RECAP OF HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK:
1) WE WILL DO informal PRESENTATIONS ON THIS PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENT: Visit the Purdue OWL website and comment on an exercise [any exercise that you think would be helpful for you] and tell us whether or not it was useful:
1) Name of the exercise
2) How you did on the exercise
3) Would you suggest it to other learners at your level?
4) Overall comments about the exercise and the OWL...
2) Please see the Student Sample Essay Listed Below and Be Prepared to Comment on It... [TIMED WRITING EXERCISE] October 19, 2005 Topic : Many students have to live with roommates while going to school or university. What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? Use specific reasons and examples to explain why these qualities are important.
Do you know that your roommates could either save or ruin your life? It happened that I have the opportunity to live in my friend’s house as a roommate for a while. From this experience, I have found out that the roommates should mostly have the qualities of being alert and simple. Why did I say so? Please read on what my perspectives are as follows.
The first character as a roommate is alert. There are so many gas-leaking accidents happened, especially during the winter time. As a good roommate, we should be alert when there is someone who is taking the shower. Ignorance could be a primary regret for the rest of your life. For instance, there was once one piece of news reporting about when student A was enjoying a shower, his roommate, student B, happened to be at home and had saved him from the hand of the death. If student B wasn’t so alert (he could be sleeping during the time while student A is taking a shower,) both of them could have a reunion in the heaven now. Isn’t it?
In addition to the character of alert, simplicity is also a credit to be a nice roommate. That is, if your roommate has a very complicated relationship, you might be involved or influenced all the time. For example, I used to live with one of my friends. She told me that there was once a roommate long ago, who liked to bring her so-called “boy friend” home frequently, and her boy friend changed so quickly. It did cause my friend’s family some trouble and influence their life because of her “non-simplicity.” Especially, my friend has children who are confused with the value of relationship when they see this situation. That’s why simplicity is a very important quality for the roommate.
In conclusion, good roommates should have the qualities of alert and simplicity to reinforce your confidence in living with other people. With these 2 major characters as the standard while choosing your roommates, I believe everyone’s life should be safe and stable, the same as Snow White to live happily ever after.
3) Please visit the Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (http://powa.org) and be prepared to discuss it with the rest of the class. [I didn't assign this actually, but you should also be visiting as many OWLS as you can and you need to be sure to keep doing timed writings on your personal blogs ... I will evaluate your fluency improvement at the end of the semester!]
4) Please be sure to visit as many OWLS as you can and put them as links using "BLOG THIS" (in OPTIONS on the GOOGLE TOOLBAR). Thank you very much and have a pleasant week! I can't wait to see you!
Dr. J.
posted by Robert E. Johanson @ 1:49 PM
1 Comments:
At Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:59:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
[TIMED WRITING EXERCISE] October 19, 2005 Topic : Many students have to live with roommates while going to school or university. What are some of the important qualities of a good roommate? Use specific reasons and examples to explain why these qualities are important.
Have you ever lived with a terrible roomate who lets her friends in a hell! Believe it or not, I think keeping things in order and protecting environments are the important qualities of a good roommate. Let me explain why I think so.
It happened in 1900, I went to America to study language abroad. It just happened to me, a nightmare. Oh, no! Even a daymare exactly! She was the first girl who became my roomate. We shared a flat and rent. She looked like a angle when she first time smiled to me. However, good times don't last long, our clear flat was fulled with her stuffs! Things like books, pants, even underwares! How a shame it was, each time I took friends home, they ound new things! For instance, one of my ESL friend “Billy” who came to do his homework 1 time sat on her hair pin and screamed piteously that I havn’t ever heared. Then we’ve never met since that time. “Goodbye, Billy!” I shouted in heart. It’s a pity that just one example of my cohabitation life.
As you can guess, she didn’t arrange her things well and borrws things from me always. What made it worse was that she never knew where my thing was. Unfortunately, who should I borrow things from? My second reason to support “protecting envirnments”. Except her belongings, she threw garbages anywhere in the flat. From the maindoor to backdoor, you could find a lot of things such as socks behind the front door, skirst in the living room, even the unwashed dishes in the kitchen. How terrible it is! My wonderful flat was ruined by her. Due to her garbages anywhere, cockroaches were the third roomate and another roomate without paying rent were rats. “Goodbye, my ESL friends!” I shouted in my heart again. I was afraid to take friends home due to her mess in flat.
After one month, I moved out and lived with my clean ESL friends. There were no cockroaches and rats anymore. I won’t worry about my missing stuffs and disgusting environments. Believe it or not, keeping things in order and protecting environments are the important qualities of a good roommate.
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