Last essay
Title: Why is writing important for everyone?
For people in the world, there are many things that are important to live. As soon as people are born into the world, as a social existence, they want to know everythings near them. For this reason, they have exprienced to read, see, listen to, and write something. I think writing is most important thing to be, compared to these things. Writing has some meanings. Let me talk about what writng is.
Firstly, writing helps people to understand how people live in the world. In general, writing is written word. It means that writing is something that has been written or printed. It is made by people recording. Even very long time ago, people did want to record something near them. They wrote books by using written word. These written words help people to understand how they lived and is living.
Secondly, writing is the activity of writing. It indicates the activity especially of writing books for money. This activicy is necessary for students. For example, most students have to write essays to enter in university. Parents help children to write something. At this time, the activity that students are doing and children doing makes them have good feelings.
The next is about way of writing. Also, writing is called the way that people write with a pen and pencil. Depending on period time, there have been some changing in writing. As the tool for writing is developing, writing is also developing. For example, in ancient time, people presented their feeling of desire, drawing something on the wall. Then, they wanted to represent their opinion more correctly. They finall made tool such as pen and pencil. Nowadays, while technology is developing, new tools appear, which is a computer. For this reason, people can approach somebody's writing more easily.
For these reasons, writing is very important for us to live in a society.
Apr 30, 2009
Apr 29, 2009
Last Essay (Donghyuk, Na)
Donghyuk Na
ENG 2F - 002
Prof. Leslie Bai
Apr. 29th, 2009
The ideas to improve writing skills
Most of the students including me have studied English for long time. Moreover, even at this moment, I study English. However, it is not easy to express myself in English and that fact hurts me a lot. From the beginning of my English learning, I have studied grammar, vocabulary and idioms with enthusiasm, but in Korea such practices are mainly scheduled for the entrance exam in college. Therefore, I think that I did not learn alive and active English. In spite of my lack of ability in writing, I want to learn here self-confidence that enables me to write even a single sentence.
Writing is important way to express my thinking and opinion. In my major field, which is business field, I need to write a lot of thing to do such as business plan, market analysis, etc. From this reason, writing skills are very important for me. Here are some ideas, based on my personal experience, how to improve my writing skills in English.
1. Spend at least one hour everyday listening to news or some other English programs. It's hard to understand what they are saying when you first begin to listen to them, but gradually you'll get used to the speed and tone. Then you can get a brief idea of what they are talking about, although you can't get the detail.
2. Spend more than one hour every day on reading English news or articles. Reading builds up your vocabulary, idioms, phrases, and the concepts of English structures. If you do enough reading, it will save you a lot of time since you will not need to spend more time on building your vocabulary or grammar. Also, read out loud when you do your reading so that you can improve your pronunciation at the same time.
3. Make friends with native-English speakers. This is the most difficult task because of the difference in culture, but you can't really master English unless you can communicate with a native English speaker fluently. You have to know enough things and have good listening skills if you want to have good conversations with an American. From the conversations, we can learn many English structure concepts.
4. Watch some English TV. TV is the best and most inexpensive teacher to learn real English. Not only you can learn formal English from news or debate TV programs.
5. Use an English-English dictionary and bring your dictionary wherever you go. If you find some words that you don't know, look them up in your dictionary immediately. There are some example sentences that can help your writing skills more effetely.
6. Use your newly-learned idioms or vocabulary. Once you use the words which you memorized, you will never forget them again
All these ideas are about the way of improving writing skills more successfully. These ideas also can be good way to increase speaking, reading, and other English skills.
Most students spend a lot of their time for learning English writing, but their achievements are different. Why is the difference? How much time you spend for learning English writing is not important. The answer is study habits.
ENG 2F - 002
Prof. Leslie Bai
Apr. 29th, 2009
The ideas to improve writing skills
Most of the students including me have studied English for long time. Moreover, even at this moment, I study English. However, it is not easy to express myself in English and that fact hurts me a lot. From the beginning of my English learning, I have studied grammar, vocabulary and idioms with enthusiasm, but in Korea such practices are mainly scheduled for the entrance exam in college. Therefore, I think that I did not learn alive and active English. In spite of my lack of ability in writing, I want to learn here self-confidence that enables me to write even a single sentence.
Writing is important way to express my thinking and opinion. In my major field, which is business field, I need to write a lot of thing to do such as business plan, market analysis, etc. From this reason, writing skills are very important for me. Here are some ideas, based on my personal experience, how to improve my writing skills in English.
1. Spend at least one hour everyday listening to news or some other English programs. It's hard to understand what they are saying when you first begin to listen to them, but gradually you'll get used to the speed and tone. Then you can get a brief idea of what they are talking about, although you can't get the detail.
2. Spend more than one hour every day on reading English news or articles. Reading builds up your vocabulary, idioms, phrases, and the concepts of English structures. If you do enough reading, it will save you a lot of time since you will not need to spend more time on building your vocabulary or grammar. Also, read out loud when you do your reading so that you can improve your pronunciation at the same time.
3. Make friends with native-English speakers. This is the most difficult task because of the difference in culture, but you can't really master English unless you can communicate with a native English speaker fluently. You have to know enough things and have good listening skills if you want to have good conversations with an American. From the conversations, we can learn many English structure concepts.
4. Watch some English TV. TV is the best and most inexpensive teacher to learn real English. Not only you can learn formal English from news or debate TV programs.
5. Use an English-English dictionary and bring your dictionary wherever you go. If you find some words that you don't know, look them up in your dictionary immediately. There are some example sentences that can help your writing skills more effetely.
6. Use your newly-learned idioms or vocabulary. Once you use the words which you memorized, you will never forget them again
All these ideas are about the way of improving writing skills more successfully. These ideas also can be good way to increase speaking, reading, and other English skills.
Most students spend a lot of their time for learning English writing, but their achievements are different. Why is the difference? How much time you spend for learning English writing is not important. The answer is study habits.
Chongran Hao (Essay#4)
Chongran Hao
Professor Bai
English 2F (Essay 4)
Apr. 22nd, 2009
How to develop writing
As we know, writing is a part of communication skills. To my knowledge, writing is the best way to record everything in detail. But writing varies according to different levels, that's why we call it a "skill". It could be beautiful and attractive. This kind of writings make readers want to read, even sometimes the readers can not stop reading those fantastic articles; writings also could be mess and boring. I'm afraid the readers would feel sick at this kind of terrible writings. Obviously, writing is a really important component in our life which we have to develop seriously.
