OCTOBER 5th, 2004 (PLEASE POST YOUR TRANSLATION ASSIGNMENT BELOW AS A COMMENT.)

Dear Students:

On October 5th, we started out with a quick timed writing. Then, we discussed RJ's corrections on a student's first essay and, briefly, went over the CLASSIC FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY format that, for better or worse, represents the GENERAL FORMAT of much of the writing you will be required to write for a Western-educated instructor.

Finally, we discussed the homework assignment, which is to go to the University of Texas at Austin Writing Center homepage and translate the materials I gave you on the HANDOUT (EVERYONE RECEIVED DIFFERENT HANDOUTS!!!) into Mandarin.

Your homework is ONLY to do the translation and post it as a comment here. Next week, we will continue to discuss websites and online writing centers and begin to look more into what it means to do a research paper/academic publication.

Thank you,
Robert