AR&P 7,Nov.

 As in autumn term, my teacher is Rab in this term! :)
Before the first class, I got lost in N-kan to find my classroom,but I found one of my section mates and he helped me. In the class room, there were two teachers and their classes. I wonder we will have a class together during this term because the room was full of people and some students who sit in the inner part may not be able to see the screen and hear what teachers say. I hope the two section have a class in different rooms.
 Rab said what we will learn in this class is similar to what our section did in the last term, so I can review how to use super-useful and wonderful devices! In addition to what we already learned, Rab said that we will use other google's useful functions and iMovie. I'm so excited!
 I want to learn many things from this class and use them not only in ARW class but also after finishing ELA program.

17. Oct.

I expected that Media Ed and IMDb provide me movies like films or TV program, but they does not, and only provides some information and reviews about movies. In my first essay, I used a film as a source, and it was a little bit hard for me to dictate what is said without captions. However, movies are sometimes much easier to get information about essay topics than written articles because images and sounds help me understand the contents. So, if there are any good movies for my essay topic, racism in UAE, I will use them.

9/28 Fri.

  In the Friday's class, Rab showed how much we are affected by media. We rarely understand certain matter well and tend to have wrong idea of them. To avoid it, people should not have one perspective, but try to understand by several point of view. There are no media which is not concerned in operation of information.
  In addition, we watched three videos on YouTube. One of them was about Japanese culture but it was biased and stereotyped for making people laugh. I showed this video to my friends after the class, and they were all laughing.
  　 

9/24 Mon.

 In the class, Rab told us what we should know for writing an academic essay by showing the major problems of student's essay. We should not use personal pronouns but clarify the name when we use people's name(not only their first name or family name but full name). Also, we are supposed not to use vague expressions like "very good" but more academic words. Too short sentences and using same word at the beginning of sentence should be avoided. We should not use words like "and", "but", "because" at the beginning of sentences. When we copy someones words, quotation mark is necessary for readers to know it is originally from other person. Quotations should not occupy over 20% of an essay. In addition, we can use more English quotations than non-English ones. When we do peer review, we should check spells, essay style, and layout. Name of writer, ID, class name must be written. I didn't type them in my book review, so from now on I will never forget to type them in my essays.

9/21 about essay

 In the last class, Rab told us about rules for good essay. They were very simple and easy to remember(though I have not remembered all of them).
 for topic...5A's
academic/attracrive/argumentative/access (to imformation I need)/achievable
I have to use English source at least 80%, and can use non-English souce at most 20%.

 for structure...rule of 3!
Intro, Body1, Body2, Body3, and Conclusion should have 3 components. For example, in Intro, the first component is geting reader's attention. The second is background, and the last is thesis statement(it also should have three components). Each body paragraph is supposed to have topis sentence and more than two supporting sentences.

 for title...[Short]:[Long]
basic:detail/get attention:explain/funny:serious, etc... The opposit contents will come. I was surpsised to this idea, but it is very good to attract readers.

I will use these rules for my eassy! I am sure my essay will be better with them:)