Reading of "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan

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These days, I found an article called "Mother Tongue" written by Amy Tan, she clearly defined how her language is used and affected by her mother. As we can see from the introduction, she was born in California, the United States, and later on years, she and her mother settled in several places. Besides, Tan attended five colleges during seven years, and this is the turning point in which she decided to challenge herself to take English literature as major.

In the main body paragraphs, Tan wrote several stories to show how her mother uses broken English, and how it made changes in her life. On the other side, because of her mother’s “fractured” English, people usually treat her mother differently and did not take her seriously. Thus, when Tan was fifteen, she started pretend her mother talk on phone calls and kept handle several business errands. Besides, “Some say they understand none of it (the way her mother speaks English)…. to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural.”(Para 7) Therefore, the way her mother speaks had some effects on her writing style. In another words, Tan decided to envision her mother as a reader through her writing, in order to capture the passion and imagination through her words.

Consequently, Tan succeed on her writing career, and one most representative work she wrote is The Joy Luck Club, and now I have start reading one of her another book called The Bonesetter's daughter.Through her words, she complaint about her mother’s broken English, but still, it is her mother, impressed her and gives passion on her writing.

New things learned from The Curious Researcher

As we all knows, researching is one most essential parts in writing, for many papers, we need to find resources and facts to make supports in the arguments. Moreover, how to make outlines and quotes are also important. By reading the chapters from two to four from the book The Curious Researcher, it mainly talks about how you should prepare for the essay outline, set up quotations and how to write the first draft correctly. 

To start a research paper, the first thing is to state your thesis of the topic, and then by doing brainstorming, questioning yourself to come up with several points. Moreover, the second step is to do the research like interview, survey, Note-taking from books. However, there are some issues about how to avoid plagiarism. Firstly, copy words directly from the source to be part of your own work is the most seriously trouble in the college. You should always write work citation when you finish your paper. Also, there are two different methods that you can use for quotation marks: direct quotations and indirect quotations. Direct quotations means to involve other person’s exact words into your own writing. For indirect quotations, you should paraphrase or summarize the words from the source. In this case, it is not necessary to use quotation marks. However, both quotations need to include the proper citation. Moreover, when writing the body paragraphs, provide examples is the most beneficial way to state and prove the thesis. 

To sum up, people should always avoid the plagiarism, learn how to use the direct quotations and indirect quotation. Also, we should make sure we have in-text citation and bibliography when we write a formal research paper. Be sure to provide examples to briefly explain the paper, so that the paper have enough evidences to make it professional.

Remixing Knowledge in Field of Accounting

The link for the brochure: http://www.ashland.edu/documents/pdf/accounting-brochure

The brochure I found in accounting is from Ashland University. It basically provided all the information on the brochure about requirement for the major, internships, career opportunities, facilities and all the advantages be found in major in accounting. About the RAIDS in the remix, revision can be viewed as using all the information and related photos to show the advantages of major in accounting. It is obvious that the editors chose lots of photos, and used the pictures as one part of the brochure and information. It gives people a better view and knowledge of the class in this school, and the field in accounting major. The arrangement is using headings divided the information in ten parts, and for each heading, using bullets points to make description. Invention of the brochure is using all the photographs that related to business and the school, and then show the audience of how successful people could be by choosing this major. The delivery is to design the brochure, and either use printed hard copies or online PDF version for people to look for. The style of this remix is informational brochure and handouts.

For this remix brochure, I think the target audience is college freshmen, and people who interested in this college and major in accounting. The reason is that all the information it provided is about why choosing accounting major, and the requirements college students need to reach for this major. In addition, the overall success of its rhetoric is that the view and contents in this brochure is easy for people to read, also, the information provided in the template gives people a better understanding and clear knowledge of the major in accounting. 

Contemplating Controversy in Field of Accounting

The controversial topic I chose from my field relates to how the economics system affects accounting. The main issue is about whether cultural and economic differences between the US and Japan will prevent US firms from successfully implementing Japanese and Deming management methods. Basically, the current situation in global business is quite different. Like the articles describes, “Critics of the American system contend that successfully competing in today's global economy requires a whole new set of attitudes and assumptions about how to optimize the benefits obtained from economic activity (Martin).” As a result, Americans are too individualistic and competitive to operating the business. On the other side, Japan has less more concerns about failing in the economy. Its culture and economic system fit the requirements perfectly. Also, they prefer to work in groups and teams, in this way, they are more focus on the collective performance rather than the individual performance. The different business concepts in the US and Japan have the different results in business. Obviously, Japan has a better performance and structure in doing business. “Cooperation between individuals, employees and management, departments, companies, industries, and government and business are key ingredients in the Japanese system (Martin).” 

