Questions

What country are you from?
Describe a holiday you celebrate. What are the traditions or customs involved with it?
Why did you decide to study abroad? do you ever get home sick?
Describe the strangest thing you have experienced while away from home?
What was high school like? Were the grades separated? How long did you go? Did you get weekends off?
Tell me one thing you miss about your home?
What kind of music is popular/what kind do you like?
Did you try any new food since you have been here? Did you like it?
What is your major?
How is dating handled in your country?
Describe how being immersed in the English language has been. What were the struggles? How did slang affect the learning process?
What do people do on Friday nights to have fun?

3 best objectives

191s18HaileyE
Mohammed ALRashed
191s18KyleM

process list

1. Get ahold of international friends I have
2. Explain what I would like to do
3. Ask them to help me
4. Make an appointment
5. Finalize my interview objectives
6. Decide on core questions so that I know what to ask
7. Meet and go over the questions I have making sure to record what is said
8. Write up my reactions
9. Post reactions and answers to questions on my blog

Outline

Introduction
Thesis: I am writing about how global communication has affected globalization in the past ten years.
What is global communication
1.define what you determine global communication is
2.examples of global communication
i. cell phones/satalite communication
ii. internet
What is globalization
1.the idea of a single global culture
2. is this good or bad why
How does the idea of global communication play a role in the idea of globalization.
1. Ways global comm. effects other countries give examples
2. Ways global comm. effects the economy
Colclusion

Hacker site eval.

On the Hacker site I clicked on the grammar exercises and did the first exercise. Inside I was asked to choose between two sentences. I was supposed to pick which sentence sounded clearer or made use of the topic of the certain quiz. Some of the things I learned from the exercise was first how to identify passive and active sentences. At first I was very confused about what those where. The second part of the activity was something that I had not known before. Parallelisms are when you are using the same tense or way of saying something in two related sentences. This act ensures that your writing will flow better and will not sound out of place. This leads me to the next thing that I learned on the Hacker site. By combining ideas from simple sentences you can make your writing sound less choppy. This also helps the flow of your writing because readers are not forced to pause as much. I think the thing that will help me the most in my writing is the use of parallelisms.

Story-in-a-box Evaluation

I had a tie for what I thought was the best story-in-a-box. The most important parameter in my grading scale was whether or not the writer kept the reader interested in the story. I feel like keeping your audience involved and wanting to read your story is very important.

Laci Brune

Used all objects: 1                                     (max1)

Kept reader interested:4                       (max5)

Good flow:4                                                 (max4)

Vocabulary: 1                                              (max2)

Plot:3                                                             (max3)

Total: 13

Chris Crawford

Used all objects:1                                       (max1)

Kept reader interested:4                         (max5)

Good flow:2                                                  (max4)

Vocabulary:2                                                (max2)

Plot:2                                                               (max3)

Total: 11

Haley E.

Used all objects: 1                                       (max1)

Kept reader interested: 4                       (max5)

Good flow: 4                                                 (max4)

Vocabulary: 2                                               (max2)

Plot: 2                                                             (max3)

Total: 13

Xin j

Used all objects:1                                       (max1)

Kept reader interested: 2                         (max5)

Good flow: 2                                               (max4)

Vocabulary: 1                                              (max2)

Plot: 2                                                           (max3)

Total: 8

Jordan Schneider

Used all objects: 1                                      (max1)

Kept reader interested: 4                         (max5)

Good flow:2                                                (max4)

Vocabulary: 2                                              (max2)

Plot: 3                                                           (max3)

Total: 12