Weblog Reflection 2: A spontaneous one!

I just took a quick look at all my classmates' weblog, and I don't why they don’t' enjoy using weblog to record the working process of rp. I guess the major reason is that they encounter some technical problem using blogspot. Well, at first I did know how to handle blogs spot, either. However, I force myself getting familiar with blogspot by clicking every button and function of blogspot. In addition, the key factor is that I gave myself a Google account and a new template. After that, using blogspot wouldn't be a problem for my anymore.

The more I am familiar with blogspot, the more I love to use it. Although I didn't post much, I did think using blogspot to record the working process would be such a good idea! It helps me have a whole and clear idea about what I had achievement and what I had not done.

In addition, I must say I prefer turning in my assignments through weblog instead of hardcopy. Hardcopy looks professional and formal, but emotionless! I love using weblog better because I can use my creativity to make it look more humane and interesting by arranging the layout and inserting the pictures. Moreover, by using weblog, it’s like I can have more freedom and power to control what I want my assignments look like. So, while I use weblog to turn in assignment, I don’t feel like I am working for requirements. Instead, it feels like I am having fun writing, so I can write better and more without feeling restricted! Thus, I believe the weblog activity helps me complete better product than hardcopy.

Besides, I enjoy reading any feedback on weblog, and I am looking forward to see any comment from anyone as soon as I finish a new post. Everyone has a blind spot, so do I. So, once I complete a new post, I want to hear from others’ opinions. I believe their comments help me think for my RP in another way, so I set up a function of weblog to help me receive a notice whenever I got a comment !!Haha~

Also, after I post out a new article, I would like to check my classmates’ blogs to see how they did in the same errands. By checking their blogs, I could rethink “Is there any way that I can revise my post better?”

All in all, it’s an extreme pleasure for me to use weblog to record the working process of RP. I think I was doing better through weblog, not through paper/hardcopy.

RP Reflection 1!!!!!!!The long awaiting one.

Wow, it looks like I am such a slacker! This is my first June post, so I guess I need to make it a good one.

I don't wish my RP look messy and illogical, you know. I hope it perfect. So, I keep letting time passing and keep thinking about what I am gonna do with RP all the time. Apparently, worry doesn't make any achievement or solve any problem. That's why I received the emergency email from Grace. Guess what, what's worse is that I haven’t' turned in my final draft to Doris. (Sorry!)That’s my main concern because I don't wanna do the whole horrible things again. I meant I don't wanna fail.

Well, completing my Junior Research paper would be struggling as well as posting something on my RP weblog because my achieved percentage of scheduled progress is pitifully little. I guess the main reason is that I just keep worried without facing the music. During working on my research paper, I get stuck a lot times. When I get stuck, I avoid doing it at one time, and instead, I go to watch TV or surf on the internet. I don't like the feeling of getting stuck. It's like you lose any word and inspiration to type anything on the research paper. Sounds horrible, uh? As a matter of fact, it is!

When I first work on the outline and article review, I do the research. I surf on the internet in order to get some useful information about the seventh graders in Taiwan, but most of them are written in Chinese. That makes one of my depressions. Another note, I decide to find information about the seventh graders in English, but most of them are too huge and unrelated to what I want to write about my RP. That's also depressing! So, for a long while, I keep feeling disappointed and helpless and avoid working on RP.

However, one day, Doris's words came into my brain, and I suddenly think that it's okay to use Chinese book for my works cited. So, I rush to the book store and buy "我七年級生,我不草莓".This book helps me a lot and gives me a lot of inspiration. Before reading this book, the abundant information on the internet makes me feel pixy-led and lost. They are written in Chinese and most of them are about the characteristics of the seventh graders. I was so unsure whether I want to include that in my rp. After I finished this book, I decide my main argument remove the idea of including the characteristics of the seventh graders in my RP. This decision is not easy, but it makes my RP's argument much more clear and easy! Haha. Although I am lucky enough to have this book to decide my main direction for my RP, but I also need more information. So, I go to http://etds.ncl.edu.tw/theabs/index.jsp, and two research papers in 全國碩博士論文 gave me some inspiration for feeding my another part of RP. In addition, although I founds news about the seventh graders on the internet are quit many, they are not really convincing. I was much troubled by this information. Because they are many, giving them up makes me feel pity. However, although giving them up would mean I lose one big opportunity to feed my RP; I need to work on something more meaningful and more convincing. So, I went to Doris office (It's quite long time ago, I guess), and she taught me how to find information more convincing step by step!!!Thanksto her, I started to search information on Ministry of Education, National Youth Commission , and Council of Affairs 行政院勞委會, all of which are very useful for my RP. Before I receive suggestions from Doris, these websites are not definitely what I would visit for fun usually. I also get some ideas for my first hand data collection on this website and that book that I mention above.

