Scholarly method Essays

  • Thinking About Stupidity In Our Scholars

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    resort to using neojargon or pseudojargon or neopseudojargon or neopseudoneojargon. Examples of these forms of jargon are the prefixes 'neo' and 'pseudo.'3. GraikosGraikos is a Greek word that means "Greek." It's the root of much stupidity found in scholarly discursions. In the rivalry for respect, if one side finds an inferior usage of jargon, they are caught in the temptation of Graikos and feel compelled to retaliate by literally speaking a whole new language. Thus begins a "jargon" war, fought on

  • Academic vs Mainstream Writing

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    articles, this essay will point out the differences between scholarly and popular writing by comparing the academic articles by Jamie Shinhee Lee “Linguistic hybridization in K-Pop: discourse of self-assertion and resistance”, the article by Sue Jin Lee “The Korean Wave: The Seoul of Asian” and the popular article by Lara Farrar for CNN ‘Korean Wave’ of pop culture sweeps across Asia. The Structure of Scholarly Articles In general, scholarly articles tend to be very long ranging from 20-40 pages long;

  • Understanding Student Cheating: Perspectives and Trends

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    components in comparison to the scholarly article. It is a categorized as a magazine and that is apparent due to the jargon used within the piece, it’s welcoming to a wide variety of audiences. Any reader will be able to understand the information given as it is fairly straightforward and generic. Furthermore, it has pictures that are intended to catch your eye and are related to the topic in a broad way, instead of actually proving anything towards specific claims

  • New Trends and the Evaluation of Scholarship

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    technologies over the past decade, particularly the growth of the Internet, the World Wide Web (Web), and email, have had an impact on how scholarship is conducted and are re-defining many aspects of scholarly communication. Interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and disintermediation are three aspects of scholarly communication that are on the increase as a result of the advancement of information and communication technology. The trend towards increased interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship, combined

  • Thoughts on a Possible Rational Reconstruction of the Method of

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    Thoughts on a Possible Rational Reconstruction of the Method of "Rational Reconstruction" ABSTRACT: Rational reconstructions standardly operate so as to transform a given problematic philosophical scientific account-particularly of a terminological, methodological or theoretical entity-into a similar, but more precise, consistent interpretation. This method occupies a central position in the practice of analytic philosophy. Nevertheless, we encounter-even if only in a very few specific publications-a

  • Muse or Method?

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    Muse or Method? My eyes cast a casual glance towards the clock across the room as I sit back down at my desk. With caffeine reinforcements at hand, namely the signature red, white, and blue can of Diet Pepsi I just pulled from the fridge, I quickly put away the mound of books that has grown since I came in the room at 4:00. After making a hasty mental check to reassure myself I am prepared for the next day of class, I review my lesson plans one last time, sit back, relax, and ponder just exactly

  • Science Experiment to Measure the Dissolved Oxygen Levels Using the HACH Method and CHEMets Test Kit

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    Dissolved Oxygen Levels Using the HACH Method and CHEMets Test Kit Purpose The purpose of my project is to determine if there is any significant difference in dissolved oxygen (DO) levels as measured by the traditional HACH® method or the newly developed CHEMets® test kit under typical field conditions. Hypothesis My hypothesis is that there is no significant difference in dissolved oxygen (DO) levels as measured by the traditional HACH® method or the newly developed CHEMets® test

  • Investigating The Area Under A Curve

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    -10 to 10 along the x axis and from 0 to 100 on the y axis. The curve will be the result of the line y=x . I will attempt several methods and improve on them to see which one gives the most accurate answer. The graph I am using looks like this: - Counting Squares Method The first method I will use to find the area is the counting squares method. For this method I will draw the graph on cm paper and estimate the amount of squares that the area under the curve takes up. To do this I will

  • Art Lykkes Three-Legged Stool: A Case Study

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    Art Lykkes three legged stool is a conceptual model used to identify if there are balance between ends, ways and means. If one leg is longer than the others the stool will be unbalanced and having the risk of tipping over. I will use this model to understand that the strategy President Reagan presented during his Brandenburg Gate speech were unbalanced. The means and ways was not sufficient to reach the ends, the president took a risk. One of the ends that is used in speech is “Peaceful and