Writing is an interest. For students, writing seems like a burden, because writings always act missions in our schools. To be honest, those missions made me piss off, they really gave me hard times. I struggled an hour, a day then a few days, there was still nothing in my mind. Fortunately, I figured out the reason in the end. I put a label which is called "mission" in my mind from the beginning. In this way, I do not have any passion to create, because I paid much attention to how many words I 'd write and how can I get a best grade. Actually, writing is about what do we feel and what do we want to tell readers, if we consider writing as a mission, we will care too many components which are out of our minds, and it's hard to keep close to what we want to write. The first thing to develop writing is, we have to love writing.
Secondly, the desire is necessary. A strong desire can make us to write daily. And it's better to consider writing as a habit. The development of writing can not be completed in a short time. That requires us have to practice every day. Writing has many different forms, blog, journals, fictions, etc. We have to find some ways to spread the desire. If we do not have a strong desire, we will loss our patient for sure.
However, the develpment of writhing starts from the interest and desire.
Why I am Writing
GuangDi Zhu
Professor Bai
English 2 F
Essay #4 Informal Writing
26. Apr. 2009
Why I am writing?
Professor Bai
English 2 F
Essay #4 Informal Writing
26. Apr. 2009
Why I am writing?
I like writing, but maybe I am not interesting with the writing class. Sometimes we have to writing with out reason. I was really enjoyed in writing when I was in the middle school. i have to write a journal every week when I was in middle school. I want be a writer at that time. I remember I made a long story like book, it almost has forty thousand words and I made it in one week. The story’s name is “conjee(porridge) in a decisive battle”, it is funny story and I was proud of it. When I give the story to my teacher, she even didn’t read my story. The reason is the story is hand writing, and it is too long for a journal. My teacher also criticize me spend a lot of time on it, because I was writing in her class. I lost my courage at that time, and that why I’m not interesting with the writing class anymore.
I am not a good writer, even use my mother tongue. I have another hobby: I like manuscript, and I heat writing something by typed. I will make my essay’s outline by hand writing, I will made it like a picture. I put the topic in the middle of the paper than make it like a tree or a labyrinth. I can get a lot of idea when I write down on the paper, but when I typed on the computer I feel lost. Actually I feel a little right now.
I think writing a letter is a good way to communicate with others. It is the way for me to communicate with my father, because when I writing I can expression my thought clearly than talk. Also my father and I are very subjective. We will flite when we are talking. If we didn’t have a happy ending for our converse, I will give him a little, explain what am I really thinking about, and he will give me a reply. That is the way we how to untie our problem.
I like writing, because it is the way to think about myself. I will keep writing, may be I will actualize my dream someday in the future.
Apr 28, 2009
about writing (Chen Jin)
What is write? This is a interest question. Honestly I am not sure, and I think this is the hardest essay I have never write. It takes me almost 1 hour to start. When I begin it, I remember the first essay I wrote in English. This 1 page essay takes me 3 hours to finish it. During that time, I was really hate about writing, I though I will never write a essay more than 2 pages, and I was really shy to share my essay to someone else. Whereas, when I came to the university everything was begin to change. I start to wrote 4 pages, 6 pages, or 9 pages, I think writing is not hard for me anymore. Nowadays I can write a 5 pages proposal in 3 hours, and I am not shy to compare my essay to the American students anymore. I realize the reason I am writing now is to prepare for my future class, for example, I know how to write a research paper. I think writing is a tool to help me study.
Other reason for me to keep write is I find out that my English writing style is begin to change. When I saw the essay I wrote last year, there are a lot of grammar problem and unmeaningful sentences. Those problem makes my essay are difficult to read. Whereas I start to think my essay in the different way now. I am begin to think the thesis and details of my essay, and to think how to make my essay easier to understand.
I know I still have a lot of things to work on, my grammar is still poor , and I feel nothing to say in the essay often like this one, but at least I know what the problem is, when I write a English essay, I usually think Chinese too much, at the beginning I though that was not a big deal, but now I realize this is not good for my English writing. I think I will look carefully in the future, and to reread my essay after write, to make sure everything looks good. I will try to write an essay just like an American student. I want to think as an American, writing as an American, and talking as an American.
Those are my experience and feeling about writing. At the end of the essay I must say that I am really should thank for this course, some people say this course is useless, and waste time, but for me this course is very useful, some of my friends knows that how bad writer I use to be. I do not even know what writing is before I taking this course, When I was read perterit essay I still cannot believe that I can write a essay like that. In my next semester, I do not have any English class, but I will keep working on my writing skill, and I believe things I have learned in this course can help me a lot in the future.
Other reason for me to keep write is I find out that my English writing style is begin to change. When I saw the essay I wrote last year, there are a lot of grammar problem and unmeaningful sentences. Those problem makes my essay are difficult to read. Whereas I start to think my essay in the different way now. I am begin to think the thesis and details of my essay, and to think how to make my essay easier to understand.
I know I still have a lot of things to work on, my grammar is still poor , and I feel nothing to say in the essay often like this one, but at least I know what the problem is, when I write a English essay, I usually think Chinese too much, at the beginning I though that was not a big deal, but now I realize this is not good for my English writing. I think I will look carefully in the future, and to reread my essay after write, to make sure everything looks good. I will try to write an essay just like an American student. I want to think as an American, writing as an American, and talking as an American.
Those are my experience and feeling about writing. At the end of the essay I must say that I am really should thank for this course, some people say this course is useless, and waste time, but for me this course is very useful, some of my friends knows that how bad writer I use to be. I do not even know what writing is before I taking this course, When I was read perterit essay I still cannot believe that I can write a essay like that. In my next semester, I do not have any English class, but I will keep working on my writing skill, and I believe things I have learned in this course can help me a lot in the future.
learn from writing (Mengmeng Chen)
When I came to America and started my academic year in the university, I found writing become more and more difficult for me and it is full of challenge more than ever. I love writing especially when I was in the middle school. Unfortunately, I love writing but can only write a good essay with my own language. When I took the ENG1f course in my first semester, it seemed like I spent a lot of time on translating my own point of views or ideas into another language-English. At that time, because of the language problem, I think writing is no longer a freedom stage for me to express my ideas, experiences or thoughts, and sometimes it is even hard for me to describe my meaning accurately in my essays.
During the time of writing course, I had learnt a lot from writing essays and journals such as the structure, organization, the importance of the thesis statement and many new words. It is also a good chance to learn new information when we are doing research works for writing. I enjoy the moment when I finish an essay even though I know maybe I have to rewrite it. I know writing is an important part for students because it is required for many college courses, and also I may apply it for my future job. It needs a lot of time to practice in order to develop our writing skill.
Writing is sometimes hard and time-consuming, but sometimes it is easy and interesting. I love writing when it is not an assignment. Actually, I don’t like write in a formal way or limited by any format or topic. I think writing is to use words to record and express my ideas or thoughts freely. It is full of emotion and attracted people by its authenticity. That is why I prefer to read or write stories like personal experiences rather than academic articles.
