Reference Sources
Our group six topic is on the link Reference Sources. “This is a great way to look up quick facts, definitions, statistics and overviews using online dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories and etc.” http://lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/research/default.asp 2/22/2011 This is also a good way to look for a topic that you might find interesting. They’re very good about having information on many different/ controversial topics. Here are some of the tools that this link provides.
Credo Reference
CQ Researcher
Discovering Collection
Educator’s Reference Complete
Facts of File (World News Digest)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
MasterFILE Premier
Points of View Reference Center
Sage Reference Online
Science Reference Collection
Clearly there is a lot of resources here that you could use as a valuable tool to aid you in writing a paper or whatever the case maybe. We’re going to zoom in on just two of these resources and explain them in depth, what they can be used for, and how to use them. We’ll talk about the Discovering Collection Link and the Facts of File (World News Digest).
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"Discovery Collection: A good resource for very basic information on virtually any topic. This comprehensive reference resource includes essays, critical analyses, biographies, and primary sources in both text and multimedia."
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Different things it can do:
1- Popular topics
2- Different subjects
3- Publication searches
4- Advanced searches
With just putting in key words you are able to pull up many different passages and in those passages the key word is highlighted.
The databases selected for searching offer a combined 281,559 articles and were last updated as recently as February 22, 2011
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=DC&userGroupName=stcloud_main date visited 2/21
Now I’m going to talk about the Facts on File (World News Digest) reference site. This is a searchable news and events site in addition to using the encyclopedia and almanac. This site gives top stories that date all the way back to 1940. Some special features that this resource has maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues. Basically you can just type the topic you’re interested in and if available there will be articles related to that topic. Right on the front page they have a in-depth coverage, Special Features, and Research Topic Idea Categories which are both useful and interesting.
The URL to this site is http://www.2facts.com/wnd_home_feature.aspx
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Steps of Interview
1.Thinking what kind of the interview you want.
2.Brainstorm a list of questions.
3.Compare questions with classmates and get some suggestion from your friends.
4.Choose 7 questions you would like to ask in core list.
5.Creat 7 more questions by your own.
6.Make a object list.
7.research for country report.
7.sort out your all questions and the process.
8.Write the country report.
9.Do the first interview.
10.Find another interview people by the first one
11.Make an appointment for the sceond people
12.Write a process description and personal review for first interview.
13.Post first interview with all four components.
14.Start the second interview
15.Find the third interview people
16.Do the third interview
17.Post the second and third interview
2.Brainstorm a list of questions.
3.Compare questions with classmates and get some suggestion from your friends.
4.Choose 7 questions you would like to ask in core list.
5.Creat 7 more questions by your own.
6.Make a object list.
7.research for country report.
7.sort out your all questions and the process.
8.Write the country report.
9.Do the first interview.
10.Find another interview people by the first one
11.Make an appointment for the sceond people
12.Write a process description and personal review for first interview.
13.Post first interview with all four components.
14.Start the second interview
15.Find the third interview people
16.Do the third interview
17.Post the second and third interview
Monday, February 14, 2011
Interview objectives for Hua Yunfei
1.Talk to someone from different country.
2.Learn others' different culture.
3.Get some different ideas for China from others.
4.Learn something new from others.
5.Learn what are the hard things for international students.
6.Learn how others adapt US life.
2.Learn others' different culture.
3.Get some different ideas for China from others.
4.Learn something new from others.
5.Learn what are the hard things for international students.
6.Learn how others adapt US life.
The interview questions
1.What is the hardest for you to adapt the US life?
2.Why did you choose US be the place that you study?
3.How do you think about the friends' relationship in US?
4.What is the most different between your hometown and US?
5.MN is relly very cold,why did you choose MN?
6.How many years have you learnt English and how do think about your English?
7.What's major and why you choose this major?
8.What will you do after your graduate?
9.How often do you connect your family or your friends in hometown?
10.Have you changed some habits after you came here?Why?
11.Which law are different between your country and here?
12.Are there any other language you can speak except English and your native language?
13.How do you manage your financial?
14.Do you think study abroad is really a good way for your future?Why?
2.Why did you choose US be the place that you study?
3.How do you think about the friends' relationship in US?
