Week 9 :D

#1 (30/07/2012)

Hello readers ! We meet again :) This is the first class for the week ! Compare and contrast. That is what we learnt for todayyy. For me, compare and contrast is familiar for me, as compare and contrast is the type of essay that Farzana and I going to write for our term paper :) Basically, we know the basics, on how to write and the pattern of the essay . 

 The above diagram or also known as the Venn Diagram is the example of diagram that is needed when we are writing the compare and contrast essay. It will make our work easier to write the essay as  we have the idea on what to write. 

Next, we need to choose to equal item. As the example above, both are fruits. We cannot compare and contrast between two different things for example, fruits with animal clearly, we cannot compare and contrast between that two because both do not have similarities.

We are divided into a few groups, and are given a task to write an essay based on a videoclip about tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

The two stars from the famous television series, Desperate Housewives! Bree  Van De Kamp and Lynnette .

We need to compare and contrast between the two actress that act a different character but yet, still have the similarities in both character. 

By the way, while I'm writing the blog, I found out one website that I think is good as reference to write about the compare and contrast. Nahh, here you have it :)

 http://www.privatewriting.com/compare-contrast-essay.html

#2 (31/07/2012)

The first ever FORUM that was held. As usual, we are divided again into a few groups. We need to act like we are in the talk show. So I have created a name for the  show which is The Inspiration Talk Show :) and I am very lucky to have a very special guest with me in the studio which we are having Hashimah as the consumer, Proffesor Farhana Binti Ahmad Januri as lecutrer from the University Malaya and last but not least is, Dato' Dr. Siti Syamimi Binti Rashid as the board of director of Alam Sekitar Associations. We are very blessed to have a topic How To Reduce The Uses Of Plastic Bag In Shopping Complex. Me, myself as the host of the Inspiration Talk Show :)  

 From my point of view, my group did a great job even though we are not prepare very well, but at least, we enjoy while the talk show is take place. At first, I am not really happy, because we are the first group, but after finished it, I feel Aaaaahhhh, released. hihi and can watch others enjoyably :D

#3 (02/08/2012)

The last class of the week ! Whooorayyyy :D We learnt on how to find main ideas in passage . Finding the main ideas in passage is going to come out in final examination. Even though we are focusing on the term paper, yet we cannot forget the final examination. Final examination carry lots of marks as compared to the term paper. 

We must know the thought that is present from the beginning to the end. It means that, we must know what is actually the writer wants to convey their readers. If the readers get wrong idea of what the wanted trying to say, it means that the writer do not understand what is the essay is all about. 

Besides that, in an essay, there are also implied main idea. Which implied main idea is the main idea that have been hidden. So readers need to read the essay carefully and repeatedly in order to understand the essay. 

Below are how to find the main ideas in the essay :

• Identify the subject/topic
• What is the essay is all about
• read the complete sentence .

Till  we meet again in the next post :)

Week Seven

#1 (23/07/2012)

Miss Zu today teach us on how to do  the introductory paragraph. The introductory paragraph is the most important paragraph in essay. If we have a great introductory paragraph, you will attract the readers to read further your essay. For me, introductory paragraph is the most important thing in my essay in order to attract Miss Zu to read more and make her feel excited to read our essay. 

The purpose of the introductory paragraph is like what I have said just know is to get reader's attention. For sure, every writer wanted their essay to read. Thus to make the essay interesting, it must start from the beginning og the essay. Next, the purpose of introductory paragraph is to set tone for the rest of the essay. Whether we want the essay to be a sad-type of essay or happy-type essay. 

Some parts of the introductory paragraphs are :

• The hook- designed to grab attention immediately and give some topic indication about the essay's topic.
• The transition- moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay.
• The thesis statement- makes the contract with the reader about what will discussed without a transparent announcement.

There are 8 types of hook in the introductory paragraph :

1. Personal example. For example personal observations form someone.
2. Quotations. Must be relevant to content of quote.
3. Facts or statistic. Must be unusual. Must also be from a credible source.
4. Rhetorical question. Question that need to be thought.
5. Current event. Must be the recent one
6. Contrast to the thesis statement/ turnabout.
7. Definition. Write something from general to specific.
8. Funnel.

We have to make sure, during writing the introductory paragraph, we need to have one of these hook in the introductory part in order to hook the readers to read our essay :)

For our term paper, we need to have three hook in the introductory part. Me and Farzana choose to have personal example, rhetorical question and definition as our hook for our essay. 

#2 ( 24/07/2012)

Today, our first essay to be learnt which is the cause and effect essay. This is essay will discuss the effect of the problem that had occur.