Writing can establish relationship to make us understand each other better, and we can learn more knowledge through writing.
During the time of writing course, I had learnt a lot from writing essays and journals such as the structure, organization, the importance of the thesis statement and many new words. It is also a good chance to learn new information when we are doing research works for writing. I enjoy the moment when I finish an essay even though I know maybe I have to rewrite it. I know writing is an important part for students because it is required for many college courses, and also I may apply it for my future job. It needs a lot of time to practice in order to develop our writing skill.
Writing is sometimes hard and time-consuming, but sometimes it is easy and interesting. I love writing when it is not an assignment. Actually, I don’t like write in a formal way or limited by any format or topic. I think writing is to use words to record and express my ideas or thoughts freely. It is full of emotion and attracted people by its authenticity. That is why I prefer to read or write stories like personal experiences rather than academic articles.
Writing can establish relationship to make us understand each other better, and we can learn more knowledge through writing.
The 4th essay (Pengcheng Gao)
Student: Pengcheng Gao
Professor: Leslie BaiEnglish 2F (Essay#4)April/28/2009
Informal Writing
Since the ancient time, language indeed has been a necessary condition for development of civilizations. Language makes human beings more special than other creatures because that makes human beings are educated. In fact, language is the fundamental condition for advanced education. The unique ability of communication leads the development of human races to a modern area. That’s the reason why mankind is able to dominate the earth for thousands of year. Only human beings are capable of speech so that intellect distinguishes humans from other animals. Nowadays, Chinese is used by most populous language in worldwide and English is used most widely in the world. Therefore, people are willing to let their children go abroad for learning the latest technologies and concepts as well as the language.
At present, I am studying in Long Island University which is situated in countryside of NY. I already learnt in this university for two semesters. In the first semester, ENG 1F is a compulsory course so that I have to picked it up. I was really wondering to learn it because I consider my standard of English is really weak, even though, I have been learnt English for abrading study since I was studying in primary school in China. I encountered many difficulties after I came to United States, such as the Food, the culture, the climate and soon on. Language is definitely our biggest barrier to studying abroad like other international students do. English is referring to Speaking, Writing, Listening and Reading mostly. My weakness is the speaking and writing. In personal, I am really shy since I was born. I afraid to communicate face-to-face with other strangers, that impacts me a lot. Every time I speak to other guys in English, I will be really nervous. Due to my weakness of grammar, I will think the grammatical mistakes which I was going to made for 2 to 3 seconds before my speech but finally I still made them. I am not meant to be impolite to them, but I am really unconfident to face them.
At the beginning of learning ENG 1F, I thought it is not too hard to learn as my expecting. I was able to understand every word my professor said, but only in class time. I still remember how impressive my first essay is. It was named as “two advertisements”. I have been misunderstood what the requirement of this assignment is. I only get a “D” grade for this assignment. After I received the comments of my professor, the professor copied a part of my essay and dealt it with every classmate as an example of weak paragraph. I was really disappointed and upset when I notice how worse I am. However, that is an extremely huge blow to me. Finally, my GPA of ENG 1F only is “C+”. I have tried to go to writing centre to improve my English. Furthermore, my standard of English still improves slightly even unchanged.
Prior to I was studying in United States, my parents and teachers always advice me to trying to communicate with Local American as much as possible. Nevertheless, I didn’t follow their advice because all of my friends are Chinese. The only chance to speak in English is to communicate with my roommate who comes from Japan. At a risk of sounding impolite, I think his pronunciation is worse than me. He only beat me on grammatical and vocabulary areas. I am really lack of the chance of speaking in English like other Chinese student do. In addition, I am not keen on with studying at all, not only in English and also other subjects, because I am lazy. Therefore, I have nothing to complain about, only myself.
Undoubtedly, there are no excuses to studying badly like me. In this semester, my standard of English still remains the same like last semester. The words I speak out are named as “Chinglish” in worldwide. I picked the ENG 2F up in this semester because it is still a compulsory course. In fact, I love this course very much. For me, this course makes feel I am not lonely because it is the only course I can study with Chinese or someone I know during these 9 months. ENG 2F is more tough than ENG 1F for sure. Nevertheless, I thought it is not that hard for me like last semester somehow. Anyway, I have reached a not bad achievement in the ENG 2F. At least, my grade is supposed to be “B-” which is better than my expectation.
To concluding, I have to say thank you to my professor Mr. Bai. She really helped me a lot. At the same time, I have to say sorry to her also, because I used to chatting with my classmates during her lecture. I hope my English is going to be expert in one day.
Professor: Leslie BaiEnglish 2F (Essay#4)April/28/2009
Informal Writing
Since the ancient time, language indeed has been a necessary condition for development of civilizations. Language makes human beings more special than other creatures because that makes human beings are educated. In fact, language is the fundamental condition for advanced education. The unique ability of communication leads the development of human races to a modern area. That’s the reason why mankind is able to dominate the earth for thousands of year. Only human beings are capable of speech so that intellect distinguishes humans from other animals. Nowadays, Chinese is used by most populous language in worldwide and English is used most widely in the world. Therefore, people are willing to let their children go abroad for learning the latest technologies and concepts as well as the language.
At present, I am studying in Long Island University which is situated in countryside of NY. I already learnt in this university for two semesters. In the first semester, ENG 1F is a compulsory course so that I have to picked it up. I was really wondering to learn it because I consider my standard of English is really weak, even though, I have been learnt English for abrading study since I was studying in primary school in China. I encountered many difficulties after I came to United States, such as the Food, the culture, the climate and soon on. Language is definitely our biggest barrier to studying abroad like other international students do. English is referring to Speaking, Writing, Listening and Reading mostly. My weakness is the speaking and writing. In personal, I am really shy since I was born. I afraid to communicate face-to-face with other strangers, that impacts me a lot. Every time I speak to other guys in English, I will be really nervous. Due to my weakness of grammar, I will think the grammatical mistakes which I was going to made for 2 to 3 seconds before my speech but finally I still made them. I am not meant to be impolite to them, but I am really unconfident to face them.
At the beginning of learning ENG 1F, I thought it is not too hard to learn as my expecting. I was able to understand every word my professor said, but only in class time. I still remember how impressive my first essay is. It was named as “two advertisements”. I have been misunderstood what the requirement of this assignment is. I only get a “D” grade for this assignment. After I received the comments of my professor, the professor copied a part of my essay and dealt it with every classmate as an example of weak paragraph. I was really disappointed and upset when I notice how worse I am. However, that is an extremely huge blow to me. Finally, my GPA of ENG 1F only is “C+”. I have tried to go to writing centre to improve my English. Furthermore, my standard of English still improves slightly even unchanged.
