Anthropology presentation paper

1) to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

2) to use (another's production) without crediting the source

3) to commit literary theft

4) to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

put it simply: the practice of using or copying someone else's idea or work and pretending that you thought of it or created it.

1. For us, when we will face this? Writing papers! All of us wrote papers before. So we all know citation.

Citation

--A bibliographic citation is a reference to a book, article, web page, or other published item. (Wikipedia)

--Type: APA, MLA, Chicago Citation, etc.

The differences of using citation

The relationship between instructors and students

Salutation

The Chinese propriety also requires students to nod or bow when saying hello to their teachers every time they meet on campus. This rule applies to meeting all the faculty on campus, students must obey this rule, even to a faculty member who has never taught them a class in the past.

This is from traditional Confucian.

But in America, your instructor may prefer you to call them by their first name.

I think most of Chinese students in our classroom had experience for ACE courses. Most of the instructors introduced themselves at the first class and told us we can call their first name.

I want to ask: how many of you call instructor’s first name at that time or now?

Teaching Method

The relationship between students and instructors determines the classroom environment. In China, teaching in the classroom is the most respected career. Students are trained to 100% obey their instructors.

Students can never object to the instructor's opinion about the text book content, unless it was a slip of the tongue. If you have a different opinion about a specific topic, the instructor may give you a chance to share it once in the classroom, but after that, he or she will still require everyone to write the exact thing he or she taught on the exam.

The role of Chinese instructors is giver. Also we can say “Leader”. Students just need to follow the “order”

In America, it is very different. American classes prefer to have answer from discussion. The role of instructors is helper.

We can talk it more detailed!

Style of class

The size of class

China—most is big classroom, 30-50 people or more in normal Chinese university.

America—example, Miami University, we have big classroom for foundation class. Most class are small class, especially capstone classes.

Classroom participation

China-- Students must raise hands to answer or ask a question, and they cannot speak unless picked by the instructor. When picked by the instructor to answer or ask a question, students must stand up to show their respect to the instructor.

Students do not always participate in the classroom. This is because the purpose of them is to sit in the classroom to copy and memorize all the stuff that the instructor teaches them, then to paste it on the exam paper and get a good grade.

So you may see all the Chinese students in your classroom mute their voice through the whole semester, because they have been trained not to speak their minds and not to raise any conversation that has an opposite or different opinion to the instructor's teaching.

America—most of time I saw student raise hands in American class is for waiting other classmate’s speaking, just give professor a sign, I want to be next. If two or more students raise hands, professor will organize them to share their ideas one by one.

You don’t have “standard answer”, even Math, you can share your different way for calculate answers. If you can prove it, you also can use it in exam.

Instructors don’t want you to keep quiet, all of us knew we have grade for participation.

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