writing exercise

Exemplification

Stage 3 Write the paragraph

Writing is method of human intercommunication by means of conventional visible marks. There are two main kinds which are ideographic and phonetic. Ideographic is an ideogram or sign which has one idea or word, for example, Chinese. Phonetic has divided in two meaning. First is syllabic which mean one sign has one syllable such as Amharic, Japanese kana. Second is alphabetic which one sign has one sound, for instance, Greek and Arabic.

Summarise the paragraph in class(Dilek)

Most countries in Latin America did not lose their own indigenous language by the wide spread of English language. In fact, the indigenous language depends on the the state policies which control by their government.

Verb Patterns

I found the useful website the can explain more about the verb pattern.

http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa052902a.htm

Have a look it is very useful.

Cause and Effect (Steve Class) Tue 26/08/08

Exercise 5 Study the flow chart and complete the paragraph which describes it.

If a country is suffering from economic recession, the government can reduce taxation so people in country will have more money to spend and buy more goods and services. As the spending and buying increased, more jobs are created to satisfy for demand. Consequently, the city will have the lower unemployment. Owing to the higher employment the government will has a higher income from taxation and spends less on social security.

Globalisation and Urbanisation

I found the website that might be useful for introduction and detail for my specific area(Urban Design).
http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscpe/vol3num3/abstrct4.html

Summarising the sentence

Summarise the sentence from sheet.

A: Imagine the opinions expressed in this letter come from a book called Is Fair Trade Really Fair? by Ralph Lee, Oxford University Press, 2002.Summarise her opinions in one sentence.

Ralph Lee has considerable concerned controlling on the pricing policy of Fair Trade products might be more justice and ethical (Ralph Lee, 2002).

B: Imagine the opinions expressed in this letter come from a book called Fair trade matters by Jan Montgomery and Montgomery Smith, Penguin, 2007.Summarise her opinions in one sentence.

Jan Montgomery and teams subscribed that “We need to wait a little longer before we truly understand the overall impact of the fair trade movements.”(Jan Montgomery, 2007)

C: Imagine the opinions expressed in this letter come from a journal article ‘Fair trade: a win win situation ’by Philippa Schofield. The article was published in June 2008 in the Journal of Rural Studies (Elsevier) Vol 2.Summarise her opinions in one sentence.

Philippa Schofield emphasized that Fair Trade products certainly help and improve the famers in developing countries to organize their marketing and selling (Fair trade, June 2008).

Globalisation and useful idea of taking note

Today I have been reading some articles about globalisation and found it might be useful helping to understand more about this subject.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/31/globalisation.simonjeffery


http://globalisationguide.org/

Furthermore, I have read about Summarising & note-taking that Dilek gave in class.

Useful idea for Taking notes

There are two main reasons why note-taking is important

1. Taking notes helps you concentrate and as taking note you should understand the text. As listening and reading are interactive tasks, taking notes help you make sense of the text. You need to actively decide what is important and how is related to what you have already written.
2. Notes help you to maintain a permanent record of what you have read or listened to. This is useful when revising in the future for examinations or other reasons.
Good notes should be accurate, clear and concise. They should show the organisation of the text, and this should show the relationship between the ideas.
How to take notes
1. List: numbers and letters can be used by themselves or in combination or using decimals
2. Diagram

New month (Manchester)

Starting new month study with Manchester.

Today our homework is to discussed the following questions related to our subjects:

My major discipline is Cities, Design and Urban culture (MA). Let’s start with question

3. Can you explain one KEY CONCEPT from your subject?

The key concept for Cities, Design and Urban culture is to create a better living for the people in the city (urban). In fact, it looks for the problems in the city and finds the way to solve the problems by using the planning process and the design method to create and develop the city.

5. Are there any NOTIONS from your subject that are quite controversial or have caused disagreement and debate among academics?

For Thailand, there are some debates consider the planning project such as government, politic and occupation. Especially, the political issue sometimes does not rely and support the planning process because Thailand has too many of parties in parliament. Each party has their own viewpoint of development which does not connect to each other. Another point is the lack of urban planner and urban design to advice the better solution for the city.

6. How has your subject changed your STANCE on certain issues or your VIEWPOINT on life?(Think of two ways).

Firstly, it develops my planning process. Help the way of thinking to be more uncomplicated. Secondly, it improve my perspective from the small scale into larger scale. It makes me think in the bigger picture.

