Analysis of Home Country Assignment

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Name: Thang Ngo Date: May, 18, 2012 Professor: Dr. Mott-Smith Home country assignment Analysis of home country assignment Each country has the different rules in the writing paper and some people believe that culture influences writing. As an international student from Vietnam studying in the America, I have experience with Vietnam and America writing. In my opinion, I totally agree that Vietnam and America English writing characteristics differ. In this paper, I will introduce to American readers how Vietnamese culture affects my writing paper and analyze how the assignment reflects a communication style typical of my culture. In my country, there are some differences in the writing paper from primary school to high school. In the primary school, I just write in the paragraph, there should be only one page. For instance, when I studied in primary school, the teacher gave me the topic: “Describe my last summer”. The purpose is to describe and create the ideas. The writing paper often contains three paragraphs and the pupils need to write in only one page. While I study in the middle school or high school, it requires work hard about the analysis as well as quality details, the main ideas of the topic and you have to write more than three pages, even more five pages to support your thesis statement. In high school, the teachers will teach you how to write an essay, how to structure an essay, which should help you plan your essay and organize your material, expanding the elements that constitute any essay. Sometimes the writing has characteristics that relate to how people in your culture talk to each other. For examples, the teachers give to students a topic “how to respect the older people”, “how to choose good friends” and “the best way to communicate effectively with people”. You can write as much as possible. The purpose of assignment is to help students
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