1. Most people would agree that education forms the basis for success in many walks of life, but there is considerable disagreement about the characteristics of a good education. And what I believe to be the most important elements of a good education is the educating enthusiasm from teachers. From a student's point of view, in Chinese society, teachers always play the most important role to form the basis for success in school education. In my childhood, I rememberd my parent always want to find a teahcher with lots of patience and tolerance for me. I am not a smart child in my education career. I had to spend double or tripple times than other classmates to finish a homework or a learning program. Therefore, the teacher's enthusiasm in educating is the most key characteristics of a good education.
2. With the growth of the Internet, young people are spending increasing time in front of the computer screen. And the most popular young people's Internet actitivies is chatting with their friends by MSN, it is a powerful software used to talk with friends on the Internet. The second one is to share their personal photos with friends online called the Facebook, you also can build your own Blog on it. These two most popular Internet actitivies may take their most of time, but it is hard to tell this time is beneficial or not. Take myself for example, I use MSN in everyday life, it is really convinent and costless for me to change any information or hot deals with frinds online. And the second beneficial to me is that everyweek I can use the Video talk function to chat with my parent whom are in Taiwan. The only cost is the Internet expense charged by Internet company.
It is a good way to use the Internet from my experience, but there are many people using the Internet in the wrong way. They spent lots of time playing online games and ignored to take care of their school lessons. And this is the one of the most dangerous of their Internet use. The other dangerous one is some malefactor use the Internet to make friends online, and they are not really want to make friend with you. They just want to take something worth from you. In hence, young people should be careful to use some software on the Internet. Otherwise it will be a bad development for the young generation of the Internet use.
3. Some countries provide free healthcare for their citizens. Other nations, such as the U.S., provide healthcare only to the elderly. In my country, Taiwan, we have National Health Insurance. We have to hand in a fix amount of money for the insurance every year to our government. No matter the age you are. Once you have some ailment with your body, you can go to see a doctor and just pay a little portion of the diagnosis fee. And the doctor will apply the other portion of diagnosis fee from the health insurance. This is a very good and benefit policy for people living in Taiwan. But it is a big financial burden for the health department. Because the fix amount of money is not enough to afford to many aggravated pathological patient in hospital. Therefore, the government need strong financial management to support this extensive health insurance expense. And I am really agree with this policy, it is beneficial to many destitute family in Taiwan. Because they can have the same level health care system with other people, don't have to worry about whether they can't pay the bill to the hospital.
4. We get much of our information from the media, but it is sometimes difficult to know if media information is accurate. Today is a global village, every important information will be spread out by the big TV stations in the world. Beside the Internet is so convinent for us to get the news. Therefore, we can get the same information from different sources in almost the same time. In deed, we can balance information about the events that are happening in the world by ourselves and not affected by the media. The second way is that we can ask the professionals in every specific field concerning about this information to tell whether this reporting is correct or not. And the last way is we can judge it by our own experience or source. Depends on what kinds of information, you can find out the way to get to know close to it.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Describe your experience learning a foreign language
It is a good opportunity for a foreign student to express his experience about learning a foreign language. My native language is Chinese and Taiwanese. Therefore, it is really a tough challenge for me to speak and to write English in my childhood. However, it is not difficult for me to pronounce English when I fully understand the English pronogram. Addition, I can try to use the Chinese pronounce to simulate the English word. But it has another problem for me to communite in English that I can not remember all the vocabulary. In hence, I just can use some simple and easy understanding vocabulary to express my ideas or thoughts to other people. Beside the speaking ability, English has another grammar system and writing stlyle. In other words, I have to learn the tense of the grammar and rhetoric in English writing. This two parts are the most difficult part for me. We don't have to use this in my mother language.
I feel very confident interacting with native speakers in our school right now, and it is the reason I choose to study in the US. I want to practice English and to improve my English ability.
