Your final paper: Decoding American cultural practices.
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Lin Yutang says Chinese culture is individualist. Hu, Grove, and Zhuang say Chinese culture is collectivist. How do you make sense of this contradiction?
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Step-by-step instructions on formatting your citations and references for My Country and My People: 2019 Edition.
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Some guidelines to follow when copyediting your groupmates’ chapters for My Country and My People, 2019 Edition.
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Step-by-step instructions for how to complete the copyediting process for My Country and My People, 2019 Edition.
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Checklist of what I’ll be looking for when evaluating your midterm papers.
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These are the prefaces that won the most support across all three sections.
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Useful templates for the different “moves” discussion in They Say, I Say, provided courtesy of Don Snow from the Duke Kunshan Language and Culture Center.
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Instructions for how to complete your EAP102 midterm project.
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What topics do you want to write about for your contribution to My Country and My People: 2019 Edition?
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What’s your job this week?
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Frequently asked questions about Paper #2.
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Looking back at My Country and My People eighty years after it was written, what did Lin Yutang get right? What does he get wrong?
Due: M-Tu Jan. 28-29, in class
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Some generalizations about Chinese culture from the travel guide Lonely Planet.
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Advice for foreign travelers to China.
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How shall we define “culture,” for the purposes of our 2019 edition of My Country and My People?
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How to interpret the grades I give on papers and other written assignments.
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Tips and resources on how write a good outline.
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