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SEER

The Source Educational Evaluation Rubric “Seer is a tool to open a discussion with students about evaluating sources and to stress the importance of using quality sources in academic writing. I think SEER is a brilliant idea that will help students become better writers”. -   Danielle Harris, teacher champion high school and a SEER field tester Nowadays, students can use websites for reading materials. So it should evaluate by every students who used the online materials if it is authentic or not. Turnitin Turnitin worked with educators to develop The Source Educational Evaluation Rubric (SEER), an interactive rubric to analyze and grade the academic quality of internet sources used by students in their writing. Instructors and students who use SEER can quickly evaluate a website and arrive at a single score based on five criteria scaled to credibility. Authority, Educational Value, Intent, Originality, and Quality. Authority:-    In aut

A Grain of Wheat and Robinson Crusoe

Introduction:- Colonization is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components. Colonization refers strictly to migration. For example, to settler colonies in America or Australia, trading posts, and plantations, while colonialism to the existing indigenious peoples of styled new territories. A Grain Of Wheat A Grain of wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist James Ngugi first published as part of the influential Heinmann African Writers Series. It was written while he was studying at Leeds University and first published in 1967 by Heinmann.  The title is taken from the Gospel According to St. John. The novel weaves together several stories set during the state of emergency in Kenya’s struggle for independence , focusing on the quite Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret. The plot revolves around his home village’s preparation for Kenya’s independence day celebration, Uhuru day. On that day, former resistance fight

Communication

What is Communication? ·        The imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium. ·        Means of sending or receiving information, such as telephone lines or computers. Communication is the act of conveying meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs, symbols, and semiotic rules. The main steps inherent to all communications are: The formation of communicative motivation or reason. Message composition. Message encoding. There are five main components of communication: Sender and receiver Senders and receivers may have different reactions to the same information because different beliefs, values and personalities influence the way the sender and receiver perceive information. Various barriers to communication prevent a sender’s message from being understood as intended. Examples include bad grammar and word choice, and the nature of the relationship between t