★Peer Editing★
Susan Li's blog: http://www.wretch.cc/album/wretch1117
CLARITY
About Susan Li’s blog entries most of which make sense well, so I can understand plainly what those topics are. Her opinion on each article is given clearly. The organization should be improved to a more conspicuous layout. And the style is casual so that I could read them in a free and relaxed mood. But
some places are unclear, for example, the position of her opinion couldn’t be found instantly.
GRAMMAR ﹠PUNCTUATION ﹠SPELLING ERRORS
Grammar:
1. Nouns: count/uncount noun, possessive pronoun
2. Verb tenses: the gerund, the participle
3. Subject-verb agreement
4. The passive tense
5. Preposition combinations
6. Subordinating conjunction: though, but, since
7. The causative: followed by the simple form of a verb, not an infinitive
8. The verb “be”: uses as an auxiliary verb in progressive verb tenses and in the passive
9. Noun clauses beginning with a question word
10. Forms of “other”: (only two) one…the other…
11. Compound word
Punctuation:
1. Apostrophes: add only an apostrophe to a plural noun that ends in –s; add an apostrophe and –s to plural nouns that end in –s
2. Question mark
The following sentences are errors concluding the revisions which I made orderly after looking over all of the articles of the blog carefully. And I suggest that Susan Li should check the context once more as soon as she finishes it.
1. But I think it is quit a good thing to report the different sides of view of the gencode (genocide).
2. I really admire the person who can express her own though (thought) straightly in a humor (humorous) way.
3. You should be more careful about your speech for demos’ thought will (which/that will) easily be affected by you.
4. Recently, there are more and more research (researches) of baby.
5. and we could advance their education for avoiding they (them) accept (accepting) the wrong message.
6. we will never know hoe (how) amazing baby is.
7. And now, we can comprehend with (comprehend) baby more clearly.
8. Nowadys (Nowadays), we more and more care about our health than before.
9. The comment in this news is (has) a little bit bias.
10. We all know that the company should (should be) responsible for this accident.
11. And another thing is why didn’t the reporter (the reporter didn’t) write if the company was punished or not.
12. We try to provide children a safe and clean environment for protect them from dangerous. → We try to provide a safe and clean environment for children by protecting them from danger.
13. Sometimes we just be (are just) careless and make some mistakes.
14. But sometime it (it is) just because we trust the government and big company too much.
15. How they live, what they eat or what do (what) they do.
16. It’s very interesting that how can people (people can) gain money after they die.
17. What will happen this time? Or what is going on to them. (？)
18. we only are (are only) intrigued the news that has no effect upon us.
19. Because what have happened to them is not our business.→ Because what happened to them which is not our business.
20. but it’s strange and ridiculous to say other’s fault but to cover his own (his) up in every possible way.
21. Thought (Though), I don’t identify with the Oaeda militant’s action
22. I think the one who took that picture were cold-blood (cold-blooded) person
23. Honesty (Honestly), I don’t thing they are professional but utilitarian.
24. And this leads a bad trend which let other reporter (reporters) imitate it.
25. For myself, thought (though) I respect my teacher and put my attention on whether he is a good teacher or not but I never really care about what a teacher should do.→ For myself, though I respect my teacher and put my attention on whether he is a good teacher or not, I never really care about what a teacher should do. Or For myself, I respect my teacher and put my attention on whether he is a good teacher or not, but I never really care about what a teacher should do.
26. I think many of my friends likes (like) me
27. In the dictatorial regime, a teacher just like a watchdogs (watchdog) who would help the government control people’s maid (mind). In other side (On the other side), a teacher in a democracy will let students have their own opinion and encourage them to express it out.
28. they would change their style of teaching to attract student (students’) attention and make things easy for student (students) to learn.
29. I think be (being) a good teacher not just emphasize (emphasizing) his way of teaching but help (helping) his student in a proper way who is in trouble.
30. I can do anything I want (want to) operate within the law.
31. And I think there were many Youngman (young men) just like me were shocked by this news.
32. And we don’t pay too much attention on this issue which (, which) let us ignore whether others have it or not.
33. Anyway it is necessary for the monk (monks) to fight for their freedom.
34. it does make people re-think the definition of good shap (shape).
35. Models always represent the trend of fashionable and prety (pretty).
36. Thus, young girls do what they can do to be like modles (models).
37. And modles (models) who wants to be more beutiful (beautiful) and thinner sometimes will take some violent way.
38. it makes no good to our bady (body).
