Slang Journal # 1

# 1

archery:  the sport or skill of shooting with a bow and arrow.

Jerry- Steven, have you ever done any sports recently?

Steven- Archery.

Jerry- What does that mean?

Allen- 射箭.

Jerry- Oh~~

Trunk: the long, flexible nose of an elephant

Professor Allen: This elephant in this picture is too big. I want your face in this portraiture at least been this proportion. How about just drawing the elephant trunk.

Jerry- What is that?

Professor Allen: It’s nose.

Jerry- Got it.

Retarded: slow or limited in mental development

A: Oh, this is not hard.

N: Not at all, we were just being retarded.

A: You really should go to the class.

 

vocab

1Dissertation- dissertation is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings. ( wiki )

Liz said that during the class talking about the narrative of literacy on 18/9/2013.

2Adiabatic- no heat lost or gain

Professor used that to explain the power plant instruction during the green energy class on 17/9/2013.

3Adsorption: different from absorption. Adsorption should is other thing sticks on the surface of the object.

Professor used that to explain the physical way to take out the CO2 gas during the green energy class 19/9/2013 

4dissertation- a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

 basicly same as the "thesis'

Liz said that she was writing a dissertation about reaching a dream.

5Gymnasitc-

is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, power, agility, coordination, grace and balance.

Liz said about when she was learning gymnastic with young kids and they did much more better.

6 Fringe

A decorative border or edging of hanging threads, cords, or strips, often attached to a separate band.

talked about a TV show named Fringe in the WRT class.

7

judicious

having,exercising,or characterized by sound judgment.

8

stern

Hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character: a stern disciplinarian

I " teach me a word"

friend "do you know stern?"

I "no...." 

9

brew

To make (a beverage) by boiling, steeping, or mixing various ingredients

Im drinking a "real brewed tea" which is bought in the shop in our school.

10

Legitimate

Being in compliance with the law

Talked about the drinking age in different country in WRT class

11

interval

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches

"Im studing about interval thing in my music class"

"whats interval?"

12

intensity

Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force

talked about the term intensity in Green energy class 

13

exoutic

of foreign origin or character; not native; introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized

Used during WRT class

14

fastidious

very careful about how you do something. nagetive meaning

"that TA is fastidious"

15bombastic

1. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
2. High-sounding but with little meaning.

"that person is bombastic"

"what?"

"oh, it means they speak sounds more eligent but not really."

16 YOLO
you only live once 
"I messed up with my exam, i wanna die."
"YOLO!YOLO!'
"what?"
"you only live once."

17 privilege
A privilege is a special entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis
" He is RA he got lots of privileges."
"privileges?"
"lots of rights"

18 withered
Shriveled, shrunken, or faded from or as if from loss of moisture or sustenance
"oh, what is that monster?" playing game
""withered husk?""
"what is that mean, let google it."


19 elucidate
To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon
"you should elucidate your work."
"what?"
"make it clear" when working homework with my friend.

20 iridescent
Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors
"look at that bouble, its so iridescent"
"you mean colorful?"
"yeah, so cool" During chemistry lab
21 deflate
To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter
"the sodium should be deflated"
"you mean disapper"
"yeah, it should react" during chemistry lab


24Decimate
To destroy
"decimate the enermy!" when playing game
"destroy them!"

25 perplex
 to make intricate or complicated
"he just perplexed the situation "

26 reiterate
To say or do (something) for a second time
"he just reiterate it so that everyone can understand"

27conventional
according with 
"that event is conventinal"
"what?"
"we do it every year"

28 propagate
to casue an organism to multiply or breed
"the invasive species propagate very fast and destroy the environment."
by green energy class

29 scapegoat
"one that bears the blame for others.
"that guy is scapegoat, he is innocence"
watching a movie with friend

30

legitimate

specifically
"that stroy is legitimate."
"means real"

31graffiti
writing or drawings that have been scribbled
"what is the drawing call in the tunnle."
"called graffiti"

32 crew
friends
"ask your crew to come to the party."
"crew, means friends"

tagging and organization...

