Thank you so much for your patience today (the computers in the lab are so slow...). I hope you all had fun creating or revisiting your blogs.
I probably was not as clear as I thought, and I would like to explain a little bit more on what you should do with this assignment.
Basically, I would like you to write down your reflection and journal about what you read outside of class on your own.
Where to find readings...
The resources can be news, either online or traditional newspaper, magazine articles, books, recipes, professional journals, technical journals, novels or some famous authors' personal blog that you follow constantly. Be creative but make sure it helps people learn.
After you read...
What you have to do is to summarize what you read, where can we find the articles or the readings, and how you feel or what you think about the readings.
A lot of TOEFL readings are from National Geographic website, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/, so if you visit the site and read articles from there, you might find a lot of useful and interesting information.
Why are we doing this???
There are two purposes of doing this reading journal.
First, I would like to see how much self-study you do on your own outside of class. To read only the TOEFL textbook is not enough. You have expand your reading interests and area of learning by reading various topics.
Second, I would like to make this class resourceful. It is our class, so I would like everyone to contribute to it by sharing useful information and readings with each other. You might not read what other people write if you don't know them, but you are more likely to read what your friends write. (I hope...)
How much should you write...
Basically, I only require three entries per week. But you can definitely go beyond that if you browse the internet quite often and you'd like to share what you find interesting. Learning strategies, websites, news articles...etc., you can share just about anything that is useful and interesting.
Summarizing an reading/article is an advanced skill to have, and it shows your understanding of a text. Writing summaries for certain articles can also help people easily enter some difficult texts when they first encounter them. You are learning more this way than just passively reading whichever is in the textbook or just memorizing those vocabulary that you are never gonna use in your daily life.
Am I missing anything? Ask me questions here or in class!!!
Lastly, enjoy reading and writing! :)
Cheers,
Cynthia
Basically, I would like you to write down your reflection and journal about what you read outside of class on your own.
Where to find readings...
The resources can be news, either online or traditional newspaper, magazine articles, books, recipes, professional journals, technical journals, novels or some famous authors' personal blog that you follow constantly. Be creative but make sure it helps people learn.
After you read...
What you have to do is to summarize what you read, where can we find the articles or the readings, and how you feel or what you think about the readings.
A lot of TOEFL readings are from National Geographic website, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/, so if you visit the site and read articles from there, you might find a lot of useful and interesting information.
Why are we doing this???
There are two purposes of doing this reading journal.
First, I would like to see how much self-study you do on your own outside of class. To read only the TOEFL textbook is not enough. You have expand your reading interests and area of learning by reading various topics.
Second, I would like to make this class resourceful. It is our class, so I would like everyone to contribute to it by sharing useful information and readings with each other. You might not read what other people write if you don't know them, but you are more likely to read what your friends write. (I hope...)
How much should you write...
Basically, I only require three entries per week. But you can definitely go beyond that if you browse the internet quite often and you'd like to share what you find interesting. Learning strategies, websites, news articles...etc., you can share just about anything that is useful and interesting.
Summarizing an reading/article is an advanced skill to have, and it shows your understanding of a text. Writing summaries for certain articles can also help people easily enter some difficult texts when they first encounter them. You are learning more this way than just passively reading whichever is in the textbook or just memorizing those vocabulary that you are never gonna use in your daily life.
Am I missing anything? Ask me questions here or in class!!!
Lastly, enjoy reading and writing! :)
Cheers,
Cynthia
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