Shattered Glass

Speaking of the writing/research practice involved in this movie, I found a number of similarities between what the writers did in the movie and we have been doing for our social research project, those include note-taking, interviewing, recording, searching on the internet, and so on.

As far as the ethical problem is concerned, it is clearly none other than plagiarism, a very severe ethical crime for a writer to commit as doing it is exactly the same cheating the public reader, not to mention making things up from nothing at all.

Extra Credit Events

1. I went to listen to the speech entitled: "Wrong Place, Wrong time" which talked about how young Black American often find themselves in potentially dangerous situations and end up in injuries or even deaths. Besides, the speech is also about how after-care and counseling can help prevent the victims from returning to the same type of situation or committing the crime themselves out of vengeance.
2. I attended the panel speech on how the current criminal justice system is broken which results in many innocent people being convicted and sent to jails. The speech introduced an organization working to rescue innocent inmates using DNA testing.
3. I attended the conference "Symposium on Gender and Sexuality. Panel 2 explained the causes and effects of sexual harassment and revealed the severity of the issue by showing the statistic of people experiencing sexual harassment.

Shitty First Draft

According to the article, a shitty first draft is a rough draft that we all do just by writing down everything that comes into our mind about one topic without thinking about relevance, structures, vocabularies, as well as grammatical errors. This is one of the best ways, I believe, to start putting your pen down on to your paper. However, after that shitty first draft, it's time we did revision and edition. What I would do personally is look at the comments from whoever reads it, and try to improve the piece or sometimes shorten it achieve more conciseness.

Covering

Every single one of us needs to cover some part of our identity or personality in some way or the other in our daily life. Actually, we all have that unexpressed side, either the feminine or the masculine side, the side which we only let out when we are around people on whom we trust. Therefore, in our everyday encounter with people in the process of our socialization, we don't get to run into all the people that we trust, that's why we always feel the urge to hide the part of our characteristics which we don't want to be seen or judged by the others.

This is why we all wear a mask out!

Activity 33

Although I am a Cambodian, the first language I learned was Mandarin. Back to the year when I was seven, my parents sent me to a private Mandarin school simply because I had been nagging to ride the school bus. So off I started my Mandarin school, my very first school. Fortunately (this is what I feel right now), the school incorporated a Khmer language class giving me the chance to learn the Cambodian language at the same time. However, it didn't go well at first, I sucked at the language to say the least. I remembered pretending to read by moving my lips up and down so that the teacher would assume that I was reading only my voice wasn't audible. I ended up getting my ass spanked in front of the class and I was made standing in front of the class for the entire session too.

I-SEARCH

The first thing that came to my mind at the very begining of this research project was multicultural communication; however, as I began to look for sources related to this topic, my attention turned to stereotypes, a pervasive social misinterpretation. I then decided to do a research paper on the dangers of stereotypes considering the potentially adverse effects that they could do on those upon whom the stereotypes are applied. I also learned more about the negative effects of stereotypes such as mental and psychological impacts, and so on. For this research, I am going to interview a small group of college students of foreign origins on their peronsal encounters with negative stereotypes. The biggest challenge for me so far is the literature review, there are so many different sources available. I have to be selective and synthesize them in a way that it can give credibility to my paper, and in the mean time, to also include my own voice, which is a significant part of this project.

In-class blogging

Lester argues in his Writing Research Papers (1976) that students frequently excessively employ direct quotations when they are doing note-taking which leads to abundant presence of quotations in their completed research. Approximately about 10% of the final version should be of direct quotations. You should therefore try your best to control the number of direct quotations in your note-taking process.