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Greatness in the Details

Introduction

  • This section is important, make sure to write something that gets the reader’s attention
  • Identify a topic the paragraph and stay focused on the main idea
  • Keep sentences clearly written
  • Introduce a quick background summary on topic for reader to understand a bit of context
  • Relate to the main focus on each sentence

Body

  • Start with what you will discuss in your body paragraph
  • This is where main ideas are pointed out and supported with information
  • Explain to the reader why you shared particular information with support which could be facts, descriptions, and examples
  • Keep wording and sentences organized and sentences
  • Keep wording, sentences and paragraphs clearly connected
  • Ensure sentences in the paragraph flow smoothly
  • Supports the overall theme and purpose of the paper
  • Connect all your points together to prove your point and transition into conclusion

Conclusion

  • Summarize your main points discussed in body paragraph
  • Reaffirm the subject in the conclusion section in a different way now that the reader has gone through all the information
  • Convince your audience the message you would like the audience to convey
  • Close with a final statement

What changes can you make for a good paragraph to be great?

  1. Language, set the right tone
    1. Good; Provides basic information to get the point across
    2. Great; Provides detailed information
  2. Analysis, keep the right amount of detail
    1. Good; Provides reason and examples
    2. Great; Provides detailed information to eliminate assumptions

Colten Boushie was sleeping when the SUV he was in pulled up to Gerald Stanley’s farm. This paragraph states what happen before Colten was shot, all while he was just waking up from sleep. I feel this is a great paragraph because from the beginning, it draws you in, it is very detailed, you can feel the intensity that was felt in that very moment, it helps you imagine the judgement the men felt from the officers especially if you are an indigenous person reading this because you know all too well what it feels like, the scenery, all so raw.

Reference

https://www.time4writing.com/writing-paragraphs/concluding-sentence/

https://aso-resources.une.edu.au/academic-writing-course/paragraphs/introduction-paragraphs/

https://www.thoughtco.com/take-your-essay-from-good-to-great-3991388

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=BrRiDwAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PT60.w.3.0.17

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Positive Outlook

UNIT 3 – Academic Publishing – Positive Outlook

  1. Journal of Mental Health

Aims and scope is to publish the latest high-quality research at an international level. Published journals are theoretical and evidence-based.

The editorial team encourages a range of topics related to mental health to be submitted for other mental health providers to study on and possibly demonstrate in clinical practice.

The goal is to also have mental health care providers think outside the box when it comes to exploring new ideas on providing high-quality services in-order to make an impact on lives.

It was created in 1992. It contains 28 volumes each consist of 6 issues per year and peer-reviewed.

Tone is formal and scientific.

Format lay out is easy to read because of the white background making the colors stand out, well organized editorials, articles, book reviews and most viewed articles in a list format, 3 advertisements.

Includes helpful links; such as, social media pages, contact info etc.

  1. Journal of Nutrition and Behavior

Aims and Scope is to document and distribute new evidence-based journals on current issues and practices. This allows those in a similar field to provide useful resources as support at an international level to possibly demonstrate in clinical practice.

Topics discussed are varied, and consist of nutrition and physical activity linked with public health, nutritional sciences, education, behavioral economics, family and consumer sciences, and eHealth since it was published in 1969.

Issues are published 6 – 12 times per year. Most recent volumes seem to have issues published once a month. Submitted articles are peer-reviewed.

All articles published in Public Health Reviews are included in:

  • DOAJ
  • EBSCO
  • Embase
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science)
  • Gale
  • Global Health
  • ProQuest
  • PubMed and PubMed Central
  • Scopus
  • Ulrich’s

Tone is formal and scientific.

Format layout contains 3 columns, very colorful and crowded, includes many links including social media which makes it difficult for the reader to concentrate and focus in a particular area.

 

  1. Journal of Public Health Reviews

Aims and scope is to document and publish high-quality current public health issues and trends at an international level.

This journal allows professionals in the field to promote public health knowledge for the public to possibly demonstrate. It includes traditional and new approaches in areas such as migrant and minority health, climate change, law and patient care, disease screening, ethics in public health, human rights to best suit the individual’s needs since it was published in 2010.

Lay out style consists of 3 columns; it is easy to read with the white background allowing colors to stand out, quick links for trending issues and 1 advertisement.

Tone is formal and scientific.

Issues listed contain title, summary, author, issue number and published date. There are 9 volumes in total publishing 29 – 33 issues per year.

 

Reference

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ijmh20

https://www.jneb.org/

https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/

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BLOG #04 – Jobs in Nunavut for Inuit

It was difficult to hear what we recorded on GarageBand so I thought if anyone wanted clarification here it is.

Does the Government of Nunavut (GN)  help Inuit with training?

Under the Nunavut Lands Claim Agreement (NLCA) Article 23 titled “Inuit Employment within the Government” states that the purpose of Article 23 is to increase Inuit participation within the GN at a representative level. Does the GN help Inuit get to Article 23 desired goal? Under article 23 part 5 is pre-employment training, its purpose is to provide Inuit with the necessary skills through workshops, courses and programs within Nunavut. Here is a link you can click to view training opportunities.

http://gov.nu.ca/training-calendar

If you’ve viewed the link you probably noticed that the GN provides courses in different regions and communities to make it more convenient for us Inuit. The purpose of these courses is to help Inuit improve skills to make better performances on a daily basis. We have our resources to be a better GN employee but it’s up to us to take advantage of these courses. I feel the problem with these courses are that ONLY GN employees are eligible to take these courses (in most cases)

We all try to improve at doing our jobs, my question for you is how can we improve without actually needing to take formal education?

