Announcement
- Makeup class to replace Nov. 1st’s cancelled class will be held on Saturday Dec. 14th. Check the noticeboard for the time and place.
- For those who cannot attend, I will prepare some assignments and post them on this blog.
Homework
- (Not announced in class). Please read the essay by Bastiat entitled “The Broken Window Fallacy”
- I suggest you read the Japanese explanation first, then the English. Here’s a link to the Japanese one (Wikipedia).
Today’s class
- In groups of 4-5, exchange your draft #2, read and comment.
- Some general points:
- show the relationship between ideas. Why do schools require young people to write essays?
- To train the young mind to organize their thinking, to think more logically and abstractly, to learn to base their opinion on objective facts and evidence
- The written essay shows the instructor the strengths and weaknesses of a student’s thinking.
- don’t use your personal opinion as an argument: arguments should be supported by objective evidence. A personal opinion is not an argument.
- don’t be vague. Some Japanese expressions sound coy in English, e.g. “People should think more seriously about X” when the person really means “People should stop doing X”.
- Use positive rather than negative expressions at the beginning of a sentence. E.g. instead of “Not only… but also”, use “In addition to…” or “as well as…”
- show the relationship between ideas. Why do schools require young people to write essays?
- Worksheet: download it here
2019-11-08 Sentence combining worksheet 333.43 KB 3 downloads
Sentence-combining worksheet for AW2 November 8th, 2019. ...
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