Prior to I was studying in United States, my parents and teachers always advice me to trying to communicate with Local American as much as possible. Nevertheless, I didn’t follow their advice because all of my friends are Chinese. The only chance to speak in English is to communicate with my roommate who comes from Japan. At a risk of sounding impolite, I think his pronunciation is worse than me. He only beat me on grammatical and vocabulary areas. I am really lack of the chance of speaking in English like other Chinese student do. In addition, I am not keen on with studying at all, not only in English and also other subjects, because I am lazy. Therefore, I have nothing to complain about, only myself.
Undoubtedly, there are no excuses to studying badly like me. In this semester, my standard of English still remains the same like last semester. The words I speak out are named as “Chinglish” in worldwide. I picked the ENG 2F up in this semester because it is still a compulsory course. In fact, I love this course very much. For me, this course makes feel I am not lonely because it is the only course I can study with Chinese or someone I know during these 9 months. ENG 2F is more tough than ENG 1F for sure. Nevertheless, I thought it is not that hard for me like last semester somehow. Anyway, I have reached a not bad achievement in the ENG 2F. At least, my grade is supposed to be “B-” which is better than my expectation.
To concluding, I have to say thank you to my professor Mr. Bai. She really helped me a lot. At the same time, I have to say sorry to her also, because I used to chatting with my classmates during her lecture. I hope my English is going to be expert in one day.
Apr 27, 2009
in my process of writing (Satomi Minegishi)
Student: Satomi Minegishi
Professor: Leslie Bai
English 2F (Essay#4)
April/27/2009
Writing is defined as one of the communication tools, which informs people’s ideas and opinions. Also, the skills are thought of as a useful way for people to grow and make logical ideas. Without writing opportunities, people could not make other people know their ideas through logical process. This lack of skill causes problems because people cannot take contexts in correct way. That is why most high schools and universities have academic writing classes for their students. By making sure what students write, they can build up and brush up their writing abilities and can improve what they want to say. In this sense, people learn how to write papers and essays while they are students. But their writing purposes are different from each other; getting writing abilities, receiving high grades or passing their classes in school, preparing for their future before going to companies.
In my case, I usually attempt to write good essays and try to get high grades in academic writing classes. In the process of writing, I certainly know that I have a lack of logical thinking. Although I overcame some difficulties little by little in the department of writing, I still feel how poor my English skills are. At first, after coming to this university, Long Island University C.W.Post, and taking the English 1-F class, I could not express and explain what I wanted to say on my essays because of my lack of English abilities. Then, I spent so much time on that class. Even though I wrote a lot of essays when I was in a Japanese university, I could not write them smoothly in English. That is because I had no stock sentences in English as American people had. What I felt hard to express were my feelings in English due to my lack of experiences in this language. I cannot write essays fluently in English like I can in Japanese that is because English is not my first language and I am not familiar with English literature. It means I did not endeavor to study hard in this department. After figuring out this fact, I started to read English books and articles gradually. As a result, my writing skills are developing slowly but surely.
To be honest, I do not like to study hard, but my attitude for writing essays has changed recently. The change is when I try to overcome the difficulties, I find solutions, even though I need somebody’s help. These works take long time and use a lot of energy of mine. However, after finishing off paper work, I have a sense of achievement. The reason is because the writing skills are connected to my future plan, becoming a subtitle translator. The subtitle translating department is not well known by people. But the work is essential nowadays. People could choose subtitles such as English, Chinese or Japanese while watching a movie, if the story uses another language that they do not know. By reading those subtitles, people can be allowed to wallow in nostalgia and feel good moments from the story. I want to get this kind of job and give an opportunity to people to be impressed by the story. For getting the work, I need to improve my English abilities and to become a professional writer. That is the reason that I continue to write essays.
However, acquiring writing skills does not depend on people. Generally, people are needed to acquire writing skills by their society because these skills are essential for their lives. If a person wants to get a job in publishing company, the person has to study hard to be a good writer. It is obvious that people cannot escape paper work as a tool of communication.
In this sense, university students learn how to write academic writing as one of the requirements. That is because their society expects that people will be able to write essays through correct ways. Writing abilities promote people’s conversations and their work.
Professor: Leslie Bai
English 2F (Essay#4)
April/27/2009
Writing is defined as one of the communication tools, which informs people’s ideas and opinions. Also, the skills are thought of as a useful way for people to grow and make logical ideas. Without writing opportunities, people could not make other people know their ideas through logical process. This lack of skill causes problems because people cannot take contexts in correct way. That is why most high schools and universities have academic writing classes for their students. By making sure what students write, they can build up and brush up their writing abilities and can improve what they want to say. In this sense, people learn how to write papers and essays while they are students. But their writing purposes are different from each other; getting writing abilities, receiving high grades or passing their classes in school, preparing for their future before going to companies.
In my case, I usually attempt to write good essays and try to get high grades in academic writing classes. In the process of writing, I certainly know that I have a lack of logical thinking. Although I overcame some difficulties little by little in the department of writing, I still feel how poor my English skills are. At first, after coming to this university, Long Island University C.W.Post, and taking the English 1-F class, I could not express and explain what I wanted to say on my essays because of my lack of English abilities. Then, I spent so much time on that class. Even though I wrote a lot of essays when I was in a Japanese university, I could not write them smoothly in English. That is because I had no stock sentences in English as American people had. What I felt hard to express were my feelings in English due to my lack of experiences in this language. I cannot write essays fluently in English like I can in Japanese that is because English is not my first language and I am not familiar with English literature. It means I did not endeavor to study hard in this department. After figuring out this fact, I started to read English books and articles gradually. As a result, my writing skills are developing slowly but surely.
To be honest, I do not like to study hard, but my attitude for writing essays has changed recently. The change is when I try to overcome the difficulties, I find solutions, even though I need somebody’s help. These works take long time and use a lot of energy of mine. However, after finishing off paper work, I have a sense of achievement. The reason is because the writing skills are connected to my future plan, becoming a subtitle translator. The subtitle translating department is not well known by people. But the work is essential nowadays. People could choose subtitles such as English, Chinese or Japanese while watching a movie, if the story uses another language that they do not know. By reading those subtitles, people can be allowed to wallow in nostalgia and feel good moments from the story. I want to get this kind of job and give an opportunity to people to be impressed by the story. For getting the work, I need to improve my English abilities and to become a professional writer. That is the reason that I continue to write essays.
