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UBI3242 ENGLISH PROFICIENCY 4 - SEMESTER 2 2021/2022 (A212)

WRITING TASK (20%)

Name : TONY ANAK INGAI

Student ID : D20201093784
Group : GROUP Y
Lecturer’s name : MADAM NIK NUR ATHIRAH BINTI NIK MOHD ARIF

Read the instructions thoroughly.

1. Students are required to write an argumentative essay in not less than 350 words.
2. Plagiarised work will be heavily penalized.
3. Font Calibri/ Times New Roman/Arial; Size 11; spacing 1.15; justify.
4. ‘Save As’ your Answer sheet in Ms Word, rename your document with your FULL
NAME only.
5. Submit the Answer Sheet to MyGuru – Assignment.

Write an argumentative essay in not less than 350 words on the following topic:

Students in schools should be introduced to foreign cultures. 

Do you agree?

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COLUMN

INTRODUCTION
 Foreign cultures can be defined as set of beliefs, values, attitudes,
morals, purposes, customs or traditions that define a group of people € Attitude is defined;
from foreign countries.
thesis is clearly focused;
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subject is significant ▢
 Some people might think that the students are not necessary to learn
about the foreign cultures. (G) Unclear; formulaic;
 They advocate that the students should know about their own local
not creative ▢
cultures.
 Actually, there are a lot of reasons why the students should be (F) Incomplete, ineffective,
introduced to foreign cultures. or missing ▢

 Therefore, I strongly agree that students in school should be introduced (P) Lack of knowledge and
to foreign cultures because learning foreign cultures increase their understanding of the
topic ▢
knowledge about foreign cultures, help them to get more new foreigner
friends and reduce culture shock when they go the foreign country.

Paragraph 1:
BODY PARAGRAPHS
 Foreign cultures are much differ from our own local cultures.
 Some of the foreign cultures might opposed our own cultures. (E) Interesting;
sophisticated; insightful ▢
 There are some people afraid that the students mixed the foreign
cultures with their own cultures. (E) Detailed; accurate;
 Hence, they didn’t want the students to learn about the foreign cultures. convincing ▢

 It’s not a harm for the students to learn the foreign cultures. (E) Engaging and powerful
 Learning about the foreign cultures doesn’t mean that the students have choice of words ▢
to apply or follow those foreign cultures.
 It helps them to understand the foreigner’s cultures.
(G) Simplistic; uneven in
quality; lack in relevance ▢
Paragraph 2:
(G) Uneven ▢
 Increase their knowledge about foreign cultures.
 Teaching the students about foreign cultures can help them to learn and
understand foreigner. (F) Absent or ineffective ▢
 It’ll avoid the students from making fun of the foreigner cultures and
(F) Vague, missing, or
they will respect the foreigner cultures because they know about the inaccurate ▢
purposes of the foreigner cultures.
(F) Limited, monotonous,
 Learning foreign cultures help to broaden student’s horizon about the
inappropriate ▢
foreigner cultures.

(P) Lack of knowledge and

understanding of the
topic ▢

REFERENCES/ CITATIONS

Paragraph 3: (E) 2 or more and correctly

written ▢
 Help the students to get more new foreigner friends.
(G) 1 and correctly written,
 The students easily make new foreigner friends because they know
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about the foreigner cultures. or parts are missing ▢

 It prevents the students to do something awkward or embarrassing. (F) Missing and incorrect ▢
 Learning foreign cultures help the students to interact with the new
(P) Errors compromised
foreigner friends easily.
meaning ▢

Paragraph 4: PLAGIARISM

(E) Less than 10% ▢

 Reduce culture shock when they go the foreign country.
 It’s hard for someone to live in a foreign country without any knowledge (G) 10%-15% ▢

about that particular country. (F) 16%-20% ▢

 Learning foreign cultures surely help them a lot when they go to that
(P) More than 20% ▢
particular country.
 It’s because the students know about the foreign cultures.
 As a result, they will know how to adapt with the current situation.
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 Learning foreign cultures can reduces culture shock when the students
go the foreign country. ORGANISATION

