Writing:

This first week, please read the article $"$If You Don$$t Know How to Say Someone$$s Name, Just Ask" by Ruchika Tulshyan.

The article's topic is near and dear to my heart: the correct pronunciation of one's name. We are living in a global world now, and names are a hefty portion of one's identity, so it is important to get it right!!

After reading, please write one expository paragraph that responds to the following prompt: what do you do to be sure to learn someone's name correctly, and why does it work?

If you currently do not have a practice $($but you'll need to get one soon so that you won't be one of those people in business settings that say, $"$Oh$,$ I$\text{'}$m so horrible with names!!"$),$ then what WILL you do to learn names correctly in the future, and why do you think this will work?

In either case, please include evidence from the article to support your current or future practice.

Keep in mind that your peers will read your writing and will offer feedback, but that your writing will be anonymous to them $-$ they won't know whose writing they are reading, so feel free to try out punctuation or word groupings$/$vocabularies that are new to you! This is where you can practice and improve your writing safely, without fear.

Reviews:

For the review portion of this assignment, once reviews are assigned, they will appear in a couple of places in our Canvas course: to the right of your screen in this assignment as well as in your To Do list.

To get full credit for the reviews that you give, be sure to offer each peer three sentences that cover the D$-$E$-$S method of meaningful feedback.

This week, review their writing for all the components of an expository paragraph, as well as good grammar and punctuation usage.