Here are three writing samples during my pathway study experience. These papers come from different courses and focus on different fields. I enhanced my writing skills and gained more confident for my future graduate study.
Negative Relationship: Plagiarism and Academic Culture
This plagiarism research paper is my midterm paper in PROV-501 in Spring 2016. This paper talks about how plagiarism damage American academic culture. In this paper, I identified the definition of plagiarism, how to avoid plagiarism, what is academic culture, reality elements of the US academic culture and the relationship between academic culture and plagiarism. I created a figure to show how plagiarism influence different groups of students and how academic culture damaged by these students.
The reasons why I choose this paper as my writing sample are： 1) Plagiarism is a significant topic in American academic culture. 2) International students may suffer plagiarism troubles. 3) In this paper, I have a clear figure to show how plagiarism damage academic culture. Download link
Chinese Exchange Regime and Monetary Policy
This macro-economic research paper is the final paper in ITRN-503 in Spring 2016. This paper focus on Chinese exchange rate regime and the efficiency of People’s Bank of China’s (PBOC) monetary policy. First, I identified some basic information about Chinese exchange rate regime and tools of monetary policy. Second, I analyzed about exchange rate of Yuan to dollar floating during Aug.10.2015 to March.31.2016. Third, basing on the former analysis, I identified the efficiency of PBOC’s monetary policy. Finally, I discussed about the influence of the exchange rate to different fields and groups of people.
The reasons why I choose this paper as my writing sample are： 1) Yuan’s exchange rate is important for world economic. 2) This paper is my first academic paper in the US. 3) I got high grade in this paper, at least A. Download link
Privacy Issues in Smart City: Model, Threats and Solutions
This paper is the final literature review in EAP-507 in Fall 2016. Because smart city is a popular urban development tendency and already done by many big cities, for example Shanghai and New York city. But people do not notice their privacy is becoming more vulnerable. This paper tries to identify smart city privacy models, privacy threats, potential solutions and how to reduce privacy risks by public section.
The reasons why I choose this paper as my writing sample are： 1) Urban policy and smart city will be my future research filed during my graduate study. 2) My poster presentation also bases on this paper. 3) This paper is the first literature review I wrote during my academic study. Download link