
Kyle BeattieUniversity of Alberta | UAlberta · Department of Political Science
Kyle Beattie
Master of Arts
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Introduction
I am specializing in the field of corruption studies. Whereas most of corruption studies has largely focused on developing world corruption, I am interested in the types of corruption that emanate from the developed world. These include illegal wars, economic sanctions, fiat currency, the UN veto vote, and others.
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Developing a Comprehensive Plagiarism Assessment Rubric: Defining “plagiarism” is not simple, and its complexity is too seldom appreciated. This article offers a comprehensive plagiarism assessment rubric from a four-year study of analyzing students’ plagiarism. From qualitative analyses of 120 students’ paraphrase samples, we identified seven plag...
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This paper will explore the linguistic differences between the Spanish and English languages
while highlighting the effects these differences have on English language learners (ELLs) whose
first language is Spanish. As a fluent Spanish speaker and teacher in California, and a native
English speaker and teacher in Peru, I will use my in-depth person...
ABSTRACT
“...to boldly go where no one has gone before.” –Star Trek
This paper will attempt to investigate the use of the prescriptive English grammar rule that likes
to persistently insist that the italicized words I just typed are not a correct usage of grammar. To
accomplish this I will first investigate and detail the opinions of various Engli...
This paper will give a detailed explanation of the adult language classroom that I have been
observing and teaching in for the past two months in Eureka, California. In the first part of this
paper, I will document the context of this classroom, the students, their particular learning levels,
the cultural factors at play, and other pertinent inform...
Most universities require some type of English proficiency exam to determine if students are
capable of confronting the challenges associated with higher-level education in a foreign
language; consequently, many forms of proficiency exams exist, and are in active use variably
throughout the English-speaking world. For the purpose of this focused pa...
This paper diligently explains an ethnographic study I performed at Humboldt State University’s
(HSU) International English Language Institute (IELI) in Arcata, California during the spring of
2015. This paper includes a description of the ethnography’s purpose, theoretical focus, focal
student and his academic environment, as well as, the methodol...