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English for Academic Reading and Writing UB00402
Section 104 / Podium 1A
7.00-10.00 PM (Tuesdays)

• 16 March 2010
• 23 March 2010
  
• 30 March 2010 coming soon!
• 6 April 2010 coming soon!
• Assignment marks coming soon!

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Oral Communication in English UB00202
Section 113 / Podium C
7.00-10.00 PM (Wednesdays)

• 17 March 2010
  
• 24 March 2010
• 31 March 2010
• 07 April 2010
• Presentation marks coming soon!

31 Mar - Tips, The Apprentice, Analysis of Best Speakers, Polish & Practice

Hello girls and boys,

No. 3 (Analysis of Best Speakers) and 4 (Polish and Practice) are the continuation of our class on 31 March. Follow the sequence of this virtual class and its simple instructions.

 

 1.  Concise Tips and Tricks

• Study the slides
• Summary (click image to enlarge)

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2.  Communicative Game (The Apprentice)

• Study the slides

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3.  Analysis of Best Speakers

• Study these slides Part A, Part B, Part C
• or in JPG below:

1. Slide 1-6
2. Slide 7-12
3. Slide 13-18
4. Slide 19-24
5. Slide 25-30
6. Slide 31-32 

• Watch Jamie Oliver's TED Prize Presentation at TED.com.
• Use slides 9-21 above to guide your analysis.
• Click the image below to enlarge instruction for TED.com video presentations.
• Alternatively, you can also watch his presentation at YouTube.

• Next, watch an excerpt of Steve Jobs' MacBook Air in MacWorld 2008 presentation.
• The analyses of Steve Job's presentation can be found here; one by Forbes and the other by BNET.
• Lastly, learn some tips in Powerful Speaking The Obama Way by Forbes at YouTube.

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4.  Polish and Practice

• Study the slides (GIF)
• Read this entry: Received Pronunciation
• Related links:
• View how would a British accent be spoken by an American: Beyoncé tries British accent
• Next, study and follow the Received Pronunciations (RP) by Alison Pitman: 

1. RP British Accent Training (Part 1) 
2. RP British Accent Training (Part 2)

24 Mar - Forum Presentations

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23 Mar - APA Citation Format + Paraphrasing + Persuasive Essay

APA Citation Format

1. Long Island University: APA Citation Style
2. Mr. M's Progressive Lesson Plan blog: APA References Style

Paraphrasing

• OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab: Paraphrase Exercises

 Writing Persuasive Paragraph

1. Analyse a persuasive essay in College Reading 4 (pp. 128-132). Look at the margin of the essay and highlight the structure of persuasiveness of the essay
2. Watch this video: Messages From Water (YouTube)
3. Based on the persuasive essay that you have read and based the Message from Water video, write a persuasive body paragraph on the relationship of water molecules and power of human mind.
4. You may include in-text citation or otherwise, you may write a long paragraph or otherwise. It is up to you. But please write a complete body paragraph
5. Email your paragraph to: azzad.works(at)gmail(dot)com
6. Please include your NAME in your email.
7. Here are some slides to guide you:

17 Mar - How to Present in groups, via Forum & Press Conference

1. Presenting Academic Papers in groups, via Forum & Press Conference PDF slides on Scribd
2. 25 Years of Oprah Screaming Celebrities Names on Youtube
3. MTV’s Chat The Planet teasers on Archive.org:
• Family Values 
• Race 
• Why Iraq
4. Group Presentation Guideline handout on Scribd

Since we did not arrange presentation sequence (which group presents first or last), I will need you to leave a comment in this entry. Write your name and what number your group would like to be. For example: I am Jane Wong from Group 1 and we would like to be the 3rd presenter. If no one says anything, I decide on Group 1 being the 1st, Group 2 the 2nd, etc.

Thank you.