I wonder if there is a more effective way for us to organize the blog?
I would like to be able to search by both assignment and student - this would allow me to see if any significant revisions were made above and beyond course requirements.
BUT, it is difficult for me to comment on your posts in blog format. A google Doc would allow me to insert comments at any place. BUT, there is always the chance that a peer *could possibly* alter or erase your work.

Any ideas or thoughts?

xiang wang sho #4

Xiang Wang Sho

WRT101

17/9/2013

       According to the article, the reader can realize that there are some of the problems in both Amanda and her teacher. First of all, grading paper by using program is a very good idea, but the teacher should clearly have the sense of program is just a program. It can never instead a real person. Basically it is just a tool which can assist the grader. From the Amanda side, she did some mistakes, but from all of her actions, people should notice that she did not mean to plagiarize. She did explain but teacher has already relied on the Turnitin and then give his thought. It is not fair for Amanda. If the teacher notices she fails to do the internal citation but still has the corrected work cited page, the teacher may not see her work as plagiarism but just a mistake. Teacher should know Turnitin is not a perfect tool. The work such like writing doesn’t have a specific criterion. The idea or the point should felt by a real person not a program.

       On the other hand, Amanda is obviously a victim of the modern technology. Her incident had been posted on internet which is not removable. The people who are not familiar with the situation can make malice comment on her or have some negative thought on her without knowing her. Her privacy is also being infringed. People will see the word plagiarism frequently associated with her. And actually it will remain forever which is a very great harm, and it was just caused by a small “mistake”. Some people take it very seriously, and it can affect her career in the future or more than that.

       Anyway, in my opinion, studying from other is always a good way to improved oneself. The line for learning from other person is plagiarism or not is a actually a  gray zone. Same as copy rights, using something old music to make some new remixed music is a good example. The new piece definitely sounds different but they are all made from the other music. It is hard to judge the how original the new music is.  

homework#4

In the case given, a student called Amanda was accused for plagiarizing because she failed to include the internal citations, though she kept all her sources correctly on her cited page. 

In my opinion, both university and Amanda are somehow wrong. First, the university use a online technology called Turnitin which could score papers automatically, faster and easilier and even can check out "plagiarism" by comparing texts the student written with the internet resource and grammatical errors. But it also makes mistakes. For example though there is no seemingly direct link between "same sex marriage" and Eskimos, the software connected the two points automatically. Therefore, I think that university shouldn't rely on this application too much since human fresh is much more flexible than cold mindless machine. And the institution should consider the preceding works Amanda had already done to judge her mistake instead arbitrating her depending only on what the software calculated.

Also, I think Amanda shouldn't use the link directly from the internet, maybe she could click the link and found out the original document and then cited it to her work with the name of the author and the title of the text she read. Besides, she shouldn't put the picture under the comments, which would alter the view of readers and audiance because the picture caused doubts about Amanda's moral quality and whether she treated her researches and papers seriously, though the history works showed that Amanda was hard-working.

  

homework#4

My Reaction To Amanda's Case

Admittedly, Amanda has been through a tragedy that she was accused for something that she had never done--plagiarizing. Her instructor simply put her paper into the well-known website Turnitin and discovered fraction of her paper was not cited. Fighting against her college, Amanda was also struggling with the annoying online war about her story after she posted her case.

Although I'm secretly questioning slightly about Amanda's honesty because there indeed appeared flags in Turnitin, the instructor and the college truly did something that is irresponsible and inconsiderate. First, her instructor only took a look on the output of  Turnitin but he didn't deeply research the matched source. As the author wrote, the Eskimos? Obviously there is little relativity between the topic "Lifting the ban on same-sex marriage in Texas" and the Eskimos. Therefore, I think the instructor should at least think about this source and go talk to Amanda instead of simply gave her an F and tag her "cheater" forever. Second, the college's unfollowing the procedure and ignorance toward Amanda's request make people think. Why doesn't the university face the problem directly and get it over with quickly? It seems a bit irresponsibility in my point of view as an outsider.

