How's it going? Building on the reflective writing we started in class, consider the following questions:

1. In which areas of language use have you improved, in your opinion?
2. Which areas of langauge use are still a problem?
3. Which areas of language use do you want to spend the most time on during the rest of the semester?
4. What type of classwork is most useful, in your opinion?
5. What can you personally do to increase your rate of progress?
6. Do you have any other comments or suggestions about this class?

Please, be honest and critical. You should post your reflection on your blog by the end of semana santa.   ¶ 9:28 AM 0 comments

  For your next vocabulary quiz These are the words for your next vocabulary quiz (the week after Semana Santa). You need to pick 10 of the words below and (1) give the translation in Spanish, (2) give a definition of the word in English, and (3) use the word in an example sentence. All of this must be done in a comment to this blog posting. These are all words that you might see in high-level business writing, on the TOEFL, or on an exam like the GRE or GMAT, if you decided to get your MBA some day!

1. Expedite
2. Considerate
3. Convey
4. Coalesce
5. Discount
6. Esoteric
7. Gullible
8. Jargon
9. Liaison
10. Legacy
11. Myriad
12. Manifest
13. Nominal
14. Oust
15. Placate
16. Pretentious
17. Prudent
18. Quell
19. Rebuke
20. Stoic
21. Tenuous
22. Corroborate
23. Trite
24. Urbane
25. Viable
26. Vie
27. Waver
28. Prolific
29. Incessant
30. Censure

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  Exercises on Wordiness & Redundancy Click here to open exercises on avoiding wordiness and redundancy when you are writing. Once on this website, click on Unit 4: Cause-Effect Essays, and then complete Exercises 4, 5, and 6.  ¶ 2:35 PM 0 comments