16 Mar - Argumentative Essay + Plagiarism

1. The Fish Bone (skeletal diagram)
2. Argumentative essay structure coming soon! 
3. Links on plagiarism

• Natasha "McGough" Hudson by Cikgu Jannah on Natasha Hudson
• Natasha Hudson and Plagiarism by Chech Eccentric on Natasha Hudson
• Student’s Novel Faces Plagiarism Controversy by The Harvard Crimson on Kaavya Viswanathan
• How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life on Wikipedia
• Viva la Vida Plagiarism? on Youtube  
• Madonna's credit to ABBA for 'Hung Up' on Wikipedia
• Madonna in plagiarism case defeat on BBC News
• Famous Plagiarists

Photo taken from Cikgu Jannah

Writing assignments datelines

Assignment 1: 13 Oct 2009

Assignment 2: 15 Oct 2009

Assignment 3: 20 Oct 2009

Books: Good Grammar + Briefest + Grammar Practice + For Everyone

Good Grammar for Students (2005) by Howard Jackson

Download preview copy here. (PDF, 1.18 MB) 
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The Briefest English Grammar Ever (2005)
For English speakers who didn't learn English at school. by Ruth Colman

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Practice Makes Perfect:

English Grammar for ESL Learners (2005) by Ed Swick

Download preview copy here. (PDF, 2.15 MB) 

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Grammar for Everybody: 
Practical Tools for Learning and Teaching Grammar (2007) by Barbara Dykes

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Chapter 1 – Getting Ready to Write

All the best ideas come from this source.

Prewriting

1. Mind Mapping is admittedly the best brainstorming method.

• How to make a Mind Map by Tony Buzan
• The Mind Mapping Site
• Maximise the Power of Your Brain
• How to Mind Map with Tony Buzan

2. Journal writing is personal & could be used to inspire the writer

• Blogging: the most popular method of journal writing
• "Collecting Stories by Jonathan Harris"

Chartbook - A Reference Grammar

Chartbook-A Reference Grammar (2000)

by Betty Schrampfer Azar

• Chapter 1 - Overview of Verb Tenses
• Chapter 2 - Present & Past, Simple & Progressive
• Chapter 3 - Perfect & Perfect Progressive Tenses
• Chapter 4 - Future Time
• Chapter 5 - Adverb Clauses of Time & Review of Verb Tenses
• Chapter 6 - Subj-Verb Agreement
• Chapter 7 - Nouns
• Chapter 8 - Pronouns
• Chapter 9 - Modals (Part 1)
• Chapter 10 - Modals (Part 2)
  
• Chapter 11 - The Passive
  
• Chapter 12 - Noun Clauses
  
• Chapter 13 - Adjective Clauses
  
• Chapter 14 - Gerunds and Infinitives (Part 1)
  
• Chapter 15 - Gerunds and Infinitives (Part 2)
  
• Chapter 16 - Coordinating Conjunctions
• Chapter 17 - Adverb Clauses
  
• Chapter 18 - Reduction of Adverb Clauses to Modifying Adverbial Phrases
  
• Chapter 19 - Connectives That Expresses Cause and Effect, Contrast, And Condition
  
• Chapter 20 - Conditional Sentences and Wishes
  

• Appendix
• Index

Or download and review the whole book. (PDF, 4.9 MB)

Paperback: 104 pages

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group; 3 edition (2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0139587039

Price (as of 2005): RM63.69

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Ready to Write More - Chapter Summaries

Part 1: The Elements of Good Writing

• Chapter 1: Getting ready to write
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4

Part 2: Types of Essays

• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9

Part 3: Writing for Specific Purposes

• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12

• Answer Key
• The Fish Bone

Ready to Read More - Chapter Summaries

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8

• Answer Key
• The Fish Bone

Ready to Read More: Answer Key

Ready to Read More - Answer Key (2006)

CHAPTER 5 – Analyse the Text

One of the many Sunflowers series painting by Vincent van Gogh

Significant points from Chapter 5 include:

1. Listing

• Details listed to explain main idea
• Series of reasons, examples, facts (refer: details in print-ads)

2. Sequence / time order (refer: Lee Yan's Best Friend tv-ad)

3. Cause and effect

4. Compare and contrast

Note:

• Refer to list of signal words to familiarize yourself with all the skills mentioned

Related questions:

1. What is the main idea of "Tan Hong Ming in Love"?
2. What makes the choice of sequence (plot) in "Tan Hong Ming in Love" work?
3. What is the main idea of "Lee Yan’s Best Friend"?
4. What makes the choice of sequence (plot) in "Lee Yan’s Best Friend" work?
5. What are the supporting ideas of Lee Yan’s Best Friend?

