Wikipedia: Comunidad educativa

Wiki es una palabra hawaiana que quiere decir “rápido”; sin embargo, su significado a cambiado gracias al surgimiento de la web 2.0 porque , actualmente, esta palabra se relaciona con páginas electrónicas que se editan en linea a traves de múltiples usuarios. La más famosa es Wikipedia: “wiki” (escrito en comunidad) y “pedia” del griego padeia (educación).

Como usuaria de Wikipedia puedo crear, modificar y borrar el contenido de una página de forma fácil y gratuita, además de ver los cambios realizados instantáneamente en la misma; también, me permite escribir en colaboración a través de la Web y recuperar fácilmente cualquier información anterior o posterior a mi colaboración.

Writing about a writter

Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author that has fought to erase the women’s stereotypes. She fought against “machismo” or “machoism” through her novels and she took part in this fight in hard times in which being a female writter was absolutely strange. We think that she has been one of the pioneers of the feminist movement against all the odds and this is the main reason for choosing her and her books to write a Wikipedia article in Basque, since Basque people ought to know about her too. Wikipedia has no article about her in this language and we thought it was a great idea to provide this information to other Basque speakers. We have learnt a lot about the writter but also about information management since we have been working in our wiki and in Wikipedia. Between all the knowlegde we gained doing this exercise we could underline the ability to create a common page in a wikipage where we could all contribute, the skill to submit this information to Wikipedia and to provide it to the general public and the collective building of an article with other Wikipedia members.

Relevant sources on Jay Asher

When I came across with the american writer, Jay Asher, I instantly wanted to know more about him. Unfortunately, the information given by Wikipedia wasn’t deep enough to follow his carreer so I decided to seach more about his work.

From his most famous novel, Thirteen reasons why, I found it necessary to analyse which had been his influences or “reasons why” he decanted himself in favour of youth public, instead of adult public. The best way of answering this cuestions was finding an interview made to him, and that is exactly what I got after making some reseaches. This kind of interviews provide a large amount of information about the author that other kind of sources just can’t, such as life experiences or data about their personal motivations and explanations about the novels they’ve written.

A Little Bit of Brain on Music

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession  writen by Daniel J. Levitin (1957), an american professor, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, record producer, musician and wrtier, will be one of the references we will be using for the elavoration of the article about Jack Johnson.

Bibliography for the Wikipedia Article

Writing a good scholarly paper, an academic text adding something new to the scientific sphere is definitely not a piece of cake. As a matter of fact, it usually happens that an essay we come across with entails much more efforts than apparently could seem. Anyone intending to do a scholarly paper ought to carry on many tasks, in which the selection and revision of references stands out.

We, as it is to be hoped, have gone through various works among the literature for our topic “A Clockwork Orange” [1]. I have chosen this paper for this post, for it is a very good approach to the topic we are discoursing on.

I find it very interesting and enlightening since it deals with both the novel and Kubric’s film. But he does not only raise them from the typical point of view, as we could expect. Rather, in his paper, Luis Laborda Oribes also analyzes the irony of this masterpiece and, likewise, does tell us, like no other does, a hint about why the movie director made up his mind to adapt the novel to the screen.

Thus, we will, without a doubt, resort to this paper in orther to make from our article worthy of being in Wikipedia.

[1] Laborda Oribes, L. Aproximación a La naranja mecánica. Revista HMiC: historia moderna i contemporania (1), pp.13-20, 2003.

Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman who never tires

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes – The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer, best known for being the author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, a memoir discussing concepts of gender, ethnicity and identity. Using a revolutionary dream-like writing style she has written several novels and essays, combining autobiography and Chinese folktales, as Kristopher Fortin explains.

As The New York Times said in 1976 about The Woman Warrior, her work is

[...] an investigation of soul . . . Its sources are dream and memory, myth and desire. Its crises are crises of the heart in exile from roots that bind and terrorize it.

George Orwell’s 1984: was it all a ficticious reality?

The novel 1984 was published by the English author George Orwell in 1949. It was made as a prediction of a fictitious future in which the Human Rights would be minimum and the world would be involved in a constant war. The aim os this post is to analyze the impact of this novel; what essential ideas are underlined on it and which of them still reflects nowadays’ world.

