Interview Questions

Interview Questions

1)      What country did you come from?

2)      What are you going to school for?

3)      Do you plan on applying your major in the United States or back home? What do you want to be when you grow up?

4)      Why were you interested in traveling abroad?

5)      Is the schooling like the US? If not explain

6)      Is there a caste system in your country? Where are you in it? (If ok to ask)

7)      Who’s the most respected person/people in your family?

8)      What are some traditions in your family? Holidays? Birthdays?

9)      How is obesity affecting your country? Other health issues?

10)   What are the dating standards? Arranged marriages?

11)  What are the clothing trends? Same as the US?

12)  Have your perspectives change of the US as a country than before? (Way they viewed US)

13)  What’s the hardest part about being away from home and family?

14)  Was it difficult at first being around all English speaking people?

15)  Is the food different from back home? Better or worse? Bigger portions or smaller?

16)  Are your winter’s cold back home? Are you prepared for this winter?

List of Interview Objectives

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The Interview Process

1)      ­­Figure out where to  find International students

2)      Talk International students about participating in an interview for English 

3)      Ask them to participate in my assignment

4)      Set up a time to get together

5)      Get a recorder ( that works well)

6)      Go over my interview objectives and questions and confirm them

7)      Meet them in Atwood and find a place to sit

8)      Possibly go to Caribou Coffee

9)      Sit down and explain again why this interview is taking place

10)   Give them a piece of paper with what we’re going to discuss

11)   thank them again for helping and being a part of it

12)    Start the interview and begin the recorder

13)   Go through the interview asking questions and discussing  them

14)   Conclude the interview and say thanks again

15)   Then go to a computer and transcribe the interview and write notes that will help

16)   Search for information on the country the International student came from

17)   Write a rough draft for the interview transcript and country report

18)   Go to the write center to go over my rough drafts

19)   Finalize the country report and interview transcript  

20)   post it to my blog

Interview Objective

-Country came from

- Interest in the US

- What they expected

- Why MN

- Biggest issue face while living away from home

-How often do you talk to family back home

- Plan on continuing studies at SCSU next year

- How long the studied English

- Family importance

            - How are children raised

            - Certain amount of kids?

            - Date/ marriage

            - Special rules for finding a significant other

            - Elderly treated

            - Family structure

-Traditions/ Holidays

- Do for fun  

- Tourist treated / Perceived

- School process (k-12, college ect.)

            -Follow family job

            - study habits

            -Emphasize on school

-Health issues compared to the US

- Work week

-Crime issues

-Trends (clothing, styles, tv ect.)

Global Communication Paper

"What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?"

By: Emily Schleif

            Where would we be in the world today if we didn’t have the technology we have today? Who knows, but in the past ten years the global communication has grown at a substantial amount. Global communication has had a tremendous impact on the world today, from helping eliminate distance, increasing opportunities all over the globe, but also with all the advantages there are disadvantages. 

            According to Belinda Dickson, globalization communication is the process of transmitting and receiving info on a world wide scale  (Dickson, 2004).  The first form of global communication was Morse code. Morse code was invented by Samuel Morse. He conceived the basic idea of an electromagnetic telegraph in 1832, and produced the first working telegraph set in 1836 (Ager, 2008). Other types of global communication are television, radio, satellites, internet, and video.

            The global communication has expanded massively in the past ten years. It has allowed people to communicate with other people on the other side of the world.  Television has made it possible for everyone in the world to see what is going on in other countries and to keep them updated with the latest news and information.

One of the best ways for global communication is through the internet. In the classroom teachers and professors want students to learn about several different topics and one way they do that is through the internet.  The internet offers vast majority of information for everyone around the world that is seeking knowledge. It is said that in 2009 there were two hundred and thirty four million websites on the internet. (Interent 2009 in Numbers, 2010)

           
            Some advantages of global communication are making the world a smaller place, increasing business opportunities and improving cultural education (The Advantages of Global Communication, 1991 ). Even though China is on the other side of the world global communication made it possible to connect with people within minutes or even seconds when they are far away.  Global communication has increased business opportunities by being able to communicate and make relationships with other business around the world. That opens up the trading market for more possible business deals. In classrooms teachers and professors want students to learn about other cultures, one way they do that is through the internet.  The internet offers vast majority of information for everyone around the world that is seeking knowledge.

