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Consistent with my objective this week I will like to highlight an important aspect for us all. It isthe presence of evidence of research. As you are all aware this is a post-graduate programmeso students are expected to demonstrate evidence of research in their assignments. Thesources of this research are many – articles, books, conference papers, online sources etc.These sources – some of which you would be referred to in your Reading materials should beread and brought to bear on your work. Try to add your own voice to whatever you read or find.It is not enough to day ‘ X said this’ It is very important to say what you think about what wassaid.

You should reference your sources by using footnotes as you rightly did. In law students are notexpected to embed references in the text (e.g. (Oppong, 2007: 300)) as it is done in other disciplines. As you may all be aware, Microsoft Word can number your footnote chronologicallyfor you. What you have to do are these.

1. Place your cursor at the point where you want the footnote to be.

2. Look on the toolbar at the top of your paper and click on ‘References’

3. Then click on ‘Insert Footnote’ – a number will appear at the bottom of the paper

4. Type the text of the footnote at where the number appeared.

5. Then you are done! Continue writing and repeat the process when youwant to create another footnote.

Effective use of an introduction and conclusion is important. A good introduction needs to bestrong; grab the reader's attention and encourage the reader to read more.

This is important in academic writing. Of course with the word limits that we have you should tryto avoid introductions which are too long or excessive. Conclusion needs to be equally strong.Do not leave your reader wondering 'has it ended'? Conclusions are important in academicwriting.

You should try to capture the essence of your work or arguments in the conclusion. These twoaspects of writing are very important.

Orbby/Class,

Thank you for your response to my intial response to Sheryl' s post. In the first place l would liketo point out that l totaly held the views Sheryl pointed out, but as you know well we aspostgraduate students need to keep the discussion active with a critical analysis and contributeto the topic. Regarding Sheryl's post l added to the discussion new ideas which either way, the

ideas covered the impact technological devices and software has affected the global communitypositively or negatively. It is worthy to mention here that despite Sheryl not emphasing thepositive and negative aspects of the technological trend in the manner l did, a good criticalanalysis would clearly show that l agreed with her school of thought but l added more views tothe topic.

The essence of the discussion in the discussion board is not merely to agree with the principalauthor but also to agree to disagree and give reasons for the divegiant views. However, even if

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certain experiences will allow authors to agree they need to ellaborate further with unique ideasbecause people do not think alike through out. Bearing this point in mind, that is exactly what ldid, l expressed my views from a different perspective and brought in new ideas to make a postdiscussable but agreeing with the principal author. I should advise that we as students need totake great precaution to guard against the temptation of rushing through to criticise a post

without critically analysing it and to copmprehend the logic behind it. Sometimes we maycriticise an author who agrees with our point of view except his or her information has beenwritten to include more experiences that may not be held by the principal author, andinformation need not to be the same between two authors throughout or else that would not bea substantive post because it will not encourage meaningful dialogue.

Therefore it is sginificant to understand the line of arguemnet the author has taken to relyinformation and this is absolutely necessary for us students of law when we take intoconsideration the judicial precendents. The point lam trying to drive at here is, if a person thinksthe principal author meant to say computers are human beings which actually the informationdoes not say so, that leads to misinformation or mispresentation of facts. As students of law it is

cardinal to interpret information the way it is presented not to infer or think outside the legalframework.

You are welcome to add your views to my observation.