ABOR

ABOR - Academic Bill Of Rights

Academic Bill of Rights is a document designed to take politics out of the university curriculum and to protect the right of students to get an education rather than being fed bias. The Bill has eight points that focus on academic environment where decisions are made irrespective of one's personal political or religious beliefs. The Bill was created by Students for Academic Freedom and since its release has faced many criticisms. The first one to oppose the Bill was American Association of University Professors. AAUP says "the Academic Bill of Rights undermines the very academic freedom it claims to support. It threatens to impose administrative and legislative oversight on the professional judgment of faculty, to deprive professors of the authority necessary for teaching, and to prohibit academic institutions from making the decisions that are necessary for the advancement of knowledge".

Liberal Politics

Liberal or Conservative, media plain and simple is slanted. Anyway you put it, this statement is a fact. The country always seems to have something to say about media depending on the current events. If it is republican, the media is too left-winged, and if it is a democrat, then the media just seems to head a little too much to the right. It is definite that the most media today is liberal.

Corrupt Media

Media bias can be defined as bias within mass media as in what news is reported? How it is reported? And how do we perceive it? Media bias is the tendency for the media to represent different people in a particular way based on their own views, the views of their sponsors, and the views of society. Media bias could be blatant, but usually it is subtle. It can be expressed in the content of television shows. It can be expressed in the choices of types of stories that they show on the news. It can be expressed in the language used on shows, and that is written in the newspaper and magazines. Media bias is any stereotype set forth by the media that portrays individuals to society in a certain way. Media bias does not even have to be a negative portrayal, but more of an inaccurate portrayal of people that helps aid to the ignorance of individuals. Media bias plagues us everyday without us even realizing it. Although it is everywhere in news, sitcoms, newspaper, radio, magazines, we really don't recognize it when we hear it or see it. Are the impressions that we form about individuals a product of the media? Do we form certain opinions about particular types of people based solely on the things we see and hear in the media everyday without even realizing it? The problem is not only that there is media bias present, but also that we cannot avoid it when we see it. We cannot avoid it because it is just everywhere you can imagine. But we can get around it by learning more about it.

Revision Makes A Paper Perfect

Most of us should have heard the phrase "practice makes a man [or woman] perfect" but it is important to know that revision makes a paper perfect. Revising a paper is not just fixing the commas or spellings. Revision is an ongoing process of rethinking the paper: reconsidering the arguments, reviewing the evidence, refining the purpose, and reorganizing the presentation. It is all about "re", I think of revision as reread, rethink, redo, rewrite, and so on.

I would like to share some tips that I find useful for revision. Revision doesn't necessarily mean rewriting the whole paper. Sometimes it means revising the thesis to match what you've discovered while writing. Sometimes it means coming up with stronger arguments to defend your position, or coming up with more vivid examples to illustrate your points. Sometimes it means shifting the order of your paper to help the reader follow your argument, or to change the emphasis of your points. Sometimes it means adding or deleting material for balance or emphasis.

The worst case, very few times revision does mean trashing your first draft and starting from scratch; but trust me it is always better for you to do it than your teacher.