Homework No.5 Mr.Zhang

Title：Rebel Reader

 

The reason I chose this talk to be my topic is that I had so similar experience on the process of learning literacy as the speaker. I still remember, on my 7th grade, there was one of my Chinese text tells about the story of the Battle of Waterloo. As I mentioned at class, Napoleon is one of my models whose bravery and perseverance deeply impacted me when I felt low. Well, back to the class. Because the text was just a story, our teacher didn't treat it importantly and told us to read by ourselves. What she focused on were only writing and new words. Luckily, I was seating on the last line of the classroom so that my teacher could never found my little secret: I borrowed a biography of Napoleon from the school library. So, after that Chinese class, as long as my teacher started to focused on new words, I would open the book and sunk myself into the battle field and palaces. Learn from the words and sentences, as well as learning how to describe real life more authentically. 

 

However, my secret was finally found by my teacher and she told this thing to my mother. I was so nervous to be back to home and dared to look at her eyes. But my mother did not blame me anything about the reading. She just asked me if I really founded in reading books, I nodded. Beyond my expectation, she took out several history books from her back and told me that those books were the mission for that semester and I had to finish reading them before the vacation. I was so excited. What my mother have done not only saved my passion on reading books but also developed my interest on history. Since then, I read for something everyday, as long as I have some spare time, I would open a book or my Iphone and started to read. Ironically, although I spent a lot of time on reading, I still get a high score of my Chinese exam. 

homework3

In my opinion plagiarism is not a good way to make own works.

First the reason that I don't agree plagiarism is,this behavior is not equitable.

The originator spend a lot of time to created it.They use it,because they spend a lot of time,money,energy on it.But if you plagiarism it, you will not have to spend them on it.You can use it very convenients.

For a example. If you make a new type of drink.You sell it,everyone love your new type drink.You make a lot of money.But one day someone plagiarize your recipe and also sell this new type drink.All clients going to buy his drink no one want to buy your drink will you be happy?  you will say "that is my drink".

Second it's not legal.If you plagiarism others also it's unapproved.You will break the law.The originator can take you to count.

Iphone is a commodity of Apple company.the phone's system is very convenience and foshion lot of people love the iphone and buy it.But Anycall  plagiarize the system from iphone.Then apple company charge the Anycall company to compensate for.

Third plagiarism is not respect the priginator's behavior. Everyone's production must be protected.Because all of them are people's wealth.You make it that's meanings you are make preciprice for all peoples that must considered.To protect your works is your human rights.

So in anyway. Don't plagiarism.

Gee

Gee's argument is:Literacy is a criterion about how to talk and act like a role.She give us an example the example tall as "trained " as linguist meant,that meanings to act like a linguist and aslo know others do it also.

Gree think to act a linguist is meaningful than just only have background of the whole social institution of linguistics.

Gree also give us some important points about the discourse.Such as discourse have ideology.And also is a important things in implicated values and viewpoints in speak and act.

Some people think discourses speak is not individuals.But in the historically way it's individualsed.People speak and act everyday is the reason that discourses have a develop.But there also have a question:"How does one come by the discourses that he controls?"

Acquisition that's meanings to get someting subconscious in exposure models and process.And learning is meanings the knowledge that someone teaching you.Also the balance between acquisition and learning is different.

In same way to understand the literacy is very difficult.Gee also give us a example about the reading class.In grammar school the reading is very important and base ability.Transit this example to tall us how difficult that understand the literacy is.

The literacy of a family is also very respectablity.A literacy of a famil

y are representative the family's history.Can tall there descendant who are they,it's very significative.

The different of the setting of acquisition and learning is a setting of acquisition is very stressed.And a setting of learning is very warm and sweet.Because the people in setting of acquisition will be a very selfishness person.  But the person in a learning setting will be a very nice person, because they will always think about share.

learning is a ability for children but acquisition not is. We begining to learning when we birth.We learned at school,learn the parents.We leaning all the life.

If someone always learning from you,you will be very happy.But if someone always acquistion from you,you will be not happy.

that is the different of leaning and acquisition.

Amanda response

Firstly, Amanda was caught plagiarism because her work had doubt on copying and pasting words and sentences from her online research sites, which contained 53 percent of them in her work. In addition, she claims that she just forgotten to write quotation mark on the quotation she cited from online, and this is not acceptable as a proper reason to deny her plagiarism because forgetting things is generally an excuse. Looking this case objectively, I believe she doesn’t have enough reasons to support her own denial and she hardly has chance to be innocent. 

