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Professor Rebecca talked with me about my webtext. I thought if my webtext need to add something, it should be how so much study affects college students’ health. Rebecca asked me if I want to say something about family support. She did not really understand about my idea. I explain the meaning of mine.

I thought evaluate my project is a good idea because the more information you provide to your readers, the better for them to know more things. Moreover, I think family support is also a good idea add into my project, because it indeed a problem for some college students. Maybe their family cannot support their too much money, so that they have to earn money by themselves with undertaking so much pressure. That is the reason for them in sub-health condition.

I think that is all what we talk that day.

my project

During do the project of this semester, I learned more about sub-health, no matter on college students or other kinds of group people. Before I choose this project, I just know little about it, but after I am doing this, I know that there is a lot of information about sub-health I do not know. For example, the sub-health condition could lead students’ mental health problem. The environment pollution could affect sub-health condition of college students.

There are three main points of my project. The first part mainly introduce about college students’ bodies, which is really important for them to know about it. The second part mainly talks about how to eat could affect college students in sub-healthy condition, and how to change what they eat to improve their health. The third part introduces about exercise. Why college students have physics problem, and how they could change their sub-health condition through doing exercise.

I will use these three parts to introduce sub-health to college students and let them know about their bodies and do something in advance to improve their health condition to prevent sub-health condition. I also need more sources add to my project in order to provide more information to college students. Such as if the heavy study could affect sub-health to college students? If college students need more caring from family or society in order to help them grow healthy? Concerning the web and the internet become more and more widely, I prefer to search this information on the internet or I could look them in library.

the position of my podcast and slideshow

The topic of my webtext is sub-health of college students. I want to put my podcast after the first paragraph that I just introduce to audience about what is sub-health. First, in my podcast, there is the attract context in the beginning of it, which could attract the audience’s attention to know more about the sub-health of college students. Second, because the context of my podcast is talking about how emotion could affect college students in sub-health condition, which is related to the topic of my webtext so that my audience would like to read the following content of my web page.

The slideshow is different from the podcast, which have picture on it. Slideshow looks more visual so that people maybe have more interesting to see it. I want to put the slideshow after I finish introduce the “Balance of body and a healthy timetable of daily life”. Because, after to see a lot of character, audience may be tired. They maybe don’t want to read any more. At this time give them a slideshow to see, which could relax them on one side, as well could recreate their interesting to see the following context on the other side. The context of my slideshow is talking about how environmental pollution affects college students in sub-healthy condition, which is also an important topic that my audience would like to concern about.

Therefore, it is the reason that why I put my podcast in front of my webtext and put my slideshow in the middle of my webtext.

topic of slideshow

My topic is about college students’ sub-health. Since the slideshow will become part of my multimodal project, I want to introduce about how environment affect college students’ health. The pollution of environment has become more and more serious today. It affects people’s life and health, speciously for the college students because they are in growing physic period. I am going to talk about environmental pollution affect college students’ health in air, water, and food.

First, due to the factory development, air has been damaged and become more and more bad condition. College students breathe this kind of air could affect their health into sub-healthy condition or even much worse. This could affect their growing as well because they are in growing physic period.

Moreover, the water also is affected by the environmental pollution. The wasted material or water is discharged out of the factory into the river or lake directly without filter. College student drink this kind of water could cause illness so that make their bodies in sub-healthy condition.

Food is the last one that could cause college student in sub-healthy condition because the food is made up by the element of the environment. The environment is polluted so that the food is damaged as well. College student eat this kind of food could make their bodies in sub-healthy condition.

Therefore, that is the reason why environment could affect college students’ health in sub-healthy condition. Protect the environment is responsibility for all people in over the world, especially for the college students because they are the future of the world.

Keeping a good mood

In my podcast, I want to talk about another content of my topic, which is keeping a good mood.

There is another way to overcome the sub-health condition for college student is that keeping a good mood. Because in psychology, mood affects the health and mood is an important role in physical health. If students have good moods could affect their study and life directly, so that affects their health indirectly. For example, a student does not have a good mood for some reason, so that he cannot focus his attention on his study, his grade will fall, then his mood will become more and more worse, which will affect his health. Therefore, I will talk about the mood part that affect students’ health in my podcast.

