Sunday, October 14, 2007

Write Less

Please keep your written assignments at a reasonable length. Try to write better and write less; some of you do not edit carefully enough and write a lot of sentences, all of which have severe mistakes in them. If I need an hour for each of your papers, I would have to work ten days without sleep. If this continues to be a problem, I will have to punish students for writing too much.

All of your paper one assignment should add up to 2-3 pages.

Also, please format you papers correctly. The font should be 12 point in size. Use a font like Times New Roman or Ariel. Double space the paper. If you do not understand these terms, ask someone. Perhaps a student could put the Chinese terms in the comments section. That would be great, thank you.

Finally, a lot of you were lazy with the introduction. I asked for a paper, not a list. "Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan star in the movie," not
Cast:
Meg Ryan
Tom Cruise.

--Some of you copied information from online. That is okay; we don't always remember people's names. However, if you cut and paste internet information, change the format so that it isn't obvious that you just copied off of the computer. You can use information from on-line, but do not have the online site do all of the work for you.

4 comments:

Dada said...

把這篇上半段有關作業一的注意事項翻成中文。

一、這份作業(電影綱要與評析)應為兩到三頁(包括Intro, Thesis Statement, Summary, Analysis和Conclusion)。超出頁數老師將有處分。

二、字體大小限為12pt,字體使用Times New Romans或Ariel。請使用雙倍行距。有關雙倍行距的設定,請詢問各班同學。

Sean said...

Xie xie.

kiya yeh said...

What difference between summary and thesis statement ?

Sean said...

The thesis statement is before the summary. The thesis statement is your argument about the movie. "The movie is good because it shows what it is like to be in love when you are in High School" is a thesis statement. A summary explains what happens in a movie and who the characters are.