39. I Really (really) can't understan (understand) why people want their bady (body) look like beautiful but not healthy.
40. Does (Is) beauty so important that they could ignore everything to win the "Good Sape (Shape)"?
2008年1月6日 星期日
Peer Editing (to Anne)
★Peer Editing★
Anne's blog: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/annechen1123/
CLARITY
About Anne’s blog entries most of which make sense well, so I can understand plainly what those topics are. Her opinion on each article is also given clearly. The organization is set in a very proper way, but there are many articles which are not published the sources; therefore, people will have doubt as to the correctness of news you publish. And the style is casual so that I could read them in a free and relaxed mood.
GRAMMAR ﹠PUNCTUATION ﹠SPELLING ERRORS
Grammar:
1. Nouns: count/uncount noun, proper noun, possessive noun
2. Verb tenses: the gerund, the participle
3. Subject-verb agreement
4. The article: using “the” to definite nouns
5. Preposition combinations
6. The causative: followed by the simple form of a verb, not an infinitive
7. The verb “be”: uses as an auxiliary verb in progressive verb tenses and in the passive
8. Noun clauses beginning with a question word
Punctuation:
1. Apostrophes: add only an apostrophe to a plural noun that ends in –s; add an apostrophe and –s to
plural nouns that end in –s
2. Quotation mark
3. Comma (don’t repeat)
4. Semi-colon: to separate two independent clauses with two different events
The following sentences are errors concluding the revisions which I made orderly after looking over all of the articles of the blog carefully. And I suggest that Anne should check the context once more as soon as she finishes it.
1. why there are so many poeople (people) use this weak point to swindle for (swindle out of )money?
2. We can see that many things sold an (in) Taiwan were made in China
3. Or we have to face the problem about no competitiveness with any other countries, (;) we will lose the
chance to reveal ourselves.
4. In my opinions,, (,) there are more and more homosexual bloom around us in our daily life.
5. This news is talk about a monsignor was suspended by the Vatican after he was caught on tape making sexual advances at (to) a young man.
6. he’s (his)opinions are conflict with the holy see. (Holy See)
7. But for the Italian monisgnor (monsignor), he thought he was right, and he thought he was fraudulented (deceived).
8. I think this kind of issues are (is) the most troublesome for the holy see.
9. the parents would take care (take care of) the children at home rather than send them to the special school.
10. they would afraid the children get hurt, or the train (is) maybe too difficult to them
11. As a prisident (president), I think he should assemble his followers to establish a plan to support market’s fluctuant price
12. but our mandarinate (government officials) looks like doesn’t understand the citizens live hardly.
13. one minister said that people can buy a bunch of vegetable with NT.5 dollar (dollars) rather than those high price’s vegetable
14. these words shows (show) that you are not understand (understanding) about the market’s fluctuant price, and you didn’t care about the citizens.
15. The slogan 〝UN for Taiwan 〞 ("UN for Taiwan") is very popular in Taiwan’s news recently.
16. Actually I do not object that Taiwan should enter UN, but I think the governers (governors) should not take this kind of political issues into schools. Although they’re (their) starting point is good.
17. Taiwan and China should be unify (unified) or Taiwan should announce independence
18. if the tourists (tourist) wants to take the taxi but he can not speak
19. Also, Taiwan’s bus stop did not (Taiwan’s bus stops do not) have English version about the bus route! How can the tourists make the package travel then? If Taiwan (Taiwanese) want to promote oue (our) beautiful island, we should do more efforts!
20. I think this policy’s starting point is for Japaneses’ (Japanese’s) security, and more careful defense can avoid suspects’ attack, also the Japan government can promise visitors’ personal safty (safety).
21. this policy can protect everyone in Japan from terroists’ (terrorists’) attack
22. So, we can wait to see how the Japanese government improve (improves) the problems.
23. I think the MOTC need to reference (refer to) other countries that have the high speed rail, the ticket’s prices and how did they institute the price. Do not let the high speed rail only provide the richs (rich) to take. Then this advancement is useless.
24. Many informations (information) about the high speed rail show up
25. Since the high speed rail start s (started ) (the) operation, many problems show up (has showed up)
26. The company which releasing the film need (needs) to provide the safety (safe) place to the little actors
Anne's blog: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/annechen1123/
CLARITY
About Anne’s blog entries most of which make sense well, so I can understand plainly what those topics are. Her opinion on each article is also given clearly. The organization is set in a very proper way, but there are many articles which are not published the sources; therefore, people will have doubt as to the correctness of news you publish. And the style is casual so that I could read them in a free and relaxed mood.
