UFS 211 - TASK 9: Summarize the text given by the lecturer and post it in your blog.

Writing a Summary – Lie Detector

Lie detector works by voice analysis used without a subject’s knowledge. Dektor psychological stress analyser (PSE) used for pre-employment screening, investigating thefts, and periodic staff checks. PSE works by analyzing infrasonic FM component that caused stress by occurring changing of the muscle tightening. In US, PSE use as pre-employment interviews to claims response which an assessor goes through to look for false claims. Besides, prevents a manager from setting his own pace to investigate possibly suspicious behavior. Thus, the device is not foolproof yet should prevent their use before become widespread.

TASK 7: INDIVIDUAL PARAGRAPH WRITING

Unforgettable Childhood Memory

Every people have their own unforgettable childhood memory. There must be happy, funny or sad childhood remembrances. However, my unforgettable childhood memory is the worst memory that I ever had which was very embarrassing to me. But, for other people they thought it was funniest story. The situation is my bad attitude that often I do as a child that is bedwetting. My parents figure out my problem because they know that me still child that time and my currently age that time is around 5-6 years old. Nevertheless, that is exhausted and struggle thing because they need to wash my bed sheets every time and frequently change the mattress.
            Yet, when I am still childhood, I often stayed and sleep at my grandparents house when my parents off to outstation. Same situation at there, my grandparents always yelling on me because my behavior always get bedwetting that time. They need to dry the mat every day.

However, this is the beginning of my story that I not really feel too embarrassing. The real story is when one day I decided to sleep at my grandparents house and in the mean time there is many my uncle, aunt and cousin also staying there. One of my uncles that always play me around knows that I will stay with them at one night. Seriously that time, my uncle wanted to scare me. He told me that if I still get a bedwetting, he will cut my pubic and throw it give the dogs eat. At that time of course I scare but I just shut and keep calm. Inside my mind and my feeling I keep tell to it, no bedwetting. I just speak it silently mostly every time. No bedwetting.

Then, I keep thinking about what my uncle told me that time. In my mind, one thing to avoid get bedwetting that time is did to drink much water. Then, I just drink a little amount of water and go to pee before sleep. Hopefully what I have done will stop me to get bedwetting even if only for that night.

Unfortunately, when I wake up early in the morning, directly I touch my pants and oh no! It’s wet. Suddenly, I wake up and find another pant and take change the wet pant. While to do that, I heard a voice come near me, and quickly I run to the behind the main door. Like play hide and seek, I hiding behind the door. The voice that I heard before is actually my grandmother. At that time, she wondering that I wake up so silently that morning. Therefore, my grandmother plans to search for my existence. She looks at me every side in the house. Unfortunately, my grandmother cannot find me. So, she tells to my grandfather, my uncles and aunt, cousins also people inside that house to find me. Surprisingly they also cannot find me even though I just hiding near of them which is behind the door.  I considered safe that time no one found me, because behind the door is cover between the sofa and main door.

Because they too worried, they plan to call police but decided to find me one more time around the house also at neighborhoods area. However, in the mean time, my sister already sees me but she just keeps quiet. But, no longer from that, she tells my mother that I am hiding behind the door. Suddenly my mother looks behind the door and see me lie at there. Every people quickly went to see and directly their laugh each other. They all know that I am hiding because again I get bedwetting and that time I just keep quiet and make sulk face. Because of that that day was really funny situation, all of them thank me because it’s was great exercise in early morning. They know me was sulking that day, then they just persuade me to take a breakfast together while have a talk about the wonderful experience that day.

Even though I am feel so embarrassing about that situations, but I realize that how deep my family love me. I really appreciate of their caring and loving feeling they have through me. But, unexpectedly because of bedwetting my family can gather each other just like family gathering. And now I know bedwetting is power full moment childhood memory in my entire life. The End !

UFS 211 - TASK 6: What are the common mistakes that you always do in writing? Do you find writing in English is difficult? What kind of problem do you face when you start writing? What are your suggestions to overcome the problem? Discuss.

We make hundreds of mistakes when writing, but most writers end up making the same mistakes over and over again often without even noticing. These repeated stumbles leave our writing dull and lifeless, and it eventually cause the readers to think the work always sounds the same.

Actually, English is not too difficult, as long we understand the theory and the method about English component, and it will help us to learn it easily. Although, the main problem that we face when start our writing is due to minor things like typos, grammar and spelling mistakes. As with the last time we explored grammatical errors, I feel compelled to mention that copy, writing and blogging should be conversational and engaging, and breaking formal grammatical and spelling conventions can often be a good thing. Every time I see a comment complaining about something like, oh, I don’t know… the improper use of an ellipsis or one-sentence paragraphs, I shake my head with sadness.

