The Different types of Sugar

http://www.ncnynl.com/doc-view-4958.html

As usual, I was eating supper with my family today. "I wonder what are the differences between brown sugar, white sugar and crystal sugar?" My cousin asked suddenly. She is eleven and is in grade six this year. "Their colors are different obviously." Her dad said at once, "and they have variety of usages." "Well, do they have the same structures and how do people make them?" She asked again. It's not a hard question, but no one can answer her correctly and properly. After supper, I decided to search for the answer use the knowledge and techniques I've learned from ALES204 class.

At the beginning, I sent text messages to my friends, but they replied me almost the same answer: sorry I don't really know it. Okay, maybe people do not want to write a lot through text messages. Then I tried to post the question "what are the differences between brown sugar, white sugar and crystal sugar?" to my Facebook to see if someone know the answer will write a comment on it. However, nobody said anything. I looked up on my friend's blog to see if there is any useful information because she is quite interested in this field. Disappointedly, I only saw 'black rice' on her blog. Then I gave up on asking people directly, instead, I searched on the Internet and finally found a perfect website named 'Sugar'. I didn't have time to read the entire page yet, but I will definitely.

It is a daily life question, isn't it? We thought we knew the answer, but in fact we don't. Just because the question isn't as important as the ones on the exams, so people are too lazy to look for the right answer. At least I realized this problem now and I'm trying to solve it. That's what I've learned until this moment.

I used these methods throughout this 'experiment': talk to people directly, text message, phone call, Facebook, Internet, and even tried to post the question onto Yahoo Answers. These are all ways of communication. What's more, in the ALES204 class I learned how to cite, how to edit Wikipedia, what is open peer review, etc. I love this class! Here are the five links I commented on my fellow classmates:
1. Yiting Jin
2. Ziyu Shi
3. Manjiang Yu
4. Stephanie
5. Yiwenlulu

Tomorrow is the last day of class and Christmas is coming soon! Enjoy reading it~

Writing A Scientific Article

I have a chance to write a scientific article by choosing my favourite topic this semester during ALES class. To be honest, it takes me quite a while to decide which option I'm gonna to write about because they all seem pretty hard. Some of the topics need us to compare journals from nowadays with the one from fifteen years ago, which means I have to search at the library. At last I choose the option one 'open access' because it provides me questions I have to answer. Although I have plenty of time to do it, it is still difficult to write an article about something I've never heard about before, especially a  'scientific article'.

First of all, I look up the summary and questions so that I can roughly know what 'open access' means and the aspects I'm planning to write. I divide the entire article to five parts: introduction, background, discussion, impacts, and conclusion. I search on the website like Wikipedia to gather information and ask my family members of their point of views. Plus, I find that Peter Suber's rearches on 'open access' are really helpful to me. That's much better than I think about everything by myself. In the end, I name my scientific article as 'Diversity of Open Access'. The moment I finish writing the article I am so proud of myself. However, I need more practise and have to start a bit earlier than this time.













When I'm browsing my fellow classmates' blogs, I find out some people have really interesting design and contents. For example, Yolanda's blog has an intersting name: Find Mood. But what I like the best is the videos and funny pictures she put in. I will keep my style and improve my blog at the same time : ]