Writing Communication.: April 2008

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Chapter 33 MLA Documentation Form

Chapter Summary

To borrow ideas while avoiding plagiarism, you must not only mention the sources you borrow from but also document them completely and accurately. You must follow to the last dot the documentation conventions for paper written in your general subject area.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

CW Chapter 27 Writing for the web map and summary

Summary

Writing for E- Mail, List Servers, and Message Boards
List servers provide the means to quickly send messages to a group of subscribers.Message board allow for the message posting to a Web page where any visitor can read and respond to it. Despite the immediacy of these systems, it still takes time to write a clear, effective message in the first place. Consider the guidelines below as you write.

Creating Web Pages and Web Sites
A web page is a single document on the Web. A web site is a collection of linked pages. Anyone with access to the Web can create and publish a Web page or Web site- all you need is a host and some content.

CB Chapter 26 Writing for the Workplace map and summary

Summary

Nothing does more to help you make good impression than writing well.
1. Writing the business letter; Business letters do many things- for example, share ideas, promote products, or ask for help. Putting a message in writing gives you time to think about, organize, and edit what you want to say.

Chapter 25 Academic essay map and summary

Summary

Make sure you are ready for the test both mentally and physically.
Listen to or carefully read the instructions.
Begin the test immediately and watch the time.
Read all the essay questions carefully.
Ask the instructor for clarification.
Rephrase each question into a controlling idea for your essay
Think before you write.
Use a logical pattern of organization and a strong topic sentence for each paragraph.
Write correctly
Be efficient.
Keep your test paper neat and use reasonable margins.
Revise and proofread.

Whitney Houston Now

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, NJ, on August 9, 1963; her mother was singer Cissy Houston, and her cousin was Dionne Warwick. By age 11, Whitney Houston was performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at her Baptist church; as a teenager, she began accompanying her mother in concert (as well as on the 1978 album Think It Over), and went on to back artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan. Somewhat bizarrely, Houston's first recording as a featured vocalist was with Bill Laswell's experimental jazz-funk ensemble Material; their 1982 album One Down placed Whitney Houston alongside such unlikely avant-gardists as Archie Shepp and Fred Frith. The following year, Arista president Clive Davis heard Whitney Houston singing at a nightclub and offered her a record contract. Her first single appearance was a duet with Teddy Pendergrass, "Hold Me," which missed the Top 40 in 1984.Whitney Houston's debut album Whitney Houston was released in March 1985. Its first single, "Someone for Me," was a flop, but the second try, "You Give Good Love," became Houston's first hit, topping the R&B charts and hitting number three pop. Houston's next three singles -- the Grammy-winning romantic ballad "Saving All My Love for You," the brightly danceable "How Will I Know," and the inspirational "The Greatest Love of All" -- all topped the pop charts, and a year to the month after its release, Whitney Houston hit number one on the album charts. It eventually sold over 13-million copies, making it the best-selling debut ever by a female artist. Houston cemented her superstar status on her next album, Whitney; despite the unimaginative title, it became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one, and sold over nine-million copies. Its first four singles -- "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (another Grammy winner), "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" -- all hit number one, an amazing, record-setting run of seven straight (broken by "Love Will Save the Day"). In late 1988, Houston scored a Top Five hit with the non-LP single "One Moment in Time," recorded for an Olympics-themed compilation album. Whitney Houston returned with her third album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, in 1990; a more urban-sounding, R&B-oriented
record, it immediately spun off two number-one hits in the title track and "All the Man That I Need." But the quality of the material was generally viewed as, overall, much weaker than her previous efforts, and following those two hits, sales of the album tapered off quickly, halting around four-million copies. Nevertheless, Whitney Houston remained so popular that she could even take a recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" (performed at the Super Bowl) into the pop Top 20 -- though, of course, the Gulf War had something to do with that. In retrospect, the erratic quality of I'm Your Baby Tonight seemed to signal Houston's declining interest in making fully fleshed-out albums. Instead, she began to focus on an acting career, which she hadn't pursued since her teenage years; she also married singer Bobby Brown in the summer of 1992. Her first feature film, a romance with Kevin Costner called The Bodyguard, was released in late 1992; it performed well at the box office, helped by an ad campaign which seemingly centered around the climactic key change in Houston's soundtrack recording of the Dolly Parton-penned "I Will Always Love You." In fact, the ad campaign undoubtedly helped "I Will Always Love You" become the biggest single in pop music history. It set new records for sales (nearly five-million copies) and weeks at number one (14), although those were later broken by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," respectively. Meanwhile, the soundtrack eventually sold an astounding 16-million copies, and also won a Grammy for Album of the Year. She duetted with Mariah Carey on "When You Believe," a song from the animated film The Prince of Egypt. Later in the year, Arista released the two-disc compilation Greatest Hits, which actually featured one disc of hits and one of remixes; it also included new duets with Enrique Iglesias, George Michael, and Deborah Cox. It was also announced that Houston had signed a new deal with Arista worth 100-million dollars, requiring six albums from the singer. In late 2001, Arista released another compilation, the love-song-themed Love, Whitney.

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