Q10

For my first post, I’ve decided to pick up one of the links from Question 10:

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again.

The Importance of English for Communication

English is starting to be a necessary tool to move all over the world. As such, it is getting more and more demanded to know English when applying for any job. We are still not concerned about the real importance that the English Language is taking but it is known that knowing English for Communication at some point will be completely necessary in an early future.

Higher English for Communication

The English language

KryssTal, a United Kingdom based educational and information web site by Kryss Katsiavriades and Talaat Qureshi in London,  estimates that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language.

The subject of my choice

I decide to write about English Language Skills, the subject that I had the last year in the first and second semester at the University of Deusto. This subject was in common with all the students who were studying Social Sciences; not only the students of Modern Languages studied it. In this subject, we learn about some useful things which are very important if a person want to work in something related to languages:

Higher English for Communication

Higher English for Communication irakasgai honetan Sam McCarter ek idatziko liburua jarraitzen da. Liburu hori gai desberdinetan bananduta dago. Atal bakoitzean Vocabulari zati bat, Gramatika zati bat, Entzumenezko zati bat, eta  gai horren inguruan ahosko azalpenak egiteko ideietan banatuta dago.

Liburu honen helburua, IELTS azterketarako prestakuntza sendoa izatea da. Azterketa horretan, azterketa guztietan bezala, irakurmena, idazlana, entzumena eta mintzamena atalak baloratzen dira.

Higher English for Comunication ikasgaia

Aurten lehenengo seihilekoan dugun ikasgaik interresgarriena, nire uste apalean. Pasadan urtean “English Skills I eta II” delako ikasgaietan ikasitakoa beharrezkoa da, ikasgai hau, haien jarraipena baita. Irakasle desberdina dugu baina lan egiteko era berean jarraitzen dugu, konplexutasun eta exigentzia maila handiago batera egokitua, noski. “Higher English for Comunication” ikasgaiaren helburua, izen berak adierazten duen bezala, komunikatzen jakitea. Seihileko honetan erabiltzean ari garen liburua “Ready for IELTS” du izena eta hamalau ataletan banatuta dago. Liburu honen egilea Sam McCarter dugu, eta liburuaren argitaletxea Macmillan da.

Mi asignatura favorita: El inglés, una puerta abierta al mundo

Si me preguntasen qué es lo que mas me atrae en el mundo, indudablemente mi respuesta sería viajar. Pero… ¿Es posible viajar hoy en día sin conocer una lengua extrangera? ¿una lengua tan importante y global como el inglés? Evidentemente no. Es por ello que el inglés con el paso de los años se ha ido convirtiendo en mi asignatura favorita, ya que viajar no es solo conocer un país sino también su gente, su cultuta y costumbres.

Nik aukeratutako irakasgaia: Higher English for Communication

Deustuko Unibertsitateko Hizkuntza Modernoak, Ingelesa karrerako bigarren urtean, Higher English for Communication irakasgaiako programak,  Sam McCarter autorearen Ready for IELTS darabil testuliburu gisa.

Sam McCarter Erresuma Batuko Exeter Unibertsitatean graduatu zen Latin klasikoa eta Grekoan. Iraskuntza eta  freelance idazle gisa aritu da bere karreran zehar. Irakasle bezala, London-eko Southwark  Central Collegen ari da Ingeles akademikoa eta medikuentzako komunikazio gaitasunak erakusten. Idazle bezala, freelance editore bezala aritu da medikuntza arloan, WHO, UNHCR eta Gurutze Gorria bezalako beste hainbatentzat. Bere lanik garrantzitsuena ikuspegi honetan, ordea,  Welcome Trust-ek ekoiztutako Tropical Medicine-i buruzko CD-ROMen glosategien editore aholkulari bezala izan da. IELTS-erako ere hainbat testuliburu idatzi ditu. Besteak beste, IELTS, Ingeles akademikoa, medikuntza arloko Ingelesa / ESP eta irakaskuntza metodologia (gaitasunak eskuratzea eta fikzio orokorra, batez ere ipuin laburrak) ditu idazgai nagusiak.