WRITING PRACTICE: Statistics (page:79)

1. Survey question: Are you concerned about the amount of debt you have on credit cards?

Results:

Concerned the Amount of Debt on Credit Cards

                According to USA Today survey by Barbara Pearson, the less concerned about the amount of debt they have on credit cards. For those under thirty they are fifty five percent concerned about their amount of debt on their credit cards. People over 30 are less responsive as they only concern below 50%. The percentage of those who concern and not in the age between 30 to 45 are the same, they are on 43%. Only 51% of people paying the debt every month. A group of people from 46-60 are less concerned paying their debts, it was 62% of them say no. They either do not pay attention  to let their debts paid. The highest percentage of people who are not concerned was a group of people over 60, it reaches 81% no. They  give the least attention on paying the debts on time.

2. Survey question: Do you pay off all credit card bills every month?

Results:

Monthly Credit Card Payment

                      A  graph about people who responsible 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.

 

 

PRACTICE 2: Using Statistics (page: 78)

World’s Major Consumers of Primary Energy

                According to statistics published by the U.S. Department of Energy, the world’s consumption of primary energy continued to increase in 1994 in quadrillion Btu’s. The three top consumers include the United States, China, and Russia.However, the largest consumer was 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.

PRACTICE 3: Writing a Paraphrase (page: 91-92)

Artificial Language

                Around the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Zamenhof from Poland found Esperanto which is an artificial language that successfully by people for international use. Esperanto is easy to learn and to speak and it was influenced by English, German, the Romance languages, Latin, and Greek. Interlingua found after the following artificial language built by Latin, the Romance language, and English. However, Esperanto was more popular than Interlingua (Pei 175-176). 

Artificial Language

                  Even though 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. (Pei 176)

PRACTICE 2: Changing Direct Quotations to Indirect Quotations (page:88)

1. Television channel KSA General Manager Jim 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 he miss being on campus, but he has to work and take care of his 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 Mehdizadeh stated that he can choose when to study and how to study without pressure.  He also said that he will take two more telecourses in the fall.

PRACTICE 1: Direct Quotations (page:85-86)

1. Dr. Yixuan Ma, a well-known astrophysicist who has been studying black holes, said, “It is one of the most interesting phenomena we astrophysicist 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 holes are created by the death of a very large star.” she stated.

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 the tremendous gravitational forces.

6. “Time will allow down for him as he approaches the event horizon,” she said, “and when he reaches the event horizon, time will stand for him.”

PRACTICE 2: Using Statistics (page: 78)

World’s major consumers of primary energy, 1994. [Source: Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, International Database, August 1996. Figures represent quadrillion Btu (British thermal units).]

 

World’s Major Consumers of Primary Energy

                According to statistics published by the U.S. Department of Energy, the world’s consumption of primary energy continued to increase in 1994 in quadrillion Btu’s. The three top consumers include the United States, China, and Russia.However, the largest consumer was 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.

PRACTICE 1: Facts versus Opinions (page72-73)

__O__ 1.Smoking is relaxing and therefore, enjoyable

__F__ 2. Dr. Kathleen Parker, a well-known cancer specialist, recently admitted in an interview, “Although I see the harmful effects of smoking nearly every day in my work, I still enjoy relaxing with a cigarette after dinner.”

__F__ 3. Early in the next decade, more women than men will die of lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. NFS

__O__ 4. Smoking is attracting more and more adults.

__F__ 5. 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.

__O__ 6. Red-light runners must take a driver’s education class. Then they will become safer drivers.

__F__ 7. Red light runners cause score of accidents, including deaths and injuries as well as millions of dollars in damages. NFS

__O__ 8. Red-light runners should have their driver’s licenses suspended for period of time.

__F__ 9. Nationwide, the number of red-light running accidents increased 18 percent from 1991 through 1995. In 1991, 2,425 deaths resulted, and in 1995, the number rose to 2,866.

First Group

1. Hanna Nadia
2. Fadhilah Anies
3. Reza Asferdian
4. Nur Patria
5. Siti Nurul Hidayah

The Answers

1. B
2. A
3. B
4. B
5. A
6. Dillon, A (1994) stated that there are three tendencies in reading strategies; (1) Stay on the same text until understand even through skimming. (2) Readers were not interested if they didn’t understand. (3) Reader just read without cares their understanding.

References : Dillon, A (1994). Designing usable electronic text: Ergonomic aspects of human information usage. London: Taylor & Francis.

 7. According to Schwier, R & Misanchuk, E. (1993) Interactive multimedia instruction brings mediated instruction from more than one source to the learner experiences. With one multi-channel output, we can think of it in terms of many single inputs.

References: Schwier, R & Misanchuk, E. (1993). Interactive multimedia instruction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publication.

8. According to Driscoll (2000), we should make arrangement of events to acquisition some goal. First, range your knowledge. Second, choose what you want to be. Then, choose the setting of place to do that program. References: Driscoll, M.P (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

9. Reeves.B. & Nass, C (1996) stated that media influences people life significantly, as the environment influences them.

References: Revees, B & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

10. According to Frick. T. (1991), computers can do tasks and do the ability to identify those features like diagnosing equipment malfunctions or performing mathematical functions. Also computers can recognize and acknowledging your presence which make us unique and different.

References: Frick. T. (1991). Restructuring education through technology. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

 

HIGHER EDUCATION

Topic: Higher Education

    Higher educations are more likely studying in your school, but with further education. There are no teachers but lecturers will give you guidance for the subject and you will widen your knowledge through reading. Everyone around the world deserved to get a higher education for their successfully in their life. With having a higher education we can get many advantageous for our future. With having a higher education we can gain a lot of knowledge more than people who didn’t take any higher education, also we can be more critical in thinking. With higher education we can reach our dreams. Studying when you are in school is very useful but with getting more education on college could be very beneficial to reach your dreams. On your higher education you can focusing on what subject you are interest, such as if you have a dream to be the creator of games computer you can take computer engineering. In work world, a higher education can make you get a higher position in your company. With higher position you can make a higher salary. A higher education is very important for everybody around the world for their living. Even though to get a higher education need a lot of money and it’s not easy to get the bachelor’s degree, and you might find new ways of learning not like on your high school.

Public Transportation in Jakarta

1. Introduction

• Thesis statement: disadvantageous of public transportation in Jakarta creates insecurities, dirty environment, and long wait.

2. Body

• Public transportation in Jakarta
• Disadvantageous of public transportation in Jakarta
  • Insecurities
  • Dirty environment
  • Long wait
• Effects of disadvantageous of public transportation in Jakarta
  • Decreasing the number of people using public transportation
  • Traffic jam
• Solution to decreasing the disadvantageous of public transportation in Jakarta
  • Security need to contribute in public transportation
  • Added some busses
  • The passenger need to keep it clean

3. Conclusion

• In conclusion, public transportation takes a big position for people who want to travel from one place to another place. But people in Jakarta rarely use public transportation because of the uncomfortable of taking public transportation. So, we need to make people more attract to take public transportation as their media to travel.