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C&C:
Thesis statement:
The similarities and difference between college life in China and US can be concluded into academic part and extracurricular activities part.

Topic 1: academic similarities
The similarities lay in the academic environment are obvious.
1\ Both have different lecture sizes for different courses.
2\Both have homework
3\ Both have exams

Topic2: academic differences:
Despite the fact that we have many common points, the distinctness is even more noticeable.
1\In china, students have to keep writing or thinking to catch up with professors.
In US, the path is much slower, students have chances to rise questions or participate into the lecture.

2\Homework in China is less than in US. Homework in US will cover every aspect of the lecture but in China, students sometimes have to find questions by themselves if they want to practice all the knowledge learnt from the lecture.

3\ In China only professors have office hours and they are seldom used by students. In US both of TAs and professors have office hours and many students go to them.

Topic3 : extracurricular activities differences:
In additional, the leisure activities of students’ are distinct from each other.
Students in China prefer student services. They are busy with getting involved in different students associations.
Students in US focus more on participating in the actual society. They always try their best to find research opportunities or internships.




c&e:
Thesis statement:
Good grades result from well-prepared learning process and good use of office hours
Topic 1: Well-prepared learning process will help student build solid fundamental at the very beginning.
Support idea 1: good preview can help student be familiar with the content included in the lecture and find out the difficult part so that they can pay more attention to it in the lecture.
Support idea 2: clear organized notes will allow students review the content with high efficiency
Support idea 3: good review will help students find out their weakness and questions they don’t understand in short time. They have a lot of time to solve it.


Topic 2: Good use of office hours will help students improve the knowledge system of the course. Also students can learn much experience from their TAs and professor.
Support idea 1: Tough questions may occur at any part of a course. Compare to spending a lot of time in solving them by themselves, go to the office hour is a very effective way to get the solution.
Support idea 2: Students can also learn useful experience from their TAs about how to succeed in the course.