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Post 3: Peer review

Hello, starting this course, our teacher told us about peer reviewing and said that It means reviewing a written done by other person to help and improve the final text. The peer reviewing has an important application in the academic world, a lot of people uses this tool to improve their publications because sometimes, when you write something, there can be some mistakes that you are not going to see because they can be ideas deeply rooted in your thinking. When someone read an unfinished text, making the right questions trough the reading, it is easier to find mistakes. For this sake, the page authorservices.wiley.com has a section explaining all about how to perform a good peer reviewing called “Step by step guide to reviewing a manuscript”. As a resume, the first thing necessary is to know almost the general structure of the text. Knowing the kind of text, you are reading, you must make a skim-reading (fast reading) of the text and keep making questions about the quali
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Post 1: Free Topic

Welcome, in this free topic blog, I am going to talk about one of my actual hobbies, playing volleyball. I started playing volley last year, in school, I learned a bit, but not that much. Nowadays, I am training with the people of the team of the campus Juan Gomez Millas, I can say that this is now more than a hobby, or that is what I want, I enjoy improving and I expect being able to play better and with better people. Well… Volleyball is a sport in which participates six persons in each team (with its respective bench). In each side of the court, separated for a net at 2,42meters (men, 2,24 meters woman), there must be 1 setter, or the one that make the second touch (out of 3) and gives the pass to the spiker and 5 spikers, 2 of them attack from the left (Left side hitters), 2 from the middle (Middle blockers) and 1 from the right (Opposite hitter). Added to this, and this is a newer kind of player, there could be a libero, a player specialized in defense, which can entry to
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Post 6: Description of a gadget

Back in the days, gadgets were a lot different than those which we know in the present. Older gadgets were bigger, heavier, and operated through physical mechanisms, which required more space and hence were heavier. Nowadays our gadgets are smaller and lighter, even if they have more utilities, because the mechanisms in general are not physical ones, they works by using a different kind of energy, the electricity. This new gadget keeps going in the direction of this kind of evolution in the engineering-scientific invention area, and also have a focus is in the improvement of the life quality of the society. We are talking about the new smart watches. This gadget consists in a wrist watch, but with a lot of characteristics of current cellphones, touch screen (and a lot of accessibility forms, like talking control, etc.), microphone, access to internet, etc. All this with the size of a classic wrist watch, a big bigger, made of metal, plastic, and high quality designed hardware. The
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Post 5: Introduction plus body and conclusion

                 Immigrants are becoming a conflictive topic in the politic scenario, specially looking at the upcoming elections. For this topic usually you can identify easier the most radical opinions, the most nationalist ones, and the utopic freedom ones. This topic needed a lot of researching and pondering to give a correct opinion. It can be said, with property, that there are more positives on the arriving of immigrants than the negatives in their arrival. They are used to do jobs that national workers doesn’t want to do, they enrich our culture, and stimulates the economy, buying things here with the money they make. They don’t steal jobs as there is used to say, they just get job like any other kind of people, there is no prove for the affirmations of “increase of delinquency” or their “bad habits”. Above all, we support the main idea that the arriving of immigrants is not intrinsically good or bad, it depends primarily on the culture, the society that predominates in th
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Post 4: introduction

                 Immigrants are becoming a conflictive topic in the politic scenario, specially looking at the upcoming elections. For this topic usually you can identify easier the most radical opinions, the most nationalist ones, and the utopic freedom ones. This topic needed a lot of researching and pondering to give a correct opinion. It can be said, with property, that there are more positives on the arriving of immigrants than the negatives in their arrival. They are used to do jobs that national workers doesn’t want to do, they enrich our culture, and stimulates the economy, buying things here with the money they make. They don’t steal jobs as there is used to say, they just get job like any other kind of people, there is no prove for the affirmations of “increase of delinquency” or their “bad habits”. Above all, we support the main idea that the arriving of immigrants is not intrinsically good or bad, it depends primarily on the culture, the society that predominates in
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Post 2: Introduction

The evolution theory has been a controversial topic since the very first publication of “the origin of the species” by Charles Darwin in 1859. This theory has changed throughout years, and right now it is composed by the Darwin main ideas plus the genetic model of Mendel, this means, the ideas of natural and sexual selection plus the idea of the genetic inherited characters. The actual status of the theory, in a simplified way, tell us that the most capable organism will survive, and then would naturally reproduce, creating a capable offspring which would get the best characteristics through the AND to survive, making the evolution process improve gradually all the organisms. Science has advanced, currently many people accept this theory as one of the 3 most important theories in the biology field, with the cellular theory and the chromosomal theory of the inheritance, although, it is still a controversial topic, especially in some specific parts of the population, like the religi
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Final blog :(

In general, we learned English here in a new way (for me at least), I think we hadn’t learned a lot of new things, we learned some details and new words, but not new contents at all, but we have put in practice all that we know of this language, in different ways, in the oral interaction, and in the (now important) digital medias. I like a lot those methods, in particular I can say that the use of the blogs was interesting, because for me, internet interaction has been always like the first method with which I have learned English, there are some particularities that makes it different of the oral interaction, a bit funnier (the memes). The aspect that I know I need to improve the most, is the pronunciation, is terrible, the words in my mind sound correct, but when they come out, them doesn’t sound like I want, I realized this, in part because of the videos (well, I never liked how I sound in records). Also, I realized that the words don’t sound good specially when I am nervous, I
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