Vocabulary from my reading

Vocabulary from “Modernism and the spirit of the city”

Contrary : describe a person who want intentionally want to disagree with and annoy other people
Juxtapose : to put thing which are not similar next to each other
Paradigm : a model of something
Notion : belief or idea
Absurd : ridiculous or unreasonable
Doom : death, destruction or very bad situation that can not be avoided
Variance : slightly formal when two more things are different
Constellation : any of group of stars in the sky which seem from earth to form a pattern and have been given names
Triumph : a very great success, achievement or victory
Eventuality : something unpleasant or unexpected that might happen
Struggle : to experience difficulty and make a very great effort in order to do something
Scheme : an officially organized plan or system
Antiquity : the distant past, especially before the sixth century
Inevitable : certain to happen and unable to be avoid or prevented
Albeit : although
Secular : not having any connection with religion
Salvation : being save from danger
Utter : complete or extreme
Incomprehensible : impossible or extremely difficult to understand
Immutable : not changing or unable to be change
Adequate : enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
Enlist : to ask for and get help or support from someone
Cartesian : specialized of or connected with the ideas and theories of the mathematician
Platonic : emotion is affectionate but not sexual
Divine : extremely good, enjoyable or pleasant
Bitter : describe a person who is angry
Initial : at the beginning
Bemoan : to complain about or express sadness
Banal : boring, ordinary and not original
Pioneer : a person who is one of the first to do something
Abandon : to stop or to leave
Apotheosis : the best or most extreme example of something
Endorse : to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone
Irrational : not using reason thinking or clear thinking
Inimical : harmful or limiting
Transitory : lasting for only a short time
Paradox : a situation which seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts

Seminar 2 (Revising Vocabuary and Conclusion of seminar)

Today we had a second seminar about "Crime and Surveillance"

Before getting to the details let start with some vocabulary that might be useful for these subject.

bring forward : bring it earlier
determine : decide
Pros and Cons : Advantages and disadvantages
discern : to see
hoax : a plan to device someone
warden : a person who is in charge of(the people in) a particular building
probation : a period of time when a criminal must behave well and not commit any more crime in order to avoid being sent to prison
surveillance : careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of crime that happen or is expected
obligation : to force someone to do something, or to make it necessary for someone to do something
accumulate : to collect a large number of things over a long period of time
legislation : a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by a parlament
liberty : freedom, to live as you wish
infringe : to break a rule, law
infallible : never wrong, faling or making a mistake
swell : increase
quadruple : to become four time as big
peril : great danger
missue : to use something in an unsuitable way

For conclusion about the seminar today we had been talking about every factors of the technology using for crime and surveillance starting with

Electronic tagging : It is good for the probation period, but somehow there are also some disadvantage such as there is no justice for people who had been punished and still need to be in control. We suggested that the way to slove the problem is let the prisoner come to report in the time the officer have set up.

DNA : UK is the country with the most dna database in the world, 5.24% of UK population. From this amount there are some suggestions that there might be too much having the enocent people dna database that could be holding the data by the police. Moreover, UK still want everyone to give their own DNA to collect the data for the officer evidence.

CCTV : Also in UK has got the most no. of the CCTV which is about 2,000,000 cameras in the country. As much of the cameras there are still crime. Disadvantage of this technology is that there are still some disadvantage from the limitation of the person who watch it. However, the research said "UK people still want more of CCTV because it make them feel saver".

Biometric : Using this technology nowadays is a expensive investment and there are still some error which found to be weakness in using for protection such as fingerprints using for getting into the bank in Swisserland found to be 16% error of letting people into the bulding or using iris scan sometimes it takes more time to get all the people to the building. Somehow, inconclusion, biometric might be useful in the future with more development.

Conclusion : We argreed that these technology using for crime and surveillance should not be increase too much but should be more develop for the effective in using to controll the city.

Internet Detective

After having read this artical I found to understand in many ways to find information from the internet. Let start with some vocabularies.

wise up : to start to understand a situation or fact and believe what you hear about it
discern : to see
publication is peer reviewed : it has been read, checked and authenticated (reviewed) by independent

Some reasons why we shuold have revise the information from the internet before using :
Anyone can put something on the Internet from anywhere in the world. Also, they can say anything they like or change it without warning.

The benifits and disadvantages

The good: academic publishing on the Internet
The bad: wasting time on Internet searching
The ugly: Internet scams and frauds, urban legends and myths

The step I found to be useful is the Detective Work step.

