A: Contributor: Katherine Haan and Managing Editor, SMB: Rob Watts.

The contributor Katherine is reliable to a certain extent, because she won Alpha Beta Kappa National Hornor and Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the U.S. Senate. her education and working background also help for the article. The editor Rob is also experienced in the small business, so they are both reliable.

Q2: What is the main idea of the article?

A: This article discusses the current status of AI development in various industries, business owner’s attitudes to it, and the positive and negative impact of the use of AI, in the end, it gives a positive prediction of future development of AI industry.

Q3: Provide 3 examples/supporting details that relate to the main idea.

A: In the first and second section, the contributor shows the specific statistic data about the purposes of AI using to tell the current industry status. In the third and fourth section it discusses the thoughts of the majority business owners and the positive impact of the AI using. The fifth section tells the concerns that business owners have, such as impact on website traffic from search engines.

Q4: Can you relate to any of the information presented in this article?

A: In my personal experience, I used to work in E-commercial industry, so the development of AI definitely affects our work, the AI can be used in many simple repetitive works, like building a website, pages decoration, batch processing of words and images, etc.. The AI surely improves our productivity positively, but on the other hand, it negatively results in a more completive environment the same time.

Q5: Did you face any challenges applying the active reading strategies while interacting with this text? Explain

A: To be honest, there is definitely challenges while reading this article, but it does not come from the strategies side, because the content is constructed with very clear opinions and logic, the paragraphs and charts are also well edited, these make it not very difficult to get through.

An AI-generated music cover could be as great as a human does, what’s worse is that people who are being mimicked have nothing to do to protect their copyrights.

There are plenty of problems caused by data abuse, such as data storing and using issues. AI is making this kind of problem worse.

The most important is that we have been pushed into a new world where we can no longer get through what is exactly happening by watching images, videos and listening to audio. A moral issue reminds us that the digital world does not guarantee truth anymore.

2.Do you agree or disagree with the view that AI is indeed "scary"? Explain

I agree with the view that AI is scary. Because AI is so easy for everyone to get access, and it can generate fake information so easily that plenty of digital abuse is happening, from images to audio, and videos, even live shows can also be modified easily. Many people’s personal rights are being violated. The creator’s copyrights cannot be protected. Major public could not distinguish the AI-generated information, the whole society is losing trust. The development of AI puts the majority of us in a disadvantaged position. Overall, I believe that AI is scary so far.

3. What strategies do the speakers mention to detect AI generated content? Paraphrase in your own words.

There are some ways to recognize an AI product.

1. For a music video, we can think about the correlation between song and video content, because usually an AI product just randomly matches a video.

2. If a video is well matched by the selection, we can focus on the details such as the movement of the singer’s mouth and the lyrics.

3. We can identify the facticity by some other aspects such as the content poster, original source, and the accounts in the comments. This kind of information can help us to make a profile of the product and help us to distinguish it.

4. For an AI-generated image there will be always unusual aspects, such as too smooth skin, different colors in eyes, and inappropriate decorative accessories.

5.Summarize the main arguments of the video in 3-4 sentences. 

The development of AI tech is affecting us in many areas, such as entertainment, job markets, and even politics by generating audio, videos and images. It results in a violation of personal rights and public information security. We need to improve the management to regulate the information world in the AI age.

In my daily life educating my son, there are many times that I need to persuade him to change his mind. The most common thing that happened is about the diets he usually does not like food that he never tried before and also does not eat enough. So, I have to persuade him to try some new foods by telling him that the foods are good taste and great for health, most of the time he trusts me since I am his father and he knows that I am trustworthy, since it is natural and I always keep my promises that I made to him. But few of time it does not work, because he also has his own judgment.

Pathos

Sometimes I use this kind of strategy when dealing with price, when I buy something that I know there may be some room for price reduction, I may negotiate with the salespersons by telling them that it is a hard time now, it’s not easy to make money, or even I’m under certain pressure of buying this, most of the time this method works, because I am not lying, I am telling the truth, people can feel my emotion and the actual circumstance, they are usually persuaded more or less and will give a certain discount.

Logos

Sometimes when I talk to my friends about economic or political topics, such as the house price, for certain points we may have different opinions, so we both try to convince each other. To support my opinions, I usually mention some basic facts and fundamental theories, make some analogies, and use common sense to verify, even counter-questions if necessary. I do all these things to make my arguments more logical and factual, and to firm my opinions. But it is not easy to convince adult people when talking about topics like these since adults often have different perspectives and positions, which may lead to a different even opposite judgment.

Haijiao Zhang

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ESOL 100

Currency:

1. This article was published on February 2023 without further update so far.

2. The topic does not need to be extremely timely, so the content still is applicable today.

3. Reading this article do not require prepositive knowledge, and the link is still functional.

Relevance:

1. The topic discussed in the article is relevant to the majority of us in the Internet age.

2. Every person who often receive and share information online should know these methods.

3. They do not need an expert threshold and are effective in daily life.

Authority:

1. This article offered the link to the authors’ information, Jaigris Hodson is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest, she is also a founding member of the Digital Public Interest Collective, has published 20 articles in this publisher.

2. The other author Andrea Galizia, she is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. She works as a Senior Editor on the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. She has a Master’s degree in political science, she is a founding member of the Digital Public Interest Collective and the producer of the DPI Collective podcast. Both of them are creditable and qualified to publish on this topic.

