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an introductory paragraph needs to have a clear thesis statement, which has to be specific, reliable, and interesting. As well, to attract your readers, you can use sources such as historical reviews, anecdotes, famous people, statistics, and surprising statements.
Announce your intentions. Do not flatly announce what you are about to do in an essay. Avoid following expressions:
– In this paper I will …
– The purpose of this essay is to …
– I am going to discuss the causes of falling oilprices.


• You can mention
– historical review
– anecdotal
– surprising statement
– famous person

The thesis statement presents the TOPIC of you essay, your particular focus on that topic, and your PURPOSE for writing about that topic.
Basic requirement for TS
• It states the essay’s subject – the topic that you discuss
• It conveys the essay’s purpose – either informative or persuasive.
• It indicates your focus – the assertion that presents your point of view.
• It uses specific language, not vague words.
• It may briefly state the major subdivisions of you essay’s topic.

Tips for writing to professor:
1.Write from your college or university e-mail account
2.Include the course number in your subject line.
3.Think about what you're saying.

Choose an appropriate greeting. "Hi/Hello Professor [Blank]"
Avoid rote apologies for missing class.
Ask politely. "Could you e-mail me the page numbers for the next reading? Thanks!"
Proofread what you've written. You want your e-mail to show you in the best possible light.
Sign with your full name, course number, and meeting time.
Don't send unexpected attachments.
When you get a reply, say thanks. Just hit Reply and say "Thanks,"

jounral 1

People listen to music for different reasons and at different times. Why is music important to many people?

Music has always been playing an indispensable part in people's daily lives. In addition to the interests that people has developed on certain style of music, other reasons why music are important to people may involve the expression of listeners’ moods, the relief of pressure as well as memories of the past.

First of all, music is important to many people mainly because it can express people’s moods. When a boy breaks up with his girl friend, he may listen to some blues and he may find others are in common with him. If, two months later, his girlfriend agreed to give him one more chance and date with him, the boy may listen to rock everyday to express his great delight. When the boy meets another girl, he probably will begin listen to love songs and the poor ex would choose sad jazz instead of pop music. Music acts like a person who people will share feelings with. Hence, people may always refer to music no matter they are sad or jubilant.

Next, music can help people relax and release their pressure, people feel free listening to music at any time. Music is one of the best ways for people to escape temporarily from heavy work and study. Even when people are working, some people prefer to put on their earphone and concentrated on work with music background. When exhausted, it is a pleasure to listen to some classical music such as sonatas to relax. Music is another world for us to leave the complaints, concerns and all other disturbing thoughts for a short while. In other words, it always succeeds in calming our nerves besides bringing us satisfactions.

A certain kind of music may represent a certain period of time in the past or a particular person, which occupies an important part in people's lives, so that whenever people hear the music it will remind them of the memories. Try to ask yourself what will appear in your brain when the song " every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you.." started to play. When I was in junior school, I was fond of Westlife’s songs. I used to listen to a lot of their songs of which my favorites are ‘Flying without winds’, ‘My love’ and ‘Season in the Sun’. Whenever I heard their songs afterwards, they would remind me of my junior school life. Therefore music is another kind of record of a person's life. For this reason, it is regarded as a rather important part in one's daily entertainment.

All in all, music is an unique language which tells people’s happiness, sorrow and anger; it is an effective medicine which releases our pressure, nervousness and exhaustion; it is also a valuable album which commemorates our impressive, pure and precious past.

labor day

The Labor Day in USA is similiar to the Worker day in China. But instead of one day for holiday, there are seven days in China. Here I am going to share the events I took part in during Labor Day's holidays.

On Saturday, I went to the Market Place and brought a lot of new items.

On Sunday, I actually stayed up late for the whole night and continued surfing on line since 10 PM, Saturday. Not only dealing with Maths and Ace quizs, I chatted on line with my friends who still live in China. Didn't realise the time fly so fast, the clock indicated that it was already 5 AM. Without a particular reason, I phoned my friend who lives in FAR and invited my friend to go to see the sunrise with me. Unfortunately, dense fog cover the ground and there was no splendid view for sunrise. We strolled untill we reach the southest cornor of UIUC and turned round and went to starbucks.

On Monday, a phone call interupted my dream at 10 am. Working from 10 to 2 almost drove me crazy, but nobody forced me substituted a friend's shift.

The assignment is to write an introduction about yourself, such as major, family, hobby, home country etc. The introduction should be at least 150 words.






As you know, my name is Donna, Liao Yuan, a Chinese girl who visited USA the first time.
I graduated in Shenzhen College of International Education and planed to major in environment engineering in the following four years.
During this week, I joined a lot of events, and made a lot of friends.
By the way, I have employed by Par Dinning Hall.
This made my university life busy but meaningful.
But to be honest, I am not a party girl.
Indeed, spending time with my friends and my homeworks seems to be a more interesting activity to me.
I am a big fan of football (not soccer os American football), this may be regard for another reason why i attend UIUC. There is one more tip for my hobby,
Last but not least, if there are anyone want to go shopping or go to the library, especially dealing with math problem, phone me immediately.