Week 14

Dear all, Are you Happy about not needing to read and blog anymore? Ha! But please keep reading (viewing) for your final projects. You need input/materials to make your video story convincing. 

Here, I'd like to give some overall comments on your D2E3, a comparing/contrasting essay with a tone of persuasion/argumentation. This time, I found a couple of topics were popular among you, and more than one student developed their essays on the same issues, such as the different considerations when selecting college/university or comparison/contrast between lives in the city or the countryside. While most of you asked ChatGPT to generate something or polish texts, the differences are apparent, especially the following three aspects: 

1) Whether you cite information, numbers, or quotations of authority (e.g., professionals or well-known organizations). 

2) Whether you use your own authentic and personal experience as evidence. In so doing, you would apply descriptive, narrative strategies into your comparison/contrast essay with solid backup to argue for your position.  

3) whether the way you introduce your thesis (introduction) is sufficiently appealing to those (your target audience) who may find your essay helpful. (I bet you have forgotten the lecture I gave about how to begin your essay.)

Another minor thing, but still bothering me, is that your language use is full of AI, and you cannot tell whether the suggested words and phrases are proper or suitable for your text.  

This is the last essay; please revise it and provide your revision based on my comments. I'll still check the comment table with your revision.

For tomorrow's class:

First, I'll give the last lecture on writing as a reader response to literary works, including image and literary analysis. This is helpful for your critical thinking when reading and writing with a good structure and arguments. Please check for readings on MOODLE. 

Second, we'll have one or two more videos for your reference.

Third, I'll return you D2E3 and conduct individual conferencing (if you need).

Lastly, you will have group discussion time to work on your storyboard with scripts.