Friday, January 29, 2010

Writers Workshop

Some students ask more information about Writers Workshop(WW). You can find further information at http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/Let me briefly explain how the WW is going. WW has four places on campus; you can refer to the links below:Locations...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Possible topics for journals

Hi all,If you're struggling with finding topics for journals, here are some examples:What do you think someone your age can do to help reduce the amount of pollution in our environment? What do you think the world needs now? What do you think your friends...
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Your blogs!!

Here are your classmates' blogs! Feel free to visit the sites and leave greetings! :D Jeong Ki: http://lee361.blogspot.com/Liang: http://dengliang526.blogspot.com/Miguel: http://salazardetroya.blogspot.com/Xin: http://626song.blogspot.com/Eunji: http://eunjistory.blogspot.com/Nhan:...
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A simple survey!

Click here to take surveyClick on the link above!...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Exploring new technologies!

Hello class,We're going to explore some new technologies this Wednesday. If you want to taste some of them, see the Youtube videos below. The first one is talking about what Dropbox is; the second one is explaining how to make your own blogs with Blogger. You don't have to be a techy person! Don't take the technologies seriously. You'll be going through...
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Cultural differences

Hi guys!Today we will be talking about cultural differences we can face in the U.S. In fact, we can recognize the differences not only in a real life but in American academic writing, and this will be an issue that you need to think about for this semester...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Greetings!

Hello, class!Welcome to the ESL 114 site!This course is about an introduction to academic writing for undergraduate students from non-English speaking countries. All of you are internationals, so you might feel unfamiliar with a different language, different...
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