EALC -CHINESE LANGUAGE

All written work must be submitted using
Calibrated Peer Review™ software (see below).
Part I (Write a 400-500 word Essay) may be started as early as 2:00 pm on Monday, April 11, and is due before 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 15. You must use two HTML formatting tags ( , and <center> </center> ) when you write your essay (see explanation below).
Part II ( (A) Evaluate three Example/Calibration Essays, (B) Evaluate Essays of three other EALC 130 students, and (C) Evaluate your own Essay)
is due before 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 22.
All work is submitted using Calibrated Peer Review™ software. If you do not complete Part I by 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 15, you will receive a zero for the entire Writing Assignment, thereby losing 20% of your course grade. If you do not complete Part II by 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 22, you will receive a zero for Part II of the Writing Assignment, and lose 10% of your course grade. No time extensions are given.
Grading:
Part I (your own 400-500 word Essay) = 30 points
Part II (Evaluation of three Example/Calibration Essays) = 30 points
(Evaluation of Essays of three other EALC 130 students) = 30 points
(Evaluation of your own Essay) = 10 points).
This yields a maximum of 100 points, worth 20% of your total EALC 130 course grade.
If you have questions about this Writing Assignment, FIRST make sure that you have read carefully both this entire document and all of the information on the ‘CPR Guided Tour’, described in the section “Before Starting Your First CPR Assignment.” If you still have unanswered questions, then please ask them in class.

Getting Started with Calibrated Peer Review™ (CPR) software
• You need a browser and an Internet connection.
• You will need to have a CPR Username and CPR Password to access the CPR program and complete this assignment.
To create a new CPR Username and CPR Password
1) Go to the CPR login page: <https://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr/login.asp>
2) Then, click on the link “New users: first time logging in?” (unless you have used CPR in another course and already have a CPR Username and CPR Password to enter into the appropriate boxes).
3) Select “University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign” from the pull-down menu. (NOTE: You should select from the pull-down menu “University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign” and NOT “University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign”, i.e., no spaces between Urbana-Champaign.) Also, in the box labeled “Enter your student ID:”, enter your 9 digit University of Illinois ID number (not your social security number). Finally, click on the “Next >” button.
4) Now, you need to create a password. You will also need to enter a challenge question and answer. This challenge question will be used if you forget your login information.
5) Upon completion of your account profile, you will be given a unique CPR Username. Make sure that you save your CPR Username and CPR Password. You will need them every time you access CPR.
If you forget your CPR Username and/or CPR Password
1) Go to the CPR login page: <https://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr/login.asp>
2) Then, click on the link “Users: forgot your login information?”
3) Select “University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign” from the pull-down menu. Also, enter your 9 digit University of Illinois ID number (not your social security number). Finally, click on the “Next >” button.
4) Next, you need to answer the challenge question that you created previously.
5) Then, you will be given your CPR Username again. You will need to create another CPR Password, which can be the same as or different from your previous CPR password.
If you forget the answer to your Challenge Question
IF YOU FORGET THE ANSWER TO YOUR CHALLENGE QUESTION AND
NEED TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCEDURE, IT WILL NOT
EXCUSE YOU FOR MISSING A DEADLINE.
The EALC 130 instructional staff (J Packard, Y Liu) are unable to look up the answer to your challenge question, so your CPR account will need to be reset by the CPR Administrator, after which you will need to create a new login, password, and challenge question and answer. The CPR Administrator resets CPR accounts only during regular business hours (9 am – 5 pm on Monday – Friday). If your CPR account needs to be reset, then you will need to contact your TA, who will inform you by e-mail after your account has been reset. IF YOU FORGET THE ANSWER TO YOUR CHALLENGE QUESTION AND WE NEED TO RESET YOUR CPR ACCOUNT, IT WILL NOT EXCUSE YOU FOR MISSING A DEADLINE.
** NOTE: If you have login problems, then please read FAQ #3 – 5 at the end of this document. **
** Before Starting Your First CPR Assignment, you must
first take the CPR Guided Tour. **
• After entering your CPR username and CPR password, you will be directed to take a 10 minute “tour”, which highlights key information you need to know to use the CPR software and complete the assignment.
• Click on the link “CPR Guided Tour” and then the “Taking an Assignment” link. Read each screen to learn important information about how the CPR assignment operates.
• Take the short PreTest for new users. All of the information needed to complete the PreTest is found in the CPR tour, “Taking an Assignment.” You must take the tour before taking the PreTest.

