WRT 150

Hang He

2/15/2013

Literacy Timeline:

            At first glance I saw this topic, I felt no difficult to me because there were some many literacies in my mind that I wanted to express. Actually, I cannot remember the details of most memories.  However, I do remember the exciting parts of these memories. Some important memories will stay in people’s mind for live. It does not matter if I remembered the details; all I need to do is just expressing what I felt, what I thought and what I did at that time.  Nonetheless, I had a really hard time to get everything on paper because there was so much. I have many learning literacies I can talk about, such as how I learned Chinese and how I learned digital literacy. As professor suggest to my Chinese friends and me, I decided to write the literacy about how I learned English and went abroad to here. I thought this literacy would be more meaningful at this time.

            One thing surprised me was when I try to write the timeline, many details were naturally surge to my mind. Meanwhile, many of these memories I thought I already forget about them, but when I sat in front of my desk, they just emerge. Actually it was a fun time for me to write the timeline, because I recollect lots of fun childhood memories.

            I did notice theme throughout my timeline. Before I started to write the timeline, I already decided to write the theme that how I go abroad. Because the theme which is how I go abroad deeply related my English experience. I felt confused when I first look the Timeline Guideline. However, after I decided to write about how I learn English, the first idea about the theme came to my mind is how I come to U.S. And I decided to write about it without hesitation for even one second.

            When I recollected the memories and wrote them down, I was considering how to write the Literacy narrative essay at the same time. Unexpectedly, I recollected some words my mother told me before, and I was following what she said. I really admire my mother and I think she is a woman full with wisdoms. Every Chinese New year, my mother will give me some words as gifts while the others children got new clothes and toys. I was mad at that before, but now I treated these words as the biggest treasure to me.

Literacy Narrative

            After I suffered a hard time to choose theme and literacy when I started to write timeline, I already had a clear way for my literacy narrative. I had couple ideas for narrative when I was writing the timeline. Meanwhile, when I was writing the literacy narrative, more and more new ideas were keeping jumping out at me. The two key ideas for my narrative were my Europe travel experience and my high school English teacher. And after I started my narrative, there were more ideas jumped out at me to help me related two key ideas and made the narrative more impressive.

            I did not consider how to organize my narrative although it read chronologically. It was difficult to organize my thoughts into the draft. The most annoying thing was every time I finished a paragraph or wrote down my ideas; there were some better ideas which conflict with my old idea jumped out. So it was really hard to choose did I need keep the old one or rewrote a new one. For the prewriting strategies, I never do that on purpose. I will simply write down whatever I come up with and then revise it again and again.

            After the peer review, I noticed that the summary was horrible. I realized that when I was writing, but I did not notice it was this horrible before my partner told me. “Another set of eyes” is a really helpful method. People will follow what they think when they are revising. As a result, it is hard to find those tiny errors. But partners as an audience, when they feel uncomfortable in reading some sentences, that probably means there might be an error. So it is really helpful.

Digital literacy

2). 1.I think teachers in elementary school should focusing on improve our creativity, while middle and high school can provide more subjects for students to test their interests. I suggest they provide class such as basic economy principle or introduction to foreign history and language.

                     2. I believe have to use lots of computer technology as an economist. I need to learn how to analyze data or stock by using some computer software. Actually Oakland University provide a good circumstance for student to prepare for career field.

                    3. Writing in a more relaxed setting is better to me, because I consider myself as a creative write. I always have lots of thoughts and ideas in my mind. I do not know if it’s usual that I always have totally opposite idea about the same topic. As a result, sometimes I may support some topic in first paragraph and against it in another paragraph. So writing in a relaxed setting, such as blog, will be a better way to express my opinions.

                  4. If I can be a science teacher, I will try to use high-tech stuff to display more science experiments, such as simulating how to travel in light speed. So that future generations can experience deeply in the science field to figure out their interests.

                   5.I agree with the main thesis of this essay. There is no doubt that with the rapid development of human society, people will have more knowledge to learn. Traditional education can no longer fill the requirement the situation. Digital literacy as an widespread tools will be a powerful weapon when people can use it properly in education.

Summary &Response "Mother tongue"

                “Mother tongue” is the story about the writer realized that she was embarrassed by her mother’s English. Because her mother is Chinese, her English is always “broken”. But when the author talk with her mother, she might use same “ broken” English cause she was influenced by her mother. I think what she want to express is that language is just a tool for people to express their mind and thoughts.  When people use some languages that they are not familiar with to communicate with the others, it doesn’t matter that they are using wrong grammar or wrong structure, but they can still express their emotion and thoughts.

                As a international student studying in U.S. I identify Amy Tan ‘s story most. I was suffering same situation like her mother once. Before I came to U.S, I thought it must be hard to communicate with American people and make friends with them. However, it is not. Even though I don’t know how to describe some stuffs or I don’t know how to say something, only if I try, people will always what I said.

Blog

        The blog enable the social interactions and its opening for everyone. It has own format. The author can blog some shot thoughts which would have gone unwritten. These are different from print sources.

     Blog is a way of organizing information. It’s also a kind of social networking provide a new way to communicate with each other.

3 I think there are many advantages for keeping a blog for this class. It provides a space for student communicate with student without face to face. Students can read the other student’s essay to get some ideas and learn some things from students instead all from teachers.

                                                          Why Is Writing Important
            My career goal is to become a banker. As a banker, there will be lots of report to write and read. In my view, writing skill is same important as the ability to analyize data as a banker. It is the formal way to communicate with boss and workers to let them know what I am thinking and what is my idea. It is easy that forget things by just talking. But writing enhance the memory and people can read it again and again to analysize it to make sure there is no mistake. To improve the writing and communication skills give me an effective way to communicate