Monday, October 5, 2009

Chp.1- Motivation- Case Study Report


1. Statement of The Problem
A: Definition
Mei Chang had partisipating problem in the class discussions, and also had trouble with writing assignment. After midterm exam, Mei got average C minus. Her teacher, Mr. Kramer, told her to raise her average by rewriting her papers and speaking up in class, but Mei started to skip from the class and did not complete the writing assignments in the second half of the semester. Ultimately, Mei argued with Ms. Kramer and she made a misunderstanding about what Ms. Kramer said. She thought Ms. Kramer will fail her so she gave up the course.

B: Analysis
After Mei got C minus after midterm exam, she started to skip classes. She totally gave up her reading and writing class that she even did not strive to make up her bad grade.

2. Suggestion of Possible Solutions
A: Solution 1. To ask more questions in class
B: Solution 2. Improving writing skills by reading more extra curricular books or news papers.
C: Solution 3. Show much respect to Ms. Kramer and ask questions about how to write an essay during Ms. Kramer's office hour.

3. Evaluation of possible Solutions
A. Solution 1.
*Advantage: Eventhough she sometimes does not understand what other people are saying, she can ask questions in class. It will increase her participation in class and she will feel more confident on speaking in the class.
*Disadvantage: By this way, she will not improve her listening and writing skills, so she will still cannot understand what others say or still do not know how to write an essay.

B. Solution 2.
*Advantage: Reading more books or papers will know what the structure of essay is and how to write an essay. By this way, Mei can improve her writing skills.
*Disadvantage: She maybe had not enough time to read extra curricular books not to mention doing her writing assignment.

C. Solution 3.
*Advantage: She can improve her writing skills by asking teachers privately during office hour. *Disadvantage: Mei may feels stressful because she seems like that she can not sustain any pressure.

4. Selection of a Solution
A. Choise
Solution 2

B. Justification
Compared with all of Mei's problem, most problems can be solved easily, however, writing is Mei's hardest problem to solve. Thus, she should improve her writing skills by way of reading more articles and papers.

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