However, acquiring writing skills does not depend on people. Generally, people are needed to acquire writing skills by their society because these skills are essential for their lives. If a person wants to get a job in publishing company, the person has to study hard to be a good writer. It is obvious that people cannot escape paper work as a tool of communication.
In this sense, university students learn how to write academic writing as one of the requirements. That is because their society expects that people will be able to write essays through correct ways. Writing abilities promote people’s conversations and their work.
writing experiences by Amy Fu
My writing experiences
Writing is a way of expression. We could express our thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions through writing. I would like to write down my feelings and emotions on my personal blog because it is a way of releasing my stress and recording my thoughts. I enjoy writing on my blog and diary because writing is a process of sharing and releasing for me at that time. However, the writing assignments in English class are suffering because most of topics are boring and meaningless to me. The other reason makes English writing suffering for me is that we should write it in English which is not my first language. I have to pay attention on my grammar, sentence organization, vocabulary and spelling while I am writing. I even could not find a word or vocabulary to express my idea correctly and accurately sometimes. Compared to writing in my fist language, the process of writing in English takes more time, attention and consideration. I always believe that I could write much better on some topics if I could write it in Chinese which is my first language. Because of paying lots of attentions on grammar, spelling and sentence structure, I always lost my ideas when I am writing in English.
Even though I don’t like writing assignments in English class, I tried my best on most of them. It is not only because of course requirements, but also I did improve a lot through writing class. Before I take English 1F and 2F courses, I always wrote the long and complicated sentences which most of them were hard to understand. I still remember my first grade in English 1F class was C. From professor’s comments, I realized that I had a lot of perspectives to be improved in my writing. After that, I went to writing center several times and asked writing assistant to help me on correcting my essays. After the first semester’s writing class, writing in English is not as hard as before. My grades were also an evidence of my improvements in English writing.
English 2F is totally different from the writing assignments in English1F because most of the topics are concentrating on certain issues which are more academic and formal. Honestly, I really don’t like the topic of discrimination because I am not interested in doing research on discrimination and writing about it. However, I learnt a lot from English 2F class which most of knowledge was not mentioned in English 1F class. The most important is how to write a research paper which is useful in our college study and career. I learnt how to distinguish the reliable information in our research paper and how to cite our quotations in our paper which are really helpful in my academic writing. Moreover, I became more effective and efficient on writing in English after two semesters English writing classes.
I am also taking another WAC class this semester which is my major class Federal Taxation Law. Actually, writing assignments in this class is much easier for me than English 2F because I am more interested in Taxation Law’s assignments and familiar with most of topics. So my average writing grade in this class is 9.8 out of 10 which proves that my writing is closely related with my preference. I think most of people have the same problem as me. Most of us could do much better at writing about topics that we are familiar and interested in. Contrast to writing about discrimination, I would rather to dealing with the tax problem and write an analysis or research paper on it.
However, basic research knowledge and writing skills I learnt were from the writing assignments that I wasn’t interested in. So I think it is important for us to try to do research and write about the things that we are not familiar with and not interest in because we could improve and learn more English writing skills through writing an unknown topic. In the rest of my college life and career, I think there are still a lot of writing assignments. Whatever I will write about, the writing skills that we learnt in English classes are the most basic and necessary. Moreover, I am trying to write my blog and diary in English because it is a great way for me to improve my English writing.
Writing is a way of expression. We could express our thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions through writing. I would like to write down my feelings and emotions on my personal blog because it is a way of releasing my stress and recording my thoughts. I enjoy writing on my blog and diary because writing is a process of sharing and releasing for me at that time. However, the writing assignments in English class are suffering because most of topics are boring and meaningless to me. The other reason makes English writing suffering for me is that we should write it in English which is not my first language. I have to pay attention on my grammar, sentence organization, vocabulary and spelling while I am writing. I even could not find a word or vocabulary to express my idea correctly and accurately sometimes. Compared to writing in my fist language, the process of writing in English takes more time, attention and consideration. I always believe that I could write much better on some topics if I could write it in Chinese which is my first language. Because of paying lots of attentions on grammar, spelling and sentence structure, I always lost my ideas when I am writing in English.
Even though I don’t like writing assignments in English class, I tried my best on most of them. It is not only because of course requirements, but also I did improve a lot through writing class. Before I take English 1F and 2F courses, I always wrote the long and complicated sentences which most of them were hard to understand. I still remember my first grade in English 1F class was C. From professor’s comments, I realized that I had a lot of perspectives to be improved in my writing. After that, I went to writing center several times and asked writing assistant to help me on correcting my essays. After the first semester’s writing class, writing in English is not as hard as before. My grades were also an evidence of my improvements in English writing.
English 2F is totally different from the writing assignments in English1F because most of the topics are concentrating on certain issues which are more academic and formal. Honestly, I really don’t like the topic of discrimination because I am not interested in doing research on discrimination and writing about it. However, I learnt a lot from English 2F class which most of knowledge was not mentioned in English 1F class. The most important is how to write a research paper which is useful in our college study and career. I learnt how to distinguish the reliable information in our research paper and how to cite our quotations in our paper which are really helpful in my academic writing. Moreover, I became more effective and efficient on writing in English after two semesters English writing classes.
I am also taking another WAC class this semester which is my major class Federal Taxation Law. Actually, writing assignments in this class is much easier for me than English 2F because I am more interested in Taxation Law’s assignments and familiar with most of topics. So my average writing grade in this class is 9.8 out of 10 which proves that my writing is closely related with my preference. I think most of people have the same problem as me. Most of us could do much better at writing about topics that we are familiar and interested in. Contrast to writing about discrimination, I would rather to dealing with the tax problem and write an analysis or research paper on it.
However, basic research knowledge and writing skills I learnt were from the writing assignments that I wasn’t interested in. So I think it is important for us to try to do research and write about the things that we are not familiar with and not interest in because we could improve and learn more English writing skills through writing an unknown topic. In the rest of my college life and career, I think there are still a lot of writing assignments. Whatever I will write about, the writing skills that we learnt in English classes are the most basic and necessary. Moreover, I am trying to write my blog and diary in English because it is a great way for me to improve my English writing.
writing is like... Lucy Jiao
writing is like emotion, it is never limited by situation.
who cares about the real world? we express out our emotions regardless the situation. we have our own silent way of revolution. pen is the weapon and paper are the bullets. we criticze the ugly part of lives, we carol the little detail even it is as little as a ladybug in Spring.
we shout out, do not judge who we are by appearances, cuz you wont get to know us unless you see what we write.
writing is a decision, there is never a right or wrong.
i dont love him anymore, so i put it into writing; just in case i change my mind in the last minute. wring becomes a decision maker, or i call it decision nailer; it nails down my thoughts which is as improtant as money. see there is never a right or wrong when a guy write a love letter to a girl, or a boy, that can be the one mean to this boy.
writing has its own function, imagination never dies.