I feel very confident interacting with native speakers in our school right now, and it is the reason I choose to study in the US. I want to practice English and to improve my English ability.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Identify the moves in the following introductions:
1. Move1 - Three recent publications serve to illustrate the growing interest in the teaching and researching of Business English (BE) amongst language teachers and researchers: the 1993 bibliography compiled by Kennedy, Hewings and Dudas, which lists research into various aspects of business communication, Dudley Evans and St. Johns’ review of BE research and teaching materials, and the 1996 special issue of English for Specific Purposes edited by St. John and Johnson, which contains articles relating to BE research and teaching, and the implications of research for teaching.
Move 1 - As these and other publications show, there as been a gradual but steady increase in Business English research during the 1990s in cross-cultural and intercultural studies, investigating the English used in business settings by native and non-native speakers (Yamada, 1990; Maier, 1992; Yli-Jokipii, 1994; Akar and Louhiala-Salminen, 1999). This no doubt reflects the fact that not only in English the language of international business but also that “as an international language, English is used as the means of communication in business transactions between people none of whom is a native user of the language” (Robinson, 1991, p. 98).
Move 2 - Despite the interest in both teaching and researching Business English in general, and in cross-cultural research in particular, little is known about the effectiveness of using hands-on cross-cultural and intercultural research as way of raising student awareness of the problems native and non-native speakers may experience in intercultural business encounters. This paper therefore outlines a course we have developed in research methods for intercultural text analysis for final year masters students in the business communication department at the University of Nijmegen. It begins with brief details of the background to the course, and it presents the literature we discuss and the types of activities we use during classroom sessions together with several examples of past student research projects. The paper concludes with discussion of some of the methodological problems we have encountered whilst developing and teaching the course, and, wherever this has been possible, the solutions that we have found and incorporated into our teaching.
(Nickerson & Van Nus, 1999).
2. Move 2 - An elaborate system of marking social distance and respect is found in the morphology of Nahuatl as spoken in communities of the Malinche volcano area in the Mexican states of Tlaxcala and Puebla. The complexity of the morphology involved, the semantic range of the elements, and the variation in the system in use raise questions of considerable interest for our understanding of the form and function of such systems, both in Nahuatl itself and in other languages.A system of elements usually referred to as 'honorifics' or 'reverentials' is reported by all the grammarians of Classical Nahuatl (cf. Olmos, 1547; Molina, 1571a; Carochi, 1645; Simeon, 1885; Garibay, 1970; Anderson, 1973; Andrews, 1975). Similar systems are reported for several modern varieties of Nahuatl (cf. Whorf, 1946 for Milpa Alta in the Federal District; Pitman, 1948 for Tetelcingo in Morelos; and Buchler and Freeze, 1966 and Buhler, 1967 for Hueyapan and Atempan in northern Puebla). None of these reports, except for Pittman's, describes the system in much detail. The present account is based on materials collected in 1974-75 and during the summer of 1976 in a linguistic survey of Nahuatl-speaking communities on the western and south-western slopes of the Malinche volcano.
3. Move 1 - In recent years applied researchers have become increasingly interested in the interpersonal relationships with manager-subordinate dyads. The majority of studies have focused on actual similarity between managers and their subordinates as related to managers’ appraisals of subordinates’ performance, subordinates’ job satisfaction and subordinates’ evaluations of their managers.
Move 1 - A few studies have examined the extent to which subordinates congruently perceive their managers (referred to here as “subordinate’s perceptual congruence”). These studies suggest that subordinates who are more perceptually aware of their superiors’ work-related attitudes receive higher performance evaluations and are more satisfied with their superiors.
Move 2 - Each of these previous studies has researched only a part of this complex dyadic interpersonal relationship. First, none of the studies has examined the effects of a manager’s congruent perception of a subordinate’s work-related attitudes. Second, no studies can be found that directly compare the relative importance of actual similarity with that of perceptual congruence. Third, none of the previous studies has looked at interpersonal perception by the manager and by the subordinates simultaneously within the same dyad.
Move 3 - The purpose of the present field investigation was to study both actual similarity and perceptual congruence and to examine them from the perspective of both the manager and the subordinate. The study investigated the relationships of these perceptual processes in two important organizational outcomes: subordinates’ satisfaction with work and supervision, and managers’ evaluations of subordinates’ job performance. Specifically, the study examined: (a) the relative magnitude of perceptual congruence and actual similarity with these two organizational outcomes; (b) whether the more congruently a subordinate perceives the manager (subordinate’s perceptual congruence), the more satisfied the subordinate will be; and (c) whether the more congruently a manager perceives the subordinate (manager’s perceptual congruence), the higher the subordinate’s performance will be evaluated.