The different between text and podcast are the content, the words and phrases, the examples, etc. Content should be more interested so that students would like to hear it. The words and phrases should be vivid, and it could include some interviews, some short talks between students, professor and students. The example should be easy to understand, like give them more advises how to relax their moods. To sum up, the content of podcast is different between the texts; it needs more colorful and interesting things, just like the difference between book and the movie script.

In podcast, I should use three different ways to persuade my audience, which are ethos, logos, and pathos. These three ways are so significant because using them could make the audiences to believe. Ethos means the information that you introduce to audience should be exactly right, it cannot be wrong. Logos means you should use logic ways to persuade your audience, but not mess, which is not a scientific or effective way. Pathos means in your podcast you should add your emotion but not just read your script without any feeling in it. Therefore, I will use these three ways to write my script of my podcast to persuade my audience and introduce information to them as well.

Revise my first draft

The first draft of my project has a lot of problems. Professor Rebecca revised my first draft and sent it to me with email, which helped me a lot to revise me first draft. The first draft is too simple which does not have the background, pictures, hyperlinks, and the recommended reading. The audiences that I need to focus on. There shouldn’t be the first person in the paper because the paper that uses other resources to write which is not the author’s opinion. I also need to improve my writing skill, like I should use some connected phrases to make my paper smoother. The format should be single space which is the requited by the webpage. The font and the size of my title and sub-title should be over striking and bigger than the size of the context. I should also highlight my thesis statement as well. Therefore, making my paper as much clearly and beautiful as better.

I did not see my peer review in the facebook discussion webpage. Maybe my partner forget to post it. Therefore, I cannot write the peer review part here.

The Food

The food

The resources of this week that found on the internet are mainly talking about healthy food and diet. The first resource is talking about how important eating food affect people’s health and how to eat food could help people keep healthy. The other one is a book which I found it on the Google book. It is mainly introducing about the methods of losing weight, and how to eat to loss weight and also keep it later.

“Eating is one the most important events in everyone’s life…. We know so much about eating: we are born with the desire to eat and grown up with rich traditions of eating. But we also know so little about eating- about how the foods we eat everyday affect our health.” (Eat your way to health and longevity, 2007) As we know before, people’s energy is getting from food that they eat. Therefore, the food what people eating affect people’s bodies absolutely. As a higher educated students, the food what they eat is more important for them because of the heavy schoolwork. They need the nutrition both for their bodies and their brain. Neither of them weak could impact their study grades. Therefore, the students do not only need nutrition; they need various kinds of nutrition which include vegetable, fruit, rice, meet, milk, and gain. Here are some of healthy diet plan which could be used for planning the diet plan and the healthy food which the students could reference: http://www.changingshape.com/dietandnutrition/mealplans/plans/1517.asp, http://helpguide.org/life/healthy_eating_diet.htm, http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/9/2154.full.pdf+html.

Losing weight is becoming a topic of our society. We are living in a rich material society, which could lead the students could eat more than they need or eat something that they do not need actually. A healthy life need a healthy eating habit which does not means “as more as possible”. It means the right amount is the best. “Losting weight, Gaining life, Good carbs and bad carbs. Searching for the right weight-loss plan, a science of success….” (Arthur Agatston, M.D., 2003) are all the ways that this book introduces that students could use to follow and learn to keep health.

References

Eat your way to health and longevity. (2007). From http://www.foodasfood.com/eat-your-way-to-health-and-longevity/

Arthur Agatston, M.D. (2003) The south beach diet. From http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=lwpkVksHDzUC&oi=fnd&pg=PP13&dq=healthy+diet+plan&ots=dQWJYGjP1G&sig=rn0ozf0ndrR36Yj4CralXzIQa7I#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Two Pieces of Research

The first resource mainly talk about a new discover of biology clock, which is researched by Northwestern University. The second and third resources that I find are talk about the healthy daily life. They are just time table which could be used by students to reference their own daily life table, so that they could life healthier. These resources are helpful for me to write the project of my topic. They are relating to my topic.

There are two main systems in people’s bodies, which are the nervous system and the digestive system. The nervous system mainly control about people’s brain and body’s movement. Enhance the brain’s activity could make the brain more and more smart, so that to help students to study very well. That is depend on rest time and how frequently students use their brain. The organs in people’s body which play an important roles for people keeping health. The digestive system is especially important because it is the main system to provide energy to people. Therefore, protect these two system is very important for people keeping health.

