Activity one (Five steps to effective paraphrasing )

Paraphrase
At present, architects and engineers are impossible to give up exploring the tallest building of the world such as the Sears Tower which is the perfect consummation in skyscraper engineering demonstrably. It shows a problem of the limited height of a building. According to architect Robert Sobel saying that the building could achieve 500-story by existing technology, a building has be designed as high as the Sears Tower by structural engineer named William LeMessurier.


Original
While the Sears Tower is arguably the greatest achievement in skyscraper engineering so far, it’s unlikely that architects and engineers have abandoned the quest for the world’s tallest building. The question is ‘just how high can a building go?’ structural engineer William LeMessurier has designed a skyscraper nearly one-half mile high, twice as tall as the Sears Tower. And architect Robert Sobel claims that existing technology could produce a 500-story building.

Bachman, R. (1990:15) Reaching for the sky Dial

Ways of Seeing

In our urban world, we are surrounding by images of alternative way of life. No matter what we are rich or poor, we have to spend on money. Publicity gives us transformation by people who are power being transform and as a result enviable. This state of being envied constituted glamour. Publicity is a process of manufactory glamour. Without social envy, glamour can not exist. Glamour is new, because society is changes.

Oil painting and publicity image has much in common. They used many same references, celebrate same quality things, share same ideals. But the purpose and fact are much different. The oil painting began with facts of anther’s life. In contrast, publicity builds a life way that we aspire to or think way we aspire to, but it has not yet achieved. We can achieve such radiant if we have money. Publicity give us both promise and threatens. It suggests inadequate as you are and consoles you with promise of your dream. Behind the dream, there is an interminable and monotonous working line.

Here are three dreams: the dream of later tonight; the skin dream; far away place dream. Publicity works on the imagination, but it does something else too.
Publicity is neutral, just an objects, until have to been made glamour.

Between each page, there is such fissure disconnection and incoherence. Culture is mad. There is no communication between the two worlds. But they contrast beyond the understanding. Our own needs are the real connection between publicity of dreams and their life. Finally, production is judged by your experiences.

Higher Education

Higher education can be defined as the process in which students receive practical training for specific area in the university. Each country in the world has developed a system of higher education based on its needs, economic resources and traditions. Traditional culture has significant influence for economic expanding in both developed and developing nations. In recent years, the course of liberal Arts, especially traditional disciplines such as geography and history, has become popular in Britain. Only the higher education in geography and history will be dealt with, as they are chosen by more students graduated in secondary school. An assessment will first be made of the academic position of geography and history in resent years and then an explanation of will be provided for the degree of impact to the economy.

Academic Arguments

When comes to the academic argument, it is completely different with our everyday English as we known. According to the way of learning stuff about academic arguments, the main points are as follows. The definition of argument in academic writing is opinion add support. The argument was present by means of an opinion given by author and supported by any facts or reasons that help the reader to agree with it. An opinion must be a statement, opposed to “facts”, which may be conflict by some person. For example, the Berlin Wall was pulled down in 1990. Its removal has come to symbolize the break-up of the old Soviet Empire. The former sentence is a fact, and the latter is an opinion. Because the fact is supported within a message, then the whole message is an explanation. If the message continually indicates that people’s live, ideological and social changes in charge of the new government, show some evidences to support the opinion, it will be an argument. Finally, the position of the opinion before the support is recommended in academic writing.

Busy

Recently，I pathologically obsessed by writing Personal Statement and Research proposal after the day that I know my former course was abolished. So I got into apply a new course and was involved in working out the application. It was terrible that studying in class from Monday to Friday parallel within writing PS and RP. Unfortunately, I have to face a selection interview. I was really busy these days. I took a lot of time to look for reference books in the library and search more information on the internet. I can not breathe under the pressure and feel guilt for not update my web blog, for not doing well in class at the same time.

Now I am still waiting for my new offer. I hope I extricate myself from a predicament immediately.

The first time

Last Friday, we finished the Dragon's Den project. Our group completed presentation CYC-change your cover successfully.

The idea came from the word “recycle”. We wanted to recycle the material which was out of date for creating new function. According to this ideal, we started to work after a meeting that discussed how to separate and co-operate effectively and friendly. Future graphic designers from BA class needed to design the style of book’s cover and the box of tools. Marie, Jing and I researched on the internet to collect information about marketing and others relevant to production. Everything went on steadily.

I think it was not difficult for us to prepare materials and collect information. But there was a challenge that we must do the presentation in the class. Spoken English is thorny problem for us and of course for me. We encouraged each other and prepared seriously.

Time passed so fast that I was really nervous. Because this is my first time do the presentation. So I wrote down summaries on the paper and tried to practise by myself in advance. When I stated my view in front of class, my heart beat fast and blood pressure soars at the beginning. After one minute, I entered the role of speaker and finish the presentation completely. Although there are some flaws during speaking, I have a great sense of accomplishment. In fact, speaking English is not difficult as your imagining, as long as you open your mouth!

Summary of study methods in the UK

The article from UKCISA includes two sections: teaching and learning in the UK, study skills tips.
The first , there are variety of teaching methods used in the UK which is lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical work, workplace training, independent study, written work, other projects and assignments, group work, examinations and assessments.

This guidance note indicates that plagiarism is very severe and may be pay the penalty and failing the course. So the accepted ways is quoting and referencing work..

The second is a general study introduction. It provides us more detail about study methods. For example, how to prepare the seminars, make notes, and reading skills etc.

Summary of Rote learning is a winner

The news paper article ‘Rote learning was a winner’ describes recent educational research which investigated the effectiveness of Rote learning as a teaching method. The study monitored 2000 teenagers from 17 selected schools in the north of England. The report indicated that the old-fashioned “chalk and talk” was still exist and lead to conclusions.
Teachers were marked in five point scale by the fifth formers to measure whether ignored “child-centered” education. The results said that there was nothing wrong with rote learning even though marginally improved in the methods.
In the end, the writer insisted that mixed-two-method to content students was a good teacher.