4. Move 3 - Over the past twenty years there have been a number of significant changes to the health care system in Australia. These changes have occurred at the local, state, and federal levels. This paper will examine reforms at the state level for Victoria. This focus has been chosen because it is at this level that changes have had the most impact. Rather than superficially describing a large number of reforms, a detailed description and analysis will be presented of three revisions: the Workcare system, the deinstitutionalization of mental health patients, and the introduction of case-mix funding.
5. Move 2 - The thermal properties of glassy materials at low temperatures are still not completely understood. The thermal conductivity has a plateau which is usually in the range 5 to 10K and below this temperature it has a temperature dependence which varies approximately as T. The specific heat below 4K is much larger than that which would be expected from the Debye theory and it often has an additional term which is proportional to T. Some progress has been made towards understanding the thermal behaviour by assuming that there is a cut-off in the photon spectrum at high frequencies (Zaitlin and Anderson, 1975a, b) and that there is an additional system of low-lying two-level states (Anderson et al., 1972; Phillips, 1972). Nevertheless more experimental data are required and in particular it would seem desirable to make experiments on glassy samples whose properties can be varied slightly from one to the other. The present investigation reports attempts to do this by using various samples of the same epoxy resin which have been subjected to different curing cycles. Measurements of the specific heat (or the diffusing) and the thermal conductivity have been taken in the temperature range 0.1 to 80K for a set of specimens which covered up to nine different curing cycles. (Kelham and Rosenburg, 1981)
Move 1 - As these and other publications show, there as been a gradual but steady increase in Business English research during the 1990s in cross-cultural and intercultural studies, investigating the English used in business settings by native and non-native speakers (Yamada, 1990; Maier, 1992; Yli-Jokipii, 1994; Akar and Louhiala-Salminen, 1999). This no doubt reflects the fact that not only in English the language of international business but also that “as an international language, English is used as the means of communication in business transactions between people none of whom is a native user of the language” (Robinson, 1991, p. 98).
Move 2 - Despite the interest in both teaching and researching Business English in general, and in cross-cultural research in particular, little is known about the effectiveness of using hands-on cross-cultural and intercultural research as way of raising student awareness of the problems native and non-native speakers may experience in intercultural business encounters. This paper therefore outlines a course we have developed in research methods for intercultural text analysis for final year masters students in the business communication department at the University of Nijmegen. It begins with brief details of the background to the course, and it presents the literature we discuss and the types of activities we use during classroom sessions together with several examples of past student research projects. The paper concludes with discussion of some of the methodological problems we have encountered whilst developing and teaching the course, and, wherever this has been possible, the solutions that we have found and incorporated into our teaching.
(Nickerson & Van Nus, 1999).
2. Move 2 - An elaborate system of marking social distance and respect is found in the morphology of Nahuatl as spoken in communities of the Malinche volcano area in the Mexican states of Tlaxcala and Puebla. The complexity of the morphology involved, the semantic range of the elements, and the variation in the system in use raise questions of considerable interest for our understanding of the form and function of such systems, both in Nahuatl itself and in other languages.A system of elements usually referred to as 'honorifics' or 'reverentials' is reported by all the grammarians of Classical Nahuatl (cf. Olmos, 1547; Molina, 1571a; Carochi, 1645; Simeon, 1885; Garibay, 1970; Anderson, 1973; Andrews, 1975). Similar systems are reported for several modern varieties of Nahuatl (cf. Whorf, 1946 for Milpa Alta in the Federal District; Pitman, 1948 for Tetelcingo in Morelos; and Buchler and Freeze, 1966 and Buhler, 1967 for Hueyapan and Atempan in northern Puebla). None of these reports, except for Pittman's, describes the system in much detail. The present account is based on materials collected in 1974-75 and during the summer of 1976 in a linguistic survey of Nahuatl-speaking communities on the western and south-western slopes of the Malinche volcano.
