First, the types of assignments for international students' academic papers
The most common forms of homework for liberal arts majors include scientific papers, literary papers and reflective papers. Students are required to write in different languages in combination with what they have learned, and the writing process of the thesis also lays the foundation for the graduation thesis. Every kind. The content and structure of the composition will be different, but the specific requirements will be clearly introduced by the teacher.
Study diary
Learning diary is a form that Finnish university teachers like very much. Students don't need to repeat what they have learned, but reflect their reflection and practical application in the journal. For example, what are the disadvantages of a given material? How to improve? What's your own opinion? What impact does what you have learned have on individuals, organizations and society, and so on. It aims to cultivate students' systematic thinking and critical thinking ability.
Briefing session; exhibition
Make PPT or poster to demonstrate what you have learned in front of students and teachers. Investigate students' time management ability, speech ability and teamwork ability.
Project work
This form of operation is to put theory into practice. Take my sustainable development leadership course this year as an example. We need to get in touch with real-life enterprises or organizations, analyze the role of organizations in climate change, and make a carbon-neutral plan in 2035. In the process of project implementation, it is necessary to collect a large amount of information, analyze and sort it out, and communicate with stakeholders repeatedly to form a plan.
Infographic
Infograph, also known as infograph, refers to organizing a large amount of information into charts in a visual form. Compared with posters, infographics are infographics+charts. It can be easily made with PPT or Canva.
essay
Composition homework usually gives students a topic, and then you need to use your own point of view to prove whether the topic is correct and reasonable, or what you need to add.
report
The biggest difference with essay is that report is not an argumentative paper.
Typical business reports are as follows:
1. Materials give you a case of a company;
2. Objectively introduce the company and economic background in the form of historical records;
3. Explain in the materials where the problems encountered by the current managers are;
4. Ask students to solve the problems encountered by current managers according to what they have learned.
suggestion
Note that the suggestions here are suggestions for small homework, not for your final graduation thesis. We will set up a special column to write suggestions for graduation thesis. The direct translation of Proposal is "suggestion", but if the word proposal appears in your homework, it's not just asking you to make a few suggestions.
Second, English students' common types of homework (1) composition, report and other writing types.
This kind of homework requires students to have good written expression ability, fluent documents and rigorous academic expression, which is the key to grading.
China students usually need to work hard to finish this kind of homework in order to get better grades.
Because academic homework requires students' critical thinking ability, this kind of humanistic quality and academic ability were rarely involved in domestic study and life in the past. Therefore, China students can't get high marks in this kind of homework.
(2) Demonstration
Students need to prepare a speech to explain their views and findings.
This kind of homework is relatively open and requires students to have better creative thinking and better ability to express their opinions.
Generally speaking, China students are more worried about this type of homework, on the one hand, because of poor oral expression ability; On the other hand, they are not familiar with this type of homework, which leads to nervousness.
(3) Online testing
In order to examine students' knowledge during this period, general schools will require students to complete online tests within a certain period of time.
It can appear in the form of multiple-choice questions or short-answer questions, and students are required to complete it within the specified time.
Some calculate scores, and some just need to complete.
This kind of homework is generally not too difficult to set up, mainly depending on the students' mastery of knowledge points.
(4) Group work
This type examines the ability of teamwork and requires the whole team to complete the theme article or research project.
Team members need to have different division of labor and perform their duties. Don't think about getting something for nothing, because there will be a team contribution evaluation in the end. Those team members who have not contributed, if more than one team member nominates this person, then the team project without contributing members is likely to get 0 points.
Therefore, it is the key to get the grade of group work to participate in the group project seriously and play its own role.
(5) Other types
For example, application software to complete homework, excel, Stata, Eviews, etc. , all appear in different group jobs.
This kind of application homework requires students to be familiar with the software and then complete it according to the teacher's requirements.