3. The article also provides the contact information including email, X, Facebook, Linkedin.

Accuracy:

1. The information comes from a project that funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, all the main points are paraphrased from experts in relevant areas, and supported by professional knowledge, such as “You don’t have to think everyone is lying to understand that everything is prone to error.” (Yochai Benkler, 2023).

2. The vocabulary and grammar in the article are shown in a high level without literal error, and the language and tone are expressed in an unbiased perspective.

Purpose:

1. The author of this article provides a clear aim which is to inform the audience the tips to avoid from being misled, and to persuade the audience to take action to fight against misinformation.

2. This article gives creditable objective facts and opinions.

Overall, this article is creditable to a big extent, because it is created by professional and creditable authors, and supported by some experts in relevant areas, the purpose and opinion are clear and unbiased.

1. All reflections tasks are complete- 10 points-6/10

2. All questions in the reflection tasks are written in own words and are not copied from any source-10 points-10/10

3. Reflections show a clear understanding of content and is mostly free from grammatical error. Sentences covey a clear meaning – 10 points - 6/10

4. Responds to comments made by instructor – 10 points - 10/10

5. Tasks that require research follows appropriate citation rules(APA in-text citation and reference). Any reflection that requires research but fails to include proper citation will be assigned a grade of zero- 10 points - 10/10

Total 50 points: 42

Self-assessment grade: 42

The reason I have provided this grade is because:

1. I have finished all the reflection tasks, but not at a high quality.

2. All answers for the reflection assignments are completed in my own words, no any plagiarism.

3. My answers show a relative understanding of the tasks, but may contain some grammar errors and inappropriate words.

4. Had responded to all comments made by instructor.

5. I’m not very sure but I believe I have provided appropriate citation that follows APA principles.

Haijiao Zhang

N01721780

ESOL 100

My assignment has been attached as a PDF file, please review.

Thanks.

Greta Thunberg (2019) on her speech at UN Climate Action Summit claimed that people are suffering from the whole ecosystemic collapsing; the world leaders are failing people by not taking sufficient efforts to improve the situation and caring about only economic result; young generations are not satisfied with the present solutions and will make changes in the future.

• What emotions do you think she is expressing most in this video?

I feel mostly sad and angry in the speech.

• What specific words and phrases does she use that makes you think she is expressing the emotions that you notice? 

Sad:

“People are suffering, people are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.”

“But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that”

“You are failing us.”

Angry:

“We will be watching you”, multiple times of “How dare you”

“This right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming whether you like it or not.”

“then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.”

“I say, we will never forgive you.”

“And change is coming whether you like it or not.”

• Do you think her speech is persuasive based on her words, phrases, and emotional expressions? Why or why not? 

Overall, her speech is not persuasive enough to me.

First of all, the climate problem is actually existing, but not as serious as she claimed, she is exaggerating the fact. Secondly, her argument about the present solutions is biased, it is unfair to say that the world leaders and scientists are not working properly to improve the situation and focusing only on economic growth, in fact, many countries in the world have significant improvement on ecosystem protecting, such as the countries in the European Union, Japan, China etc. Finally, the tone, words and expression of the speech are not peaceful, and her emotion is full of angry, which will make me skeptical about her arguments.

In conclusion, her arguments are exaggerating the issues, her comments and claims are much emotional, which make her speech not well persuasive to me.

I have attached my assignment as a PDF, please review.

Haijiao Zhang

N01721780

ESOL 100

1). What did you learn in this course that you think will be useful for you in your academic, personal, and professional lives?

In the course of ESOL 100, there are many modules that are very helpful to me, such as Module 3-Paraphrasing, which shows me what is appropriate for summarizing and paraphrasing, and the differences between them; Module 4 – 7, which demonstrate the strategies of assessing a text, by illustrating ETHOS-credibility, LOGOS-logic, and PATHOS-emotion we can build a clear structure of evaluating system, which helpful for not only my academic reading and writing, but also my personal habits of reading and communicating with others.

2). How do you think reflection and revision has helped to improve your writing skills? Please give an example to show how it has helped.

The reflection assignments and the following revision are very helpful for improving my writing skills. For example, Reflection #7 is about evaluating the article, by using CRAAP strategies, I have a clear path in my mind while writing, I can make a checklist, then do research and assess by steps. Compared to this, if I do not make the checklist, I may miss some important points, so it helps me to ensure comprehensive reading.

3). How do you think self-assessing your tasks /assignments has helped you to become aware of your strength and areas of improvement related to reading and writing? Please explain. 

I think self-assessing the assignment it requires us a mandatory review of our reading and writing, we can check the bullet points one by one to figure out what needs to be improved, it is a good way to enhance the knowledge we have learned. And also, self-assessing also offers an opportunity to revise our assignment, which is helpful for better grades. So, self-assessing is very helpful for improving our English learning.

4). How did you enjoy the learning experience of ESOL 100? What did you like best and what can be improved?

The course ESOL 100 is much more helpful than I thought since the in-person class can force input and output, which is essential for students who lack self-regulation. The instructor is so responsible and kind, her erudition also impresses me. This course is a high-quality course.

Thank you very much for teaching us.

Haijiao Zhang