It advice to critically evaluate information you find on the Internet.

Step 1 case by case

The key is to be clear about your purpose; decide what types of sources would be acceptable to use in light of this, and then to weigh up any information you find in light of your purpose.

Sum Up

Take a case-by-case approach
Ask questions (who, what, where) and look for clues
Weigh up the evidence in the light of your own information needs

Step 2 get on case

"About JCE" information : contact address

Sum Up

Be cautious about information you find on the Internet
Look for clues and examine the evidence
Always try to verify the information you find through another source

From all these steps it will help to develop how to get the right information. Whether, it suites your work, dissertation or even your own knowledge.

Revising Vocabuary

key date : day to remember
diagnosis : to recognize and name the exat character of the disease
curriculum : the group pf subjects studied in a school, college
internship (student) : someone who is finishing their trainig for a skilled job especially by obataining practical experience of the work involved
rehearse : prepare
humid : hot temperature
obligatory : compulsory : force to do something
ubiquitous : exist in everywhere
immitate : copy
exacerbate : to make something worse
extend family : big family living together
resemble : look like
determine : decide
surveillance : a careful watching of a person or place, especially by police
under surveillance : watching by police
abbreviated : shoter form


I'm very lack of vocabulary and feel that I have to improve more in this part. Anyway, if anyone have got more words and would like to put more or would like to share. Please, that will be very kind of you.

Writing an introduction

Task: B) “We live in a world in which we are dangerously influenced by media images.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

There has been many research explained the reason why more and more of violence behavior in society has dramatically increase such as criminal, robbery, rape etc. One of the reasons is media images. Media images can include television images and newspaper images. As a matter of fact, images are what people see in everyday. According to one researcher, “Reporting by real images is a visual report.”(Wolesely,1953). Moreover, the technology of printing or presenting the pictures have been developed than last recent year for example, using a full color picture or using special technique to capture the picture. These techniques sometimes make the reader feel too realistic. However, before preceding the media images need to past the process which control by policy and government. To express this topic, this essay will discuss the effects that society possibly receive from the media images and in which way can these images be prevent.

Fill in the gap exercises(30/07/08)

Jim Class

Fill in the gap exercises

The …aim…………. of this paper is to consider the nature of moral education in Soviet children’s literature. It is particularly …concerned……………. with the moral values presented in books published with the …purpose………………. of teaching reading at primary school. The thesis …consists…………. of four parts. The first part attempts to …address……………. a number of general questions relating to children’s literature from any historical period. Parts 2,3 and 4 are …devoted…………….. specifically to the Soviet example. Part 2 is …divided……….. into three main sections, the first of which discusses the nature of the Soviet value system with a particular …focus………….. on the work ethic.

Summaries the first seminar(Fri 25/07/08)

Task: Television viewing habits around the world

Conclusion for the topic:

In my group, we have got 6 nationalities; Japan, Iran, China, Vietnam, France and Thailand. Starting with Japan, what interested me is about the programme that show in the afternoon which mostly is a cooking show. The reason is because in Japan there are a lot of house wives staying at home in the afternoon. So the cooking programme is what suite for these kind of audiences. Lets move on to Iran, the special thing is that there is one of local channel that have 24 hours news. Also people in the country like to watch news. Moving to China, the information I have heard amazed me. The amount of the channel in the whole country are 2 million channels. Moreover, there are 200 million people watching the tele in the evening and in the weekend amount increase for two times more than in the evening time. For Vietnam, there is no watershed for all the programmes in this country yet. In France, people in this country normally have their dinner at 8 o’clock and also watch the news in their dinner time. Lastly for Thailand, 38% of teenager watches the television for 3 hours a day. Most of the programme they watch is sit-com programme.

Feeling about this seminar:

From the start of the seminar we shared all the information of our own country. Each of us have a very good participating in the group. As the owner of each country telling about their own information the others ask what they are curious in the end of the speaking. Furthermore, in the middle of the seminar there are some topics which some of us have different ideas we shared and discussed. In the final of the seminar we also have another conclusion before we finish to revised all the data.

What I want more in the next seminar:

In this time I feel very good for the seminar, however, there was no the conclusion(presentation) for both two groups at the end of the seminar. In fact, it is because we ran out of time. For next seminar timing for the meeting might be able to help two groups conclude the data and will be use full for the real semainar.