Assignment 4 --Remix

Benefits of Being Bilingual

There are tons of languages spoken throughout the world. Every person has the capability of handling at least one language, which he or she learns in his childhood which is used for basic communication and comprehension. However, many people can speak two or more languages. There are numerous benefits of being bilingual such as an improvement in linguistic, helping others foreigner.

For example, I have learned English for six years. My dream is to run a multinational company. As we know, English is most frequently used by people all over the world. Thus, I firmly believe that if I can speak English it is, to some extent, easier to finish my dream. Also, learning English makes me happy and be proud of myself. For instance, a western couple visited my hometown last summer. A lot of people were curious about them because my hometown was a small place. Rare of people has seen western people in the real world. The couple stopped to watching a nice pair of hats and then they talked with the seller. Obviously, however, the seller did not understand them. I thought I should help them, so I asked the couple whether thy wanted to buy this pair of hats. They said yes and asked me the price of it. I asked the seller the price and then told the couple. They thought it was very cheap and bought them. Thus, I helped them have done this deal!

Meanwhile, many people are capable to learn a second language. Some people learn another language in their own country. Others learn it in different countries. Recently, tons of institutes and schools offer foreign language courses. Many colleges and universities open some foreign language courses in their regular academic syllabus too. However, learning another language, you need to understand its improve vocabulary and basic grammar. Being bilingual offers greater sensitivity to language, more flexibility in thinking and a better ear for listening. It opens the door to other cultures. Moreover, knowledge of other languages increases the career opportunities, offering several job options.

Visual literacy is a good way to writing

Maya script and Chinese script are quite old methods to record something. In the reading material, Maya writing is most well-known because its decipherment attracts lots of people’s attention. They are unique visual literacy and are the simplest way to record what happened in ancient time.

There is no doubt that recent we still sometimes use this kind approach to start writing. My experience is a good example, usually before I start writing I will have brainstorm. It helps me get some ideas and examples to illustrate the questions. Also, I write them down on a piece of paper and draw a draft because by this, I can find the relationship or connection between each point and example. This visual staff is like the Maya script because both of them could be regarded as writing.

However, this visual literacy sometimes makes people confused since it just shows the roughly outline of its meaning. It means that some specific information can not be presented on it. Crucially, some missed details are actually important information to translate interpret the writing, especially when archaeologist translates the ancient scripts.

"How does literacy shape technology? How does technology shape literacy?"

They are intereting questions. Those two questions seems to be related to each other. In my opinon, the shapes of writing technologies accompany the process of developing of literacy. For example, the most basical technology is pencil. If there was no writing exsiting before, it would not be emerged. Meanwhile, the literacy can record the technologies and makes the public possiblely have access to understand and interpret the technologies. For instance, if a new washing machine were invented, we can learn how to operate it by instruciton that is also a kind of literacy.

My viewpoint of the second question is that technology creats tons of novel, various literacy, especially when computers were used to as a method to composetion. There is no doubt that the fiction would not be imerged without the high development of technology. It also provides us with a visual perspective to observe the world around us.

The proposal of my project 4

This project is not only creative but also practical because it requires us to make a media to express our ideas. The idea should be discussed in precious projects. It means that we should the different method to support our point.

What I plan to do on this project is to make a video about American peer painting culture. You know, there is a wall right across Bessay Hall, is painted by people .Specifically, what I will do is to record the process of painting and to ask what they guys passion is. What they want to express to others.

I think this project is related to the third project (literacy). As far as I am concerned, painting is very popular among young people in the America. It should be regarded as an unoriginal culture of America. Also it can be a kind if literacy because people need to understanding something and interpreting it and finally people express their thoughts or ideas by painting. This process correctly is the kind of literacy which we discussed in the class.

When it comes to audiences, they are composed of three parts. Firstly, my teacher will watch it because this is the class work. Secondly, the painting makers, maybe they are interested in this project because they can know what they do during creative a painting. Lastly, the most component of the audience is some people who are interested in painting culture and how to paint.

I am your audience

When it comes to the persuasive media impress, I want to recommend a website to all you guys. (www.loe.org) It is the weekly environmental news and information program distributed by Public Radio International. At beginning of reading it, to be frankly, I did not like it because my purpose was just to get something to write down. By this, the ISB ( the course is related biology) professor would give me the extra credit.

When I, however, know it more depth, I am into this website. Firstly, the comphemeon or some science reports discussed in the interview are truth. It means that they are persuasive. Because before they host and interviewer discuss the issues, the host will introduce the basic background of the interviewer, such as what interviewer's degree is, what he or she does and which institution comes from. Thus, we can figure out that their reports and points whether are correct by this basic information. For example, if a professor(PHD) who comes from MSU's agricultural institution giving a new report about new agricultural product, I think that I am willing to believe what she or he said. Because ,as most people knows, the agriculture institution of MSU is the one of the best agriculture institution over the world. It is very hard to acquire the PHD degree from MSU' agricultural institution.

The experience with this project

To: Franny Howes
From: Liu ruicheng
Date: 03/29/2009
WRA1004—006

This project is the most creative that I have ever made. There are four people in our group. We cooperated with each other very well. Firstly, we talked about our majors. Two of us have the same major. Then we made a list of requirements of our different majors. For example, my major is marketing. I am required to learn some case studies, the basic computer science, marketing management and data analysis. The next step was that we put individual list together and found the common points. We pointed out the different aspects. We tried to find the relationship between those different aspects and made them connect to each other. For example, one of our group members learns the Finance. He is required to learn the data analysis. He and I are connected by Internet literacy because we both use the Internet resources to analyze the data. Finally, we didn’t make a map until we knew the connection of each other’s literacy.

My role in our group was to find the connection of our different literacy. What I did was to find out the same or related aspects between us. If there were some same or related ones, it illustrated that our literacy was connected. Also I was responsible for printing our literacy map.