3. Move 1 - In recent years applied researchers have become increasingly interested in the interpersonal relationships with manager-subordinate dyads. The majority of studies have focused on actual similarity between managers and their subordinates as related to managers’ appraisals of subordinates’ performance, subordinates’ job satisfaction and subordinates’ evaluations of their managers.
Move 1 - A few studies have examined the extent to which subordinates congruently perceive their managers (referred to here as “subordinate’s perceptual congruence”). These studies suggest that subordinates who are more perceptually aware of their superiors’ work-related attitudes receive higher performance evaluations and are more satisfied with their superiors.
Move 2 - Each of these previous studies has researched only a part of this complex dyadic interpersonal relationship. First, none of the studies has examined the effects of a manager’s congruent perception of a subordinate’s work-related attitudes. Second, no studies can be found that directly compare the relative importance of actual similarity with that of perceptual congruence. Third, none of the previous studies has looked at interpersonal perception by the manager and by the subordinates simultaneously within the same dyad.
Move 3 - The purpose of the present field investigation was to study both actual similarity and perceptual congruence and to examine them from the perspective of both the manager and the subordinate. The study investigated the relationships of these perceptual processes in two important organizational outcomes: subordinates’ satisfaction with work and supervision, and managers’ evaluations of subordinates’ job performance. Specifically, the study examined: (a) the relative magnitude of perceptual congruence and actual similarity with these two organizational outcomes; (b) whether the more congruently a subordinate perceives the manager (subordinate’s perceptual congruence), the more satisfied the subordinate will be; and (c) whether the more congruently a manager perceives the subordinate (manager’s perceptual congruence), the higher the subordinate’s performance will be evaluated.
4. Move 3 - Over the past twenty years there have been a number of significant changes to the health care system in Australia. These changes have occurred at the local, state, and federal levels. This paper will examine reforms at the state level for Victoria. This focus has been chosen because it is at this level that changes have had the most impact. Rather than superficially describing a large number of reforms, a detailed description and analysis will be presented of three revisions: the Workcare system, the deinstitutionalization of mental health patients, and the introduction of case-mix funding.
5. Move 2 - The thermal properties of glassy materials at low temperatures are still not completely understood. The thermal conductivity has a plateau which is usually in the range 5 to 10K and below this temperature it has a temperature dependence which varies approximately as T. The specific heat below 4K is much larger than that which would be expected from the Debye theory and it often has an additional term which is proportional to T. Some progress has been made towards understanding the thermal behaviour by assuming that there is a cut-off in the photon spectrum at high frequencies (Zaitlin and Anderson, 1975a, b) and that there is an additional system of low-lying two-level states (Anderson et al., 1972; Phillips, 1972). Nevertheless more experimental data are required and in particular it would seem desirable to make experiments on glassy samples whose properties can be varied slightly from one to the other. The present investigation reports attempts to do this by using various samples of the same epoxy resin which have been subjected to different curing cycles. Measurements of the specific heat (or the diffusing) and the thermal conductivity have been taken in the temperature range 0.1 to 80K for a set of specimens which covered up to nine different curing cycles. (Kelham and Rosenburg, 1981)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Miniature review on the Theoretical Discussion of Citations
Some researchers or authors (e.g., Bavelas, 1978) agree that citations are the basic tool to persuade your reader to trust your researches. Because they can collect a lot of research papers or experiment evidences about their field study. However,others may not agree with that. The other researchers may just focus on their own research or believe what they saw in the whole studing period. In doing this way, the team has to spend a lot of time to build their own data base. It is a time consuming process. Most people will not pay too much attention on the basic thing before starting their research. Another basic idea about citations is that it is a way to show respect to previous scholars (e.g., Ravetzs, 1971). Take the Nobel prize for example, it is the best way to show other scholars or the world's people to show their respect to the most useful research or authors. Other researcher may focus on different aspects about academic writing.