  • C-Section

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    Over the years birthing methods have changed a great deal. When technology wasn’t so advanced there was only one method of giving birth, vaginally non-medicated. However, in today’s society there are now more than one method of giving birth. In fact, there are three methods: Non-medicated vaginal delivery, medicated vaginal delivery and cesarean delivery, also known as c-section. In the cesarean delivery there is not much to prepare for before the operation, except maybe the procedure of the operation

  • Investigation on Cargo

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    Investigation on Cargo Introduction In this investigation I will be finding out how many labels are on an exposed side of a 3x3x3 cube when 27 small cubes are put together to make the large 3x3x3 cube. Method I will first start to count the number of small cubes out of the 27; have no labels, 1 label, 2 labels and 3 labels. Once I have done this I will the do the same for a 4x4x4 cube, 5x5x5 cube and finally a 6x6x6 cube and see if I can find a pattern. When I have found a pattern

  • The Tomatis Method

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    The Tomatis Method Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis is a French ear, nose, and throat doctor who made astonishing medical and psychological discoveries that led to audio-psycho-phonology, or the Tomatis method. Also called “auditory training”, auditory stimulation”, and “listening therapy”, the purpose of this treatment is to reeducate the way we listen, and it is used in over two hundred and fifty centers around the world. (http://www.tomatis.com/overview.html) The Tomatis method claims to benefit

  • Locke’s Logical Plain Method

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    Locke’s Logical Plain Method As those philosophers before him, or at least as far back as Descartes, John Locke is “perplexed with obscure terms and useless question” (qtd. in Jones 238), and is interested in starting fresh and free from the opinions of his predecessors. He devises the historical plain method in order to examine the knowledge we posses, with the assumption that the mind is “white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas,” (qtd. in Jones 245). My interest here, however

  • The Folly of René Descartes’ Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

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    The Folly of René Descartes’ Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy In order to embark on his quest for truth, Descartes first devises his four rules which should serve as a solid foundation for all else that he comes to understand. Those rules are here evaluated in terms of what they fail to take into consideration. The rules are examined individually and consecutively, and are therefore also reiterated in order to be clear about them. Furthermore, the approach of using

  • Method

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    Method Participants There were 32 (22 female and 10 male) participants in this word recall experiment. Participants were of traditional and nontraditional college-age. The participants were from various academic majors; however, all participants were currently enrolled in one of three sections of an experimental psychology course. All of the experimental psychology students taking part in this experiment had previously completed a course in general psychology and psychological statistics earning

  • Method Of Communication And Different Uses Of Communication

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    Method of Communication and Different Uses of Communication With the development of civilization and written languages came the need for more frequent and reliable methods of communication allowing messages to reach longer distances. This was essential to the control of trade and other affairs between nations and empires. Early man used cave walls as the media on which messages could be transcribed, this was common for many years, until the Egyptians discovered a special kind of rush (Papyrus)

  • Finding Acceleration Due to Gravity Using Ball Drop Method

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    Finding Acceleration Due to Gravity Using Ball Drop Method Aim: To calculate the acceleration due to gravity by dropping a ball from a certain distance and recording the time Hypothesis: it is expected that the gravity should be within the same range for each trial Variables: The independent variable = the distance The dependent variable = the time Controlled variables are: - the mass of the steel ball - the position of the trip plate -the length of the plumb line

  • Radio Communication in TinyOS

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    Mote to mote communication is the radio communication in Tiny os. This introduces us the interfaces and components in Tiny os which supports the radio communication. And also we learn the basics how to use the message_ t that is a message buffer which is used to send the message buffer to the radio and receives the message buffer from the radio. Tiny os provides us with the interfaces and the components. Interfaces are used to consider the existing communication services and the components are used

  • Reflection Of Quantitative Practice

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    On reflection of my first term in Doctoral studies with the University of La Verne, I must revisit earlier thoughts on my prospective role as a scholarly practitioner. My definition of the term has not changed significantly. I still feel that scholarly practitioners should bridge the gap between academia and the real world. Their goal is to apply academic research to practical application for the purpose of solving pressing problems in their chosen field. This requires them to constantly evolve in

  • Peer Review Format

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    Scholarly Journal are important because they provide experts within a certain fields a forum to communicate current research and further an area of academic knowledge, they often uses a rigorous process called peer review. Peer review is a process by which academic research and study is subjected to review by a group of other scholars or researcher in that field. Authors submit manuscripts to the journal, which may be forwarded to the group of scholars or experts in that field who will review the