Although I got some ideas about my first hand data collection, it's never easy for me to have my questionnaire finished!!!! Thanks to Ms. Su and Doris, I realize the design of questionnaire requires techniques. Ms. Su gave me a lot of perfect suggestions, but I think it's not easy for me to contact a company and interview the staffs. I wished I could do whatever Ms. Su suggested me to do, but I feel sorry that I could not. Anyway, when I had a conference through phone call with Doris, her suggestions are quite practical and clear and I think I can do that! It's like a light for my first hand data collection! So, by the week of my RP convention, I finished my first hand data collection. (Distributing questionnaire would also a problem for me, because I have to ask helps from school brothers and sisters and some people that I am not familiar with at all.)

Oh.. That’s one thing that I want to add. By the week of my RP convention, not only the questions worry me, but also the work-cited does. Facing the thick and gray MLA handbook, my brain went blank!! So, I was worried how to revise my works cited to look MLA. I wrote email to Doris, she was really to kind to help my revise my power point and she helped to revise my works cited in her office next morning!! Thanks to her, my works cited and PPT looked MLA and correct! She is greatest and kindest professor that I have ever met!

Since I don’t include first hand data collection in my first draft of RP, my first draft must look messy and incomplete. After I finish my 2nd draft, I also feel it’s incomplete because I do it in a rush. In order to fit my main argument, I delete two paragraphs and one table, so that means the pages of my RP D2 might be less than the first draft. I am kind worried that I wouldn’t meet the requirement. I guess the required length for Junior research paper would be like 7 to 8 pages. So, I need to try to revise the table and the two paragraphs, so that I can add them into my final draft. I really need enough length for my final draft. For the final draft, I am kind of in struggle between the coherence of idea and the length.

All in all, as you can see, my research paper is woven by Doris' much help, my brain, my struggle, tears, Grace's reminder,fun, and the passing of time!!

Anyway, although Junior RP takes me much more time than Sophomore RP, I like working on Junior RP more because I love the topic and I gain a lot of things during the process! Working on Junior RP is struggling, but NOT suffering! I had fun reading feedback from school bro and sis's questionnaire. I felt sense of achievement while using EXCEL to make some pie chart. I enjoy reading the book. I enjoy collecting the information related to my RP. I know much better about what the seventh graders think, what the bosses' expectations, and what the current economical stage need. So, be care about topic. If you work one the topic that you like, the working process would be like a heaven!

My RP argumentation/abstract

Since Taiwan has changed from an agri-culture to the industrial society, the current economical stage expects more from the seventh graders. In order to remove the label “Strawberry Generation”, the seventh graders should improve their employ-abilities required for the current and future economical development in industrial society, respect different work values, and combine advantage of the different generations. In this way, the seventh graders can work with different generations efficiently and have better working performance. Besides, via government’s help and policy, schools should cooperate with enterprises to adjust the courses to help students cultivate employ-abilities and get ready for job after finishing tertiary education.

RP:Draft 1

How does Strawberry Generation in Taiwan Get Rid of the Label?

