Saturday, October 18, 2008

W9T2

In 1995, I started my journey of learning English. Since my mother language is Chinese, I always met difficulties in writing a complete sentence. Even until now I will still make some grammatical mistakes in my writing. Most often, I could not translate a sentence well from my mind with English.

As an engineering student, writing an academic essay is unavoidable. In fact, engineering students have a lot of reports and assignments to deal with. Some of them maybe spend a student 2 days to complete and recheck. For myself, I met some difficulties in writing MLE1101 assignments. I was not able to write my assignments and lab reports with the sentences coherence with each other especially when the format is not provided. In addition, I always have grammatical mistakes in my essay. It seemed like a destiny, unavoidably. Besides that, due to lack of vocabulary, I have always stuck over my mind since I could not express my thought with words in my writing.

In order to improve my weakness in writing, I will try to use more transition signal to make the whole essays more coherent. Before I start writing, I will outline all the main points and distribute them to every paragraph. All the thesis statements have to be stated clearly with solid evidence. Furthermore, I will pay attention to my spelling and punctuation as well as the grammar. After finishing the first draft, it is time for me to proofread and edit the essay. I will also let my friends to comment and reedit the essay in order to make it more perfect in accuracy.

In summary, writing is just like a lifelong learning journey. Opportunity is always waiting for those who want to improve. So, I will enhance my writing skills with great enthusiasm, indeed.

5 comments:

Jia Hao said...

You can do it!

Yii Sam said...

Eh..can you give some comments? Praise is enough. Haha.

pork teppanyaki said...

well done!! keep up the good work

Guan Mengzhao said...

Hi, Yii Sam,
there are some comment from me. Firstly, I have the same difficulty with you. I come from China, and I began to study English just 6 years. Although it is a long time to study a languange, the atmosphere to study English in China is not well. So far, I still have not handled English as well as Chinese. But I tihnk I will do, so do you.
Secondly, there are some errors in you article.
in P2, "to complete and recheck" should be "in completing and rechecking". And after "especially", it is better to have a comma.
Last, hope you can improve English aftter taking EG1471 course.

Ma Pengfei said...

I feel that ur English is quite good. Maybe u have improved a lot during the course.
I also find that u are very confident and be willing to help. I am very glad to meet a friend like you.