Naaah, here are links where I found out easier to understand :)

http://essayinfo.com/essays/cause_and_effect_essay.php#.UEOBo9bian8

#3 (26/07/2012)

The last class of the week, we learnt about the function and the techniques to write the conclusion. Conclusion is the last part of the essay where we conclude what has been written for pages in a paragraph. It's not easy to conclude everything that we have wrote for pages in a paragraph. Thus, that's why we need to know the techniques as well as the function of the conclusion paragraph. 

Below, are some questions that might help you to make the conclusion of the essay :

•  what is the significance of your findings?
• What are the implications of your conclusions for this topic and for the broader field?
• Are their any limitations to your approach?
• Are there any other factors of relevance that impact upon the topic but fell outside the scope of the essay?
• Are their any suggestions you can make in terms of future research?

Well, you can read more here :) :

http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/essay/4biv.html

Week 6 ^^

#1 (16/07/2012)

Hi! We meet again readers :D Today, we learn 2 things first how to make a thesis statement and   how to make a outline for the essay. 

Thesis statement is a statement that need to stated in the introductory paragraph. Thesis statement will show your significant of the title of the essay. Thesis statement is also important because thesis statement will create the story line. Besides that, thesis statement must answer the question that everyone have on their mind. It must be stated clearly in order to avoid misunderstanding about what the essay is all about and what the readers dispute about the essay. Usually, there is only one sentence for the thesis statement and stated at the end of the introductory paragraph.

You can read more here :

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/thesis-statements/

Next is, outline ! We learnt on how to make an outline. Outline is part of the mark in the making of the term paper which outline carry 5% from the 30% overall marks from the term paper. In outline, we must included everything that is important for example, our thesis statement, everything that we  have summarised and paraphrase and quotations. 

We need to complete our term paper by tomorrow because Miss Zu wanted to check before hand in to her :) 

#2 (17/07/2012)

Today Miss Zu check our outline group by group. So, if we have any problems or any comments, we need to correct it. 

#3 (18/07/2012) [Replacement class]

Miss Zu Still continuing checking outline term paper for those who not been checked yet :)

#4 (19/07/2012)

Today we learn about Transition words. Transition words are words that is used to help to connect the essay smoothly and nicely. For example, besides, next, as well as and etc. There are many transition words can be used to connect the sentence as appropriate. 

Below are the link, for the example of the transition words :)

http://www.studygs.net/wrtstr6.htm

Week Five

Hi ! :D 

It has been a while since I last updated my blog because I keep on the draft for quite a while. hihi

#1 (09/07/2012)

NO CLASS ! Miss Zu is not feeling well. Get well soon Miss :)

#2 (10/07/2012)

NO CLASS ! Miss Zu is still not in a good condition . 

#3 (12/07/2012)

After 2 days, finally, Miss Zu came to the class with the bright smile ! :) Miss Zu said that she feels better then before that's why she came today ! Alhamdullilah . 

In today's class we learn about the conceptual clues. We are divided into 6 groups . We played a game which we need to collect marks for every correct answer for our group. We need to discuss with our group to make sure that our group get the highest score. Basically,  conceptual clues is a synonyms, you can determine by reading the text . For example, a word that you don't understand , but you can know the meaning by reading the text . During the game was played we cannot open up the dictionary. Conceptual clues is important and being used during the final examination. 

TO BE CONTINUED

One Month

Hi everyone ! :D 

Heyyy , it has been a month we've learn BEL 311 . Alhamdullilah everything goes well :)

#1 (02/07/2012)

As I told you before that , me and Farzana are the last group which is going to present for our term paper right ? Alhamdullilah :D Everything went well , I was so happy to know that Miss Zu had agreed with our topic :) I was overjoyed to hear what Miss Zu had said "For now , I think you guys are great" (something like this. but I don't really remember, what I remember is just GREAT. hihi) OMG , who is not happy to hear that after all the rejection we got right ? Alhamdullilah ! There's nothing else I can say , I need to do more reading for our topic to ensure that , we can write a good essay for our term paper soon . Actually, we can start slowly with our term paper now, I'm afraid that we don't have enough time since there are so many assignments that we are having now :/ 

After we have presented all of our information for our term paper, Miss Zu continue on what she had thought us last week which was Paraphrasing , Quote, and Summarising . But for this class, she is focusing on SUMMARISING . 

Comprehension :

• To reduce information to essential idea in order to understand and learn .

        Below are the steps to summarise :
                 

                   M- Main Idea

                    I- Identifying supporting details

                   D- Disregard unimportant information

                   A- Analyze redundant information

                   S- Simplify, categorized, and label important information

• Establishing a focus :

       the main idea is the most important information or concept in a text or statement .

                     

                         WHO ?     WHERE ?     WHY ?    WHAT ? 
                                    WHEN ? HOW ?