The Seventh graders in Taiwan have been regarded as The Strawberry Generation due to their poor working performance. The Strawberry Generation means people in this generation are just like strawberries. They look good, but they are too fragile to deal with problems and difficulties. In Taiwan, we called people born in 1981 to 1990 “seventh grader", which will be defined as Generation X and Y in American. With the huge changes of economy, politics, society, family structures, and computers, youths born in this period share very different growing-up experiences with other generations. As Taiwan society gets richer and opener and the family has fewer children in that period, seventh graders have more opportunities to accept higher education, have better consuming experiences, getting more information via computers. They are thought and expected to make a better influence at work. However, as economical development and industrial structures of Taiwan go into new stages and globalization and knowledge-based economy affect Taiwan, job markets demands the new generation with different employability. The enterprises pay much more attention on a graduate’s working attitude in addition to good educational background, but seventh graders believe better educational background and certificate will help to get and keep a good job. The different cognitions between employers of old generations and seventh graders not only reflect their work values that are caused from the different growing-up experiences, but also the gap between school education and job requirements. However, in order to remove the label “Strawberry Generation”, the seventh graders should improve the employ-abilities required for the knowledge-based economy stage; respect different work values, and combine each generation’s advantages. In this way, seven graders can work with different generations efficient and have better working performance. Besides, via government’s help and policy, schools should cooperate with enterprises to adjust the courses to help students cultivate employ-abilities and ready for job after finishing tertiary education.

Actually, giving the label “Strawberry Generation” to the seventh graders is not fair because job markets of different times needs employees with different employability. In the book “I am a seventh grader, but I am not like a strawberry”, Dr. Liu points out that G.N.P. and industrial structures in different times pay important roles in required employability of employees of different generations. Firstly, the fourth graders whose years of graduations are from 1970~1980 are expected work with industriousness and stamina because the industry’s focus in that time is labor intensive industry. G.N.P in that time is from 2000 to 5000 U.S. dollars. Secondly, Secondly, the fifth graders graduating in 1980~1990 would be expected to contain their own professional skill because they have to help the industry of that time to raise the quantity of output and reduce cost. Thirdly, sixth and seventh graders are expected to bring out G.N.P from 15000 to 30000 U.S. dollars. The focus of current industry is knowledge-based economy and innovation. So, the required employability today is more than hard-working and possessing professional skills. The above information shows that industries move to different stages with time and have different expectations for graduates’ ability. If a young person wishes to survive and well-develop in the current stage, he must need many important abilities in addition to hardworking and the professional skill. Some of those extra abilities might not be taken seriously at previous stages. Some of them might be expected to develop after working for a long time. Some of them might not fit the traits of “a good youth” that are thought by people of older generations. Some of them cannot be well cultivated because the school or family education have been not aware of the trends of different required ability or not ready for a mature way to help youth. In the “Challenge 2008: The plan of nation’s developing emphasis-- The Plan of cultivating Generation E” published by M.O.E, the focus of the educational plan is to help the new generation with computer skill and English ability which belong to professional skills. Anything related to educating new employ-abilities to youth is not mentioned at all. The Plan of cultivating Generation E shows that M.O.E is not aware of the importance of extra new employ-abilities, and Taiwan is going to pay for it!

However, whether to have more and new employability will play a decisive role in whether to contain competitiveness to survive in current job markets. According to National Youth Commission, employability means the ability which will be gained by learning and which is for a person to get a job, keep a job, and do the job well. Employability contains two parts. The first one is “core employability” which means beneficial working attitude and personally traits. The second one is “the skill of employability” which means the professional knowledge and skills that the job. (National Youth Commission) In other words, the high education background or professional skills might help youth get a job at first, but these won’t guarantee a person to keep and do the job well in the end without core employability. National Youth Commission also makes the recent survey of university students’ employability. The survey shows that there are eight core employ-abilities that most employers take seriously in the current knowledge- based economy stage. The first one is good working attitude. The second one is stability and the ability of resisting pressure. The third one is oral skill and communicative competence. The fourth one is professional skills and knowledge. The fifth one is the will of learning and plasticity. The sixth one is ability of team work. The seventh one is basic applied computer sills. The last one is the ability of problem-discovery and problem-solving. Besides, in this survey, the secretary bureau of UN even point out in 2003 that “in order to promote youth’s employment, every young man and woman should prepare one pair of core employ-abilities to be qualified for the need of knowledge-and-skill based society.” (N.Y.C.) Therefore, as core employability is becoming more and more important and influential in the current economical stage, the government should try to develop policy to help students cultivate employability via new school education and family education.