Pro: Researchers generally agree that .....; however, there is considerably disagreement about ..... Some researcher (e.g., Revetz, 1999) claim that citations ..... Other researcher, focusing on the ethical aspects of academic writing, claim that .... Johnson (1998) provides a different approach, claiming that .... In short, researchers have tended to ..... In the future, more research needs to be conducted on ...
Pro: Researchers generally agree that .....; however, there is considerably disagreement about ..... Some researcher (e.g., Revetz, 1999) claim that citations ..... Other researcher, focusing on the ethical aspects of academic writing, claim that .... Johnson (1998) provides a different approach, claiming that .... In short, researchers have tended to ..... In the future, more research needs to be conducted on ...
Thursday, February 7, 2008
summarizing paragraphs
1. Today electronic communication plays an important key to share personal ideas to others, and to do reserch.
2. An effective teacher needs to vary techniques and to have a variety of teaching methods and learning activities to facilitate the maximun learning for as many students as possible.
This is a summary come from Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research, chapter one: Thinking in print. The world changes every day because of reserch, not always for the better. But done well, research is crucial to improving every facet of our lives. It is no exaggeration to say that your research and your reports of it can improve perhaps not the whole world, but at least your corner of it. Writing supports thoughts, not just by helping you understand better what you have found, but by helping you find in it larger patterns of meaning. You can improve your thinking when you encourage it with notes, outlines, summaries, commentary, and other forms of thinking on paper. Writing a research report is thinking from the point of view of your readers. When you write with others in mind, you give your ideas the critical attention they need and deserve. You distangle them from your memories and wishes, so that you can explore, expand, combine, and understand them more fully. Thinking in written form for others can be more careful, more sustained, more attuned to those with different views - more thoughtful - than just about any other kind of thinking.
2. An effective teacher needs to vary techniques and to have a variety of teaching methods and learning activities to facilitate the maximun learning for as many students as possible.
This is a summary come from Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research, chapter one: Thinking in print. The world changes every day because of reserch, not always for the better. But done well, research is crucial to improving every facet of our lives. It is no exaggeration to say that your research and your reports of it can improve perhaps not the whole world, but at least your corner of it. Writing supports thoughts, not just by helping you understand better what you have found, but by helping you find in it larger patterns of meaning. You can improve your thinking when you encourage it with notes, outlines, summaries, commentary, and other forms of thinking on paper. Writing a research report is thinking from the point of view of your readers. When you write with others in mind, you give your ideas the critical attention they need and deserve. You distangle them from your memories and wishes, so that you can explore, expand, combine, and understand them more fully. Thinking in written form for others can be more careful, more sustained, more attuned to those with different views - more thoughtful - than just about any other kind of thinking.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Revise the following draft
Turkey is located in a region that is shaken by severe earthquakes every year. The earthquakes caused by Central Anatolian Fault Zone which is one of the most active fault zones in the world, and it lies along the northern part of the country, going from southeast to northwest. The reason that the earthquakes cause a lot of damage and death of many people is not only the nature of the fault zone, but also that there are many cities and highways settled on it. It is just because of the lack of the information of this big giant in the regional planning of the country. There is no way that Turkey can't be affected from severe shaking in each year, and the most serious one occurred in August 1999. This earthquake affected a big area as wide as two kilometer and caused approximately 20,000 people death and millions dollars physical damage in three cities. In recent years, some early warning systems have been developed to be aware of the upcoming shakings, one possible method of the system is to build several hundred detectives in the deepth of the ground. Althought these can give warnings as short as 10 second before the shakings, if there is a well-planned rescue organization, this system may help to decrease, at least, the death rates in the earthquakes.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
An experience when you felt a great deal of anxiety about a test
It is a very interesting question that I still can't find any answer for myself. People just want to get good grades in the academic test, therefore it may be the reason why people will feel anxiety before some important test. Many people always try to use the grades to evaluate a person's ability in some ways when he is a student. It is the also the reason why academic test become so important to students. I will always feel painful with my stomach, and it is a big problem to me in my student life. But it is not about the grades in my test. I just give myself to much pressure and less confidence. Actually, I still can't find any solution to relieve the test anxiety. The moment I can feel less anxiety is just after I finished all the questions in the test and pass the paper to the teacher.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Describe an experience when you worked with others on a project
I had some very interesting working experiences when I worked with others on a project in my previous job. I worked in the accounting firm in Taipei, and my job is gonig to audit the company's financial reports and the accounting data. Teamwork is our basic working style. Therefore, I list one benefit and one negative aspect of working cooperatively.
