1、please write a proposal to propose the topic you will be researching and writing about this semester. your proposal should run 750-1000 words. your proposal need to: 1) introduce the topic you will be writing about 2) explain why this topic is interesting and important 3) describe your personal experience related to this topic 4) develop and state research questions addressing what you would like to find out about this topic 5) state how you would like to find answers to your research questions.
plagiarism & academic dishonesty
plagiarism quiz
1、tom finds an article written in chinese that fits his topic well, then he translates it to english and turns it in to his american teacher without citing the chinese author. his teacher does not speak chinese and does not know it’s a translated essay, and thus gives him an “a” for that essay. this is not plagiarism.
2、tom copied a paragraph from an essay he wrote in a previous semester into another essay. thinking he wrote that paragraph, tom didn’t cite himself. this is plagiarism.
3、when writing about the belt and road initiative, tom searches information from wikipedia and uses that information in his paper without citing wikipedia. this is plagiarism.
4、tom copies a paragraph from a book into his essay. he cites the book, but doesn’t use quotation marks for the paragraph. this is not plagiarism.
5、when writing an argument, tom could not find a source that supports his argument, so he made one up in his essay. this is not plagiarism.
reference list
quiz
1、bond, t., & fox, c. m. (2015). applying the rasch model: fundamental measurement in the human sciences. new york, ny: routledge. 可以判断这个reference是一篇期刊文章。
2、brown, j. d., & bailey, k. m. (2008). language testing courses: what are they in 2007? language testing, 25, 349–384. 可以判断这个reference是一篇期刊文章。
3、crusan, d., plakans, l., & gebril, a. (2016). writing assessment literacy: surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices. assessing writing, 28, 43-56. 根据apa格式要求，这个reference list有问题，其中的assessing writing不应该斜体。
4、davies, a. textbook trends in teaching language testing. language testing, 25(3), 327–347.根据apa格式要求，这个reference list有问题，缺少了发表年份。
5、ding, w., & lehrer, s. f. (2007). do peers affect student achievement in china's secondary schools? the review of economics and statistics, 89(2), 300-312. davies, a. (2008). textbook trends in teaching language testing. language testing, 25(3), 327–347. crusan, d., plakans, l., & gebril, a. (2016). writing assessment literacy: surveying second language teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices. assessing writing, 28, 43-56. 根据apa格式要求，该排序方式是正确的。
summarizing & paraphrasing
summarizing
1、please write a summary of the article "learning eap at universities: perceptions of high-achieving first year esl students." your summary should run from 150-200 words. please do not use the abstract of the article as your summary. you want to write a summary of the article on your own.
literature review
literature review
1、in this assignment you will look for three to five pieces of publicly available published material to summarize. the published materials should be academic articles in journals. you may have to locate more than one and select the best ones. this assignment has two main parts: 1. a straightforward summary of each of the three documents, and 2. a framework for the summaries. the framework is a normal introductory paragraph and a concluding paragraph in which you briefly discuss the three documents together, perhaps linking the most important or interesting information you obtained from your three sources. you should decide which document you will summarize first, second, and third, and provide some logical link between the summaries--for example, mentioning that the next summary contains a different type of information from the last, or elaborates on the information from the last, or approaches the topic from a different perspective. remember to include a thesis statement in the introduction that will make it clear what the point of this paper is with its three summaries. your literature review should run from 300 to 350 words. you can also choose to write a longer lr which runs from 750 to 1000 words. if you do so, you will get 50% extra points of your lr. adapted from leki, i. (1998). academic writing: exploring processes and strategies, second edition. new york, ny: cambridge university press.
literature review draft 2
1、literature review draft 2
argumentative essay
quiz
1、the thesis statement of an argumentative essay can be vague.
2、when the opponents' opinion is too strong, the author can choose to ignore that counterargument and avoid writing a rebuttal section in the argumentative essay.
3、in the conclusion, the author should avoid writing new ideas that have not been mentioned previously.
4、the body section can only contain three paragraphs.
5、in the introduction, the author needs to set the context of the essay.