Furthermore, while the employers of older generations give seventh graders the label “Strawberry Generation”, this phenomenon can be interpreted as the conflict between different work values of different generations. Master of Business Administration, Mr. Ti-Hsiang Hsu, mentions the different generations have very different work-values in his research paper. He also thinks different work values of generations result in different working performance. While employers of older generations cannot agree on the performance of younger generation and ways of thinking, employees of younger generations may get confused about why. In the table below (Hsu, Tseng-Yuen), it show that older generations and new generations have huge gaps in the viewpoint of enterprise, work, management, and personality traits. The gaps of values are going give rise to the conflict and misunderstanding between older generations and new generations. Moreover, the conflict and misunderstanding won’t help with the improvement of enterprise’ development. However, different times make different generations have different growing-up experiences which affect ways of thinking and values. The differences don’t mean which generation is better than the other. Each generation has its own weakness and advantages. As young employees, it would be the smartest way that seven-graders t show understanding and respect to the different values of older generations to release the conflict, and learn to combine advantages of older generations and new generations to work more efficiently with the older.


Being in an era full of changes and compositeness, it’s a big challenge that how seven graders can find a way to make a balance between the values of tradition and new generations and to survive in the new economical stage. In terms of different needs for the current stage which is based on knowledge and stricken by globalization, seventh graders should prepare core employ-abilities to help to release their professional knowledge or skill more efficient at work. In terms of different values of generations, seven graders must respect the different work values and learn to combine the advantages of both, so that seven graders can work much more efficiently with the old generations, make bigger contribution via better working performance, and get the rid of bad label “Strawberry Generation ”. In order to improve youth’s and the country’s competitiveness, it’s very important and urgent that the government of Taiwan should develop a new educating policy to help youth cultivate the necessary employ-abilities and respects for different values via school education and family education.












Works Cited
Hsu, Ti-Hsiang許翔迪(2003)，「不同世代之工作價值觀、工作態度及其關聯性之研究---以高級科技產業之員工為例」，中壢：中原大學企業管理學研究所碩士論文。
Hsu, Tseng-Yuen徐增圓(2001)，「新世代之工作價值觀、期望報酬類型暨兩者關係因素與組織承諾之關係」，台北：政治大學心理系研究所碩士論文
劉孟奇。我七年級生，我不草莓。台北市:高寶，2007
Ministry of Education. Challenge 2008: The plan of nation’s developing emphasis-- The Plan of cultivating Generation E. Jan. 2005
National Youth Commission. The Survey on University Graduate Students’ Employability. September, 2006.

RP Revised Outline!!

Claire Wu 492200391
Research Paper Revised Outline
Junior C&C (III)
Professor Doris Shih
How does Strawberry Generation in Taiwan Get Rid of the Label?

Thesis: in order to remove the label “Strawberry Generation”, the seventh graders should improve the employ-abilities required for the knowledge-based economy stage; respect different work values, and combine each generation's advantages. In this way, seven graders can work with different generations efficient and have better working performance. Besides, via government’s help and policy, schools should cooperate with enterprises to adjust the courses to help students cultivate employ-abilities and ready for job after finishing tertiary education.

I. Background: Introduction about Strawberry Generation
A. The definition of Seventh Graders and Strawberry Generation
B. Seventh graders have different growing-up experiences
C. Employers expect seventh graders contain more employability in addition to high educational background
D. Thesis

II.

Different times need different employ-abilities
A. Fourth graders, fifth graders, and sixth and seventh graders live in different times which require them different employ-abilities.
B. Seven-graders need more employ-abilities to survive in the current stage.
C. The plan of M.O.E.(Ministry of Education) is not going to help students cultivate the employ-abilities required for the new age and industry.

III.

Have employ-abilities= Have competitiveness in this stage
A. The definition of employability and the two elements of employ-abilities
B. The survey of National Youth Commission: 8 core employ-abilities that are thought highly by employers
C. The Bureau of U.N.: the importance of core employ-abilities
D. Call: government and school should do something

IV.