The benefit is we can learn everything from our colleagues. We didn't have any distance between each other. We had to share the same responsibility and the working hours. In hence, we can discussed problems and find the solutions together. Most of time, no body would want to delay the time to go off duty, so we worked very hard everyday on the same project.
The negative aspect is that every kind of order you have to listen to the group leader. The working schedule and the working hours, everything is under his command. Once if the team leader don't have a very good time controlling ability. This team would work very hard to complete the whole project. Therefore, it is very important to choose a good team leader when you work within a team.
From that working period, I learned the most significant thing is how to treat your teammates. Everyone has his own personality, working style, and habits. So you can not expect everyone works the ways like yourself. You have to accept everything that is out of your expectations when you worked within a team. No matter how many persons are in this team, you have to learn how to show your respect to each other.
The benefit is we can learn everything from our colleagues. We didn't have any distance between each other. We had to share the same responsibility and the working hours. In hence, we can discussed problems and find the solutions together. Most of time, no body would want to delay the time to go off duty, so we worked very hard everyday on the same project.
The negative aspect is that every kind of order you have to listen to the group leader. The working schedule and the working hours, everything is under his command. Once if the team leader don't have a very good time controlling ability. This team would work very hard to complete the whole project. Therefore, it is very important to choose a good team leader when you work within a team.
From that working period, I learned the most significant thing is how to treat your teammates. Everyone has his own personality, working style, and habits. So you can not expect everyone works the ways like yourself. You have to accept everything that is out of your expectations when you worked within a team. No matter how many persons are in this team, you have to learn how to show your respect to each other.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The number of animal species is decreasing throughout the world
There are many reasons why the number of animal species is decreasing throughout the world. I have two or three reasons can explain, and the first is gloabl warming. The weather changes will affect the living environment for many animals including our human beings. The second is the global business. Mnay cross-country companies need a lot of nature resources or cheap human labors. They will always find a place for them to dig the nature resources or to build mega manufacturing factories. All of this business action always need to occupy the orinigal land from the nature. Therefore, some animal species will have no place to live. And I think it's important for mankind to preserve species, they are the parts of the world just like us. We don't have the right to distinguish them from our some behaviors. The nations can make some laws to protect the land or nature park from
One's own views of right and wrong
It is very hard to say you are right or wrong to many things in our daily lives. Everyone has his own growing background and personal living experience. Therefore it is very hard to tell people that you are right or wrong in many cases. Unless the court gudgement convict you are guilty. From my childhood, parents teach me some manners how to treat people you meet. If i'm doing wrong, my mom would tell me immediately, then I can know what's the point that I was wrong. It is very basic way to know you'r right or wrong from personal experience. When I grew up, the school teacher would do that job for every student in the educational age. But once you done your school work, leave the school to the society. You have to learn it by your own or by adopting the values of other people. When you are strating work, the most important tool is to observe other colleagues. They will teach you a lot of things that you never know from the working experiences or communications from person to person. I am always learning from the people around me, they are always my best teachers and mentors after I left the school. Because I always can find something I have to learn deeply from them.
Describe globalization and its effects
Globalization are the reasons why we can have chance to enjoy other countries food, to understand other countries culture, and share the economic profit or value with the other countries. Globalization changes a lot of business concepts for cross nation companies because you have to understanding the local cultures and living styles then you can do your business well in that country. And we can use the Apple Ipod right now, we have to thank the globalization. But in other points of view, due to the globalization that the entire world economic links together. Therefore, a big country's economic situation will affect the other countries. Once the depression happens in the major economic entity, all of the countries will suffer the same pane. In my point of view, I support the globalization because it can help the undevelopment countries make a big step to become the developing countries or from the developing countries to the develped countries. It is a good and short way to help the small or needy countries in the world.
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