GRAMMAR ﹠PUNCTUATION ﹠SPELLING ERRORS
Grammar:
1. Nouns: count/uncount noun, proper noun, possessive noun
2. Verb tenses: the gerund, the participle
3. Subject-verb agreement
4. The article: using “the” to definite nouns
5. Preposition combinations
6. The causative: followed by the simple form of a verb, not an infinitive
7. The verb “be”: uses as an auxiliary verb in progressive verb tenses and in the passive
8. Noun clauses beginning with a question word
Punctuation:
1. Apostrophes: add only an apostrophe to a plural noun that ends in –s; add an apostrophe and –s to
plural nouns that end in –s
2. Quotation mark
3. Comma (don’t repeat)
4. Semi-colon: to separate two independent clauses with two different events
The following sentences are errors concluding the revisions which I made orderly after looking over all of the articles of the blog carefully. And I suggest that Anne should check the context once more as soon as she finishes it.
1. why there are so many poeople (people) use this weak point to swindle for (swindle out of )money?
2. We can see that many things sold an (in) Taiwan were made in China
3. Or we have to face the problem about no competitiveness with any other countries, (;) we will lose the
chance to reveal ourselves.
4. In my opinions,, (,) there are more and more homosexual bloom around us in our daily life.
5. This news is talk about a monsignor was suspended by the Vatican after he was caught on tape making sexual advances at (to) a young man.
6. he’s (his)opinions are conflict with the holy see. (Holy See)
7. But for the Italian monisgnor (monsignor), he thought he was right, and he thought he was fraudulented (deceived).
8. I think this kind of issues are (is) the most troublesome for the holy see.
9. the parents would take care (take care of) the children at home rather than send them to the special school.
10. they would afraid the children get hurt, or the train (is) maybe too difficult to them
11. As a prisident (president), I think he should assemble his followers to establish a plan to support market’s fluctuant price
12. but our mandarinate (government officials) looks like doesn’t understand the citizens live hardly.
13. one minister said that people can buy a bunch of vegetable with NT.5 dollar (dollars) rather than those high price’s vegetable
14. these words shows (show) that you are not understand (understanding) about the market’s fluctuant price, and you didn’t care about the citizens.
15. The slogan 〝UN for Taiwan 〞 ("UN for Taiwan") is very popular in Taiwan’s news recently.
16. Actually I do not object that Taiwan should enter UN, but I think the governers (governors) should not take this kind of political issues into schools. Although they’re (their) starting point is good.
17. Taiwan and China should be unify (unified) or Taiwan should announce independence
18. if the tourists (tourist) wants to take the taxi but he can not speak
19. Also, Taiwan’s bus stop did not (Taiwan’s bus stops do not) have English version about the bus route! How can the tourists make the package travel then? If Taiwan (Taiwanese) want to promote oue (our) beautiful island, we should do more efforts!
20. I think this policy’s starting point is for Japaneses’ (Japanese’s) security, and more careful defense can avoid suspects’ attack, also the Japan government can promise visitors’ personal safty (safety).
21. this policy can protect everyone in Japan from terroists’ (terrorists’) attack
22. So, we can wait to see how the Japanese government improve (improves) the problems.
23. I think the MOTC need to reference (refer to) other countries that have the high speed rail, the ticket’s prices and how did they institute the price. Do not let the high speed rail only provide the richs (rich) to take. Then this advancement is useless.
24. Many informations (information) about the high speed rail show up
25. Since the high speed rail start s (started ) (the) operation, many problems show up (has showed up)
26. The company which releasing the film need (needs) to provide the safety (safe) place to the little actors
2007年12月13日 星期四
December 11, 2007 -- Updated 1920 GMT (0320 HKT)
'Smarter' robots work together to perform tasks
'Smarter' robots work together to perform tasks
Story Highlights:
*Honda programs Asimo robots to perform tasks in coordination with one another
*Asimo stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility
*The robots serve drinks to people and push around a refreshment cart
*They navigate around people by predicting their movements
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- As if the idea of having one robot to serve you wasn't unusual enough, Honda says its humanoids are now ready to work in pairs -- and they can even serve drinks.
Asimo robot serves coffee and performs other tasks in coordination with other robots.