However, the cause of this controversy is because of failing of American business system. This issue, which deals with the ability of American companies to compete with the Japanese, is fairly comprehensive and extremely thought provoking. Also, it concerns about how American can change their system in order to operate the economy better.

The website link: http://www.maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumMartin94.htm

Personal First Work Experience

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This Wednesday, I had my first work experience in school dining room. To be honest, this job is my first job in my life, and I was super excited about having this work experience. Dining office assigned me as one employee in the Terra Salsa Verde section in Hubbard Dining Hall.

At the beginning, I thought we only need to serve people food, and it is simple. But I was wrong. We have a lot of works need to do, not only serving. Firstly, I learned how to operating the cooking machines for making nachos and quesadillas. Personally, I was not sure if I can make Mexican food for people, even I tried several times of tacos, quesadillas and burritos before. Also, like majority of Chinese students knows, we rarely had Mexican food in China, so I had less confidence about cooking this kind of food. However, after awhile, I found it is not hard, and we only need to memory the name for the ingredients, then follow the instructions shown on the side of cooking machine. During my other half of work time, my job was to help people put toppings on their nachos, quesadillas and tacos. The most amazing part of this job is I would never feel alone, because people were always in the fruit line. Also, when the food gets empty, I had to go back to the cooling room and filled more food in it. It is fun. After the dining room was closed, all the employees had the responsibility to clean the dining area, so that next morning shift can have less to do.

I am really appreciated that I got the chance to do this job. Because in this way, I not only learned how to cook and serve food, it is also a social experience that can practice in my life. Moreover, it is so meaningful that start from now on, I had my own salary and job, and really proud of myself.:)

Critical Reading and Response

This is the poster I found for this assignment.

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Critical Reading

Preview: All black and blue letters and words covered on poster.

First Impression: The words on the poster use different fonts and size with two colors, black and blue. Also, it is associated with humanity and communication.

Key Ideas: All words are telling people how to be success in business in the society.

Connections: It seems like this poster are trying to encourage people do well in business, and some key ideas about how to be success.

Questions: Why the words on the poster use different size and color? Also, why words composing cross each other?

Summary: The style that ads use is more likely a professional business kind, associated with all the key ideas to get success, and uses different font size to emphasize the importance.

Critical Response

Key Question: Why this poster can have influence to people in business?

Detail Analysis: Words like “Goal”, “Trust”, “Challenge”, “Learning”, are the core concept to make success in business. Moreover, the poster illustrated the most and the least important ideas for people in business, and tells people what should be put more efforts on.

Interpretation: In detail, words the designer chose to use in this poster are related to business. The color in black and blue also gave people a great impression on hardworking and stay confidence.

Synthesis: The poster itself are only combined with words, it looks simple. However, the purpose for this poster design are trying to tell people what are the key elements in business, and it uses capital fonts to emphasis the importance of this elements.

Final Synthesis: As everyone knows, business is something about communication, so that the poster designer uses this key concept, put the words in order, and made a list of importance for these strategies about making success. It can be also seen as people’s experiences in doing business in this society, and how they teach others to be focus.

Ways it can teach people about my field in Accounting:

Accounting, as one core major in business field, I chose this poster to tell people the key element to be success in business. Also, it teaches you the importance of those elements can have influence in your future.

Things Learned During the Spring Break

As everyone noticed that Spring break is approaching to the end, many of my friends went on vacation, but me. During the break, I mostly stay at the room, watch TV shows, do some review for the upcoming exams and homework, and I learned a lot. In detail, first thing I learned is how to choose resources for research paper. In my research process, I realized that I have tons of secondary sources rather than primary source. Thus, what I did is trying to find an interview or survey report to state my research purpose, and then add it into my research paper. Also, I narrowed down my research topic. Like what Kate mentioned me before, I have too much information for my topic, and I only have to focus on one of them. So now, I am clear what I need to write and focus on my paper.

In addition, I found that the book The Curious Researcher is very useful. For example, in book page 157, it introduced five ways to write your topic sentence for your statement. They are thesis from a question of value, a question of policy, a question of interpretation, a hypothesis question, and a relationship question. So I can easily find my purpose of thesis, and use the module sentence it provided to write it.

To sum up, I learned many useful things in this break, and I believed many of you guys learned more than I do.:)