4.What is the most different between your hometown and US?
5.MN is relly very cold,why did you choose MN?
6.How many years have you learnt English and how do think about your English?
7.What's major and why you choose this major?
8.What will you do after your graduate?
9.How often do you connect your family or your friends in hometown?
10.Have you changed some habits after you came here?Why?
11.Which law are different between your country and here?
12.Are there any other language you can speak except English and your native language?
13.How do you manage your financial?
14.Do you think study abroad is really a good way for your future?Why?
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
12 questions in class
FOOD
1. What is your opinion of the American diet?
2. What are some dishes that are serviced for your meals?
3. Is it common to find fast food restaurants in your home country like it is here?
EDUCATION
4. How important is education to where you are from?
5. Is it tough to find a good paying job in your country without a post high school education?
6. What was your reason for becoming a foreign exchange student? What were the benefits in your prospective?
CULTURE
7. The U.S. is becoming more diverse as the decades go on, is that similar to where you are from?
8. What is a traditional festival in your country? Explain in detail the festival.
9. What do you like most about your home culture?
OTHERS
10. What kind of relationships do you have with your family?
11. What is customary in your family for dating?
12. Is valuing sports and being athletic important in your country?
1. What is your opinion of the American diet?
2. What are some dishes that are serviced for your meals?
3. Is it common to find fast food restaurants in your home country like it is here?
EDUCATION
4. How important is education to where you are from?
5. Is it tough to find a good paying job in your country without a post high school education?
6. What was your reason for becoming a foreign exchange student? What were the benefits in your prospective?
CULTURE
7. The U.S. is becoming more diverse as the decades go on, is that similar to where you are from?
8. What is a traditional festival in your country? Explain in detail the festival.
9. What do you like most about your home culture?
OTHERS
10. What kind of relationships do you have with your family?
11. What is customary in your family for dating?
12. Is valuing sports and being athletic important in your country?
20 questions for international students
1.What's your name?
2.Where are you from?
3.What's your native language?
4.When did you come to America?
5.How do you think about SCSU?
6.What's your major?
7.How do you think about MN's weather?
8.Why do choose your major?
9.Do you live in campuse?
10.What's job do you want to find in the future?
11.How long will you study here?
12.Do you like MN's food?
13.How do you think about here's people?
14.Have you visited other cities in US?
15.Do you make some friends here?
16.Do you miss your family?
17.Have you improved your English here?
18.How do you improve your English?
19.Have you visited other countries?
20.How do you think about US?
2.Where are you from?
3.What's your native language?
4.When did you come to America?
5.How do you think about SCSU?
6.What's your major?
7.How do you think about MN's weather?
8.Why do choose your major?
9.Do you live in campuse?
10.What's job do you want to find in the future?
11.How long will you study here?
12.Do you like MN's food?
13.How do you think about here's people?
14.Have you visited other cities in US?
15.Do you make some friends here?
16.Do you miss your family?
17.Have you improved your English here?
18.How do you improve your English?
19.Have you visited other countries?
20.How do you think about US?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Group 6 Outline on Global Communication
Topic: What is global communication and how has it permoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years.
Introduction:
Thesis: Global Communications has changed world perspectives in many different ways, including advances in technology, socially, and economically.
Body:
Advances in Technology:
a. Doctors are able exchange information and knowledge on a global level.
b. With our new advances in technology we’re able to help lesser advanced countries thrive.
c. Also communicating on a global level is just all around easier with satellites, the continual growth of internet, and cell phones.
Social internet between people
a. With the use of Email you’re able to receive mail globally with out the delay of travel.
b. Skype
i. See a persons face from across the globe.
ii. Able to send text.
iii. It’s free for everyone to use.
Economically
a. Promoting global trade
i. Exchange of oil which is as vital substance throughout the world.
ii. Getting essential goodsl to countries that can’t produce the goods themselves.
Concluding sentence: As you can see Global Communication has changed the world perspectives in many different ways.
Introduction:
Thesis: Global Communications has changed world perspectives in many different ways, including advances in technology, socially, and economically.
Body:
Advances in Technology:
a. Doctors are able exchange information and knowledge on a global level.
b. With our new advances in technology we’re able to help lesser advanced countries thrive.
c. Also communicating on a global level is just all around easier with satellites, the continual growth of internet, and cell phones.
