Finalize Your Assignment 1

My dear students:

First of all, I want to say sorry that I could not meet you face-to-face today due to my illness. Hope you were all doing well and enjoyed your unexpected break this afternoon.

Thanks to the Internet, I can still communicate with your through our "Composition Class Blog". As you can see, when you access to my teaching website (http://home.kimo.com.tw/pingyard), you can find out there is a new link (http://www.ntust06.blogspot.com) which is entittled "Discussion for Your Assignments". This new blog will be used to post your assignments after I have read and given comments on them. For you to be familiar to the way I comment on your assignments, I need to explain my "color coding system". Basically, there are four colors that I would use to highlight and comment on your artices: red, green, blue, and purple. I use color red to indicate that there are word-level errors in your sentences. Color red also point you to your mechanic errors like grammar, spelling, punctuation, and proofreading. I use color green to indicate there are phrasal or sentence-level errors in your articles and I use color blue to indicate there are beyond sentence-level errors which we call discoursal errors. I use color purple to make overall comments on your articles. In the following, I will summarize what I just said in a listing way.

Red: word-level and mechanic erros
Green: phrasal or sentence-level erros
Blue: Errors beyond sentence-level (discoursal errors)
Purple: The overall comments on your article

You can start to finalize your Assignment 1 by considering the comments that your peers and I have given. Hope the explanation in the above is clear enough to carry out the work.

Take care and see you next week!!


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