Here is a sample final project and post.
Author: Derek
Draft 1: Outline
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- Write your post (or copy and paste it from your another document) and give your post a title.
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- Publish your post.
Synthesis Letter Sample
Topic: Bilingualism: Is bilingualism good? How to best raise bilingual children? What might be any disadvantages of bilingualism?
Synthesis Letter:
Dear Professor,
Throughout the reaching for sources for my reflected annotated bibliography entries. I found many sources that are useful, where I pick the ones that’s more convincing and revialiable to use as my entries. Even though the authors are writing their ideas in their own perspective and some ideas are very one sided, all the entries are connected someway that gives a main idea that it is importance to understand bilingual and bilingual education, it has both advantages and disadvantages for bilinguals. And knowing them will help a person to understand the advantage he has and knowing which parts he should work harder to improve himself.
Diaz (1983) and Bhattacharjee (2012) both demonstrates the good side for being bilingual by arguing bilinguals are more advantage in cognitive skills. Both authors justify their perspective by demonstrating persuasive evidence such as experiment done by Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. On the other hand, Ouzia & Folke (2018) illustrations the down side for being bilingual and argues that there is a limit for bilinguals and conducts a research himself to maintain hi argument. In addition, Hu (2008) demonstrates the different types of bilingual education that there are strong and weak ones. Where he claims that heritage language bilingual education is a strong form of bilingual education, according to Baker (2006). Hu (2008) also claims that the Chine-English language bilingual education is a weak form of bilingual education and its misleading the education in China. Also, Bialystok (2009) gives a clear examples of the advantages and disadvantages for bilinguals in his research paper. He is the only author in my entry that don’t take a side on whether bilingual i good or bad. Instead, he demonstrated a clear database of information on the pros and cons for bilinguals.
I believe that the information I learned will surely help me to address the problem of my topic. Now that I have more knowledge in bilingual education about the pros and cons to it from studies and experiments, this will help me to be better and clearer in explaining and showing the topic to my audience. I believe the best way to achieve my purpose for audiences to thank me is to make my entries clear, easy to understand, and straight to the point. By doing so , I tried to avoid using words directly from the article, and use words that’s easier for audiences to understand.
The knowledge I learned will create a ‘conversation’ about the problem I investigated and will fill gaps in the knowledge about the problem because the knowledge has different perspectives and interpretations about the topic. Thus, I have to combine all the information together and form a new interpretation, which will also be different from any of the author. This is only because everyone thinks things differently and will create ‘conversation’ about the problem on a certain topic.
Sincerely,
Student
Draft 1 Sample
Here is a sample bibliography entry. Remember, you’ll need to include 2 entries for this draft.
Topic: I am researching the differences between Chinese and Western parenting styles. This topic is interesting to me because I’ve spent half of my life in China and the other half in the US. I can see a difference between my parents’ style and my American friends’ parents.
Research Question: How do cultural beliefs affect parenting styles?
Reference Entry #1
Chua, A. (2011). Why Chinese mothers are superior. Wall Street Journal, 8.
Interesting Quotes and Paraphrases of Key Points
According to Chua (2011), “the Chinese parent believes that their child will be strong enough to take the shaming and to improve from it” (p. 2).
Reason for Selecting this Quote: I am surprised that the author defends shaming children, so I took this quote out of the reading to allow me to show to the reader that the author did make this surprising claim that children should be shamed. After showing in my writing that Chua did make this surprising statement, I will then proceed to provide evidence against shaming.
I want to paraphrase the following paragraph because it captures a critical distinction between Chinese and Western parenting:
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits and inner confidence that no one can ever take away (Chua, 2011, p. 4).
Paraphrase of this Quote: While Western parents value and nurture individuality, passions, and choices, Chinese parents focus on instilling useful skills, hard work, and unshakable confidence in their children (Chua, 2011, p. 4).
Summary of Main Ideas
Chua (2011) highlights the difference between Chinese and Western parenting, focusing on the characteristics of Chinese parenting. She argues that children build confidence when they excel at such a skill as playing a musical instrument after rigorous practice. Also, she calls for shaming and punishing children when they are not respectful or fail to receive an A in school. In fact, she states that:
Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits and inner confidence that no one can ever take away (Chua, 2011, p. 4).
In addition, the author maintains that Chinese children must spend their lives repaying their parents and making them proud. In order to illustrate the positive influence of coercion, the article describes in rich detail how she resisted her husband to successfully coerce her daughter Lulu into playing a piano piece. Finally, Chua (2011) explains that, whereas all parents want what is best for their children, Chinese parents have a unique way to go about it. For example, while Western parents value and nurture individuality, passions, and choices, Chinese parents focus on instilling useful skills, hard work, and unshakable confidence in their children (Chua, 2011, p. 4). In summary, Chinese parenting is unique, relying on skill-building, shaming and coercion to raise strong and hard-working children.
Response/Analysis
I believe that Chua (2011) makes a strong case in support of remaining firm when children are about to give up. However, in my view, the author’s argument lacks evidence of the consequences of her parenting style on children’s long-term mental health. My proposed compromise is not to shame children, while remaining firm when motivating them.
Derek
Hi all!
Now that I’ve had the opportunity to virtually meet all of you on Zoom, I thought I’d take the time to properly introduce myself.
I have been living in New York City (on and off) for the past 16 years. I completed both my undergraduate and my graduate studies at a school called The New School where I majored in Cultural and Media Studies for my BA and Applied Linguistics for my MA.
I’ve just completed my first year teaching at Baruch (yay!), and I’ve been teaching English in some capacity for almost 10 years. My teaching career began as an elementary school English teacher in Daegu, South Korea, where I lived from 2012-2014. After that, I spent a few months traveling around Asia. After returning to New York City, I worked part-time at a media company for 2 years. Here, I produced content for the company’s social media outlets. At the same time, I began to teach ESL to adults at a private language school in Manhattan, (my office was on the 63rd floor of the Empire State Building!). After completing my Masters, I began teaching at several colleges and universities in New York City. In fact, I have taught in 4 of the 5 boroughs (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx). This is my third term teaching fully online and I am excited about sharing a new teaching and learning experience with all of you.
In my free time I like to ride my bike, go hiking/birdwatching, and experiment with new recipes (I’m not a great cook, though–much better at eating). Last summer, I also took an online class about tree identification, planting, and pruning. One day, I’m hoping to volunteer with city parks so that I can help take care of the trees. I also love old school JRPGs (think PS1–yeah, I guess I’m old). I don’t have a lot of free time to play them anymore, but I’m currently working on Final Fantasy IX.
My goals for this course are to help each of you improve individually while also maintaining a strong sense of community within our new classroom environment. Collaboration, discussion, teamwork, and creativity are just a few of the qualities I find most important for building a solid foundation for undergraduate course work.
Finally, I have an “open door policy,” which means that you should never feel afraid or ashamed to contact me if you have any questions. I’m very much looking forward to working with all of you this semester.