The Fish Bone (Essay skeletal diagram)

Basic diagram of an Essay

As far as I know, no reference book has labelled this diagram 'The Fish Bone' as we do in class. This has actually been derived from the diagram of an essay by Joy Reid.

Reference

Reid, J. (1988) The Process of Composition (2nd Ed.) Prentice Hall Regents: New Jersey, pp. 42-43

CHAPTER 4 – Understand *Supporting Details

Philips V900 Advertisement

Significant points from Chapter 4 include:

1. SD support the main idea by telling how, when, where, why, how much, how many.

2. SD provide examples, facts, descriptions, explanations, or reasons.

3. What additional information does the author provide to help me understand the main idea?

4. Look for signal words: first, second, next, also, in addition, moreover.

5. Scan

• Have a question in mind, specific kind of info
• Use headings, boldfaced words, italics, numbers, charts, quotation marks
• Ignore unimportant info
• Move eyes rapidly across the text

*Refer to the Fish Bone

Related questions:

1. What do you see in these advertisements?
2. What makes the “story” in these advertisements understandable?
3. How do they make you feel when you “read” these advertisements?

• Philips: snake bite, bear trap
• Betadine: bike accident, scissor cut, wood cut
• WWF Earth: shark, crocodile

Note:

• Ads of the World: Creative Advertising Archive and Community

CHAPTER 3 – Use Vocabulary Strategies

"Cosmetic Surgery" by Dave Parker

Significant points from Chapter 3 include:

Most of the time, we do not know the meaning of certain words. Without using thesaurus or dictionary, we can use the context to guess meaning. There are 5 strategies.

In the sentence, look for:

1. Definition of the word

2. Examples explaining the word

3. Word or phrase in another part of the sentence with similar meaning

4. Word or phrase in another part of the sentence with opposite meaning

5. Use general sense of the sentence to make conclusions

Other strategy includes breaking the word to its prefix, suffix, or circumfix to get the root word.

Note:

• Dave Parker (English cartoonist)

CHAPTER 2 – Identify Main Ideas

"The Flower Carrier" by Diego Rivera

Significant points from Chapter 2 include:

1. Identifying Main Idea - most important reading strategies used by good readers

2. Speed up reading, help understanding & remember what you read

• Who or what is the reading about? – The topic
• What does the author want me to know about the topic? – The main idea

3. *Main idea in introductory paragraph is called “Thesis Statement”

4. *Main idea in body paragraph (content) is called “Topic Sentence”

*Refer to the Fish Bone

Note:

• The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera
• Frida Kahlo (Mexican artist, Rivera's ex-wife)
• Frida (2002 American Movie)
• Yo-Yo Ma (French-American cellist)

CHAPTER 1 – Think Before You Read

"I and the Village" by Marc Chagall

Significant points from Chapter 1 include:

1. Preview

• Title, subtitle, section headings, introductions
• words in bold print or italics
• pictures, graphics

2. Activate your background knowledge

• Information you already know
• Background knowledge

3. Predict

• Guess what you are going to read

4. Set a purpose

• Gives reason for you to read
• Ask yourself questions that you would like to have answered (Wh-Question tags)
• KWL Chart

Note:

• Overall, reading skills presented in this chapter are meant to strengthen understanding and content memorization of the reading materials.
• I and the Village by Marc Chagall

I seek your deepest apologies

To all my Hindu brothers, sisters, friends and family, with great respect and love, I am as intensely outraged, enraged and humiliated. I seek your deepest apologies.

Humanity of all walks of life should condemn the act of hatred and intolerance against nature.

• Urge Najib To Act NOW Against Cow-Head Protestors
• The Cow-Head Lesson for Merdeka: Delegitimize Violence and Hatred