Suggestions to overcome this problem such as:

Ø Keep it simple. Stick to one point per sentence.

Ø Format. Know the structure/style of the format that is writing in.

Ø Audience. Keep them in mind at all times.

Ø Avoid missing commas. Commas are those little things that imply that there should be a pause taken between words. They may seem insignificant, but they're actually quite important.

Ø Remember those pesky verb endings! Make sure to end all of the verbs properly. For example, She drop the rock on my toe is missing the ending for the verb 'drop'. The correct sentence is, She dropped the rock on my toe.

Ø Remember to use the right preposition at the right time.

Ø Avoid comma splices. Comma splices occur when we try to connect two clauses that could stand alone as a sentence. I hated the sweaters, my grandma bought them every year is an example of a comma splice. Fix the sentence by adding a semicolon or period, connecting the clauses with a word such as and or because, or re-writing the sentence. For example, I hated the sweaters that my grandma bought every year. We took out the comma, replaced it with the word "that", and removed the word "them".

Ø Be careful when starting a sentence with a conjunction. When writing, it's best to avoid starting a sentence with a conjunction (words like 'and', 'but', etc.). It is permissible, but if we’re going to start a sentence with a conjunction, be sure that we’re written a complete sentence.

Ø Make sure that your pronoun references are clear. In the sentence, "The Lifeguard Station posted warnings around the beach regarding jellyfish in the area. However, theywere not heeded", they is the vague pronoun reference. The correct sentence would be, "The Lifeguard Station posted warnings around the beach regarding jellyfish in the area. However, those warnings were not heeded".

Ø Make sure the verb tense is correct. Avoid using a verb that doesn't indicate when an action is, was, or will be completed. 

Ø Make sure that there is a subject-verb agreement. The verb has to agree with the subject in number and in person. If the subject is singular, the verb should be singular. If the subject is plural, the verb should be plural.

Ø Avoid run-on sentences. A run-on sentence is a sentence that is made of 2 sentences that could stand alone. Add words or punctuation to separate run-on sentences

Ø Choose the right words. Use a dictionary to make sure that our words convey the intended meaning. Words that sound the same or are spelled similar do not always mean the same thing, so be sure to check when we're picking out a word.

UFS 211 - TASK 5 : PARAGRAPH WRITING

Topic	-         Water Pollution
Topic Sentence	-         Water pollution is any chemical, physical or biological change in the quality of water that has a harmful effect on any living thing that drinks or uses or lives in it.
Supporting Details	-          Polluted water it often has serious effects on their health, unsuited for the desired use.
	-          Disease-causing agents. These are bacteria, viruses, protozoa and parasitic worms that enter sewage systems and untreated waste.
	-          Category of water pollutants is oxygen-demanding wastes; wastes that can be decomposed by oxygen-requiring bacteria,
	-          Large populations of decomposing bacteria are converting these wastes it can deplete oxygen levels in the water causes other organisms in the water, such as fish, to die.
	-          Water pollutants are water-soluble inorganic pollutants, such as acids, salts and toxic metals. Large quantities of these compounds will make water unfit to drink and will cause the death of aquatic life.
	-          Water pollutant is nutrients; they are water-soluble nitrates and phosphates that cause excessive growth of algae and other water plants, which deplete the water's oxygen supply. Kills fish and, when found in drinking water, can kill young children.
	-          Water can also be polluted by a number of organic compounds such as oil, plastics and pesticides, which are harmful to humans and all plants and animals in the water.
	-          A very dangerous category is suspended sediment, because it causes depletion in the water's light absorption and the particles spread dangerous compounds such as pesticides through the water.
	-          Water-soluble radioactive compounds can cause cancer, birth defects and genetic damage and are thus very dangerous water pollution.
Conclusion	-          It is dangerous to every nature when water pollution happen among us yet there is our responsible to take care of it and maintain the cleanliness to ensure our water sources is keep save.
Linkers/Sequence Connected used	-          Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly, Next, Hence, Finally, Therefore.