At a demonstration Tuesday at its Tokyo headquarters, automaker Honda Motor Co. showed off two of the child-sized Asimo robots serving tea and performing other tasks in coordination with one another.
The bubble-headed robots seemed to pick their steps carefully as they made their way around the room, picking up and putting down drink trays and pushing around a refreshments cart.
Honda said it has developed a system to link its robots together so they can share information about where each one is and what each is doing.
The 51-inch tall Asimo is "smarter" now, thanks to upgrades that allow it to do more tasks without human help, the company said. The robot can, for example, recognize drink choices and carry a tray with the requested drink to the person who placed the order.
The Asimo, which looks like a child in a white spacesuit, also does a better job of moving around people because of technology that allows it to better predict people's movements so it doesn't get in the way.
The robot can even automatically head off to the nearest charging station when its batteries fall below a certain level.
Honda has been working on robots since 1986. Rival Toyota Motor Corp. has been aggressively beefing up its own robotics team, showing off last week a robot that could play the violin.
The Japanese government has been pushing companies and researchers to make robotics a pillar of this nation's business. Other companies, including Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd. and NEC Corp., are also developing robots.
Asimo -- which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility and is play on the Japanese word for "legs" -- first became available for rental in 2000. It's considered one of the world's most advanced humanoids. It can walk, even jog, wave, avoid obstacles and carry on simple conversations.
"By the end of 2010s, we'd like to see these robots working at every street corner of the city," said Tomohiko Kawanabe of Honda's Fundamental Technology Research Center.
What makes the news?
1. Impact: The Japanese government has been pushing companies and researchers to make robotics a pilla of this nation's business.
2. Prominence: Asimo, which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility and is play on the Japanese word for "legs".
3. Novelty: The robots can service people and even do more tasks without human help.
2007年12月6日 星期四
English News 9
Last Updated: Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 13:46 GMT
Since the introduction of IVF in 1978, the number of multiple births has almost doubled. Does this mean that twins and other multiples have lost their "specialness"?
Twins have been revered and feared throughout history.
Every culture has its twin myths. Voodoo practitioners in Haiti believe twins have magical ability and share a single soul. Some Native American tribes considered them unlucky.
And in the West twins, triplets and other multiples are a staple of daytime television on shows that are the modern-day take on the freak show.
This fascination with people who come in multiples - particularly identical twins - is because they make us question our sense of uniqueness, says Dr Nancy Segal, a psychology lecturer and twin expert at California State University, who herself is a non-identical twin.
"We tend to expect individual difference in appearance and in behaviour, so when we see two people who look so much alike - and are so much alike - this really draws our interest."
Because what does being a twin do to someone? For storytellers, twins represent duality, with one good and one bitter and twisted at having to share. The evil twin is a literary staple, from Romulus, the demi-god who slew his twin brother Remus to secure power in ancient Rome, through to outrageous storylines in soap operas.
"You can take good or evil, or bad and good, you can talk about twins as complementary," says Dr Segal, whose book Indivisible By Two examines the twin relationship.
"But a lot of people have extended that to say there is a good twin and a bad twin in every twin relationship, and that is just pure myth."
Gap in the market
In recent years the number of multiple births has increased, due to the use of fertility treatments and mothers delaying childbirth until they are older.
Today, about one in every 67 pregnancies results in a multiple birth.
And the High St has responded accordingly. Greeting card makers offer congratulations on the arrival of multiples. Prospective parents can take out insurance to help cover the cost of more than one baby arriving at once. And supermarket trolleys no longer have just a single child seat.
This is down to efforts to make life easier for multiple birth families, says Keith Reed, chief executive of the Twins and Multiple Births Association (Tamba). It was 1993 before supermarkets began producing trolleys with seating for at least two children.
"It was one of our first and most successful campaigns because it made such a difference. You could go out and take your children shopping and just lead a normal life."
Attract attention
But twins and other multiples are still unusual enough to give complete strangers licence to ask the most personal of questions, he says.
"Twins are not uncommon, and yet people still react somewhat strangely towards them. The reserved British population seems to think they have the right to ask people how they conceived if they have got twins, which is something you would never dream of asking anyone else who is pregnant."
Claire and Michael Hall, of Newcastle, are all too familiar with this since becoming parents to Robbie and Isla in May 2006.
"I felt really special when I told people I was having two, but you can tell people are trying to find out whether they were conceived through IVF or not, when it really should not matter.
