Posts Tagged ‘writing’

This assignment was short and sweet. I asked students to create a new slogan for the University, and students came back with meaningful one-liners. We built off of a class discussion that loosely and broadly defined our school’s purpose and also acknowledged the current slogan (translated to the best of our ability): “Striving for Integrity. [...]

Two months of nothing. 65 days and no written rain. No new stories, or even tidbits, to wet readers’ whistles. And I realize the dust is starting to kick-up. Yes, I’m thirsty too.
I can’t think of a  better way to turn on the flow again than to publish some material from other writers. This should [...]

I have just posted some work from my current students here in Xi’an. It’s taken me a while to get these published but better late than never. these are examples of my introductory assignment at the beginning of the semester. Their mission: to write one sentence beginning with the word “I.” Mission accomplished. Check out [...]

Nihao!
I’ve just added a few more pieces of students’ work from last year at Xinxiang University. Take a look at student movie reviews that analyze the film “Wall-E.”
The Word Is: Movie 电影 [diànyǐng]

I have created a new page to show-off some of my students’ writing. You can access this page by clicking the Student Work tab in the top right-hand corner of my blog. I have just published five students’ compositions who wrote interesting letters about their college life here in Xinxiang. In the future, I will [...]