JOHANSON'S ADVANCED COMP. I FALL 2005

Greetings Advanced Composition I Students! Welcome to our class "web-log"! This is the site that you can visit to learn to learn how to learn to improve your ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS! Remember that we are a "TEAM" and that I am not the Professor, but the "FACILITATOR" of this course. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink, right? Of course, I still determine your grade, but only you can really make yourself learn! Go for it!

Saturday, October 01, 2005

CLASS #3

Thank you for an interesting class. I really want you to improve your fluency in writing English; please keep a personal journal or practice answering questions for timed writings (I gave you hundreds already) on your own blog. I will read it over periodically and it will be part of your cumulative participation grade. Anything is fine; just do your best!

Please remember to find a website you are interested in learning more about related to English language writing topics (such as those we shall cover in this class) and give me, either by posting it here to this blog entry as a comment or by sending it to the class leader, three to five pages. The idea is to great a class website in which we use CHINESE to show others how to write various types of English writing. THEREFORE, PLEASE ONLY TRANSLATE THE DIRECTIONS AND "HOW TO" into Chinese and NOT THE SAMPLES. I know this is obvious but remember we are teaching our classmates and future students HOW TO CREATE VARIOUS TYPES OF ENGLISH WRITING! Any questions, contact a classmate or Dr. J.

Please remember the formula we discussed regarding timed writings. If you learn this, then everything you write in the future will be better. Timed writings help with fluency and they help with learning UNITY (each paragraph has a topic sentence and one main idea only) and COHERENCE (the entire paper or text that you create is logically arranged with sufficient transitions that lead the reader along! My goal is to give you the most practical class ever. If you need to contact me, please email me directly. I want to help you do as well as you can on your future goals. Please continue to explore your English fluency writing by keeping a tiny journal on your personal weblog related to what we are looking and an exploring in this class. Also, please go online and try to find some cool examples of either etymology or linguistics-related websites. If you can, please bring a copy or two to class so we can discuss them. I wish you the best, and please keep in touch.

Dr. J.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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Perhaps, someone might told you that he dose not like the taste of packaged food, and those who using microwaves to cook a meal is not a real cook. However, no one could deny those change has really altered our lifestyle, it make the world more quick and easy.

Wed Oct 19, 02:59:00 PM  

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