            The disadvantages of global communication are, unemployment, privacy, lack of job security, and dominant culture (Some advantages and disadvantages of information technology, 2008). The reason unemployment is a disadvantage is because technology is replacing jobs.  Because technology is changing and improving everyday it is making job security hard to control. Employees have to keep learning and adapting to new technology if they want to keep up in the technological society today.  The internet opens up the world to other cultures all over the world. It allows for influence on other cultures with behavior, clothing, and trends.

            Global communication has made it possible for an enormous amount of things to happen in the past ten years. It has led countries to communicate to work on issues together, businesses to flourish, students to further their education, teenagers and young adults to make friends on the other side of the world, and to improve our lives in many ways. There are disadvantages to global communication but we will find a way overcome them and so that they will no longer be a problem.  In the end global communication won’t stop growing, it will continue to grow and we grow with it and adapt to it.

           

Works Cited

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.omniglot.com/writing/morsecode.htm

Ager, S. (2008). omniglot . Retrieved 09 15, 2010, from Morse Code: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/morsecode.htm

Dickson, B. (2004, 08 25). Global Communication . Retrieved 09 15, 2010, from M/Cyclopedi: http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Global_Communication

Interent 2009 in Numbers. (2010). Retrieved 09 15, 2010, from pingdom: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/

Some advantages and disadvantages of information technology. (2008). Retrieved 09 15, 2010, from SmallBusinessBible: http://www.smallbusinessbible.org/advan_disadvan_informationtechnology.html

The Advantages of Global Communication. (1991 ). Retrieved 09 15, 2010, from ehow: http://www.ehow.com/list_6129825_advantages-global-communication.html

Outline

Ideas :
  - connect more people all over the world
  - domination
  - economy
  - Globalization communication : process of transmitting and receiving info on a world wide scale
  - problems and issues

Title : Global Communication
      Intro & Thesis : All over the world there is some form of communication in every place. Global communication has had a tremendous impact on the world today, helping eliminate distance and barriers, increasing opportunities all over the globe, but also with the advantages there are disadvantages.

Main Topic: The Advantages
      1)connect more people all over the world
      2) Helps improve culture education
      3) Global communication is available pretty much every where

Main Topic 2 : Disadvantages
    1) Human contact in the business world is dwindling
    2) Not always 100% reliable
    3) Loss of Privacy, dominate culture

Conclusion:  Overall, global communication has helped us move forward in the world.It has helped us with businesses and education but has lacked it human contact loss of our privacy. To every advantage there is a disadvantage but in our world today we will figure out a way to over come it and find a solution.

On line blog quiz

On the Diana Hacker website the grammar exercises were very helpful. The help you learn step by step about grammar. The grammar exercises included active vs passive verbs, parallelism, needed words, mixed constructions, misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, shifts, choppy sentences, and subordination. All these grammar exercises was a great review from high school. It helped me remember something that I forgot or just don't think about anymore.
      The three things that I learn were subordination, needed words, and dangling modifiers.
An example of subordination is, the highly specialized medical training, called a "residency," usually takes four year to complete. This is a good example because helps show that the idea is being emphasized and the subject and the verb are independent.  
   Needed words helped me understand that something we add words while writing that we don't necessary need, they are just fillers and other time we don't have enough words to get our point across. The sentence flows better when there are certain words filled in or taken out.
Before today I've never heard of dangling modifiers. I found this very interesting. It was helpful when writing that the opening statement doesn't just dangle that it flows together and describes what is happening. An example is, reaching the heart, the surgeon performed a bypass on several blocked arteries. In this sentence is shows who's doing the action and not leaving it open ended.
   Overall, I found that this was very helpful review with grammar.

LEO topic

annotated bibliography 

Top 3 stories

1) Kyle M - The Boy
     I believe this story had a well thought out plot. It was very easy to read and it never confused the reader. The story had a great flow to it and it always kept you wanting to read more. Also all the inventory was used.

2)Haley E - The Drummer
    This was an amazing story! I thought this had a very interesting plot. The author has a great imagination. The story flows very well. All the inventory was used.

3)Xin J- The story of the box
     The story contained all the 13 items. It was clear and easy to read. It was very interesting how the story traveled all round. I thought the story had a great moral to it. 

Parameters for evaluating peer review

1)Clear and easy to read (5pts)
2)Intelligent plot (4pts)
3)Grammar  used Correctly(3pts)
4) Word choice(2pts)
5) Complete use of Inventory(1pt)