Writing Assignment

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1. (OPINION) Smoking is relaxing and, therefore, enjoyable.
2. (FACT) Dr.Kathleen Parker, a well-known cancer specialist, recently admitted in an interview, “Although I see the harmful effects of smoking nearly everyday in my work, I still enjoy relaxing with a cigarette after dinner.”
3. (FACT) Early in the next decade, more women than men will die young of lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. NFS
4. (OPINION) Smoking is attracting more and more adult.
5. (FACT) According to a recent New York Times article, cigarette smoking is increasing among adults in their forties as well as among the college educated and those earning more than $35,000 annually.
6. (OPINION) Red-light runners1 must take a driver’s education class. Then they will become safer drivers.
7. (FACT) Red-light runners cause scores of accidents, including deaths and injuries as well as million of dollars in damages. NFS
8. (OPINION) Red-light runners should have their driver’s licenses suspended for a period of time.
9. (FACT) Nationwide, the number of red-light running accidents increased18 percent from 1992 through 1995. In 1991, 2,425 deaths resulted, and in 1995, the number rose to 2,866.

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World’s Major Consumers of Primary Energy
According to statistics published by the U.S Departement of Energy, the world’s consumption of primary energy continued to increase in 1994 in quadrillion’s Btu’s. The three top consumers included the United States, China, and Russia. However, the largest consumer was the United States. It used 85.64 quadrillion Btu. Japan consumed 20.7 quadrillion Btu, whereas Germany consumed 13.87 quadrillion Btu. The countries that consumed less than 10 quadrillion Btu included India, United Kingdom, France, and Italy.

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Survey Question 1

According to statistic published in USA Today survey by Barbara Pearson, people are getting concerned with the amount of debt on their credit cards. Statistic shows that people in the age of under thirty are in the first rank who concerned about this. The percentage is 55%. The second rank is they who are in the age of thirty until forty five with 43%. However, not all of people are concerned about this case, we can see from the statistics, people who are in over sixty aren’t really much concerned about it, with the percentage of saying no is 81%, whereas people in the age of forty six until sixty are in the second place with percentage 62%.

Survey Question 2

A graph about people who responsibles in paying the credit card bills shows older people do it much rather than the younger, USA Today reported. The graph says that people over their sixties have a big percentage in paying the bills, it has the highest number, 87%. It seems like the more you are older the more you have to pay off yours or your family credit card bills. We can see it from the graph that shows adults in the age of forty six until sixty have a chance to settle it too, with the percentage 68%. This condition is very contrast compared to people in the age of under thirty, most of them said no, therefore the percentage is 59% and also for a group in the age of thirty until forty five, they show 49% for saying no to pay off the credit card bills.

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1. Dr. Yixuan Ma, a well-known astrophysicist who has been studying black holes, said, “It is one of the most interesting phenomena we astrophysicists have ever studied.”
2. As she explained, “In black holes the laws of nature do not seem to apply.”
3. “A black hole is a tiny point with the mass 25 times the mass of our sun,” explained Ma’s associate, Chun-Yi Su, “black hole are created by death of a very large star.”
4. “It is an invisible vacuum cleaner in space,” she added, “with tremendous gravitational pull.”
5. According to Dr.Su, “If a person falls into a black hole, he will eventually be crushed due to the tremendous gravitational forces.”
6. “Time will slow down for him as he approaches the event horizon”, she said, “and when he reaches the event horizon, time will stand still for him.”
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1. Television channel KSA General Manager im Burns said that not everyone can attend college in the traditional way; therefore, taking courses via television will offer many more students the chance to earn a college degree.
2. Pre-med student Alma Rodriguez said that she miss being on campus, but she has to work and takes care of her family.
3. Other students said that last year they spent several hours a day commuting to and from school. Now they don’t have to do that.
4. Computer engineering student Amir Mahdizadeh stated that he can choose when to study and how to study without a pressure. He also said that he will take more telecourses in the fall.

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Artificial Language
In the end of the nineteenth century, Dr.Zamenhof from Poland found Esperanto, the artificial language which is successfully used by people throughout the world. It was affected by English, German, the Romance language, Latin, and Greek. The upcoming artificial language had been found was Interlingua which is built by some language experts from Latin, the Romance language, and English. However, Esperanto was more famous than Interlingua because it is very far easy to understand. (Pei 175-176)
Artificial Language—Objections
However artificial language like Esperanto and Interlingua are lack in some ways. The structure of language are much influenced by Western culture like European and American so it’s very hard for Asian, African and Slavic to understand it.
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Outline

Outline
Choosing a career

I. Introductory
Thesis statement: To become a successful in career, you have to choose it according to: your education, interest, and ability.

II. Body
A. Education is the most important thing to get a job.
B. Interest of something you like can be a job if you know how to make it benefits to you.
C. If you don’t have an ability to doing some jobs, you will harm yourself.

III. Conclusion
So, to be the successful in a career, you have to know yourself and the job itself to get more comfortable to doing it. If you feel comfort with your job, you will be happy to doing it.