Social internet between people
a. With the use of Email you’re able to receive mail globally with out the delay of travel.
b. Skype
i. See a persons face from across the globe.
ii. Able to send text.
iii. It’s free for everyone to use.
Economically
a. Promoting global trade
i. Exchange of oil which is as vital substance throughout the world.
ii. Getting essential goodsl to countries that can’t produce the goods themselves.
Concluding sentence: As you can see Global Communication has changed the world perspectives in many different ways.
Global communication
In the beginning of 2011, President of PRC Hu Jintao went to visit US. It is a very important activities for China and US relations. It is also a successful global communication case. In current time, the world is developing faster and faster, and the global communication becomes more and more important. In the past several years, global communication promote the world develop faster in lots of ways, as economy, science and technology. In this article, you will know what is global communication, global communication how to promote the global economy, science and technology.
First, what is the global communication. Global communication seems a bridge to connect the relations between countries and countries. There are lots of different kind of global communications, as international cooperation, countries visits, international conference. At current time, global communication is a indispensable part of the world. It promote the world develop faster in past several years, it makes the world smaller. The very important reason why the human sciences develop so fast is global communication's promotion. In the 21th century, more frequent exchanges between countries and more and more international organizations are established. Lots of countries' governments think, sometimes the cooperation can help the countries' development be better.
Secondary, how global communication promote the global economy developing. The most common form is some countries cooperate to establish the international financial organizations. One of the international financial organizations is APEC( Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), there are lots of big countries participate the famous organizations, as US, China, Russia. The global communication can control the global economy situation in a good way. It can easy to control the exchange rate in a balance way. It can also promote the global price stability very well, as the international crude oil prices. When lots of international financial organizations establish, the global trade becomes more convenient, and you can easy to buy something you like from other countries.
The next point is how global communication promote the science and technology. The global communication can let some countries to complete a research get together. It really speed up the human science's development. As the exploration of the universe, why it grow so fast, because US, European Union and some other countries they all contribute their own force. More and more inventions has been created in recently years, it also cause the global communication promote the technology sharing. The science and technology sharing help the developing countries become strong faster. Lots of poor people can get better life because of the communication. The technology sharing can also promote the technological innovation, then the technological innovation give people the better world.
Global communication is really a very important part in the world now. It can promote the globalization in lots of way, as economy, medical, culture, science and technology and so on. Every country need global communication to help itself develop faster and better, and give its own people better life. The more global communication in the world, the world will be better.
First, what is the global communication. Global communication seems a bridge to connect the relations between countries and countries. There are lots of different kind of global communications, as international cooperation, countries visits, international conference. At current time, global communication is a indispensable part of the world. It promote the world develop faster in past several years, it makes the world smaller. The very important reason why the human sciences develop so fast is global communication's promotion. In the 21th century, more frequent exchanges between countries and more and more international organizations are established. Lots of countries' governments think, sometimes the cooperation can help the countries' development be better.
Secondary, how global communication promote the global economy developing. The most common form is some countries cooperate to establish the international financial organizations. One of the international financial organizations is APEC( Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), there are lots of big countries participate the famous organizations, as US, China, Russia. The global communication can control the global economy situation in a good way. It can easy to control the exchange rate in a balance way. It can also promote the global price stability very well, as the international crude oil prices. When lots of international financial organizations establish, the global trade becomes more convenient, and you can easy to buy something you like from other countries.
The next point is how global communication promote the science and technology. The global communication can let some countries to complete a research get together. It really speed up the human science's development. As the exploration of the universe, why it grow so fast, because US, European Union and some other countries they all contribute their own force. More and more inventions has been created in recently years, it also cause the global communication promote the technology sharing. The science and technology sharing help the developing countries become strong faster. Lots of poor people can get better life because of the communication. The technology sharing can also promote the technological innovation, then the technological innovation give people the better world.
Global communication is really a very important part in the world now. It can promote the globalization in lots of way, as economy, medical, culture, science and technology and so on. Every country need global communication to help itself develop faster and better, and give its own people better life. The more global communication in the world, the world will be better.
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