*this are the note that I manage to copy . hihi :D

#2 (02/07/2012)

     In the second class , we have been thought on how to determine which one is FACT and which one is OPINION . Actually, this Facts and Opinions , Miss Dia already thought us on BEL 260 last semester , but since most of us forget about it , Miss Zu again need to do a recap for us. It is important to determine which one is fact and which one is opinion because when we write our term paper , we need to know is it opinion or fact. Fact is more reliable than opinion . Opinion is based on someone's perception. so not everyone have the same perception as the other isn't it ? 

           

     In order to ensure that we really understand what is opinion and what is fact, Miss Zu did an activity , which we have to be a promoter . We need to promote the given item , for our group , we are given Gervenne Clear White compaq powder . We need to promote the item base on facts and opinions towards the product . 

Basically, it is quite enjoying besides we can learn something from the activity :)

#3 (05/07/2012)

CLASS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED :D  hihi

Week three

Assalamualaikum to all my beautiful and handsome readers :)


#1 (25/06/2012)


Frankly speaking, I'm scared with Miss Zu :( and every time I entered the BEL class, my heart skips a bit T.T I think it  happens when , On the first day class of the week , me, Farzana , Syieda and Fatin came late to the class,  which was 15 mins late , Miss Zu already in the lab waited for us , I know it's my fault Miss Zu , I'm deeply sorry . Since we came late, I guess Miss Zu mad at us , even though she is not showing it on her face, but I can feel it . She also get mad at me and Farzana about the topic for the term paper. Seriously, I get stresses just to have the topic for this term paper because all of them were rejected :( Once again , we changed the topic from Advanced education to Breast cancer among man to Water birth. Alhamdullilah , Miss Zu accepted .


#2 (26/06/2012)


After we had the topic , we did the research more on it and we need to print it out to in order support our topic . Me and Farzana , did our best to find out about Water birth because finally , after so many rejection happened , our topic is already accepted. Everyone are going to present in front of the class, everything that we have searched about our topic . So, for the whole class, we only discuss about our term paper topic.


#3 (28/06/2012)


So for the third class, we still continued discussing about the topic for term paper, Sadly, we need to change again the topic :( Seriously, it makes me sad because until now, Farzana and I still haven't get any topic for our term paper yet . This is because in the class, no one did compare and contrast essay yet. So, as the last group that is going to present on the following class, we are the one who need to change and do the compare and contrast essay :( why me ? why we? :( 


THE END

Second week

Assalamualaikum W.B.T everyone !


#1 (17/06/2012)


As always , the first class of the week is in the computer lab :) Yeayyy ! So we need to sit at the same place as the previous class and need to take care of the computer at the desk . We need to take the responsibility if anything happen to the computer. Sounds scary right ? well , if you follow what the lecturer said, there will be nothing going to happen. simple is it ? 
So, in the first class of the week , Miss Zu did a recap on grammar. Well, to be honest, I'm not good at grammar but I'm still working on it . I guess, it has been years until now for me to learn grammar, but yet,  I still weak on it :( So, for right now, what I understand about grammar is that, in grammar, we have 3 conditions which are in the past, present and future.
In past, we can divide into 4.They are simple past, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. below are some simple explanation :-


Simple past                  : add 'ed' to regular words, change the word to the new word for                   
                                     irregular word.
Past continuous             : was is for singular and were for plural.
Past perfect                 : Had
Past perfect continuous : Had + Been + verb (ing) 


Next condition is something that is going to happen in the present . In present , we can further divided into 4  conditions which present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous.


Present simple                   : in singular words add 'S' and with NO 'S' to plural words .
Present continuous             : is to the singular words and are to the plural words
Present perfect                 : has/have + past participle.
Present perfect continuous : Has/have + been + verb + ing 


Last but not least is future. In future can be 2 conditions , first , will + base form and second is , going to + base form .


At the end of the class, Miss Zu ask us to find one current issue for our topic for term paper :)


#2 (18/06/2012)


In this class, we were informed that the third class which was on 21st June 2012 is going to be cancel  because Miss Zu is having a seminar * deep inside my heart HOOORAYYYY ! but I just pretend like I don't mind . Muehehehe :P

We need to tell Miss Zu what are we going to write for our term paper soon . So , I have suggest a few topics which is a current one but mostly it was rejected by Miss Zu . The topics that I've suggested are Child abuse, Animal abuse and Amusement park. Miss Zu ask me and Farzana to find another topic because she don't really agree about our topics. It's okay , and now I have an idea what to write about but I'm not sure if Miss Zu is going to agree with or not, so this is my topic Advance Technology :D hopefully Miss Zu will agree . Farzana and I chose this topic because we think that this is the current issue that is happening in 2012 well , you know about Samsung and Apple ? they are both compete with each other with the technology that we never think about.  

I guess that's all for now . till we meet again ~ byebyeeeee