2010-11-17 Writing

Today, we reviewed on our learning styles.
There are three types of learning styles; auditory, visual, and kinesthetic/tacitile. I was all balanced but more of auditory learner. I don't know if I am learning better while I'm hearing, but I notice that I listen harder than other people. I think it's because of all the chapels I attended on Sunday:).
Then, we read about all the jobs we can have later. I was surprised that there were so many jobs and they each needed high skills. I also want to have a profession and want to be valuable to the society through my job.

2010-11-15 Writing 1

Today, I had a learning style and career survey. Our class each had to solve 200 questions. After we solved all our questions, we received the result of our survey.
After this test, I could understand my characteristics and what I want to do more detailedly. But because the questions are bit abstract and human's characteristics are not only one sided, I chose "I'm not sure" much.

11/12/2010 Writing

Today, each student recieved a sheet with about 20 carrier values wirtten on. We used scissors to cut them and paste/tape them on a separate sheet of colored paper. We listed them according to our values toward them. As we made  this arrangement, we thought about our values and our lifestyle. I was surprised that "earning money" was at the lower bottom part of my list. Most people look for a high paying job. But as a Chiristian, money was worth less than the virtues, time, and natural characteristics that God gave me.
 For example, the most important career I chose was "thinking good about myself" because I though I first should be satisfied with what God gave me. I  thought about how I should live my life; chasing the material world, or chasing God.

My talents

My talents

1. Helping others
I like to help others and see them happy.

2. Direct others
I think I am good at leading and directing others to do something.

3. Perform, act
Many people says I am really talented in acting and I should be an actor.

4. Tri-lingual
I can speak English and Korean fluently, and I can speak Chinese almost fluently.

5. Manage money
I try to get profit. I got profit by currency and investing on stock.

6. Music appriciation/ instruments
I like to listen and play music. I practice piano

Thought question - Monday, November 8

How do you plan on choosing a career?
First, I want a career that God wants me to have.
Second, I want to have a carrer that I can enjoy and that I can help others through it.
Third, I want to have a free and a high paying job.

Does your gender make a difference?
Yes. I think I would have to support my family so I need a high paying job.
I also can have more world wide job because I have a stronger body.



Who will help you choose a career?
Mostly, God and my parents. I'm sure that God would somehow lead me through his will.
My teachers can help too by finding my talents and developing my interests.


Can the Bible offer any help?
Yes. I can know what God wants me to do by knowing his characteristics.
I can also develop spiritually myself to have a better career.
I can find useful scriptures to find something I  am passionate about.

paraphrase

Paraphrasing is restating the idea in your own words.  So it can be about the same length or even longer than the original passage, unlike summarizing. 

Voice

To me, voice is author's emotions and thoughts expressed through the writing.

The mother in this picture is very lugubrious and  is in despair. She

Dear judge, I stand before you today to prove my innocence. It is true that I blew up two older pigs' houses, and I am sorry for those unfortunate events. I know that 3 little pigs are upset and are having many misunderstandings, but those are nothing compared to mine.
The truth is that I broke pig's houses unintentionally. I heard that three little pigs moved near my house, so I visited them to have some talk to be good neighbors. When I finally met them, they ran away from me. This was very unexpected to me. I tried to catch them up and say that I just wanted to talk, but they banged tha door right at me and hid inside their houses.
Have you ever smelled htose awful dusts and formaldehyde from the new doors? They automatically make animals sneeze.
I sneezed, and do you know what happened next? Oldest pig's house just blew away! I was so shocked to see this and tried to say sorry but the pig just ran away to his brother's house again. I stood beside the second pig's house and that awful sneeze came again.
After all that mistakes, I went to the third pig's house and said sorry. Again, I sneezed, and I was really afraid to think if I might blow their house again. But the third pig's house didn't move and I was relieved to see that.
Finally, I decided to visit them through chimney. When I went down through the cimney, the pigs were boiling a pot underneath it! Later, I realized that they did that intentionallly to burn me. I got-third degree burn all over my body and now, I have no hope. I can't move, can't go to work, can't take a bath, can't play sports, and am living a life full of embarassment and dispair.
I think the three pigs should be the ones who are accused. I did not do any harm to htem execpet for breakeing two not well-made houses. But the three pigs gave me an everlasting damage to my body and my life.
Dear judge, I hope that you'll judge justicely, according to the results and intentions. Thank you for listing to my rebuttal.

