July 2010
7 posts
Writing for College (LAST Homework)
Part I: Why do we do style exercises?
Doing style exercises is a way to understand different people’s style. Each style has its uniqueness, and different style should be used in different situation depending how formal the situation is. Another reason to do style exercises is that we can see people’s mistakes and avoid doing them while writing. It is always easy to catch the other’s foibles as...
Extra Credit
Hin Yau
Jeung/McDonald
Writing for College
26 July 2010
Extra Credit
Write a paragraph of your own thoughts on this thing that you read.
I have read the first three pages of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace. The first two pages of the book have citations, but the third page doesn’t. As a read a lot, I find that this book is really hard to read although I...
Writing for College (Homework 6)
Part I
To me, college is very important; however, I do not favor on any particular subject. If you had to pick a major today, I would choose physics as my major. I would pick physics because I think it is interesting and it is related to science. I hate literature. I believe I would write research papers about how object moves, or how things are related to each other.
Part II
If I could write a...
To-Do List
1. Revise my essay from English 100 2. Read the chapter on Freewriting from Writing with Power 3. Read Structured Procrastination 4. Re-read the first 7 pages of Politics and the English Language 5. Post my Watcher drawing and letter 6. Memorize SAT vocabularies 7. Do some SAT practice homework
… 1000. sleep
Groupthink (ESCARGOT)
Despite its catchy subtitle, Group Think, like most good essays, attempts to answer a serious question – “What spurs innovation in a group?”
By definition, innovation means the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something, and group means a number of people or things that are together in the same place or that are connected in some way.
Gladwell’s essay can be divided into three...
Writing for College (Homework 4)
Even though it was July 4th, I did not go outside and stayed home to read a memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.
A Long Way Gone was a memoir by Ismael Bech, a former child solider in Sierra Leone. Before the rebels had reached Ismael’s village, Mattru Jong, Ismael was living happily like other children from other parts of the world; however, one day, the rebels...
June 2010
5 posts
Writing for College (Homework 3)
As I read Group Think: What does ‘Saturday Night Live’ have in common with German philosophy? by Malcolm Gladwell, I found that this article was very difficult to understand. Gladwell gives out many different names that I could not remember one of those. But as I have finished reading, I have got some ideas about the articles that I did not sure.
Despite its catchy subtitle, I believe that the...
Writing for College (Homework 2)
Shooting on Elephant by George Orwell is very distinctive from other essays that I have read. His style is unique that he uses first person to narrate the story, which gives a friendly tone to whole essay. Indeed, with his friendly tone in his passage, I do not feel too “grand” or “serious” on the story, which makes me to enjoy the story easier at the beginning. In addition, the climate that he...
Writing for College (Homework 1)
Truly, I seldom read things other than my school work. Reading is just too hard for me, and I spend a lot of time in reading, particularly in some long essays. I usually read about ten pages of a novel at a time. It might be a little too short, but I have to spend extra time in translating the new vocabulary. I love to read in a quiet place where no one can distract me; therefore, I usually read...
