I chose to read “How Coronavirus Stress May Scramble our Brains” by Laura Sanders. This article makes me think of when the time I test positive for Covid-19. I feel very stress about it and my brain keeps of thinking the worst situation I would be. In this article I like the author gives image to show when people’s brain felt unstressed and stressed. I really like the sentences that the author used is “Stress from the COVID-19 pandemic might influence decision making.” I totally agree with this, as an example when Covid-19 is not happen yet you have a store that you very like it and it is your dream, at that time you want to continue to operate, but since Covid is coming and still here for a long time and you have no more money to pay rents and all the overhead. So, Covid-19 makes people felt stress about it and change decision.
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Week 4 Discourse community
My discourse community I will be talking about is food lover. Which is a “foodie” in other word. I loves food so much when every time I am off and don’t need to go to work I love to stay home and cook for myself or hang out with my friend to eat outside. Every time when I eat something I take a picture and post online in order to discuss with my friend on the internet.
Week 5 Reflective Writing
Reflection is an act of looking back in order to process experiences. Metacognition is a way of think about one’s thinking in order to grow.
I think reflective writing is very helpful because it helps me to look back in time and makes me understand and learn things I have done over time. Therefore, it can make me grow by reflective writing.
In Unit One essay I believe I have used lots of reflective writing. Based on Unit One essay I talk about things that I experience before.
Identity and writing
Based on the video that I have watched “The danger of a single story”. The first sense when I see the title of the video it gives me an idea that this video is talking something is relating to single story of a person or perspective are having negative impact or danger. Single story means your personal perspective, such as the events you have experienced and the things what you do about it. In the video as Adichie is saying that her single story when she were young as two years old, she starts to read and she starts to write when she is the age of seven. She writes about the weather that the sun comes out, the things that she have read about it. And even she describe that she write in pencil, also illustrated with crayons. However, Adichie is talking about what she have experienced in Nigeria, which is like the life of Africa, the negative impact is when she is talking about her personal perspective the audience were laughing at her.
I believed Single Story does have negative and positive impact. The negative impact that I think it have is when you are sharing it people might laughing at you and feeling you are stupid. The positive impact that I believe is, things you have experienced it makes you remember it which will make you learn more either by mistake or something else.
The positive impact that I believed is memory. For example, I remember when I was young my mother told me that when the time I born I were able to came to the United States with my sisters and my dad, but due to 911 things change because my passport can not make it and unable to formalities. So, only me weren’t go and my mother have to stay with my in China. Me and my dad weren’t see others often, in my memories the time when I see my dad or my sister it takes many years to see them in a while. When every time they came back to visit me and my mom they bought us chocolate and lots of American foods.
Week 2: Reading & Writing Essentials
After I have finished reading “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” by Karen Rosenberg and “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn. I felt this two reading is grabbing my attention that makes me wants to continue reading it because these two reading they all start with interesting personal information that they have been experienced. Based on their beginning of their writing it makes me reminds of myself personal things or something that I have experience when it is first time. I think for me to do better while I’m reading is to underline for keyword or interesting fact that I like about it. Circle vocabulary that I don’t understand and translate to the language that I understand and find the definition so when I go back to the reading it could help me to understand better and know what the author is talking about intheir reading. Three takeaways or tips that I would say is to ask question while you were reading, what is some advantages and disadvantage about the reading and how did the author wrote this reading how can it shows the reader the value of reading this story or passage.
In Rosenberg’s writing I like page 215 it says “Usually one paragraph at the beginning of an article, the abstract serves to encapsulate the main points of the article. It’s generally a pretty specialized summary that seeks to answer specific questions. These include: the main problem or question, the approach (how did the author(s) do the work they write about in the article?), the shiny new thing that this article does (more on this later, but to be published in an academic journal you often need to argue that you are doing something that has not been done before), and why people who are already invested in this field should care (in other words, you should be able to figure out why another academic should find the article important).” I totally agree with Rosenberg because not even just one paragraph can tell you lots of idea and important things throughout the few sentences. Although, Rosenberg use conversation in his reading mean to me you can see different opinion based on two conversation, this would make the reader or the audience to see to agree either one idea by their conversation throughout the reading. However, in the other reading “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn. In his writing he uses bullet points to give some tips for better writing while you were a writer. Such as in page 81 he said “• How does the author move from one idea to another in the writing? Are the transitions between the ideas effective? How else might he/she have transitioned between ideas instead?” I think this really helps to improve your writing better because for me English is not my native language and I think it is not easy to move from one idea to another idea.