The scream

When the whole world was quiet in the darkness, one girl, about 16 years old, fell down into the place of unknown. When the girl stood up, she had a strange sensation in her body. She stopped groaning in pain and looked the area around her. She was in a old-fashioned house (appeared to be 1900s) where many people moved around in and out silently. The place she was in was all blurry (even the people and her body), and no definite shape existed. Everything took a form of non-newtonic fluid and was constantly waving. The girl was shocked with wonder and terror. The girl asked the woman walking beside her "where is this place?" but the woman didn't reply. She tried to catch her but the girl's hands couldn't catch the woman firmly. The woman seemed to be caught but soon got free of the girl's hand. More the girl concentrated, the world got more blurry and blurry.


After few minutes, the girl grew tired of catching and asking people, so she tried to get out of the house. She followed people's steps and finally saw the wooden door of the house. People were actually passing through the door! The girl couldn't believe what she was looking at. She tried to pass the door like the other people, but she couldn't. She tried again and again but she failed and failed. Finally, she got exhausted and gave up. She leaned on the door of the house. Then she passed through the door subconsciously! The girl was so happy and got out of that house.

Suddenly two men walked towards her. She couldn't describe why she was terribly afraid of those two men. But she could tell that if the other people were the mixture of chaos and light, the two men were just a pure dark, chaos. She started to away from those two men.

Finally she reached the bridge which was very high. It was sunset so the sky was filled with red light. But the presence of the two men terrified the girl so much that she didn't even notice the light around her. Finally two men came near her very close. The girl thought of jumping off to the river but she didn't have enough courage. All she could do was to scream.

Then the girl found herself in her bed screaming.

After this dream, the girl's view of the world changed. She stopped complaining about the world and herself.

There was no one to feel, no one to love, and no one to communicate in that world for her. The joy was taken over by horror and the fear eradicated every bit of her courage. But now, she could be happy. She could express herself and communicate with the others.
The girl just loved being herself.

Welcome to Writing 1! Answer the questions (in at least 6 complete sentences): What characteristics describe “good” writing? What is the process of writing?

Question: What is the process of writing?

I will tell you about the process of writing first.

First, the writer has to think about what he's going to write. If a captain of the ship does not know which direction he would go, then he can't be a good captain. And so do as in writing.
Then, the writer has to write a draft. This is an important step because this is the first time you are transfering your thougts to a writing.
Next, the writer has to edit his work(draft). This includes reorganizing the parts, changing vocabularies, correcting spellings,   Why can't him just hand out your writing without editing it? Hmm... let him try it. And if he writes a  good 200pg story without any mistakes or without any part to organize on the first time, then I'll give him one million won. What I'm trying to say is that no writer writes perfectly on the first time. But writings can be better if you edit it.
Finally, you publish/finish your writing. This is a time to show your work to the world.

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Question: What characteristics describe “good” writing?

There are many kinds of writings and many kinds of people with different interest in the world. So some people will think some writings are good but others won't. Still, I believe that there are some identical characteristics among the good writings and will suggest some of those characteristics.

First, I think a good writing has to have a deep meaning which people can agree with or which makes people to think. If there's no meaning in a writing, people will feel emptiness after reading it.
Second, I think a good writing has to have a realistic frame (at least in the story/unchanging) so that people can imagine in the story without getting confused.

Third, I think a good writing must have a unity among its parts. This is bit similar to the second characteristic but it’s broader. This includes unity among its plots, frame and theme. If a writing has many parts which contradict each other and if it's all mixed, then the reader would get confused and will never think "this is a good writing."
Fourth, I think a good writing must give people enjoyment. This doesn't just include usual enjoyment we get from imagining in the book but also includes enjoyment we get by our intellectual or spiritual fullness. As an example, we can also get enjoyment by thinking about the problem (which comes out in writing) deeply. And when we finally interpret it in our own ways and satisfy with it, we get another kind of enjoyment (this sometimes happens even if we can't find the conclusion).
Finally, I think a good writing must be clear. This includes choosing a right vocabulary in a right situation, making no (maybe fatal) grammatical errors which makes the writing incomprehensible, analyzing them in a right order, and expressing sentences’ meanings clearly.