EALC 130 Writing Assignment – Two Parts
A) Part I of the Assignment (400-500 word Essay, worth up to 30 points) may be started at 2:00 pm on Monday, April 11 and is due before 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 15.
During this part, you will go to the CPR login page <https://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr/login.asp>, enter your CPR Username and CPR Password, and then follow the instructions for writing the essay. The most importantinformation—given in the section on the CPR system labeled ‘Guiding Questions’— also is given below:
Write an essay (between 400 and 500 total words) about one or two LINGUISTIC OR CULTURAL EVENTS OR MISUNDERSTANDINGS that have affected your life significantly, or have made a deep impression on you. Most of your essay should describe your personal experiences, thoughts, and emotions associated with your selected event or misunderstanding. Your essay may, but need not, involve the Chinese language.
A portion of the essay should describe WHAT THE PARTICULAR LINGUISTIC OR CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE that make the event or misunderstanding PARTICULARLY MEMORABLE OR MAKE IT PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO MISUNDERSTANDING. In addition, because the characteristics of the topic you choose should involve “common knowledge” as well as subjective feelings, you do not need to include references. Nevertheless, your entire essay MUST be written by you in your own words. Your essay will be evaluated to determine if it has been plagiarized, so: DO NOT PLAGIARIZE! Also, DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR ESSAY OR WITH ANY OF YOUR ESSAY REVIEWS (described in Part II of the assignment). The CPR software will keep track of all of your work without your having to put your name on your essay or your essay reviews described in Part II.

Follow these guidelines:
All student essays, INCLUDING YOUR OWN, will be rated using the criteria in the following Guiding Questions provided below. Therefore, YOU SHOULD REVIEW THE GUIDING QUESTIONS and WRITE YOUR OWN ESSAY BASED ON THESE CRITERIA.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU USE THE FOLLOWING 18 QUESTIONS TO GUIDE YOU IN WRITING YOUR OWN ESSAY
1. Does the essay contain between 400 and 500 words?
Yes
No
2. Is there a space between the title and the rest of the essay, and are there spaces between paragraphs?
Yes
No
3. Is the title interesting, relatively short, and informative?
Yes
No
4. Are there one or two topic sentences that introduce and frame the rest of the presentation?
Yes
No
5. Was there a good “hook”, i.e. did the first sentence or two capture your attention?
Yes
No
6. Does the writer give a full, clear and detailed description of the event or misunderstanding?
Yes
No
7. Does the writer fully depict how his or her life was significantly affected by the experience that they describe?
Yes
No
8. Does the writer portray in sufficient depth the specifically personal aspects of their experience?
Yes
No
9. Does the writer include examples of specific thoughts that occurred to them before, during and after their experience?
Yes
No
10. Does the writer explain the specific linguistic or cultural characteristics that made the experience particularly memorable or susceptible to misunderstanding?
Yes
No
11. Does the writer succeed in eliciting your empathy with the more personal aspects of their experience?
Yes
No
12. Was the essay easy to understand, i.e., did it use clear, straightforward language?
Yes
No
13. Did the essay have a smooth writing style in which each topic, sentence and paragraph flowed easily to the next?
Yes
No
14. Did the essay end in an interesting and compelling way?
Yes
No
15. Did the essay contain any errors in the use of grammar? A = there are no grammatical errors B = there are some (1-4) grammatical errors C = there is a large number (>4) of grammatical errors
A
B
C
16. Did the essay contain any errors in the use of lexical items? A = there are no lexical errors B = there are some (1-4) lexical errors C = there is a large number (>4) of lexical errors
A
B
C
17. Did the essay contain any spelling errors? A = there are no spelling errors B = there are some (1-4) spelling errors C = there is a large number (>4) of spelling errors
A
B
C
18. Did the writer use correct punctuation in this essay? A = there are no punctuation errors B = there are some (1-4) punctuation errors C = there is a large number (>4) of punctuation errors
A
B
C
Make sure that your essay is between 400-500 words (based on the word count given in the CPR Text Entry page) before submitting it to CPR, or you will lose points.

** Before the essay deadline (11:59 pm, Illinois Time, on Friday, April 15), check the CPR Web site to ensure your essay was received by the CPR system. **

Make sure to save your Written Assignment to your own computer before submitting it to CPR. This will act as a backup if you have a problem during the submission process.
** Formatting from a word processor is NOT preserved when you copy and paste your essay into the CPR text box. (If you don’t use any HTML tags, then your entire essay will appear as one single paragraph). There are two HTML formatting tags that you are required to use, namely:
1. , and
2. <center> </center>
You need to put a blank line before each of your paragraphs, and
<center> </center> to center the title of your essay.
 defines a paragraph with a blank line. Therefore,
 “Your submitted text.” would place a blank line before “Your submitted text.”, defining it as a paragraph.
The command ‘<center> </center> ’ centers whatever is between the 2 parts of the tag. Therefore,
<center> “Why I Hate Bananas” </center>
would center the title line “Why I Hate Bananas”
In order to be displayed correctly by CPR, your title and paragraphs must be formatted using HTML tags. Your title will be formatted like this:
<center> This Is My Title </center>

After that, you put a before each one of your paragraphs.
Text entry for Part I ends at 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 15. If you do not complete Part I before 11:59 pm (Illinois Time) on Friday, April 15, you will receive a zero for the entire Writing Assignment, thereby losing 20% of your course grade.