Online Task 7

Task 7 – Due Oct. 7^th, 2010

ATTENTION: This task refers to our Oct. 5^th online class. Since there is no class on Oct. 7th, please put your reports in my pigeon hole in the teachers’ office on that date.

Part A

Watch the following video and WRITE A SMALL REPORT on “being aware of comma splices”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Rl9ZwlF5s

Part B

Watch the following video and WRITE A SMALL REPORT on “plagiarizing from the internet” (Internet plagiarism out of ignorance and not because of intent of cheating):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jemg2dytNjE

Part C

Do the following online exercises and write a small report about your score. You do not have to give me the actual sentences from the exercise, just your report.

- 8 fragments of a paragraph to be cheked for plagiarism:

http://www2.gsu.edu/~geotel/plagiarism.html

- 4 small texts to be checked. The first one admits more than one answer. You can mark them all:

https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/plagiarism/exercise/index.html

Online Task 6

Task 6 – Due Sept. 23^rd, 2010
 
I –Parallelism

A) Watch the video: Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise Parallelism & Word Forms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ys999ncMVM
The examples shown in the video are given below, for you to work with them.

MAKE CHANGES AS SUGGESTED IN THE VIDEO:
Lisa is beautiful, bright and she has a charming personality.
Miami has a lot of entertainment, it’s warm here, and we have good restaurants, too.
Three benefits of living in a big city are a lot of job opportunities, exciting shows, and shopping.

We studied at the same junior high school, and same senior high school, and we also went to the same university.
It may sound too funny or scare, but it’s true.

There are many reasons people do not eat healthy. Some of these reasons are that they do not know how to cook, they do not have time to cook, and because of the cost.

Quotes by B. Franklin (UNDERLINE THE PARALLEL STRUCTURES) :

Nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, and at 40 the judgment.

  

B) Online Exercises On Parallelism
1.Enter  
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/niu/niu10.htm

a) Go through the 10 items and check your answers online (the site tells you whether you got it right or not) 

It starts with “I have worked in Spain and in Ireland” 
YOUR TASK: Take note of any of the 10 items you did not get right. Copy the item for me, not just the number of it! You should provide an appropriate alternative on your own.  We´ll check it in class. 

b)Then take the second Quiz available at the address below: 

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quizzes/parallelism2_quiz.htm 
After you write your suggestion, check with the GRAMMAR’S VERSION given by the website 
YOUR TASK: Try to solve your problem and bring your questions to class.


II – Exercise on Capitalization
Acess the site below and do the exercise on capitalization.  In case you still have questions after you get the answer, takes notes and bring them to class.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/caps_quiz.htm?cgi_quiz_form=1


III. Exercise on connectives
Acess the site below and do the exercise on connectives.  In case you still have questions after you get the answer, takes notes and bring them to class.
http://www.foothill.edu/bss/people/peterson-david/CT/tutorial/repub2.htm


IV. Use of conjunctions and commas
Take que quizz
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova1.htm
You might want to read .... http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Commentary guidelines

After you watch the video, take que quizzes and visit the sites, answer the following questions and turn them in on Sept. 23rd, 2010.

1. What did you learn by doing the above? Give specific examples and take notes of your problems to discuss in class.

2. If you were to suggest these videos or site to a college mate, what would you emphasize? This should be a commentary about the task and not a summary or a description of what you did. You should identify important aspects of the task, discuss each of those in turn, illustrating with examples from the sites or video.

3. Make any other comments about the task if necessary.  

******When you present your commentary, please make use of the course heading.

Online Task 5

Online task 5 – “One-Three-One Essay” + Thesis statement

Due Sept. 16^th

I. Watch Prof Stacy on a video about “Constructing a One-Three-One Essay”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sy07JWeGA

As you watch the video, have the Essay “The Hazards of Going-to-movies” by your side. You need a print-out from the site below. It is the last essay in the website and it starts with the words “I am a movie fanatic”:

http://www.lattc.edu/dept/tsos/stevenTA/movies.htm

In the print-out of the essay, identify the:

a) introduction,

b) 3 supporting paragraphs and

c) concluding aragraph.

 
The thesis statement does not come explicit in the first paragraph. However, Professor Stacy says it in the video, calling it “a seed, a germ”. What is the thesis statement (the basic idea) for this essay?

d) Identify the plan of Development in the Introductory Paragraph;
e) Identify the Topic Sentences in the Supporting Paragraphs;
f) Identify the Examples that support each of these Topic Sentences;
g) Identify, in the Concluding Paragraph, the Restatement of the Thesis, the Summary and the Pointing out to the future.

II.  Thesis statements

Are the following thesis statements good?  Identify their parts. Circle the topic and underline the controllling ideas.

1. Mom´s Country Kitchen offers tasty food, entertainment for children, and quick service.
2. Helping a son or a daughter plan a wedding can create family unity, leave pleasant memories, yet create unexpected expenses.
3. Attending college allows students to learn new information, make lifetime friends, and prepare for a carrer.
4. Smoking is detrimental because it costs money, creates pollution, and results in medical problems.
5. Women who enter politics are usually socially conscious, extraordinarily bright, and self-directed.
6. Small businesses usually succeed when the owners are adventuresome, creative, and well organized.
7. Heavy flooding can drive people from their homes, destroy crops, and interrupt  business activities.

Commentary guidelines

After you watched the video and did the exercise on thesis statements suggested above, answer the following questions and turn them in on Sept. 16^th, 2010.

1. What did you learn by doing tasks I and II? Give specific examples.

2. If you were to suggest this video to a college mate, what would you emphasize? This should be a commentary about the task and not a summary or a description of what you did. You should identify important aspects of the task, discuss each of those in turn, illustrating with the video.

3. Make any other comments about the tasks if necessary.  

******When you present your commentary, please make use of the course heading.