Friday, September 27, 2013

5V: Agency



Agency is the concept of taking action or having the influence or force to do something. After completing this week’s reading assignments it has occurred to me that to be a good student you must have the agency to develop important academic habits. I hope that I have such ability and that I can become a better student by improving my study skills.

A new word I learned in Sociology this week is emotive. It means to cause association with emotion. Sometimes people can use this kind of language in their writing to cause certain emotions to arise in the readers mind. 
Another word I learned is etymology which is the study of the origin and the history of words. It can be interesting to unravel where certain words were derived from and how their meanings have changed over time.

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