Different generations have different work values.
A. The label “Strawberry Generation”=conflicts=different work values=different working performance
B. Table: Different values of Old and New Generation
C. How can seventh graders deal with different work values: respect and learn

V.Conclusion: Solutions of how to get rid of the label
A. Seventh-graders: Prepare necessary employ-abilities and respect different values.
B. Government, school, and family: Adjust the education

Weblog#3:RP: Works cited and bibliography list

Works Cited

1. 
   Hsu, Ti-Hsiang許翔迪(2003)，「不同世代之工作價值觀、工作態度及其關聯性之研究---以高級科技產業之員工為例」，中壢：中原大學企業管理學研究所碩士論文。
2. 
   Hsu, Tseng-Yuen徐增圓(2001)，「新世代之工作價值觀、期望報酬類型暨兩者關係因素與組織承諾之關係」，台北：政治大學心理系研究所碩士論文
3. 
   劉孟奇。我七年級生，我不草莓。台北市:高寶，2007
4. 
   Ministry of Education. Challenge 2008: The plan of nation’s developing emphasis-- The Plan of cultivating Generation E. Jan. 2005
5. National Youth Commission. The Survey on University Graduate Students’ Employability. September, 2006.

I kind of forget how many refereces should be put on the works cited.
I guess it's six. Then I will add one or two to meet the requiremts. Actually, I've got many information from M.O.E, National Youth Commission , and so on after doint the research. Maybe they are too many to find connection and to organise together. I guess I need some help and suggestions since I am not a peroson of logic. Also, I will revise my works cited into MLA style soon!!! I know the format
above couldn't count as any style (or you could call it free style.) I am just kidding. You will see revised version of works cited sooner or later.

Weblog 2: First Hand Data Collection Plan

Since my topic is related the sevengraders and the employers of old generations,I plan to design a questionnaire for those sevengraders who have been working and who are going to graduate from colleges, and for those employers of olders generations who have hired sevengraders as employees.

The quesitons that I might ask to sevengraders who have been working (Group1):

1.How do they think of their job?

2. Why do they chose this job?

3.Do they have any expectation for they job?

4. How do they work with thier colleague and boss?

5. What kind of reason might cause them jump to another job?

The quesitons that I might ask to sevengraders who are going to graduate from colleges (Group 2):

1. How do they think of their first job?

2. Why do they chose this job?

3.Do they have any expectation for they job?

4. How do they attact the employers to hire them?

5. What's first consideration for first job?

The quesitons that I might ask to those employers of olders generations who have hired sevengraders as employees (Group 3).

1. How do they think of sevengraders employees?

2. Do they work in a way different from other gengerations?

3. What expectations do they have for the freshman who are going to enter the job market?

4. How do they work with sevengraders employees?

5. Do they see any advantage attracting to hire them and the weakness of sevengraders preventing hiring them?

I am not sure how many people should I interview/give the questionnaire.

If I have enought time, I wish to give the questionaires to 30 people of each group.

If I don't have time, I may give the questionaires to 10 people of each group.

I will revise my questionnaire and post the final revision on my weblog. If anyone give me any suggestions about the questionnaire above, I will be very appreciated!!!

(Actually,I have found many statistics related to my topic, but Johny and Bella told me I have to gather statistic via the questionnaire that I designed. That's why it is called as" first hand data collection") I hope they are right.

Weblog#1:RP:Introduction

How does Strawberry Generation in Taiwan Get Rid of the Label?

The Seventh graders in Taiwan have been regarded as The Strawberry Generation due to their poor working performance. The Strawberry Generation means people in this generation are just like strawberries. They look good, but they are too fragile to deal with problems and difficulties. In Taiwan, we called people born in 1981 to 1990 “seventh grader”, which will be defined as Generation X and Y in American. With the huge changes of economy, politics, society, family structures, and computers, youths born in this period share very different growing-up experiences with other generations. As Taiwan society gets richer and opener and the family has fewer children in that period, seventh graders have more opportunities to accept higher education, have better consuming experiences, getting more information via computers. They are thought and expected to make a better influence at work. However, as economical development and industrial structures of Taiwan go into new stages and globalization and knowledge-based economy affect Taiwan, job markets demands the new generation with different employability. The enterprises pay much more attention on a graduate’s working attitude in addition to good educational background, but seventh graders believe better educational background and certificate will help to get and keep a good job. The different cognitions between employers of old generations and seventh graders not only reflect their work values that are caused from the different growing-up experiences, but also the gap between school education and job requirements. However, in order to remove the label “Strawberry Generation”, the seventh graders should improve the employ-abilities required for the knowledge-based economy stage; respect different work values, and combine each generation’s advantages. In this way, seven graders can work with different generations efficient and have better working performance. Besides, via government’s help and policy, schools should cooperate with enterprises to adjust the courses to help students cultivate employ-abilities and ready for job after finishing tertiary education.

