So far, I found learning english is a lot of fun. From EG1471, I learned how to write citation professionally, knew the strucrure of academic essays, for example, compare and contrast/argumentative, etc. I also learned how to summarize an article. In addition, I even built up my own blog. Woww, that's fantastic. I love it so much.
In the following weeks, I think I could develop my writing skills, because I often felt confused when I am writing essays. I don't know how to grab readers' attention and how to start my topic. So generally it's my weakness that I should put more efforts on it.
2008年9月27日星期六
2008年9月11日星期四
The reasons for people’s resistance to new technology
Assignment 1(Topic 1)
The reasons for people’s resistance to new technology
The 21st century has seen great changes in every aspect of life. People are taking advantages of the booming new technologies. They are becoming more reliant on it. However, a contradictory phenomenon arises that many people are looking forward to a new revolution on technology, but at the same time, are also resistant to such a change. If we look into it, the reasons are not intricate. It is derived from people’s fear of upsetting the routines and facing the potential harm that may be embedded in the new technologies. First of all, many people are getting used to one lifestyle and do keep it as a habit or regulation. With a new invention coming into their life, their old way of doing things is affected. For example, the emergence of the great invention –the computer almost rewrote human history. It replaced the traditional communication methods and speeded up the exchange of information. Some people soon got used to it, while some are still allergic to it. They usually like reading articles printed on the paper rather than screen, or prefer plain letters to emails, like my grandma. It is because that those people are more likely to keep the conservative views and oppose to any changes. Secondly, new inventions may have potential harms which are not possible to be detected using the current equipment. Nowadays, people are arguing about the safety of transgenic food and crops. Some researchers (“what’s hiding in transgenic foods?”, 2002) believe that this kind of food should be banned, for transgenic foods may promote allergies, for during the transgenic engineering the insecticidal protein-Cry9C is produced. Even though no sufficient evidence to show that such protein accounts for allergy, genetic modified foods are still under questioned. So some people doubt the security of the new technologies. In conclusion, even though people welcome new technologies, but it still takes a long time for the new technology to be truly accepted by all. That is really still a long way to go for the engineers to help people over come such a resistance.
Reference
What’s hiding in transgenic foods? (January 7, 2002). Retrieved August 29, 2008, from http://www.western.edu/faculty/dorth/chem101/8001gov1.html
The reasons for people’s resistance to new technology
The 21st century has seen great changes in every aspect of life. People are taking advantages of the booming new technologies. They are becoming more reliant on it. However, a contradictory phenomenon arises that many people are looking forward to a new revolution on technology, but at the same time, are also resistant to such a change. If we look into it, the reasons are not intricate. It is derived from people’s fear of upsetting the routines and facing the potential harm that may be embedded in the new technologies. First of all, many people are getting used to one lifestyle and do keep it as a habit or regulation. With a new invention coming into their life, their old way of doing things is affected. For example, the emergence of the great invention –the computer almost rewrote human history. It replaced the traditional communication methods and speeded up the exchange of information. Some people soon got used to it, while some are still allergic to it. They usually like reading articles printed on the paper rather than screen, or prefer plain letters to emails, like my grandma. It is because that those people are more likely to keep the conservative views and oppose to any changes. Secondly, new inventions may have potential harms which are not possible to be detected using the current equipment. Nowadays, people are arguing about the safety of transgenic food and crops. Some researchers (“what’s hiding in transgenic foods?”, 2002) believe that this kind of food should be banned, for transgenic foods may promote allergies, for during the transgenic engineering the insecticidal protein-Cry9C is produced. Even though no sufficient evidence to show that such protein accounts for allergy, genetic modified foods are still under questioned. So some people doubt the security of the new technologies. In conclusion, even though people welcome new technologies, but it still takes a long time for the new technology to be truly accepted by all. That is really still a long way to go for the engineers to help people over come such a resistance.
Reference
What’s hiding in transgenic foods? (January 7, 2002). Retrieved August 29, 2008, from http://www.western.edu/faculty/dorth/chem101/8001gov1.html
The grammar mistake
Before I start my e-portfolio 2, I would like to tell you a joke first.
Johns, can you tell the class how do you spell elephant?
> E-L-E-F-A-N-T, sir.
The dictionary spells it E-L-E-P-H-A-N-T.
>But, sir, you didn’t ask me how the dictionary spells it!
Hah hah, funny, right? So it is easy to recognize a spelling mistake the student made, however, can you tell that there is a hidden grammar mistake in the joke? Yup, it is in the first sentence. We should change it “how you spell elephant”.
This is a common mistake that I always encountered when I used the sentence structure “can you tell …” or “do you see …”. I thought it was quite strange. Why do we need to use a statement following the first part of the sentance when we intend to post a question? It sounds very unnatural to me. So I looked up into a grammar handbook and found the answer. It is because that “can”here is used to ask for a permission to post an inquiry, with the second part describing it. So every time we see “can you tell” or “do you know”, we should rearrange it into a statement, for the second part is a clause.
That is how I learned from my grammar mistake. So do you tell me how you got improved from yours?
Johns, can you tell the class how do you spell elephant?
> E-L-E-F-A-N-T, sir.
The dictionary spells it E-L-E-P-H-A-N-T.
>But, sir, you didn’t ask me how the dictionary spells it!
Hah hah, funny, right? So it is easy to recognize a spelling mistake the student made, however, can you tell that there is a hidden grammar mistake in the joke? Yup, it is in the first sentence. We should change it “how you spell elephant”.
This is a common mistake that I always encountered when I used the sentence structure “can you tell …” or “do you see …”. I thought it was quite strange. Why do we need to use a statement following the first part of the sentance when we intend to post a question? It sounds very unnatural to me. So I looked up into a grammar handbook and found the answer. It is because that “can”here is used to ask for a permission to post an inquiry, with the second part describing it. So every time we see “can you tell” or “do you know”, we should rearrange it into a statement, for the second part is a clause.
That is how I learned from my grammar mistake. So do you tell me how you got improved from yours?
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