Hacker site review

The hacker page was so helpful. The reason of that is I learned which parts of grammar I have mistakes and I tried to improve myself with this awesome source. Also, I think the examples of the hacker page are very helpful, because you can easily see what we need to solve and easy to select the correct one. I`ve learned some of these topics in my English education which helped me a lot to solve these questions and understand what is going on. Plus, I learned that with a single word sentence structure can change a lot. The meaning will be different with a single comma, wrong word choice, so on. In fact, we have learned in the class that clear sentences and understandable word choice is the most important issue in essays. Therefore, hacker page is an excellent source which might help to a person who wants to write a paper for her or his class. For instance, active and passive voice is one of the most scary nightmare for students, but hacker page gave me wonderful questions which helped me understand the difference of these two grammar topic. Overall, I find hacker page really helpful for those who have problems with these topics. Some examples that I`ve learned in this page;

Which one is active voice?

-Jane was encouraged by her supervisor to apply for the new position. (Passive)

-Jane`s supervisor encouraged to apply for the new position. (Active) The reason of that is supervisor is actor which is a subject.

Hacker Review of

Topic 1-) Active vs. passive verbs: This topic wasn`t that hard because me and my group already studied this topic.
Topic 2-) Active vs. be verbs: This topic wasn`t that hard because me and my group already studied this topic.
Topic 3-) Active verbs  (edit and compare) : This topic wasn`t that hard because me and my group already studied this topic.
Topic 4-) Parallelism : This topic helped me but I`ve already taken this in my English classes.
Topic 6-) Needed words : This topic wasn`t so helpful for me because I already know it.
Topic 7-) Mixed constructions : This topic was so easy to solve.
Topic 8-) Misplaced modifiers : I already know how to do it from my English classes.
Topic 9-) Dangling modifiers : Was a little hard because example questions was hard.
Topic 10-) Shifts : This topic was easy to solve.
Topic 11-) Choppy sentences : Examples helped me to improve my grammer usage.
Topic 12-)  Subordination : This topic was kind of hard for me to solve.

Prioritizing

1-)Creative: Should be something new that makes story more interested and different
2-)Be logical: a story should make sense
3-)Transition from one point to another
4-)Introduction: Needs to catch your attention and make you want to keep reading to find out what happens.
5-)Clear and intresting ending
6-)Has a good hook in the beginning
7-)Put facts from least to most important.
8-)Attractive clues that makes you want to read more.
9-)Using good resources to find legit information.
10-) When it is made for the reader to understand. Target audience.
11-)Personalized stories with your own words and ideas are more meaningful and interesting
12-)Creative body could make readers not loose their interests in your story
13-)Conclusion that summarizes main points of the story
14-)Grammar and Structure
15-)Mystery: don't make the topic be extremely obvious. allow the reader to actually think about it and try to figure things out for themselves.
16-)Good choice of words but has to make sense
17-)Pace: How fast the story moves shouldn't be to fast or to slow
18-)Emotion: The ability to connect to the emotions of what is happening
19-)Imagination: Being creative makes it more interesting to read, and more engaging.

Group Assignment for 1/24/12

8.1  Active vs Passive verbs
Active verbs form more powerful and effective sentances than passive verbs. (Using passive verbs isn't wrong but can be used intentionally to soften the action, downplay the main character, or when we don't know who the main character is).

How to recognize active and passive sentances.

1. Find the subject (main character)
2. Find the main verb (the action)
3. Examine the relationship between the two (who is performing the action?)
   • If the subject is performing the action then it is active
   • If something else (named or unnamed) is performing the action then it is passive

8.2  Active vs Be verbs
Sentences that use be verbs are more week than sentences that use active verbs. (For example: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been).

Be Verb: Sudden loss of weight can be an indicator of many serious health problems.
Active: Sudden loss of weight can indicate many serious health problems.

8.3 Active verbs (edit and compare)
Active:  Furkan cleans the room every week.
Passive: The room is cleaned by Furkan every week.

