Assignments

     In today's lesson, we first reviewed our knowledge from the class to write a good essay. Since we had covered this in a few classes earlier, it allowed me to learn further of what really is a good structure of an essay. I felt that I must understand this structure fully, in order to follow in my semester 1 report.
     Then we had moved onto our group task, where we decided in detail who actually will do what. This is mentioned at the bottom of this post. I am starting to realize that we do not have much time towards the end of the assignment, and am feeling hurried to do get on with the work I must complete. I thought that if the assignment was handed out earlier, with clear due date mentioned on the criteria, it might have been easier for us to complete the assignments. I do like how Mr Paterson does the lessons, but there are some problems I personally am facing. \
     The first thing is that I do not know if my information is correct or not. I am listening carefully in class, not to miss out anything, but still, I want to make sure that what I understood was either right or wrong. I try to go to Feedly after a couple of days from the lessons to see how everyone understood it but, I realized that their blog post may be wrong too. Either if Mr.Pasterson gives us comments or make a short blog post after every lesson to write notes from the class, just like how we are reflecting too. This will probably offer more accurate information.
     The other thing is how the assignments are explained. Since we have the grading criteria for most of our subjects, we are more used to the ones as such. For this reason, it may be better if criteria format is changed to the ones with level descriptors. Regarding the due date, I didn't want to know about it just like a week or two from the actual due date.
I understand that we must continue our website creating no matter what, but only if points mentioned above are made better, it will allow us to schedule effectively to finish our assignments.

Tasks;
Chisaki: individual report&page coordination, infographic, homepage and individual 'about' site.
Runa: individual report&page coordination, about page, home page, slogan, and individual 'about' site.
Ryosei: individual report&page coordination, infographic, logo, infographic and individual 'about' site.

Structures;
Hook - alliteration
Explanation - more details
→wait until you know your own conclusion

Hook
grab the reader's attention- shocking? funny?
statistics - if the number is big, put it into an example where we can feel close into our daily lives.

Background
what the reader has to know in order to understand the essay

Thesis statement
the main topic of the essay - 3topic claim


Conclusion
Summary - repeating the body para. / paraphrase repeats
Conclusion - why should we be aware of the issue? Why should they care?
Limitations - maybe the link to other member's website?