"People are fascinated by them. Everywhere I go people look at them and says how gorgeous they are. Lots of people come up to me and say: 'I always wanted to have twins'."
Because however familiar we become with those who come in sibling sets, what's special is their strong bond.
When researching her latest book about the nature of twinship, Dr Segal met identical twins Gerry and Mark, who were brought up separately and reunited aged 31. The men - both firefighters - felt they were so alike there was no need to get acquainted.
"Identical twins seem to have that right from the moment they are born," she says. "People are always searching for closeness and camaraderie and complete understanding. Tests show identical twins probably do have the closest social relationships of anyone."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7125650.stm
My opinion:
I don't have any relative of twins or other multiples, but I have had classmates who are twins (identical twin) since I was in junior high. Both of them are lively boys and everybody gets along with them happily. By the way, it is an extremely special thing that they quite often seem to be thinking the same thing, or will say a really strange thing absolutely simultaneously.
As far as I am concerned multiple births of two or more children as a result of IVF, which cannot in any way be compared with identical twins, triplets etc. These children are still special as they are a result of one egg splitting and grow up looking identical. Multiple birth children merely look like brothers and sisters. So I think that people ought to respect for all of them in normal mind and avoid holding curiosity to research them thoroughly.
Just like another
By Caroline Briggs
BBC NewsBy Caroline Briggs
Since the introduction of IVF in 1978, the number of multiple births has almost doubled. Does this mean that twins and other multiples have lost their "specialness"?
Twins have been revered and feared throughout history.
Every culture has its twin myths. Voodoo practitioners in Haiti believe twins have magical ability and share a single soul. Some Native American tribes considered them unlucky.
And in the West twins, triplets and other multiples are a staple of daytime television on shows that are the modern-day take on the freak show.
This fascination with people who come in multiples - particularly identical twins - is because they make us question our sense of uniqueness, says Dr Nancy Segal, a psychology lecturer and twin expert at California State University, who herself is a non-identical twin.
"We tend to expect individual difference in appearance and in behaviour, so when we see two people who look so much alike - and are so much alike - this really draws our interest."
Because what does being a twin do to someone? For storytellers, twins represent duality, with one good and one bitter and twisted at having to share. The evil twin is a literary staple, from Romulus, the demi-god who slew his twin brother Remus to secure power in ancient Rome, through to outrageous storylines in soap operas.
"You can take good or evil, or bad and good, you can talk about twins as complementary," says Dr Segal, whose book Indivisible By Two examines the twin relationship.
"But a lot of people have extended that to say there is a good twin and a bad twin in every twin relationship, and that is just pure myth."
Gap in the market
In recent years the number of multiple births has increased, due to the use of fertility treatments and mothers delaying childbirth until they are older.
Today, about one in every 67 pregnancies results in a multiple birth.
And the High St has responded accordingly. Greeting card makers offer congratulations on the arrival of multiples. Prospective parents can take out insurance to help cover the cost of more than one baby arriving at once. And supermarket trolleys no longer have just a single child seat.
This is down to efforts to make life easier for multiple birth families, says Keith Reed, chief executive of the Twins and Multiple Births Association (Tamba). It was 1993 before supermarkets began producing trolleys with seating for at least two children.
"It was one of our first and most successful campaigns because it made such a difference. You could go out and take your children shopping and just lead a normal life."
Attract attention
But twins and other multiples are still unusual enough to give complete strangers licence to ask the most personal of questions, he says.
"Twins are not uncommon, and yet people still react somewhat strangely towards them. The reserved British population seems to think they have the right to ask people how they conceived if they have got twins, which is something you would never dream of asking anyone else who is pregnant."
Claire and Michael Hall, of Newcastle, are all too familiar with this since becoming parents to Robbie and Isla in May 2006.
"I felt really special when I told people I was having two, but you can tell people are trying to find out whether they were conceived through IVF or not, when it really should not matter.
"People are fascinated by them. Everywhere I go people look at them and says how gorgeous they are. Lots of people come up to me and say: 'I always wanted to have twins'."
Because however familiar we become with those who come in sibling sets, what's special is their strong bond.
When researching her latest book about the nature of twinship, Dr Segal met identical twins Gerry and Mark, who were brought up separately and reunited aged 31. The men - both firefighters - felt they were so alike there was no need to get acquainted.