E-magzine: Conclusion

As time goes by, the traditional market has been on the downgrade because the coming of new generations and the rising of living quality affect the change of consuming conditions. The customers of younger generations nowadays may prefer to go to supermarket to buy food rather than going to traditional market. They may not care about whether the customer service that the clerk offers is humane or passionate or not. They may pay their much attention to consuming environment, convenience, and the variety of merchandise of the super market. However, through interview, we still find that customers of certain age or generations would like to buy food in the day market because they claim they are more used to it.
Although the differences between traditional markets and super markets are quit many and huge, the differences do not mean which one is better than the other. From the chart above, we see both traditional market and super market have its own advantages and weaknesses. These different advantages will be still attracting to different groups of consumers who have different needs. So, the traditional market still has its own value of existence in Taiwan and cannot be replaced. However, how to learn from the advantage of super markets, keep frequent customers of old generations, and attract new customers of younger generations must be the key issues that traditional market must note in the future, so that the traditional market won’t fade with time.

E-magzine: Compare & Contrast

Compare and Contrast: How are traditional market and super market different and similar?

Tradition markets are very different from super markets in many ways. Firstly, the merchandise of traditional market is much fresher than the freezing food of super market. For example, the pork seller might draw his merchandise from the pig killer on that day and sold it out on the same day. Secondly, speaking of the price of merchandise, buying things in traditional market would cost you more than in super market. The reason is most sellers in traditional are just retailers. They won’t wholesale too much in case the merchandise cannot be sold out on the same day. Compared to the traditional market, the super market wholesales a lot and the wholesale price that super markets get must be much cheaper than the traditional. So, the price of merchandise in super market can be cheaper. However, although the price of merchandise in the traditional markets is much more expensive, it’s also more flexible. Customers can bargain with the sellers to get a satisfactory price in the traditional market, but they cannot do the same things in the supermarket. The price of merchandise in the supermarket is fixed. Thirdly, customers can buy many kinds of things at the same time in one super market, but they have to go to different stalls to buy pork, vegetables, and so on in the traditional market. Fourthly, if the customer needs only a small amount of merchandise, going the traditional market would be a best choice. The reason is that customer cannot buy a small amount in the super market. Fifthly, customer service that the traditional markets provide is better and more humane. The sellers in the supermarket would try to offer services to meet customers’ needs such as recipe, suggestions, chat, care, and gifts. However, the clerks in the supermarket may not offer the same services to customers. They won’ chat with you, give you discount, or give you anything as the present while you buy a lot. The interaction between clerks and customers are passive and less. Sixthly, the open hours of the traditional market are from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. When they have to work, they might have no time to go to the traditional market. If they don’t have to work on weekends and plan to buy things in the traditional market, they have to get up early. However, the open hours of super market is much more available for the young people who have jobs. They can go to supermarket after job in week days, and they can go to super market in the afternoon if they get up late in the weekend. Seventhly, the packing of merchandise in the supermarket is more elegant and attracting. Eighthly, another reason that people choose to go to supermarket is clean and comfortable consuming environment. They don’t’ have to worry about the weather, bad smell, or messy ground. In the end, customers can bring little money and pay via a credit card in the super market.

E-magzine: Character Sketch: A Vegetable Seller (Ms. Lin)

Hsin Chuang Food/Day Market
Character Sketch: A Vegetable Seller or Another family care-taker
Ms. Lin has sold vegetables for more than 20year, so she is a master of sale. Gaining the experience of sale is not easy. While people are getting their sweet dreams in the beds, she has to get up to wholesale a variety of vegetables from Pan Ch'iao terminal market at four clock every morning. In order to compete with other vegetables sellers and please the customers, she chooses merchandise of quality very carefully and set the price as lowest as she could.