(E) Effective argument;

reinforces the content ▢

(E) Effective and varied ▢

(G) Ineffective or
inconsistent ▢

(F) Random, absent ▢

(P) More than 20% ▢

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MECHANICS

(E) Complete; varied;

interesting ▢

(E) Error-free ▢

(G) Variety is present; some

errors are evident ▢

(G) Careless/ distracting ▢

(F) Repetitious; fragments

and run-ons are frequent
▢
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(G) Block meaning ▢

(P)Inability to form
coherent sentences ▢

Conclusion: CONCLUSION

(E) Extends; connects;

 I strongly agree that students in school should be introduced to foreign comments on topics ▢
cultures.
(G) Summarizes previously
 Learning foreign cultures brings a lot of benefits toward the students. stated information ▢
 For instance, learning foreign cultures increase their knowledge about
foreign cultures, help the students to get more new foreigner friends and (F) Absent, incomplete, or
unfocused ▢
reduce culture shock when they go the foreign country.
 However, there are still some people would think that the students (P) Lack of knowledge and
understanding of the
shouldn’t introduced to foreign cultures because it’s not important.
topic ▢
 This kind of people are unable to see the benefits of learning foreign
cultures. CONTENT -

ORGANISATION -

MECHANICS -

TOTAL =
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Foreign cultures can be defined as set of beliefs, values, attitudes, morals, purposes, customs or
traditions that define a group of people from foreign countries. Some people might think that the
students are not necessary to learn about the foreign cultures. They advocate that the students should
only learn about their own local cultures. Actually, there are a lot of reasons why the students should be
introduced to foreign cultures. Therefore, I strongly agree that students in school should be introduced
to foreign cultures because learning foreign cultures increases their knowledge about foreign cultures,
helps them to get more new foreigner friends and reduces culture shock when they go the foreign
country.

Foreign cultures are much differ from our own local cultures. Some of the foreign cultures might
opposed our own cultures. Hence, there are some people afraid that the students mixed the foreign
cultures with their own cultures. As a result, they didn’t want the students to learn about the foreign
cultures. It’s not a harm for the students to learn the foreign cultures. Learning about the foreign
cultures doesn’t mean that the students have to apply those foreign cultures but it only helps them to
understand the foreigner’s cultures.

Firstly, learning foreign cultures increase the student’s knowledge about foreign cultures. Teaching
the students about foreign cultures can help them to learn and understand foreigner. It’ll avoid the
students from making fun of the foreigner cultures and they will respect the foreigner cultures because
they know about the purposes of the foreigner cultures. Thus, learning foreign cultures helps to broaden
student’s horizon about the foreigner cultures.

Secondly, learning foreign cultures also help the students to get more new foreigner friends. The
students easily make new foreigner friends because they know about the foreigner cultures. As a result,
it prevents the students to do something awkward or embarrassing. Therefore, learning foreign cultures
help the students to interact with the new foreigner friends easily.

Thirdly, learning foreign cultures can reduce culture shock when they go the foreign country. It’s
hard for someone to live in a foreign country without any knowledge about that particular country.
Learning foreign cultures will surely help them a lot when they travel to that particular country. It’s
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because the students know about the foreign cultures. As a result, they will know how to adapt with the
current situation. Hence, learning foreign cultures reduce culture shock when the students go the
foreign country.

In conclusion, I strongly agree that students in school should be introduced to foreign cultures.
Learning foreign cultures brings a lot of benefits toward the students. For instance, learning foreign
cultures increase their knowledge about foreign cultures, help the students to get more new foreigner
friends and reduce culture shock when they go the foreign country. However, there are still some
people would think that the students shouldn’t introduced to foreign cultures because it’s not
important. It’s because this kind of people are unable to see the benefits of learning foreign cultures.