J.K. Rowling doesnt know Harry Potter would ever become a legendary hit in history. she did not write these series for any commercial purpose. she writes whatever pops from her mind. now, writing has provided a stage of imagination for the old and the young. i used to be a millionare in my stories, maybe i will in the future. i encourage myself to become a hard-worker in the story, and in real life, C'mon, you know me.
writing is like a fountain, you never know wht is coming out next.
do you know what im going to write. well, i dont know either. writing is having sex, if you dont like this sexual topic, change your channel in the next two secnds. back to the topic, wring is like having sex with a random guy, he might look handsome, but his sex could depress you; a normal looking guy might suprise you. lol... writing has been a pain in my life, but also gives me a blue sky holiday when my leaves are fallen.
who cares about the real world? we express out our emotions regardless the situation. we have our own silent way of revolution. pen is the weapon and paper are the bullets. we criticze the ugly part of lives, we carol the little detail even it is as little as a ladybug in Spring.
we shout out, do not judge who we are by appearances, cuz you wont get to know us unless you see what we write.
writing is a decision, there is never a right or wrong.
i dont love him anymore, so i put it into writing; just in case i change my mind in the last minute. wring becomes a decision maker, or i call it decision nailer; it nails down my thoughts which is as improtant as money. see there is never a right or wrong when a guy write a love letter to a girl, or a boy, that can be the one mean to this boy.
writing has its own function, imagination never dies.
J.K. Rowling doesnt know Harry Potter would ever become a legendary hit in history. she did not write these series for any commercial purpose. she writes whatever pops from her mind. now, writing has provided a stage of imagination for the old and the young. i used to be a millionare in my stories, maybe i will in the future. i encourage myself to become a hard-worker in the story, and in real life, C'mon, you know me.
writing is like a fountain, you never know wht is coming out next.
do you know what im going to write. well, i dont know either. writing is having sex, if you dont like this sexual topic, change your channel in the next two secnds. back to the topic, wring is like having sex with a random guy, he might look handsome, but his sex could depress you; a normal looking guy might suprise you. lol... writing has been a pain in my life, but also gives me a blue sky holiday when my leaves are fallen.
My process of writing(Dmitry Ustyantsev)
Well, writing process was never a nice part of my academic life since I was at high school. Why? Because I don't have neither talent to write easily nor attitude for hard and annoying work. Annoying for me, I understand that it is very subjective point of view. I actually enjoy much more receiving audio and video information. I always try to find news sources that would tell me what is going on using video reports. A text given in addition to the report would not be that great. If I need to make a report or a presentation I rarely write some speech or plan and actually get annoyed if somebody making a presentation reads the text like a robot. That doesn't catch attention and certainly is harder to understand than a live, maybe scripted, speech. However, I like to read, especially well-written fiction. When a writer is talented enough you stop seeing the text but start seeing pictures of what is written about.
Writing is an understandable necessity for my academic career because any student has to take a certain number of writing courses. Despite I don't enjoy writing at all, I understand the necessity of that because some degree of writing skills is valuable not only for academic but, very possible, for professional success on many fields.
Writing courses are a great misery for international students. That is my opinion. The obstacle on their way to completed good essays are simple low level of foreign language skills. It doesn't mean that none of them speaks English but the lack of practice and mistakes in their writing or speaking style, very annoying for their reader or listener, are the main obstacles on their way to well-written work. However, they have to pass it if they want to learn to write better in English. Practice is the only way to improve your foreign language skills.
If I choose a type of writing I prefer I would choose the less formal types such as journals or blog postings because those are closer to natural speech. My hate of formal writing was mentioned above already.
Two things are required to be a good writer: talent and lots of hard work. Those two things multiply each other. You have less talent- you have to work more and put more effort. And otherwise.
The writing courses I've had taught me organization of my writing mainly and of course lots of minor mistakes were corrected in my essays that let me improve my English generally.
They gave me some practice necessary for writing better works for other courses. However, I hope I will need less of those skills in my life. I would better hire an editor if I have to.
What is writing to me? By Lei Gao
Lei Gao
Prof. Leslie Bai
English 2F (Essay#4)
Apr 26, 2009
Prof. Leslie Bai
English 2F (Essay#4)
Apr 26, 2009
Writing Is a Life Style
Sometimes, writing is painful to me. I am an emotional person. I hate persuasive writing, but like emotional writing. For me, writing is a life style. This life style should be a way to make me keep progressive. However, we are facing stress from teachers as college students. For instance, we have to be limited by topics, when we are writing. We have to worry about the page numbers, which are required. Whatever we feel, the nature of writing is to express my attitudes towards some things, such as the world, human beings, and the understanding of myself. It is naturally creative, short and accurate, complicated but direct.
I believe everyone is an inherent poet. People are creative when people become emotional. Sometimes, when we feel sad or happy, we want to express ourselves to others. However, speaking is not a proper way to express some private points. Therefore, we chose to write some words through blog postings, or writing in internet spaces. All of those emotional words can perfectly express our thinking. I usually feel curious that how an inarticulate person can write such profound words and express such deep thinking by posting blogs. In order to know the reasons, I try to write some words on internet. I find that I become more creative when I write there. To search deeply, the reasons may be that there is no topic limiting in emotional writing. We can write whatever we want, even if we can post one word as an article. Generally, emotional writing is a life style, which includes liberty and freedom of expressing.
However, compared with emotional writing, our college writing is less creative but persuasive. We not only write to express ourselves, but also persuade others to trust us. It is different, and harder for a lot of reasons. For one reason, we are limited in a specific topic or a small statement. Maybe the topics are what we were never interested in. Secondly, we are lack of professional knowledge about it. Furthermore, we have no choice to copy or agree with others’ ideas. Emotionally, I do not like this kind of writing. However, it is significant to learn to write this kind of essays in college, such as research paper. That is because we can have progress if we continue writing professional essays. In this point of view, college writing is a life style of facing new challenges.
It is important to keep the words accurate when we are writing. Actually, I am not good at choosing proper words to write an essay. Sometimes, my ideas come up immediately when I am writing the outline. Also I can organize the ideas together quickly. However, while I am writing the draft, I feel it is hard to using words well to illustrate my ideas perfectly. In my view, there are many differences between English writing and Chinese writing. Based on the logic of Chinese writing, my English writing is sometimes hard to be understood by foreigners. For example, when I was writing the first essay in the English 2F class, I misunderstood the word “remember” with “memorize”. I thought the word “memorize” was the same meaning as “remember”. After professor’s explanations, I found that I still needed to learn more vocabulary to improve my accuracy of using words. It is like our life, which should be improved in details. Therefore, English writing is the life style, which emphasizes detailing.