In Chinese medicine, people believe about the balance of body, there are two “Qi” in people’s bodies which are “Yinqi” and”Yangqi”. Only if they are balance, people’s bodies could work well. How do they balance? It is depend on human body’s biology clock and people’s daily life. The biology clock is an invisible clock in people’s body. “Regardless of our preferences, we are all governed by a biological clock with an approximate cycle of 24 hours corresponding to the Earth's rotation time. Biologically speaking, this molecular clock is known as the circadian rhythm.” (Tick, Tock the Biological Clock, 1998) It controls everything of our bodies, like what is time to sleep, when people need to sleep, and when people should to eat food. Using one day life to give an example, because of the college students always have a lot of homework, they have to stay up in the night to finish their homework. Obviously, they cannot have enough sleeping time to give their body and head sufficient rest. Rest is another way to get energy. Therefore, having a healthy daily life is very important for college students. These are some links about the healthy daily timetable: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB117/B117_DIV2-en.pdf (world health organization, 2005) http://www.skyswood.herts.sch.uk/index.php?/eng/School-Life/Daily-Timetable(Daily Timetable, 2010)

The students could use this information to reschedule their daily life so that they could use their time more efficiency.

References

Tick, Tock the Biological Clock. (1998). From http://biology.about.com/library/weekly/aa062598.htm

Daily Timetable (2010) from http://www.skyswood.herts.sch.uk/index.php?/eng/School-Life/Daily-Timetable

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. (2005, December 12). Preliminary daily timetable. From http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB117/B117_DIV2-en.pdf

Overview

Quotations: is a kind of material which exactly comes from the information that you found word by word.

Paraphrasing: is kind of material which comes from the information that you found not word by word, but in your own words to explain the meaning of it.

Summarizing: is to conclude the main ideas of the material that you want to use by using your own words.

My topic of my proposal is “Health”. We all know that health is concerned by everyone no matter who you are. However, not everyone knows how to protect our body. So, now please follow me to learn about your body. First, I will introduce the function of your body in order to let you know better about it. Then, I will help you improve your health through telling you how to eat and how to do exercise. After knowing that, I believe you could improve your health condition very well.

First, everyone has a body. But, not everyone knows about it. Just like every sport, only if you know the rule, you could play well in this sport; so do our bodies. Only if you know how it works, you could know how to let them work well to prevent the disease and how to let your body become more and more healthy. That is why I want to introduce the body first in my proposal.

Second is the regular diet. You are what you eat. People replace the old with the new every second. What is the new? The answer is the food. Therefore, what you eat is very important for you. From the book named Your Personal Program for Lasting Weight Loss, which is written by Madelyn Fernstrom, “To lose weight and keep it off, you’ve first got to accept that food intake alone is not the master tool leading to long-term successful weight loss” (p.55). I will tell you how to eat, what to eat, and when to eat, to help you manage your diet.

Third is the exercise. We all know that the life come from doing exercise. I will introduce to you how to do exercise. What exercise is fit for you to do, and what is the good time for your body to do exercise. Why doing exercise could improve your health. For example, doing exercise could “help you manage your weight.” (Mayo Clinic staff)

Work Cites

Mayo Clinic staff (2009). Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity. Retrieved fromhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/HQ01676

Madelyn Fernstrom (2009). The Real You Diet: Your Personal Program for Lasting Weight Loss

What kind of ways could people use to keep our body healthy?

One working research question: What kind of ways could people use to keep our body healthy?

Having a healthy body is the wish for everyone, especially in nowadays, more and more people are in the sub healthy because of the heavy work and study. However, how could we get it? Knowing how does our body work, how to eat healthy, and how to do exercise scientifically are three effective ways to keep our bodies healthy.

First, people should understand our body. For example, what is the function of the stomach? How does it work? From my research I learn the digestive system is the main system direct relate to the “food”. What is the process of the food to digest? After I study this, I know better about my body. You’d better not to eat food as much as you want, because the stomach also need time to relax in order to work better later. Therefore, protect and take good care of your body is very important.

