Mona's L.E blog

   In today's class, we mainly went over the "writing tools" most of us were familiar with, as we used them last year. The writing tools include seven of which help review your writing. Out of all the details Mr.Paterson talked about, I believe I need to watch out on using the word "the" as when writing I feel as though I use it a bit too often. Thus I need to make sure on the whole essay that I use no more than 100. In addition, another thing I learnt about is that windows and apple computers are different when it comes to automatically spell check your writing. Apple computers check your writing automatically even on word documents whereas Windows tends to not do that unless you change the settings. Talking about my personal experience, I use a Windows computer and I write my essays/assignments in google documents where I have access to Grammarly to correct the imperfections of my writing. Then, I will copy and paste the exact same text to the Word document wh...

   Today, Mr. Paterson introduced two main points to the class; what to do during summer break and about the presentation slide shows. The work assigned for us to do during the summer break is to watch three videos from his youtube channel.    The first video is of him presenting for 20 minutes about AAGS, and he told us we should look at it as a model for our presentation. Just by looking at the video for the first ten seconds, I noticed something that I see many professional presenters do in their presentation. It is to connect the introduction with what the audience understands or has come across, in this case about what other presenters have talked about for the last few presentations. I believe it has the effect of making the audience more interested in the presentation, as some listeners might think they would have to listen to another presenter talk about the same topic. (Something like a reassurance that the topic will differ, so the audience will pay more a...

   Today, we learned about how to write good academic book reviews, using specific websites, or youtube channels. Not to mention that the first ten minutes of the class consisted of talking about our school system during this time.    To briefly explain my opinion on the school's approach of resuming classes, I agree with Mr. Paterson, and so honestly cannot support the idea. The reason is simply that not only are the rooms small for everyone to fit in, while social distancing, the widows in the rooms are limited. Talking about the windows, people may think that because I sit right next to the window (in the assigned seatings for HR), I'm lucky. However, the truth is that the winds blow the curtains into my face, resulting in a huge distraction while I am trying to concentrate on the class. And you might be thinking, well why not just use the hooks and keep them in place? Well, although some curtains do have both the fabric (that is shaped so it can cling onto the h...