Thursday, June 5, 2008

Happy Birthday, my love

Happy Birthday, my love. Yesterday is your birthday. We went to "Holiday" to sing all night with our friends. You seemed very tired in the morning. At night, we went to have the dinner "sukiyaki". I love to eat it. I gave you the gift. It took me many days to accomplish it. I hope you love it. And then we went to eat the cake I insisted to eat. But the place we chose is windy. Our candle was always blew out. Finally, we still had our cake. I wish you will have a good time this year. Happy birthday!

For the test

Q: What is transition?
A: A way to show the logical connection between ideas.

Q: What is plagiarism?
A: Plagiarism means using another person’s words or ideas without citing that person.

Q: What is paraphrasing?
A: Paraphrasing means presenting the written information of another by using the keywords of the original but restating the other ideas in your own words.

Q: When paraphrasing, you need to do what?
A: 1. Change most words by using synonyms.
2. Use your own sentences.
3. Keep the same keywords of the original text.

Q: What is the difference between summary and paraphrasing?
A: Summaries are always much shorter than the original text; the paraphrasing is as long as the original text.

Q: What is summary?
A: Summarizing is retelling something in fewer words.

Q: When writing a summary, you need to notice what?
A: 1. The summary is much shorter than the original text and the paraphrasing.
2. It states only the main ideas of original.
3. Some keywords are used.
4. Synonyms are used for words that are not key terms.
5. An in-text citation is given at the end of the summarized information.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The interview

1. Do you know the Internet Addiction is?
Greta said yes, Internet Addiction is a disease let someone get involved in the Internet for a long time.
2. Do you have any suggestions of preventing Internet Addiction?
Sophia said we should decrease the time to serf the Internet .
3. How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet?
Min said he spends about 5hours a day on the Internet. He is chatting with others and plays games.