mishaoneQuoting, paraphrasing and summarizing are methods used to include ideas from external sources in your own work. Despite their differences, all three methods require careful referencing to the original material. To determine the strategy that best suits your purpose, consider the following questions: Is it important to retain the original author’s writing style and language [...]
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I came across and interesting tweet today, which I promptly retweeted: Google before you tweet is the new think before you speak. Further thought on this later in the day forced me to conclude that the dazzling simplicity of this tweet is due to its use of certain words as interchangeable, or rather as natural [...]
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Wake me up when September ends? Iḿ currently going through a phase of extreme sleep deprivation. In-laws are visiting for two weeks and itś bloody hectic. Iḿ not usually one who minds travelling long distances in a car but when you travel fifty kilometres to get to a beach on which it is raining, I [...]
Time passes slowly, but surely. You forget to pick at a scab and it heals. Then a sudden thought, a word, a gesture, it picks the scab clean off. And you stare at it and wonder when the healing process will finally be complete.
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Don’t you just love it when people discard your views based on your sex? When people assume you have nothing to contribute to a conversation because your place is in the kitchen or at a gossiping session with the other khawateen? Men look at women and sigh and shrug. “What am I to do? I [...]
They will see us waving from such great Heights, ‘come down now,’ they’ll say But everything looks perfect from far away, ‘come down now,’ but we’ll stay…
From one beach to another. It’s still the same ocean. Imaginary boundaries run criss-crossing through it, but you can’t segregate water quite so easily. When I get too high on life, I look at the stars and the sea to remind me of the vastness I cannot hope to conquer in my lifetime. It makes [...]
Own. Is there a word that implies more familiarity? When does that which is not your own start feeling like it is? Can you only have one place that gives you that feeling of belonging at a time? Must I let go of the old to “own” the new? Will all of this ever be [...]
