Introduction of Paper 2

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Introduction of Paper 2

• Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007

Happy Valentines Day!
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Agenda

• Introduction of Paper 2
• Vocabulary Exchange Activity
• Journal Response Activity

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• Objective
• The objective of this assignment is for you to
  practice using and arranging specifics to explain
  and support general ideas in writing.
• Subject
• In this assignment you will write a paper on
  some aspect of body language or nonverbal
  communication in your home culture (Academic
  Writing, p. 114). Alternatively, you may choose
  to write about a unique social activity from your
  native country. For example, a Japanese student
  may write about bowing in Japan or the Japanese
  Miai (blind-dating) activity.
• Audience and Purpose
• The audiences of this essay are the other
  members of the class and me, your instructor.
  The purpose is to let the audiences learn more
  about your home culture, especially about the
  ways of communication.

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• Organization
• 1. Introduction
• In the introductory paragraph, you will present
  the subject of your essay to readers. Please
  introduce the subject in an interesting way so
  that the essay will catch the readers eyeballs
  immediately. For example, you may tell readers
  why the subject is interesting to foreigners. At
  the end of the introductory paragraph, you should
  talk briefly about the main ideas you are going
  to develop in the following body paragraphs. In
  this way, readers come to know the organization
  of your paper beforehand.

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• 2. Body
• The body should consist of at least three
  paragraphs. Each paragraph should focus on one
  aspect of the subject. Taking bowing as an
  example, you may write about the accurate posture
  of bowing in the first body paragraph, the
  various contexts of bowing behaviors in the
  second body paragraph, and the exceptions in the
  third body paragraph. In each body paragraph a
  general controlling idea should appear in the
  topic/leading sentence. And you will use specific
  details to explain and support the controlling
  idea. Remember that all the information in a body
  paragraph should be relevant to its controlling
  idea.

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• 3. Conclusion
• The conclusion should summarize and restate all
  the main ideas mentioned in the body. However,
  you should avoid using the same sentences that
  are used previously. Concluding statements often
  begin with a reference to something previously
  stated or with a transition. In a long essay or
  speech, the writer may use a transitional phrase
  such as In conclusion, but in short essays or
  paragraphs the conclusion is usually announced
  with expressions such as Thus, ,Therefore,,
  As we have seen, or In short,.

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• Evaluation Criteria
• The introduction of the essay engages and guides
  readers.
• Each body paragraph has a controlling idea and is
  led by a clear topic/leading sentence.
• In each body paragraph the controlling idea is
  supported with specific details.
• The conclusion summarizes main ideas and brings
  the essay to a thoughtful close.
• The essay is well organized.
• The essay does not contain sentence-level and
  word-level errors.
• A consistent tone/voice is used in writing.
• The conventions of paper layout are followed.
  (heading, margins, line-space, title, paging, and
  indentation)
• The author participates in the in-class
  peer-response activity and shows his/her efforts
  in responding to a classmates work.
• The author is tutored at the Writing and Media
  Help Center for the purpose of improving his/her
  essay.

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• Additional Information
• Each student should attend a tutorial at the
  Writing and Media Help Center before or after the
  peer-review activity. You may work with a tutor
  on brainstorming, outlining, organization, topic
  sentences (controlling ideas), supporting
  details, sentence construction, sentence-level
  and word-level errors and so on. Your instructor
  will receive a note from the Writing and Media
  Help Center once you attend the tutorial. Please
  make an appointment with the Writing and Media
  Help Center in advance and make sure you will
  attend a tutorial before submitting your final
  draft of the paper.
• First draft due 2/19 (Monday), final draft due
  2/26 (Monday)
• Length 1.5 2 pages (You may insert a picture
  to better illustrate the nonverbal communication
  or social activity that you are describing.
  However, the length of your paper should be
  extended accordingly).
• Font Times New Roman
• Size 12
• Line space Double space
• Margins default (Please dont change the default
  margin setting)

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Vocabulary Exchange Activity

• 15 minutes
• 3 groups
• 5 students in a group

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New Activity to the Vocabulary Project

• Starting from next Wednesday (Feb 21, 2007)
• 5 students will do PowerPoint presentation of
  their vocabulary project to the class.
• Yousuf, Sung Hwa, Jessica, Hou Yi, Eun (Feb 21)
• Yun Chang, Gerui, Pedro, Xiaoyun, Luciano (Feb
  28)
• Estelle, Jialin, Amily, Shuai (March 7)
• Nevertheless, every student still needs to submit
  their paper-based vocabulary project to the
  teacher in the class.

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New Activity to the Vocabulary Project

• Starting from next Wednesday (Feb 21, 2007)
• 6 students will do PowerPoint presentation of
  their vocabulary project to the class.
• Seung-Minn, Jee Hyun, Sang-yeon, Sung Bo, Irene,
  Adwan (Feb 21)
• Dora, Itcho, Aaron, Insik, Yun Jong, Enrique (Feb
  28)
• Yuhang, Tee, Jie, Peng Hooi, Senlong (March 7)
• Nevertheless, every student still needs to submit
  their paper-based vocabulary project to the
  teacher in the class.

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New Activity to the Vocabulary Project

• Starting from next Wednesday (Feb 21, 2007)
• 5 students will do PowerPoint presentation of
  their vocabulary project to the class.
• Yousuf, Sung Hwa, Jessica, Hou Yi, Eun (Feb 21)
• Yun Chang, Gerui, Pedro, Xiaoyun, Luciano (Feb
  28)
• Estelle, Jialin, Amily, Shuai (March 7)
• Nevertheless, every student still needs to submit
  their paper-based vocabulary project to the
  teacher.

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Journal Response Activity

• The length of your response 150-250 words
• Content Imagine that you are responding to a pen
  friend. You may comments on what s/he wrote, ask
  questions, give suggestions, and so on. You may
  start your sentence with
• Its interesting to know that
• But I dont agree with you that
• In my opinion
• What do you mean by ?
• Im curious about
• It seems that we share some similar experience
  

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Journal Response Activity

• Section 1
• Yousuf Gerui
• Pedro Xiaoyun
• Sung Hwa Jialin
• Jessica Luciano
• Hou, Yi Eun
• Yi, Shuai Estelle
• Yuen Chang Amily

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Journal Response Activity

• Section 2
• Seung-Minn Dora Adwan (3)
• Jee Hyun Tian, Jie
• Sang-yeon Senglong
• Sung Bo Aaron
• Itcho Tee
• Sung Eun (Irene) Yuhang (Ted)
• Yun Jong (John) Peng Hooi
• Insik Enrique

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Happy Valentines Day!