I still remember that my previous teacher said to me “short is long when you are writing”. To express ideas simply is really important for writers. Basically, we feel complicated with our lives, so we have various emotions. Usually, I am eagerly going to express my various opinions in my essay, and use a lot of words or sentences to achieve it. Oppositely, the effects are not really good. For example, when I was writing the research paper, I really want to emphasize the government’s attitudes toward same sex marriage is shifting. Then I used a lot of words to explain, but actually it is not necessary. I only need to state my opinion, and then put the materials in to support it. Therefore, to state ideas shortly is really useful for audience to understand the essay.
In addition, writing should directly expressed writer’s statement. When we are doing Chinese writing, indirect expressing is sometimes better than direct expressing. We would try to make audience guess and then understand the real meaning. However, direct expressing is mostly better than indirect expressing in English writing. It is especially necessary to write research paper. That can make audience easily know what the main points are. Therefore, learning English writing is to pursue the American life style, which is direct and clear.
In conclusion, English writing helps me with integrating the American society. It also changes my life attitudes gradually. To evolve the writing skills is to make me keep forward in college studies, because writing is useful and important in each major. For instance, in future, I should read more books to learn more vocabularies, and correct more mistakes in my essays, in order to evolve my writing. I think writing has become one of the most important parts in my life.
Apr 26, 2009
Jiran Qiu
Jiran Qiu
Eng-2F
Professor Bai
Apr 25th 2009
It is enjoyable
It is the last essay in English 2f and this essay is required to be kind of informal. It is much easier for me, I believe, to tell what I exactly learned from this course.
At first, when I came to United States, I chose English 1f for improving my English. When wrote those essays, I felt they were too hard for me because I did them as finishing jobs. Even, for more words in the essays, I often added a lot of useless words. So my essays at that time were very boring and uninteresting. I only got a C+ in that course so I felt very unconfident on writing. And, I knew I had to take English 2f, I could not imagine that. English 1f is so hard for me; English 2f would be much harder than 1f. I did not know what to do.
But, in English 2f, I found my confidence back and even felt writing is exactly interesting.
I still remember my first essay which was named “Why does he always say those to me”. The essay talks about the relationship between me and my father and also expresses the change of my thought. I tried to write that essay with my true emotion and real feeling. When I was writing the essay I recalled a lot of things happened before and felt very comfortable to tell those stories by my writing. When I finished it, I read it then even was moved by it which was written by myself. That was my first time to feel that to write is enjoyable. I realized that, if I want to cause others to think my essay is good, first I have to cause myself to think it is really good. Then, finally, I got my first A in writing. It was the second essay. That was about my personal experience and I told a nearly crazy story in my paper. But it is true anyway. I told the story about my tattoos. For me, that is a successful essay because I believe the reader will be moved.
I wrote the research paper several days ago. When I saw there is such a huge paper I have to write on class syllabus, I even did not know how to start it. Eight to ten pages, I had not even write any papers with so many words in Chinese. I was very, very confused about it that felt I was not good at writing. But the things go better than I thought. Professor Bai told us some ways to do the research and when I started to write, I read a lot of material on textbook then I felt much more confident. I believed that it was not that hard and I could do it. I also did an interesting interview that was to ask several people about their thoughts on homosexual for the research paper. I asked three people in Kings Hall and wrote everything they told down. Then I listed them as a form, and quoted them in my paper. It was not that boring, I thought. From that interview, I got a lot of interesting information. When I asked a person about homosexual, she described it with a word that is “disgusting”. I could not believe it because before it I thought that it is quite normal in America. In my opinion Americans treat the homosexual as a very ordinary thing. Then I realized “not all Americans can accept homosexual”. That was really interesting that it not only was a way to practice to communicate with others but also told me something I did not knew at that time.
I am really very lucky to choose this class because my writing improved a lot and I also became interested in it. And, the most important thing I learned is, if I want to write a good essay, I have to write it not only with hands, but also my heart, and real emotions.
Eng-2F
Professor Bai
Apr 25th 2009
It is enjoyable
It is the last essay in English 2f and this essay is required to be kind of informal. It is much easier for me, I believe, to tell what I exactly learned from this course.
At first, when I came to United States, I chose English 1f for improving my English. When wrote those essays, I felt they were too hard for me because I did them as finishing jobs. Even, for more words in the essays, I often added a lot of useless words. So my essays at that time were very boring and uninteresting. I only got a C+ in that course so I felt very unconfident on writing. And, I knew I had to take English 2f, I could not imagine that. English 1f is so hard for me; English 2f would be much harder than 1f. I did not know what to do.
But, in English 2f, I found my confidence back and even felt writing is exactly interesting.
I still remember my first essay which was named “Why does he always say those to me”. The essay talks about the relationship between me and my father and also expresses the change of my thought. I tried to write that essay with my true emotion and real feeling. When I was writing the essay I recalled a lot of things happened before and felt very comfortable to tell those stories by my writing. When I finished it, I read it then even was moved by it which was written by myself. That was my first time to feel that to write is enjoyable. I realized that, if I want to cause others to think my essay is good, first I have to cause myself to think it is really good. Then, finally, I got my first A in writing. It was the second essay. That was about my personal experience and I told a nearly crazy story in my paper. But it is true anyway. I told the story about my tattoos. For me, that is a successful essay because I believe the reader will be moved.
I wrote the research paper several days ago. When I saw there is such a huge paper I have to write on class syllabus, I even did not know how to start it. Eight to ten pages, I had not even write any papers with so many words in Chinese. I was very, very confused about it that felt I was not good at writing. But the things go better than I thought. Professor Bai told us some ways to do the research and when I started to write, I read a lot of material on textbook then I felt much more confident. I believed that it was not that hard and I could do it. I also did an interesting interview that was to ask several people about their thoughts on homosexual for the research paper. I asked three people in Kings Hall and wrote everything they told down. Then I listed them as a form, and quoted them in my paper. It was not that boring, I thought. From that interview, I got a lot of interesting information. When I asked a person about homosexual, she described it with a word that is “disgusting”. I could not believe it because before it I thought that it is quite normal in America. In my opinion Americans treat the homosexual as a very ordinary thing. Then I realized “not all Americans can accept homosexual”. That was really interesting that it not only was a way to practice to communicate with others but also told me something I did not knew at that time.
I am really very lucky to choose this class because my writing improved a lot and I also became interested in it. And, the most important thing I learned is, if I want to write a good essay, I have to write it not only with hands, but also my heart, and real emotions.