"Identical twins seem to have that right from the moment they are born," she says. "People are always searching for closeness and camaraderie and complete understanding. Tests show identical twins probably do have the closest social relationships of anyone."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7125650.stm
My opinion:
I don't have any relative of twins or other multiples, but I have had classmates who are twins (identical twin) since I was in junior high. Both of them are lively boys and everybody gets along with them happily. By the way, it is an extremely special thing that they quite often seem to be thinking the same thing, or will say a really strange thing absolutely simultaneously.
As far as I am concerned multiple births of two or more children as a result of IVF, which cannot in any way be compared with identical twins, triplets etc. These children are still special as they are a result of one egg splitting and grow up looking identical. Multiple birth children merely look like brothers and sisters. So I think that people ought to respect for all of them in normal mind and avoid holding curiosity to research them thoroughly.
2007年11月28日 星期三
Assignment---MEDIA AWARENESS
If I was a newspaper editor who supports the opposition to Conservative M.P. Humphrey Humphrey, I choose the article and the vocabulary as following:
Vocabulary Choices:
HUMPHREY DISCOUNTS ALLEGATIONS or "DRUG TALK ALL LIES," SNARLS HUMPHREY
OTTAWA (UBI) Conservative M.P./warhorse and liquor baron/distillery executive Humphrey Humphrey denounced/denied today that reports/allegations implicating/involving him in undercover/subversive drug/dope retailing/peddling were true/had any basis in fact. Addressing a dinner/blowout for colleagues/hangers-on at a swank/exclusive Ottawa restaurant, Humphrey angrily denied/calmly refuted swarms of rumours/numerous reports that he and a gang/group of cronies/acquaintances had sneaked/smuggled into the national's capital/Ottawa lethal doses/dangerous amounts of diluted/adulterated ambrosia under cover of dark/at night. "Such talk is all lies," snarled/said Humphrey, hunched over/seated with a tumbler of booze/an after-dinner cocktail. Rumour-mongers/sources around Parliament Hill suggest/hint tonight Humphrey's alleged crime/scrape is the subject of Cabinet investigation/talk. Meantime, Bay Street analysts/mandarins note/point to the fact that Humphrey stock has plummeted/fallen in the last two days/suddenly in the face of/as a result of a wave of panic/selling.
Source: Jim Henderson, Mediascan (Toronto:pub, 1976), pp.40-41
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/broadcast_news/humphrey_discounts.cfm
The reason for the choices of all of the above is that I want to depreciate Humphrey by using a great deal of disapproving words or phrases, and in a negativistic attitude.
However, now, if I was supportive of Mr. Humphrey, I change my position certainly. I will use the favorable vocabulary to conduce to Mr. Humphrey. And in my viewpoint of supporter write the report.
What does this exercise tell us about media values?
First, the information from newspaper and TV, except the fact of the news, another kind of information is called “opinion", such as the editorials and the public opinions, which about inviting the special to comment on or the readers express the personal ideas, this information must be dealt with separately from the fact of the news.
So-called fact is a true statement, and is correct through investigating and verifying. And the reporter’s responsibility is to report the fact. Opinion is a kind of judgment; express the view of a theme. Generally speaking, the reporter should report the fact which is unsuitable to join the personal opinion, but if the reporter fails to deal with the balance of both, may join the personal suggestion. So the best way of distinguishing the standard of both: one can be investigated, verified and obtain the evidence is the fact. Contrarily, one can’t do so is called the opinion.
The factors including culture, political, economy, considerations of the commercial interest, reporter’s own value or affections of the positions of the news’ source, all of which make the news reach difficultly to objective definitely.
In sum, people possess the quality of “Media Literacy”, which is the most important task to be dealt with in the present day.
Vocabulary Choices:
HUMPHREY DISCOUNTS ALLEGATIONS or "DRUG TALK ALL LIES," SNARLS HUMPHREY
OTTAWA (UBI) Conservative M.P./warhorse and liquor baron/distillery executive Humphrey Humphrey denounced/denied today that reports/allegations implicating/involving him in undercover/subversive drug/dope retailing/peddling were true/had any basis in fact. Addressing a dinner/blowout for colleagues/hangers-on at a swank/exclusive Ottawa restaurant, Humphrey angrily denied/calmly refuted swarms of rumours/numerous reports that he and a gang/group of cronies/acquaintances had sneaked/smuggled into the national's capital/Ottawa lethal doses/dangerous amounts of diluted/adulterated ambrosia under cover of dark/at night. "Such talk is all lies," snarled/said Humphrey, hunched over/seated with a tumbler of booze/an after-dinner cocktail. Rumour-mongers/sources around Parliament Hill suggest/hint tonight Humphrey's alleged crime/scrape is the subject of Cabinet investigation/talk. Meantime, Bay Street analysts/mandarins note/point to the fact that Humphrey stock has plummeted/fallen in the last two days/suddenly in the face of/as a result of a wave of panic/selling.