In addition to making a balance between quality and price, Ms. Lin also adopts several strategies of marketing to promote her merchandise. First of all, she tends to call her female customers below their age such as younger sister, young lady, beauty, miss, or ms and calls the male customers “young brother, young guy, handsome boy or mister. Second of all, she would intend to call everything is final sale in order to promote her merchandise. Third of Ms. Lin’s strategies of marketing, Ms. Lin would not force the customers to buy a lot. Instead, she would encourage her customers to buy the amount that he or she needs. If the customer only needs a small amount, Ms. Lin would also like to do this deal. Fourthly, if the customer wants need certain vegetable to be peeled with a knife, she would provide this service without any additional pay. Fifthly, Ms. Lin would give green onion, ginger, or cayenne pepper as a present if any customer buy vegetables above 100 dollars. Sixth of all, customers can buy vegetables at a cheaper price in Ms. Lin’s stall. The price is more flexible. Ms. Lin accepts bargain and she would count the total price into a round number. For instance, if things that you buy are 23 dollars, it’s very possible and easy for Ms. Lin to tell you the favored price is 20 dollars. Seventhly, Ms. Lin would like to chat with her customers because she cares about them. Besides, Ms. Lin regards what is between her and her customers are not only dealing, but also a relationship. Eighthly, she thinks “customers are always right”, so she is always trying to be nice with her customers. She communicates with them in a soft attitude. Ninthly, she would offer her customers each thing’s clear price again before turning in customers what they bought. Finally, she would try to provide services to meet customers’ needs. For example, if a lady of younger age comes to her stall and looks confused about what to buy, Ms. Lin would love to provide recipes for vegetables and suggest the lady what to buy for the recipe. For another instance, we found out Ms. Lin provides knowledge of regimen and recipe. While interviewing with Ms. Lin, an old lady about 50 years old standing by the stall hesitated whether to buy gumbo which she has never bought or cooked before. Aware of her customer’s problem, Ms. Lin told the old woman that how gumbo helps to keep the health of stomach and how important the health of stomach is for every family members. She also provides the best way of cooking gumbo. In the end, she persuaded the old women to buy and to try to cook gumbo for her family’s own good. According to her experience in providing recipes and selling vegetables, Ms. Lin found out customers of young age focus much more on the flavor of vegetables and customers of old age would pay much attention on healthy vegetables. I guess Ms. Lin can win her customers’ heart and trust because she tries her best to observe the customers’ needs with care and help them out with passion and patience.

RP: Support of Scholar

This is one possible theory that I am going to use to support my RP.
1.Psychology:TA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis

RP Outline:After the conference with Pro. Doris...

It's glad to hear from Doris that my topic is workable.
I gain a lot advice and suggestions from the conference.
Here's are three things which I am going to work on in order before finishing my RP outline D2

1. Find some scholar paper which is related to my topic (in the aspects of psychology or sociology)
2. Use the argument of scholar paper to support my thesis, so maybe I have to adjust the thesis statement if the argument of scholar paper is more workable. Aslo, I will try to make my thesis statement objective and worthy of thinking. In that ways, maybe I have to make a little adjustment on my topic and focus after geting the information and evidence from scholar papers. I don't wish my topic is too subjective to argument or dicuss.
3.Questionnaire: make questions which is going to be related to the thesis statment.

Btw, in order to be more readable, the keywords in my outline D1 will be revised to be sentences.+_+!

HAHA DUCK: RP Outline D1

Vulnerable Youngsters of Taiwan: The Strawberry Generation

Thesis: Brought up in the better living environment, the Strawberry Generation of Taiwan faces the challenge while working
I. Definition＆ characteristic
A. The Vulnerable Youngsters in different countries
1.Taiwan: The Strawberry Generation. People born between 1981 and 1991 in Taiwan are colloquially referred to as the "strawberry generation. (Taipei Times)
2. American: X Generation
3. Japan: New Human
4. Korea:
B. Characteristic
II. Background (better living environment)
III. Job: Weakness and advantage
IV. Compare and Contrast: Vulnerable Youngsters V.S. Firm Middles?
V. Conclusion: People born in different generation have different advantages and disadvantages for job, so the wisest policy to survive is to keep the goodness and try to improve the shortness.