Thursday, April 10, 2014

1.  I never wrote a research essay in high school; therefore, I did poorly in my EAP class.

2.  Young teens see actors smoking in popular movies, so the teenagers begin to smoke.

3.  University of Alberta is farther away from my hometown than UBC; as a result, I
decided to go to U of A.

4.  Sometimes students put so much effort into their studies that they eventually have to drop out from university.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

AM 130 HOMEWORK

Finish Use of English 1-7 Suffixes

and do last night's homework as well

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

AM 130 HOMEWORK

Writing 1-2 Linking Devices Part 2

AND

Two example sentences for each of the seven categories of linking devices:

Contrast
Cause/Effect
Time/Sequence
Purpose
Addition
Example
Condition

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

HOMEWORK

Finish Use of English 11-5 Part 3 and 4

AND

Finish the sample sentences for the exercise we started in class on Friday on Formal Relative Clauses
A Good Summary

- is clear to someone who has not read the original material.

- maintains good paragraph structure, with a topic sentence identifying the title/author of the original.

- gives only the main ideas of the original.  Omit unnecessary details, dates, figures, etc. unless essential

- paraphrases, with no direct quotes from the original.

- is concise, not wordy.

- follows the same order as the original when possible.

- is objective.

Monday, February 24, 2014

130 AM HOMEWORK

Do some online research on the origins of the following customs for discussion in tomorrow's class:

Christmas Trees
Easter Bunny

AND

Use of English 11-5 Vocabulary Focus

Part 1 and 2
130 AM Essay

Why do we follow fashion?