Source: Jim Henderson, Mediascan (Toronto:pub, 1976), pp.40-41
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/broadcast_news/humphrey_discounts.cfm
The reason for the choices of all of the above is that I want to depreciate Humphrey by using a great deal of disapproving words or phrases, and in a negativistic attitude.
However, now, if I was supportive of Mr. Humphrey, I change my position certainly. I will use the favorable vocabulary to conduce to Mr. Humphrey. And in my viewpoint of supporter write the report.
What does this exercise tell us about media values?
First, the information from newspaper and TV, except the fact of the news, another kind of information is called “opinion", such as the editorials and the public opinions, which about inviting the special to comment on or the readers express the personal ideas, this information must be dealt with separately from the fact of the news.
So-called fact is a true statement, and is correct through investigating and verifying. And the reporter’s responsibility is to report the fact. Opinion is a kind of judgment; express the view of a theme. Generally speaking, the reporter should report the fact which is unsuitable to join the personal opinion, but if the reporter fails to deal with the balance of both, may join the personal suggestion. So the best way of distinguishing the standard of both: one can be investigated, verified and obtain the evidence is the fact. Contrarily, one can’t do so is called the opinion.
The factors including culture, political, economy, considerations of the commercial interest, reporter’s own value or affections of the positions of the news’ source, all of which make the news reach difficultly to objective definitely.
In sum, people possess the quality of “Media Literacy”, which is the most important task to be dealt with in the present day.
2007年11月21日 星期三
English News 8
Last Updated: Sunday, 18 November 2007, 00:14 GMT
Natural protein 'heals the heart'
Heart attack can cause significant tissue damageScientists have found a naturally occurring protein can protect against heart cell damage after a heart attack.
Nerve growth factor (NGF) was thought to act only on nerve cells in the body, but mounting evidence suggests it acts on heart muscle cells too.
A Bristol Heart Institute team tested NGF in rats and this had promising results, Cell Death and Differentiation journal reports.
They are hopeful that the treatment would also benefit humans.
Heart disease is the most common cause of death in the UK. In 2004, there were about 231,000 new heart attacks. Heart attacks happen when one of the coronary arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle is blocked.
If the blood supply is cut off, a part of the heart muscle dies. And this can lead to complications such as heart failure.
Drugs are already available to help prevent and minimise the damage caused by a heart attack. These include aspirin, which works by thinning the blood to improve blood flow, and clot-busting drugs called hrombolytics to dissolve clots in the artery.
Proof of concept
Dr Costanza Emanueli and her colleagues found that injecting the gene for NGF into the hearts of rats having a heart attack stopped heart cells dying off.
Dr Emanueli said: "This is the first time that a pro-survival effect of NGF in the heart has been found.
"Some other growth factors are already used clinically to treat different diseases, and our study shows that NGF may be a novel way of protecting the heart from further damage following a heart attack."
Professor Jeremy Pearson of the British Heart Foundation, which provided funding for the work, said: "Dr Emanueli's research opens up the exciting and unexpected possibility of helping to repair damaged hearts by using a natural factor previously only thought to help nerves grow."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7097104.stm
My opinion:
Natural protein can protect against heart cell damage after a heart attack which is a marvelous discovery in medical science. I was very glad when I heard that good news. Nowadays, a large number death toll of heart disease caused from “coronary heart disease”, so if the effect of NGF is of great use to human, which must be of the magnificent benefit to the world.
Natural protein 'heals the heart'
Heart attack can cause significant tissue damageScientists have found a naturally occurring protein can protect against heart cell damage after a heart attack.
Nerve growth factor (NGF) was thought to act only on nerve cells in the body, but mounting evidence suggests it acts on heart muscle cells too.
A Bristol Heart Institute team tested NGF in rats and this had promising results, Cell Death and Differentiation journal reports.
They are hopeful that the treatment would also benefit humans.
Heart disease is the most common cause of death in the UK. In 2004, there were about 231,000 new heart attacks. Heart attacks happen when one of the coronary arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle is blocked.
If the blood supply is cut off, a part of the heart muscle dies. And this can lead to complications such as heart failure.
