EAP102A

Speakers: Share TSIS and Keys for Writers chapters

Share new phrase

Citations and references review

Work on your final revision

Apply lesson from chapter you read to your essay

Read classmates’ essays

Annotate your reference list

Phrases for discussion: “Where can you get more words like this?”

Speakers and discussion: Jerry, Wu You, George

Writing tip: “Think from your reader’s perspective”

Start working on your final revision

Notice a phrase and use it

Find a chapter in TSIS or Keys for Writers

All students do Speaker presentations next class

Going forward: Final revision

Speakers and discussion: Chris, Jingheng, Derrick

What is “depth”?

Note: Final revision due midnight on Sunday March 7

Respond to 2 classmates’ essays

Message me and tell me which essay you want to revise

Upload phrases to Box

Speakers: Wu You, George, Jerry

Speakers and discussion: Xiaoyi, Tanya, Tianji

The Art of Definition

Observations and discussion: Intersections articles

Draft of Essay 2 due Wednesday at midnight

Be ready to talk about “The Meaning of Cool” and The Chinese Have a Word for It next class

(Optional) Get started on homework due week after vacation

Speakers: Derrick, Jiaheng, Jingheng

Review words and phrases

Speakers and discussion: Rachael, Rixin, Kaige

Begin discussion of Essay 2 examples

Read the parts of the Pogosyan article that were missing!

Read my list of words and Essay 2 instructions

Read the four sample essays soon to be published in Intersections

Short writing assignment: Define a concept and explain why it’s interesting

Speakers: Xiaoyi, Tanya, Tianji

Review words and phrases

Speakers and discussion: Jerry, George, Wu You

Discuss “Cultural Keywords” article, share examples of cultural keywords

Read the parts of the Pogosyan article that were missing!

Read my list of words and Essay 2 instructions

Read the four sample essays soon to be published in Intersections

Short writing assignment: Define a concept and explain why it’s interesting

Speakers: Rachael, Rixin, and Kaige

Review words and phrases

Finish discussions from last class

Speakers and discussion: Tanya, Xiaoyi, Chris

Read Pogosyan article on cultural keywords

Read and respond to 2 classmates’ essays

Speakers: Jerry, George, Wu You (respond to East Meets West)

Review words and phrases

Mini-lecture: “Using the world as your language-learning textbook”

Speakers and discussion: Tianji, Jingheng, Kaige

Share observations and comments on MCMP2019 chapters

Essay 1 draft due Monday

Look at Liu Yang infographics (“East Meets West”)

Speakers: Tanya, Xiaoyi, Jiaheng

Review words and phrases

Writing to be read; contributing to the “literature”

Speakers (Derrick, Rachael, Rixin) and discussion

Be ready to share observations on MCMP 2019 Edition sample chapters

Keep researching & reading; rewrite beginning if necessary

Speakers: Tianji, Jingheng, Kaige

Readings from “Rituals of the Esenich”

Feedback on writing: A few words

Review words & phrases from last class

Speakers: Jerry, George, Wu You (share social scripts)

Going forward (intro to Essay 1)

Read excerpts from My Country and My People, 2019 Edition

Short writing assignment: Begin Essay 1

Skim tables of contents and request 3 chapters

• (this part is due 6pm on Saturday!)

Speakers for next class: Derrick, Rachael, Rixin

Interview with a “cultural outsider”

Observations and discussion

Intro to “cultural scripts”

Read Meng Hongdang, “Social Script Theory and Cross-Cultural Communication”

Short writing assignment: Describe a social script

Read classmates’ “Rituals of the Esenich” and come ready to share a favorite passage

Intro to class: Why write about culture?

Close read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”

Read Course Handbook

Finish reading “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”

Short writing assignment: “Rituals of the Esenich”

Think of an outsider to Chinese culture and come up with a list questions