If you would like to read Inuit Employment and Article 23 online here is the link below:

http://gov.nu.ca/eia/information/inuit-employment

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BLOG# 03 – Critical Thinking

What is critical thinking?

Dr. Richard Paul quotes “Critical thinking is analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it”

How you view the world I feel has a lot to do with how you are raised. Our world in Nunavut is different from the southern part of Canada. Which means how we view the world or a situation might be very different.

Throat singing is normal in Nunavut, Asia and Mongolia but really isn’t seen else where. When sharing our culture most of us Inuit today take pride in that right? What we ask for in return is interest and acceptance. Why shouldn’t we do the same when we are shown something new like food, cultural dancing etc. That’s because it’s new to us we don’t know how to react, but we react anyway with out fully understanding the concept.

Let’s first understand by asking questions and then react. This will give us time to analyze, evaluate and improve our way of thinking. Keeping an open mind is powerful, but like a lot of useful tools it takes time, effort and practice.

My thought of the day.

Amelia – xo

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BLOG# 02 – Reading Comprehension

I am reading a book called “teaching reading comprehension” and I will be describing what I feel the main message is from the first chapter. The first chapter is titled “the confused world of reading comprehension”.
Redundancy, which is a fancy word for repeating the same word or sentence just in different words. Example used in this book is:

Finding the main idea of a paragraph
Finding the major units

Both explanations tell you the same request of action right? If we use this type of redundancy we will just be confusing students. It is unprofessional to use redundancy verbally or written. Unless of course the student is still confused, change your wording into a simpler form.

Comprehension means what a person learned from a book, movie or even lesson in class. Since we can not tell them how to answer to a question like “what did you get from that book” we can only evaluate there answer. How we evaluate the answers is by the quality of the answer. Let’s say I asked a student from my classroom “what is poverty?”

Student #1 says: “Poverty doesn’t exist. It is only seen or heard of in the movies”

Whereas

Student #2 says: “Poverty exists in all parts of the world. It doesn’t just mean your bank account is at a zero. It is also a social issue causing difficult situations such as:

  • Teen pregnancy
  • Drug and alcohol abuse
  • Homelessness
  • Poor housing
  • Depression etc.”

Who do you feel would get the better answer?

In another situation, another student refuses to do his or her work and you know he or she is capable of doing the work what should you do? In my opinion writing and speaking are two different forms of self expression. How about getting the student to do a presentation? This is one solution I would use. I am not against because this student may find his or her strength.

What other techniques could you use to motivate a student to write decent answers?

Second chapter titled “factors influencing reading comprehension”. This chapter explains that people react differently to information based on how the information is being presented. There are two categories that describe how people react to the information they receive. In this book it is described as

1. Inside the head: this is how we’ll the reader understands the language used , how much the reader cares to read and how motivated the reader is.

2. Outside the head: means how we’ll the visuals are being used to describe information that is complex in order to make it easier to teach the reader.

When reading information we find ways to best understand and in most cases we best understand if it relates to our own life experiences. Example: have you watched a movie and you knew exactly how they felt because you experienced it too? These types of situations make it a lot more interesting.

Thanks for reading.

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BLOG #01 – Why I decided to take the Nunvut Teacher Education Program (NTEP)

My story behind deciding to take NTEP begins when I started grade 10 at Maani Ulujuk Illiniarvik (MUI) in the year 2008. MUI had just offered the Entrepreneurship course for the first time. This course was and is still being taught by Chris Eecles, who is also one of my role models. The purpose of this course is to learn about how businesses start, change, succeed or fail. As I recall, we invited a few local business owners. They spoke about the sacrifices, self-discipline and time involved in starting up a business in the North. We spoke with owners Kelly Clark who now owns a canteen, Brian Sigurdson who owns a small and large engine repair called Huka Services. They gave us advice, and one we stuck with to create our own business was, it has to be in demand with our customers to ensure they will be coming back satisfied. Our class decided to open up MUI’s very first café. We named our business Falcons Café. We choose this name because the falcon is our school’s symbol. I enjoyed this course and idea of owning a business because everyday was different, marketing ideas, finding new ways to get more customers and seeing new faces. After graduating high school year 2010-2011 I knew I needed to continue my education. I decided to take the Nunavut Sivuniksavut Program because it has great reviews for preparing students to continue education in college or university. After two years I the NS program, I wanted to stay home for awhile working at the Ajaaja Daycare, I loved working there and always wanted to spend my time with the kids, looking forward to waking up in the morning because of those kids. Afteis I was still dedicated to owning a business. This led me to applying for the Management studies program at Nunavut Arctic College in Rankin Inlet. I did great for the first four months of the program but when it came to the math course, I didn’t do very well. It is still a subject I struggle in. As a result of this, I asked to be transferred into the Office Administration Program.  That’s when I thought, maybe owning a business wont be right for me. It got me thinking what else do I love doing? I had a great time with the day care kids, but I need something more for myself, so why not teaching. I am now in the process of figuring out if this is for me while taking this course.