Second, after the first step, I know more about our body. I know what is our body really needed and when to eat food is better. Therefore, a regular and healthy diet is must to have. From the website, I learned a healthy diet includes fruits, vegetables, meat, fat-free or low-fat milk, fish, beans, eggs and nuts. A healthy regular diet is low in unhealthy fats, salt and added sugar.

Third, life lies in movement. The body needs to do exercise just like the car needs to be driven. The car will be broken if it not be driven frequently, your body does not work very well if you do not do more exercise. Besides that, doing exercises also have several other benefits which are introduced on the website: exercise improve your mood, exercise helps you manage your weight, and exercise combats chronic diseases, and so on (Mayo Clinic staff). Therefore, doing exercise is the most scientific way to help you to keep health.

The audients of this topic is the people who are in the sub healthy, people who want to be health, people who are care about their body, the old people and also it may be include educators who want to introduce the knowledge of body and health to their students. Because they are realize their body have problem and they do not feel good about their body, therefore they need to change the state of their bodies.

The purpose of this article is tried to introduce the body of ourselves, and try to tell people how to protect our bodies through regular diet and exercise in to keep health.

Work Cites

Mayo Clinic staff (2009). Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/HQ01676

Madelyn Fernstrom (2009). The Real You Diet: Your Personal Program for Lasting Weight Loss

About the Keyword

The first link mainly introduces the meaning of keyword and how to find the key words of the information that you want to find. “If you are researching the impact of computers on writing instruction, for instance, you might use the keywords writing, teaching, computers, technology, instruction, and learning.”(What is a Keyword?). The second link mainly talks about the steps that how to use these key words to find the information that you want to find out. How to search what they want more effectively and exactly. Adding or remove something in order to limited the range that you search.

My topic is how to keep people’s body healthy. These are three key words for me to search.

First one is “body”. I want to use this key word to find out how people body work in order to let people know about their body better. This is the link that I found http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/. I thought this link is perfect. It uses animation to introduce the knowledge to people so that people could understand it more easily.

Second one is "disciplinary diet". This is what I find out http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Disciplinary-Diet-Plan---5-Sure-Fire-Keys-to-Diets-That-Work&id=3584886 . However, I cannot use this keyword to find out more information what I want. Therefore, I change "disciplinary" to "regular" as my teacher advice me before. Then I find out what I want—the diet http://www.drugs.com/cg/regular-diet.html.

The third one is "exercise". After I use it to search, the results are all how to exercise in order to lose weight and what kind of exercise could lose people’s weight. That is not the information that I want to find out. Therefore, I add “health” to limit the information and use “and” between them. Then I find out what I want http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/HQ01676. This is to introduce people what is the benefits to do exercise. http://exercise.about.com/od/healthinjuries/Exercise_Health.htm. This is the web including a lot of links about the topic “exercise and health” which is more valuable. There is also link to the Google scholar about the “exercise and health”. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WPG-45FJWXJ-61&_user=29441&_coverDate=04/30/1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000003858&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=29441&md5=592a1a8932dab3e5af380703a9d0f706.

Finally, writing your feelings after the information that you find out and highline the information that you want to used in case you forget. That is all what you do about the searching.

ENGL105 Be Friendly to Our Bodies

I was born in China and my parents are all doctors, which makes me know more about our bodies in daily life. When I was young my parents told me that you should go to bed early and get up early that are good for your body to keep health. When we were eating, my parents told me that eating this more is good for your brain or eating that is good for your eyes, and so on. Every morning, my father gets up early and goes outside to do exercises. He said doing this is good for our bodies to weak up early and promote the metabolism as well.

Time goes so quickly, I am 21years old now. In order to get better education, my parents send me to American to study. Unfortunately, I was sick these days and cannot go anywhere but stay at home. I felt so strongly that having a healthy body is so important for people no matter on their lives or their studies. I realized that people should treat their body nicely and carefully so that their bodies could work well for them. Nevertheless, their bodies will treat you as you treat them. I did not realize it until I was ill. Be nice to your body that is so important.

Therefore, in this semester, I will focus on to study people’s body.

1. How to keep people’s bodies work well.

2. Why the disciplinary diet could keep health.

3. How to do exercise and what kind of exercise is good for people to do.

Keep our body healthy and keep our mood optimate.