Week 5

A1.
For me, the best way to learn something is through practices. A good athlete not only has the talent but also trains a lot. For students, practice is also very important since if we do not practice for several times, we may not remember what we learned or distort the content of books. However, although we have to practice a lot for our studying, we should not just memorize the articles in books or the content that teachers teach us. It can not improve your academic level and expect to improve your exam scores. Some people might consider the scores of exam are the most important thing when students study in school, but scores are just scores. We should find out the essential of what we learned and transform the teachers' and authors' knowledge into our own ideas; we should not just copy others' articles or speeches because the purpose of our studying is not to duplicate other people's concepts but to apply our own knowledge in our lives. In conclusion, there are two important things that we have to understand when we are learning something. First, we need to practice what we learn or we can not have a good performance of our learning. Second, we should transform other people's knowledge into ourselves' knowledge because we are humans, not copy machines.

A2.
I think "strategy" and "skill" are two different things. In my opinion, "strategy" is "how to do", and "skill" is "what do we have." For example, if a baseball pitcher who understands several kinds of pitches, those pitches are his skills (What he has). When the baseball pitcher is playing a game and facing hitters, he has to use different pitches or different speeds in different situations (how to do). For students, when we learn english in school, we have skills to read, write, listen and speak english (What we have). When we take an english test, such as TOFEL test, and work on the reading section, if we try to ruminate every question, we can not get a high score becasue we have no time to finish all the reading questions. If we just guess some questions that are too hard for us and finish all the reading questions, we can get ta better score (how to do). Although we can also learn strategies from teachers, I think it is "strategical skill" but not "strategy." The reason is that even we learn strategies from teachers, we might not use the strategies due to some reasons such as unsuitable for us. For me, a "strategical skill" could be a "strategy" only after we utilize it.

A3.
Topic 1: How to create GOs quickly for articles of science & engineering
For science & engineering, there are some know-hows that can help us create GOs in on time.
Topic 2: How to use GOs in computer programming
Computer programming is similar to GOs: concise and logical.
Topic 3: How to use GOs in graduate school
In graduate school, we have to read a lot of articles and journals for our research and thesis; however, we can not memorize all of them. GOs can help us to reread those articles and journals.