Summary

Summary
Essay Writing
According from Purdue OWL, essay is commonly assigned form of writing that every student will encounter while in academia. Essays are shorter pieces of writing that often require the student to hone a number of skills such as close reading, analysis, comparison and contrast, persuasion, conciseness, clarity, and exposition.
The purpose of an essay is to encourage students to develop ideas and concepts in their writing with the direction of little more than their own thoughts.
The genre of essay writing:
• Expository essays
• Descriptive essays
• Narrative essays
• Argumentative (persuasive) essays

Expository Essay
The expository essay is a genre of essay that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner.
According to Purdue OWL, the structure of expository essay:
• A clear, concise, and defined thesis statement
• Clear and logical transitions between the introduction, body, and conclusion
• Body paragraphs that include evidential support
• Evidential support
• A bit of creativity
• A conclusion that does not simply restate the thesis
• A complete argument
(Source: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/685/ )

Descriptive Essays
Descriptive essay is a genre of essay that asks the student to describe an object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation, etc. Here some guidelines for writing a descriptive essay:
• Take time to brainstorming
• Use clear and concise language
• Choose vivid language
• What you were thinking?!
• Leave the reader with a clear impression
• Be organized

(Source: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/685/ )

Narrative Essays
Narrative essay is often anecdotal, experiential, and personal-allowing the student to express themselves in a ceative and, quite often, moving way. Here some guidelines for writing a narrative essay:
• If written a story, the essay should include all the parts of a story
• The essay should have a purpose
• The essay should be written from a clear point of view
• Be organized
(Source: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/685/ )

Argumentative Essays
The argumentative essay is a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic, collect, generate, and evaluate evidence, and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner. Argumentative essay and expository essay are similar, but the argumentative essay differs from the expository essay in the amount of pre-writing(invention) and research involved. The argumentative essay is commonly assigned as a capstone or final project in first year writing or advanced composition courses and involves lengthy, detailed research. Expository essay involve less research and are shorter in length.
The structure of the argumentative essay is held together by the following:
• A clear, concise, and defined thesis statement in the first paragraph of essay
• Clear and logical transitions between the introduction, body, and conclusion
• Body paragraphs that include evidential support
• Evidential support
• A conclusion that does not simply restate the thesis
• A complete argument

(Source: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/685/ )

Introductory Paragraph

Choosing a career
Everyone want to be successful in their life. To be successful in our life, we have to choose a career or job. If we have a job, we can fulfill our daily needs and other things that we wanted. So, to be successful in career, we have to choose it based on our education , ability, and interest.

Paraphrase

Paraphrase
Practice 6 :
There are only three readers who manifest their tendencies to read and understanding the whole thing before they moving on to next section. Because if they not to do it, they can not resolving the problems.

Practice 7 :
Interactive multimedia instruction gives many advantages to the learner with only one multy-channel output. But, the learner only experiences the tapestry, not the individual threads.

Practice 8 :
Any type of learners can achieve their goals with the instructions. It is the guidance to achieve their goals successfully.

Practice 9 :
Media are more than just a tools these days. Now, media are full participants in our social life and natural world.

Practice 10 :
Although computers are very good doing some tasks, such as diagnosing equipment malfunction or performing mathematical functions, but it has disadvantages at doing things your dog or your cat can do.

Thesis Statement

Thesis Statement

A personal bad habit
There are two factors that make someone have a bad habit: internal factor which is from the home itself and external factor which is from the outside of the home.

Choosing a career
To become a successful in career, you have to choose it according to: your education, interest, and ability.

Foreign travel
If you want to go to foreign country, things that you must prepared are: pasport or important papers to enter the foreign country, accomodations, and travel costs.

Higher Education

Higher Education
Education is a process of teaching, training and learning, especially in schools and colleges, to improve and develop skills. We realized that education is very important to all people around the world. Because education is the way to increase our knowledge and life to be the better person. We can get basic education in kindergarten school and elementary school. Next, we continue to junior and senior high school to start more specific subject like science and social knowledge. Then, the higher education is from the college. College is the highest level of formal education to get more specific details on proffesion or something to research.
In Indonesia, to get a higher education in universities, some people should pay much money. The universities in Indonesia are independent to develop them and the goverment did not subsidize them anymore. So, the universities, public and private, have to find their own fund from the payment of the college student. The goverment, especially national department of education, only has the regulation to get formal education for twelve years. So, going to college to get higher education is a choice for some people, not an obligation. They who not going to take higher education, will find the job to fulfill their daily needs. Beside that, they also want to be a entreprenuer to get more independent in their job.
Some people who want to go to college have many ways to get there. They who want to go to college but do not have enough money, will get the scholarship if they want to register. Scholarship is a facility to somebody who has achievement in education. But, like some wise man said, “no pain, no gain”. They who already get the scholarship to go to college must defend their achievement or score in education to keep the scholarship paying their college. If they can not defend their acievement or their score in college decline, their scholarship will be revoke.
Beside that, there are some people who going to college and have a job to do. The risk is they will get more tired because they have to be focus on two activities. They have to divide carefully the time when they have to work and when they have to study in college. Because if they can not divide it, their study or job will be disorganized, or it can be both. But, all of them are depend in our choice to make whether we going to college or directly to find a job or doing both things together.
Everyone has a different sight in things, including education. But, education itself is to increase the standard of life of human kind. Also, the education is to educate and learn us to become a valuable person in knowledge and morality. Without education, we can not increase our knowledge and our life, create something useful, and doing something to improve our potention. Because all humans live to learn since we are born until we are dead.