Homework 4

Huijun yu
Professor Liz
Hylan 303
18th of September, 2013
                                                             Plagiarism
In this fast-paced society, the increase number of people, from teenagers to the workers, cannot live without the digital devices. Of courses, the quickness, the convenience and the easiness are all of the advantages of the digital device. However, there is another problem arose that many people cannot use the citation and forms properly, like Amanda, who lost too much just due to the plagiarism.

American society set up a strict system, which seems to be a little impersonal sometimes, about the plagiarism. But why? Why we should serve the plagiarism such seriously and exaggeratedly? To a certain extent, the opinion or ideas represent one person's wisdom and hard work so that we should shoulder the responsibility to protect everyone's wisdom so that the software appeared. However, from my perspective, I don't think this machine-like method that use the machine to scan every sentences and even every words if they are similar to other materials. In this way, professor can evaluate the writing articles effectively and give them a seemly fair score. In my opinion, the evaluation of an article need to include every aspects, namely extract and developing ideas. In some situation, even though someone do a bad job about one of these aspects, we still need to consider other aspects synthesized. For example, someone fail to use the citation properly, but his developing statement show a excellent performance about that extract parts. In this case, I don't think we should deny this article directly or give it the most serious punishment. Deny the whole thing because of a mistake is not a considerate idea.

Also, the internet is another important factor that push Amanda in danger. As we know, internet in this information age is powerful enough to ruin almost everything. Yes! Amanda did wrong. But is it the action that attack other people, like" silly and stupid", regardless the respect of anybody is correct? It's ridicules ! Others mistake is not the pretence of our mistake. As an well-educated man, we should know not only academic honesty, but also the respect of everybody.

Yue Li's homework #4

     In Amanda's case, she was caught in the school for cheating on the paper then it caused her got a F and fail to graduate from her college. Actually literacy narrative is about everything in their life, obviously including the book or the articles they have read. Then it is ok to take examples by the book. And another reason caused this is the new technology. In this time technology is taking part of human lives and it is getting better and better, however the tech is not good enough to instead of everything, because the technology is not human, it is helping the professor grading the paper but it cannot make the correct decision on cheating. Therefore the paper that Amanda wrote was showed 53 percent was cheat from the website and others paper. May be Amanda used too much examples in the paper, I agree about that, but what if she just memorized that sentence while she was reading the book and she used it in the paper? It already became to a part of her and she did not remember where it came from, that is literacy narrative from a book. The professor in college should read her paper first then to decide if she cheated or not. They should not give her a F because of the 53 percent cheating on her paper, because she already listed where all that information came from, that is not a cheat any more officially. 

     So the technology can not instead of the human in our life at this time, the professors should use their own opinion to think about what caused Amanda was cheated so much, it need also consider the expression of Amanda in other time of the life. Because if she was a girl that never cheat then there is a smaller chance that she cheated on the paper. And may be next time Amanda can use more her own words in the paper instead of find informations on the internet.

Writing Assignment No.4

Frank/ Rui Wang

Writing Assignment No.4

After carefully finish reading this article, I really feel sympathetic for Amanda’s encounter and is indignant about the grading system in RU which directly renders Amanda’s final paper failed. Here, I will make a few comments about my feelings for Amanda’s encounter.

About the grading system in RU, I really think that it is inhumane. How can a grading system understand a writer’s feeling precisely? How can a writer’s article be corrected by a grading system that is less humane than being corrected manually? How can we tell that the writer plagarizes only for his atricles’ partial similarity with the articles or webs in its database? The grading system is so technological that it almost replaces manual grading which is the most conventional way to grade a student’s paper. It is not difficult for us to find that the bureaucratic policy in RU and the ‘hackneyed’ grading system which has a fixed grading rubric according to the database in it which contains numerous amount of books in different areas, all kinds of articles and websites. The teacher just need to put the student’s article in this system and all the grammatical mistakes and similarity to materials in its database will appear on screen in conspicuous colors and then the teacher can easily give the grade for the student’s paper according to the rubric. Technology advance is great but can we use it in appropriate ways in order to make our life a little bit more energetic not so mechanized and not make another Amanda appears?

About the commenters who make comments about Amanda’s plagarism,  what they said is utterly groundless since they haven’t read Amanda’s final paper so that they are not even qualified to comment on this case. What they do is just ‘go with the stream’ and what they saw on the website is just the plagarism of Amanda in her final paper. They don’t know what Amanda is intended to mean in her paper and their incessant ridiculing and mocking comments on Amanda’s behavior finally rendered Amanda to be silent and spare the keyboard to her father since she found that her innocence can never be confirmed and she felt despaired about the comment made by people who even don’t read her paper.So, these commenters are unreasonable and unrationable.

To be honest, I am really averse and disgusted with the automatically grading system’s replacement of the manual grading. All I hope is people can take sensible use of the technology in this modern society and not make another situation like this take place.