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My paper focused on the problem of international students faced during their daily and academic life here. There are three most important factors that make me have this thought, the unfamiliarity with the new environment, the potential discrimination and they are not confident enough of their language abilities. Most of the international students around us are Asian and compare the culture of Asian with the culture of America, there are some obvious differences reflected on the dietary habit, the language and the academic part. All of these things might cost the international students a long time to adapt. About the discrimination part, I personally think that the existence of White privilege, the race discrimination and the gender discrimination effect our life a lot. The discrimination might cause the students have inappropriate resistance strategies. The discrimination make people feel uncomfortable, cause depression and let people have a fear of communicating with others. The last and also the most important one is the language problem. At first most of the international students do not have enough confidence with their language abilities, the rarely tried to talk to their local students classmate and they just gather in a small circle with people come from the same country. The classroom culture is also different here, some of the international students might also feel they cannot get used to the different culture here quickly.

I am sure that international students will get used to the life here, but I personally think that international students have more difficulties on the process of this because there are a lot of difference in different parts that they are totally unfamiliar with.

Outline of Paper

• Introduce the reason that make me choose this topic and also the background.
• Argument 1:

International students cannot get used to the life because they are not familiar with the new environment around them. They might miss things from their hometown and this might last for a long time.

• The interview with international students around me to support the argument.
• Counter Argument:

Some of the students might give different answer during the interview, like they perfect adapted to the new environment, but I will insert the information from the resource that I found to support my argument.

• Argument 2:

‘White privilege’ might exist during the campus and there might also be discrimination between students this might also be a reason that international students cannot get into the life in college easily.

• Counter Argument:

Students might think that after the civil war the discrimination do not exist anymore, for here I will insert the information I found in the article of an international student, the topic of that paper is about the discrimination and the White privilege in college.

• Argument 3:

International students have language problems and the different culture from America, some of the countries in Asia have a thought that people should not be too active and people should be introverted. They are not that good at express their emotions or feelings. When you are not able to talk with others it is really difficult for you to get into the life in college.

• Interview with Laurie Maynell, the expert of this topic.
• Counter Argument:

All the students passed the harsh SAT or ACT test to get into the college, there supposed to be no language problem during their life. For here I would like to insert the examples from people around me and the information I found from the article on line.

• Conclusion: International students might get used to the life here in the United States, but there must be a period that they have difficulties to this unfamiliar environment. Due to all these three reasons, I think that international students have more difficulties in get into the life in the college.

International students have language problems and the different culture from America, some of the countries in Asia have a thought that people should not be too active and people should be introverted. They are not that good at express their emotions or feelings. When you are not able to talk with others it is really difficult for you to get into the life in college.

• Write my third argument and post it to the blog.
• Outline my paper
• Comment and post on group members’ blog.
• Work with group members to complete the project.

Source 1:

““White Privilege”: Discrimination and Miscommunication–How It Affects/Effects Underrepresented Minority [Groups] on College Campuses.” N.p., 2001, EBSCOhost. Web. 11, Nov., 2015

What: The source introduced the discrimination and the miscommunication on College Campuses. The article talked about the white privilege and the white power. The African students and students from other countries discriminated against for a number of reasons.

Who: written by Buck, Gail F.

Why: I choose this article because I do think that the white privileges still exist and this article help me to do the research.

When: The article is relevant to modern times as it was written in 2001

Where: EBSCOhost.

How: I found this source from the university library when I entered White privileges. Since I am a student I can find the full text from the EBSCOhost.

Source 2:

“Language Challenges Faced by International Graduate Students in the United States” N.p., May, 2011, EBSCOhost, Web, 11, Nov, 2015

What: The source introduced the language challenges that the international student faced in the United State. This is also a journal of the international student.

Who: The article was written by Kuo, Ya-Hui

Why: I choose this article because I think language is one of the most important part in our life. People need to understand the language and then they can understand what others are talking.

When: The article is relevant to modern times as it was written in 2011

Where: EBSCOhost

How: I decided to go to the Ohio State University Library to get a starting point, I searched “international student” and “language” and browsing the links until I found this. Since I am a student I can find this article on EBSCOhost.

Source 3:

Rebekah Nathan “As Other See Us”, My Freshman Year: What a professor learned by becoming a student Ed.N.P.1^st ed. The United States: New York, 2005. 78-84. Print.

What: The source is an article from a book that talks about the freshman year. Introduced a lot of difference between different culture in school.

Who: Written by Rebekah Nathan

Why: I choose this article because I think this is just like things happened around us.

When: The article is relevant to modern times as it was published in 2005

Where: The UIUC online library.

How: Part of this book is was a reading material of the other class I take this semester. I think this is just like the things happened around us. So I searched the name of that chapter on the internet and then I found this book on the library of UIUC.

‘White privilege’ might exist during the campus and there might also be discrimination between students this might also be a reason that international students cannot get into the life in college easily. White people gather together and international students might like to spend their time with the person who come from the same place.

International students cannot get used to the life because they are not familiar with the new environment around them. They might miss things from their hometown and this might last for a long time. You are not familiar with the culture here and you are not able to join their conversation. The different culture here might also affect the student. International students might even struggle with academic problems. They focus on the academic area too much and they do not have time to find a way to get into the social life in the college.

Source 1:

“3 Surprises for International Students at U.S. Universities” N.p., N.d., Web. 03, Nov., 2015

What: The source introduced three different kinds of surprises for the international students who study at the University of United States.

Who: written by Katy Hopkins

Why: I choose this article because I think that these three factors that the author mentioned as surprises for international students are very important in our important and is a good starting point for me to make my argument stronger.

When: The article is relevant to modern times as it was written April 18, 2012.

Where: I found this source from the search engine Google. Although it is a web page but the things that the author mentioned is really important and the web site which post this article is the www.usnews.com, which I think is an official website.

How: I decided to go to the search engine to get a starting point, I searched “international student’s life in American university” on Google and this is the first one come up.

Source 2:

“The USA Way of Life” N.p., N.d., Web, 03, Nov, 2015

What: The source introduced all kinds of things that we might come up to. It contains a catalog of different issues that international student might meet.

Who: Cannot find the author on the page.

Why: I choose this article because I think that this is a combination of a lot of important resources to my article. Like the culture shock and the social life part.

When: I cannot find the written time of this article.

Where: I found this source from the search engine Google. Although it is a web page and I cannot find the author or the written time of the passage, but I think the information the website provide are really useful.

How: I decided to go to the search engine to get a starting point, I searched “international student’s life in American university” on Google and browsing the links until I found this website.

Source 3:

Jenny J Lee and Charles Rice, eds. “Welcome to America? International Student perceptions of discrimination.” Higher Education, 53(3),(2007): 381-409, RESEARCHGATE, Web, 04, Nov., 2015

What: The source is a paper written by two author. The paper mostly contains the results of a research about the experiences of international students in the University of U.S. Southwest. Based on interviews of a group of students from different countries.

Who: written by Jenny J Lee and Charles Rice

Why: I choose this article because I think that this paper will have important clues that might be useful to my paper. The experience about the discrimination might affect the life in United State.

When: The article is relevant to modern times as it was published in March, 2007.

Where: ResearchGate

How: I found this paper by searching “International Student in America.” And found this resource. Then I googled it and found the full-texted paper on the research gate which I can use it for free since I am a student.

To do list for the week:

1. Find 3 sources and complete annotated bibliography work sheet.
2. Read chapters 7 and 8
3. Ask my interviewees my interview questions
4. Form 1 argument and post on my blog
5. Critique group members’ annotations and argument