University and provide the same level of credibility? It is a popular anecdote that one can acquire a free college education simply by having a library in town. However if you want to go out into the world and say that you are educated you must have a degree to prove it. I don't think the net will replace universities, after all the net is a tool that Universities use.
  - Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for
    which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do
    not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand
    (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals
    read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly
    rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans)."
    Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
    If such a problem exists this would be very disconcerning
  - problem-focused
    programs
How to add public sticky notes? | Diigo Groups on 2009-10-08
- - Michael Kirschner on 2009-10-08
    
    test
Red Panda on 2009-09-25
Composition(3286) :: on 2009-09-23
- constitutes a problem
- I believe
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- - problematic subjects
  - Some people would perhaps argue that other problems are more important or that other readings and seed texts might represent these problems better.
  - there is existing debate on an issue; an issue or phenomenon demonstrates physical harm to one or several people or to existing institutions; an issue or idea encourages multiple groups of people to form factions; questions and inconsistencies arise in an area of thought. Sometimes we're told a problem is a problem but don't necessarily think about why. Other times, we find them ourselves.
Freedman's_bureau.jpg (JPEG Image, 1455x1148 pixels) - Scaled (45%) on 2009-09-23
The_Union_as_It_Was.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x512 pixels) on 2009-09-23
Lincoln_and_Johnsond.jpg (JPEG Image, 3571x2780 pixels) - Scaled (18%) on 2009-09-23