Paragraph: 
        Water pollution is any chemical, physical or biological change in the quality of water that has a harmful effect on any living thing that drinks or uses or lives in it. When humans drink polluted water it often has serious effects on their health. Water pollution can also make water unsuited for the desired use. There are several classes of water pollutants. Firstly, they are disease-causing agents. These are bacteria, viruses, protozoa and parasitic worms that enter sewage systems and untreated waste. Secondly, category of water pollutants is oxygen-demanding wastes; wastes that can be decomposed by oxygen-requiring bacteria. When large populations of decomposing bacteria are converting these wastes it can deplete oxygen levels in the water. This causes other organisms in the water, such as fish, to die. Thirdly, the of water pollutants is water-soluble inorganic pollutants, such as acids, salts and toxic metals. Large quantities of these compounds will make water unfit to drink and will cause the death of aquatic life. Next, a water pollutant is nutrients; they are water-soluble nitrates and phosphates that cause excessive growth of algae and other water plants, which deplete the water's oxygen supply. This kills fish and, when found in drinking water, can kill young children. Hence, water can also be polluted by a number of organic compounds such as oil, plastics and pesticides, which are harmful to humans and all plants and animals in the water. A very dangerous category is suspended sediment, because it causes depletion in the water's light absorption and the particles spread dangerous compounds such as pesticides through the water. Finally, water-soluble radioactive compounds can cause cancer, birth defects and genetic damage and are thus very dangerous water pollution. Therefore, it is dangerous to every nature when water pollution happen among us yet there is our responsible to take care of it and maintain the cleanliness to ensure our water sources is keep save.

UFS 211 - TASK 4 : Topic, Supporting and Concluding Sentence

  Ø TOPIC SENTENCE

   In a paragraph, generally the first sentence is the topic sentence. There is a strict connection between the main idea and the topic sentence. Topic Sentence is shaped by the controlling idea. Controlling idea is the focus and is placed in a topic sentence.

  Example:

 Education mirrors the society.

    

  Ø SUPPORTING SENTENCE

   The supporting sentence is the developing part which improves major ideas. While writing supporting sentence, controlling idea must be fully explained, discussed and exemplified.

 Example:

Nature has a perfect system for recycling water. That is, water is used again and again. It falls as rain. Then it goes one of the three places, it may seep slowly into the thick soil as it soaks through into the natural reservoirs quickly. It might run off into streams to rivers to the oceans. In short, the chain of changes goes on and on systematically. 

  Ø CONCLUDING SENTENCE

      Generally, a concluding sentence is a restatement of the topic sentence, it gives the same information as the topic sentence but it is expressed in a different way. While writing concluding sentence, we can use adverbs such as “all in all, consequently, in conclusion, in short, in summary”

Example:

      My special treasure is a picture of my mother on her fifteenth birthday. This picture is always in my house when I was growing up. Years later when I got married and moved to Montreal, my mother gave it to me so that I would always remember her. Now, it sits on my table next to my bed. I look at it and, imagine my mother’s life on that day. I think she was excited because her eyes are shining with happiness. Her smile is shy as if she were thinking about a secret. She is standing next to rose bush, and the roses are taller than she is. She is wearing a beautiful white lace dress and black shoes. Her hair is long and curly. She looks lovely in this peaceful place, and I feel calm when I gaze into her eyes at the end of my busy day. This picture of my mother is my most valuable possession.

UFS 211 - TASK 3 : THE FIVE STEPS OF THE WRITING PROCESS

STEP 1:  PREWRITING

                   THINK

·         Decide on a topic to write about.

·         Consider who will read or listen to your written work.

·         Brainstorm ideas about the subject.

·         List places where you can research information.

·         Do your research.

STEP 2:  DRAFTING

                   WRITE

·         Put the information you researched into your own words.

·         Write sentences and paragraphs even if they are not perfect.

·         Read what you have written and judge if it says what you mean.

·         Show it to others and ask for suggestions.

STEP 3:  REVISING

                   MAKE IT BETTER

·         Read what you have written again.

·         Think about what others said about it.

·         Rearrange words or sentences.

·         Take out or add parts.

·         Replace overused or unclear words.

·         Read your writing aloud to be sure it flows smoothly.

STEP 4:  PROOFREADING

                   MAKE IT CORRECT

·         Be sure all sentences are complete.

·         Correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

·         Change words that are not used correctly.

·         Have someone check your work.

·         Recopy it correctly and neatly.

STEP 5:  PUBLISHING

                   SHARE THE FINISHED PRODUCT

·         Read your writing aloud to a group.

·         Create a book of your work.

·         Send a copy to a friend or relative.

·         Put your writing on display.

·         Illustrate, perform, or set your creation to music.

·         Congratulate yourself on a job well done!