Have to do, then enjoy (Jianle Pan)
Jianle Pan
Eng-2F
Proffessor: Leslie Bai
21/Apr/09
Have to do, then enjoy
When my first time to write essay in Eng-1F course as three page paper, I feel unbelievable and confused. Before I came to America, I feel so hard to write ielts writing about 250 words. However, I have to write between 500 and 1000 words essay in Eng-1F.
Eng-1F has total four essays to write. Every time we got essay homework, I always took three or four days to write essay. First day, I just write title and thinking of this topic for long time and get result: tomorrow continue writing. Second day, I still spend a lot of time to thinking of topic and writing, but I just write few words and still have no idea. Third day, it’s the last day of deadline. I have no choice, but to finish. What made me feel so hard to write essay? Main factor is grammar, which are the most international students weak. Once my friend told me, even American housewife just know not very much words, she still can talk to everyone. That means even you don’t know many words, good grammar also can write a perfect article. Of course, vocabulary, organization, content also is very important.
I suffered from essay last semester, and really tired and confused about writing essay. Every time I think of I must take Eng-2F course, I feel so terrible and consider my life wouldn’t be better. I know I have to do.
Fortunately, our professor asked us to write outline first therefore I can write essay quickly. Since I have outline, my idea about topic is clearer than before, and also I can think deeply in this area. Therefore, words are not a problem. Now I can finish first draft in a one day even just one afternoon if I have a good outline. When I did my research paper, I always look for information online. Since I have outline, it is very clear to search information and write paper. I feel more confidence and more pleasure to write such a long paper (2000 words).
Writing essay is not seems too hard and too boring now. Outline makes everything simpler. If you write more detail outline, it is help you more easily to write essay. And also you cannot lose idea any more.
Gradually, I enjoyed writing essay instead of extreme hate. Thinks to my professor, I found how to write essays and how to organize article structure well. Structure is the first step of writing. I know that I still have big problem of grammar and vocabulary, at least, I like writing now so I believe I can improve writing by myself.
Eng-2F
Proffessor: Leslie Bai
21/Apr/09
Have to do, then enjoy
When my first time to write essay in Eng-1F course as three page paper, I feel unbelievable and confused. Before I came to America, I feel so hard to write ielts writing about 250 words. However, I have to write between 500 and 1000 words essay in Eng-1F.
Eng-1F has total four essays to write. Every time we got essay homework, I always took three or four days to write essay. First day, I just write title and thinking of this topic for long time and get result: tomorrow continue writing. Second day, I still spend a lot of time to thinking of topic and writing, but I just write few words and still have no idea. Third day, it’s the last day of deadline. I have no choice, but to finish. What made me feel so hard to write essay? Main factor is grammar, which are the most international students weak. Once my friend told me, even American housewife just know not very much words, she still can talk to everyone. That means even you don’t know many words, good grammar also can write a perfect article. Of course, vocabulary, organization, content also is very important.
I suffered from essay last semester, and really tired and confused about writing essay. Every time I think of I must take Eng-2F course, I feel so terrible and consider my life wouldn’t be better. I know I have to do.
Fortunately, our professor asked us to write outline first therefore I can write essay quickly. Since I have outline, my idea about topic is clearer than before, and also I can think deeply in this area. Therefore, words are not a problem. Now I can finish first draft in a one day even just one afternoon if I have a good outline. When I did my research paper, I always look for information online. Since I have outline, it is very clear to search information and write paper. I feel more confidence and more pleasure to write such a long paper (2000 words).
Writing essay is not seems too hard and too boring now. Outline makes everything simpler. If you write more detail outline, it is help you more easily to write essay. And also you cannot lose idea any more.
Gradually, I enjoyed writing essay instead of extreme hate. Thinks to my professor, I found how to write essays and how to organize article structure well. Structure is the first step of writing. I know that I still have big problem of grammar and vocabulary, at least, I like writing now so I believe I can improve writing by myself.
Apr 24, 2009
Last Essay; what is writing JunHyung Park
Writing Raise Me Up
JunHyung Park
Eng 2F
4th essay
I have always been trying to do my best for my writing for a high grade. However, since I felt my writing skill improved little by little, I suddenly wanted to write to make me a good writer, not just to get only high score in my courses. Maybe I am avaricious to be a good writer like a famous American writer. Sometimes I cannot hold my tongue, when I am reading a book. If I find a beautiful composition, I usually say to myself, “how could he make this beautiful writing?” Even though my writing skill is not enough to touch someone to the heart, I believe that if I practice steadily, someday, my dream might come true.
I have seen most international students afraid of taking composition class. The reason is they have to write many pages to pass the writing class. However, for international students, they have big obstacles to overcome. For example, Korean and Japanese people are used to making sentences like ‘the subject + object + verb”, contrastingly, in America, people make sentences using ‘the subject + verb + object”, which is a totally different style to write in. That is, like this reason, many Asians think of how they will say, or write before they really say, or write. In my opinion, like the reason of the problems for international students, writing is more necessary to the internationals. It is obvious that the more the students are difficult to do something, the more the students need practice to be better in the area, which they feel is difficult.
We are almost done with English 2F class, and cannot wait for the end of the semester. I think back to the past days what I have learned, and how much my writing has improved in English 2F class. When I undertook to write a research paper, I actually had no idea how I write a research paper, and really obscured how I designed the outline, and even chose the topic of the research paper. However, like my professor said, I will have confidence to write after I finish the research paper. At first, even five page essays were really hard for me, but now, five pages writing became piece of cake. Writing is how much you are interested in, and how much time you spend writing. That is, writing is definitely improved as much as you do your best. Suddenly, I look back when I first came here. I was ESL student at that time. Most ESL students feel embarrassed to write 2 through 3 pages, and I also felt like them. However, now, I turned into a much better writer than before, and it is unbelievable. I am really curious about how much my writing skills will be improved after one year from now. I am still writing, and I will practice more to be a better writer from now.
Apr 11, 2009
Easter? Nothing for me. (Chongran Hao)
There is nothing to do these days. The life is like a glass of cold water. To be honest, I hate holiday sometimes. It makes me missing. As a foreigner in the U.S, I don't really have good feelings about festivals, because I don't understand what those festivals mean. Just like Easter, it gave me couple days off, for what? OK, hopefully I know, but I still don't think there is anything for fun in those festivals. Maybe that's why I'm called foreigner in this country. KK, I would like to be a foreigner in this way.
All right, maybe I'm a bored person, maybe those festival are really funny, but definitely nothing for me. I'm smoking around and "enjoying" the time with bullshit.
This semester is almost over. And it's a hard time to while away until I go back my country. kk, just keep *** around~lol
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