Spelling

First of all, spelling is really important for an essay. However, there are some words that has same spelling, but wrong meaning. These words are really hard to fix for spell-checkers.For example;
-Their moving here to be our neighbour. ( They`re)

Also, the relation between "ie" and "ei" is quite easy. If the word sound long "e" write "i" before "e". Plus, if there is "c" before that part it`s always "ei" such as:
"ei"
deceive, perceive, receipt, receive
"ie"
hygiene, patience, pierce, priest

Next, it is really common to use -ing, -ed, ‑es, ‑er, and -est. in English.
For example,

Cry – cried – crier- crying

Dry – dried – drier-drying

Story-in-a Box evaluation

Top three here.
I reviewed students here.

what makes a good story

-Organization: Intro, body, conclusion
-Interesting topic
-Theme related to topic
-Transition from one point to another
-Statement of topic and sub topics
-Good choice of words but has to make sense
-Spelling
-Grammar
-Has a specific message for the reader
-Uses a unqiue/original writing style

Story with the items we saw



Travel to Another Country

            Like everybody I have a dream that to find a beautiful island and have a luxury vacation that will make me happy forever. I want to sleep in a hotel like a bamboo house, a nice private swimming pool, perfect room service, delicious food, and handmade wooden ship that I can sail around the island to see the beauty of the shore. Perhaps, one they it may become true, but to be realistic it can be a little bit difficult with my classes, and limited vacation times. Anyways, I had a simple Christmas break. During last Christmas break I went to Turkey to see my parents and friends. As always, it was a long trip to Istanbul from Minneapolis. Especially, the plane was extremely cold to handle. The air carrier gave everybody some sort of cloth that keeps people warm. That was the good thing for the flight. When I arrive to airport I went to store to exchange my dollars to Turkish liras. The person who is working in that store gave me tons of coins that I didn`t want to carry. So, I went to a store that I can spent these coins. I bought a small model house for my mom, man playing drum statue for my father to put his office, a ruler for my sister to use it in her class, an old fashioned woman statue for my second sister to show her how she looks like and a jar for my brother to save coins. When I go through passport gate and saw my family. They were so happy to see me and I was excited to be at Turkey back again after 4 month. When we were about to arrive home I saw a chestnut store. My father get me some to eat  because I missed that alot !

Inventory for story

1-) Wood Ship: It`s a handmade wooden ship. It seams like its a traditional thing for a culture.
2-) Wallet : It looks like traditional hand made leather wallet. There is some figures printed on the wallet.
3-)Small house: I thing thats an handmade well-made house model. It can be used as a gift. In Turkey which is my home country we gave these as a gift to our friends.
4-) Stamp : This is a traditional item for people to use this as a signature. People are still using it many parts of the world such as Turkey.
5-) Old fashioned woman statue: It`s a black old fashioned woman statue which we believe they lived many many years ago in earth. That`s not exactly what they look like, but thats just a figure of them.
6-) Jar: Thats seems like a small jar with a small entrance. It`s painted and it looks like a present item.
7-) Coins: That is some kind of coin wallet. It`s blue and there is 6 coins inside. Each of them has different kind of animal picture.
8-) Woman head: That`s a statue of a woman`s head. It`s painted with human colors and it`s made by wood.
9-) Man playing drum statue: There is a man which is playing some sort of drum. It seems like a traditional drum that I`ve never seen. The man looks like he`s having fun.
10-) Chestnuts: This is some kind of dried fruit. In my country which is Turkey, there are some stores that cooks chestnuts and serve them. That ways it becomes more delicious.
11-) Ruller: This is a item that helps us to mesure stuff. Everybody in the world meets ruler when they are in kindergarden.
12-) Cloth: This is some kind of blanket and it seems like it`s handmade. It`s colorful which makes it look nice. Also, I`ve heard that it`s so soft.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

who am i

After I read all posts I saw that every person has different way to answer `who am I` question. Mostly, people talk about their ages, personal interests, family, and general things about their life. Finally, culture and the place or country of the person who answer this question makes answers different like each of them has different way to impress their feelings.