However, it's not all Amanda's instructor and her college aroused the online war. Actually, Amanda herself is the main reason why she is deeply entangled with this tiresome online affair. Hadn't she posted her story and keep focusing on the comments, instead of focusing on more realistic ways to deal with this problem, she wouldn't be that annoyed and helpless. What is more, it is her "advertising" that set a rock on her way to success in the future. 

homework#4

Throughout the passage, it is hard to determine which side is right and which side is wrong. Amanda receives an e-mail from her teacher that her work is recorded as plagiarism. Because when her teacher puts Amanda's assignment onto Turnitin a program that can analyze whether the work is cheating or not, the teacher asserts that Amanda's homework is plagiarized. In my personal view, it is very ridiculous to just use a machine to determine the homework is plagiarized by finding the similarity between Amanda's writing and all articles in Turnitin's article bank. This kind of homework correcting is so grim and unreasonable since the Internet includes lots of article it is unavoidable to find similarity between one's assignment and others' work on the internet. What is more? Since "cheating record" by using Turnitin, this spot can be like a bar code on a good follows whole her life.

However, on the other hand, Amanda must did something wrong. This can explain why Amanda's homework is considered as plagiarism, but many other students' work in this course did not find the same problem. Although some other students have faced or will face such problem, it just takes little part of the whole articles checked by Turnitin.  Academic dishonesty is a very serious problem in university and society. Turnitin does not always bring the negative influence, it increase the efficiency of checking homework. To some extent, it hugely declines the unfound-plagiarism.

Homework 4 9/17/13

Your reaction to Amanda’s case

I don’t think Amanda is truly falsely accused since she had failed to include internal citation although of getting an F in the course and bad reputation on the Internet are harsh tribulations to her.

Turnitin’s demo shows it is a very advanced software which titled it self as ‘the global leader in addressing plagiarism’ and is used by many universities. I am shocked when I see instructor may just use the assessment in Turnitin to value students’ essays. I think instructors should be responsible to their students and view their students’ essays carefully. And of course, all students wants their teachers to be more benevolent when they met the similar kind of issue of Amanda’s.

Homework #4

In the Amanda’s case, Amanda was accused by the University for plagiarism, and then she posted the her case on public and tell people the injustice she felt from the university. Personally, I felt that both the university and Amanda did something wrong.

For the university, they just use the software ‘Turnitin’, to grade students’ homework, but machine sometimes will make many errors. For example the software claims that Amanda’s paper plagiarize the Eskimo website, even though that Amanda’s paper is about the same-sex marriage in Texas which seems have no direct relation to the Eskimo. So the school should not rely too much on the technology. Besides, the university grades the score and the percentage of the plagiarism too arbitrarily.  What’s more, the university, according to the article, didn’t give Amanda the opportunity to state her disagreement about the Plagiarism.  

However, Amanda herself also made some errors. In the article, there was a person pointing out that she didn’t cite content correctly with the rrul link; instead she just put the website. What’s more, when she responded to other people’s comment, there is no need to put that thumbnail followed her answers. The thumbnail looks like being taken on the party, and may make people feel that Amada is a party animal and had tense relation with books, and didn’t study. 

Homework # 4

In Amanda’s case, she was accused of plagiarizing because of the report from Turnitin, a prevailing software used for finding plagiarism. Everyone that included the professor, Amanda and those outsiders did something wrong. First of all, although Turnitin simplified the process of finding instances of Plagiarism, the professor who made the decision that Amanda plagiarized others’ work should not simply trust the report from software instead of spending time tracking back those resources of the paper. As for Amanda, she really made her situation worse because of those aggressive comments online. Besides, those spectators have not even read Amanda’s paper, but they criticized Amanda for plagiarizing others’ work sightlessly.

Amanda’s tragedy revealed how severe Plagiarism is in the academic field, in which everyone tries to protect their ownership of ideas. The punishment for plagiarism does encourage some scholars to generate new ideas because anyone who uses their idea is supposed to honor the scholar in their paper. However, are those harsh punishments for plagiarism really good for the academic development? People know nothing when they are born, but they acquire knowledge from numerous resources and generate new ideas eventually. Plagiarism is a burden because people cannot gather information freely without considering where they got their resources from. In other words, scholars who come up with new ideas can’t pay one hundred percent of their attention on collaborating information and forming new ideas, but have to constantly worry about what severe punishment they are going to receive if they plagiarize accidentally. Therefore, punishments for plagiarism are too strict because those punishments are not supposed to be “Death Sentences” but guidelines for scholars who are longing for inspiration.