Drugs are already available to help prevent and minimise the damage caused by a heart attack. These include aspirin, which works by thinning the blood to improve blood flow, and clot-busting drugs called hrombolytics to dissolve clots in the artery.
Proof of concept
Dr Costanza Emanueli and her colleagues found that injecting the gene for NGF into the hearts of rats having a heart attack stopped heart cells dying off.
Dr Emanueli said: "This is the first time that a pro-survival effect of NGF in the heart has been found.
"Some other growth factors are already used clinically to treat different diseases, and our study shows that NGF may be a novel way of protecting the heart from further damage following a heart attack."
Professor Jeremy Pearson of the British Heart Foundation, which provided funding for the work, said: "Dr Emanueli's research opens up the exciting and unexpected possibility of helping to repair damaged hearts by using a natural factor previously only thought to help nerves grow."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7097104.stm
My opinion:
Natural protein can protect against heart cell damage after a heart attack which is a marvelous discovery in medical science. I was very glad when I heard that good news. Nowadays, a large number death toll of heart disease caused from “coronary heart disease”, so if the effect of NGF is of great use to human, which must be of the magnificent benefit to the world.
English News 7
Last Updated: Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 11:27 GMT
Tokyo 'top city for good eating'
Michelin's Jean-Luc Naret and friend hail Tokyo as top city for fine diningThe home of haute cuisine just got taken down a peg with an authoritative judgement that Paris is not the world's top city for good eating.
That distinction now goes to Tokyo, according to the bible for foodies everywhere, the Michelin guide. In its first ever edition devoted to an Asian city, it awarded restaurants in Tokyo a total of 191 stars. That was nearly twice as many as Paris can boast, and more than three times New York's total. Eight of Tokyo's restaurants won the maximum three stars - only two fewer than Paris itself. Another 25 got two stars and 117 one star.
To add to Paris's embarrassment, three of the top eight restaurants in Tokyo serve French food. Three more offer traditional Japanese fine dining, and the other two are sushi houses.
"Tokyo is becoming the global city with the finest cuisine, the city in the world with the most stars," said Michelin guide director Jean-Luc Naret.
Michelin's plans to assess Tokyo restaurants had caused controversy in Japan, where some commentators had doubted whether it would be up to the job.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7103255.stm
My opinion:
Today, more and more people are fastidious about their food, especially, natural food which contains valuable nutrients. I have never been to Japan, but I know that there are many kinds of delicious food, and most of Japanese pay a lot attention to the effect of food. So Tokyo is worthy of the name of top city for good eating. Japanese pork chop rice is one kind of their famous foods. In Taiwan, there are also many well-known Japanesque restaurants which are very popular for Taiwanese, even the foreigners. By the way, shochu, colorless but some scent, is another specialty. Have you ever tasted it? Maybe you can try to try!
Tokyo 'top city for good eating'
Michelin's Jean-Luc Naret and friend hail Tokyo as top city for fine diningThe home of haute cuisine just got taken down a peg with an authoritative judgement that Paris is not the world's top city for good eating.
That distinction now goes to Tokyo, according to the bible for foodies everywhere, the Michelin guide. In its first ever edition devoted to an Asian city, it awarded restaurants in Tokyo a total of 191 stars. That was nearly twice as many as Paris can boast, and more than three times New York's total. Eight of Tokyo's restaurants won the maximum three stars - only two fewer than Paris itself. Another 25 got two stars and 117 one star.
To add to Paris's embarrassment, three of the top eight restaurants in Tokyo serve French food. Three more offer traditional Japanese fine dining, and the other two are sushi houses.
"Tokyo is becoming the global city with the finest cuisine, the city in the world with the most stars," said Michelin guide director Jean-Luc Naret.
Michelin's plans to assess Tokyo restaurants had caused controversy in Japan, where some commentators had doubted whether it would be up to the job.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7103255.stm
My opinion:
Today, more and more people are fastidious about their food, especially, natural food which contains valuable nutrients. I have never been to Japan, but I know that there are many kinds of delicious food, and most of Japanese pay a lot attention to the effect of food. So Tokyo is worthy of the name of top city for good eating. Japanese pork chop rice is one kind of their famous foods. In Taiwan, there are also many well-known Japanesque restaurants which are very popular for Taiwanese, even the foreigners. By the way, shochu, colorless but some scent, is another specialty. Have you ever tasted it? Maybe you can try to try!
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