First of all, I want to say thank you all the work and effort that you have put into this course to teach and lecture me and other students how to write and interpret essays and stories. Throughout the entire 39A course, I also met new friends and a great professor who gave me advice to fix and add more details on my essay.
And now is my story when I were first time stepping into the class. I thought this course would be similar to what I have learned how to write in Academic English. The theme of the course is totally different with Academic English. Writing 39A is about imitating someone and using observation to write up an essay. Grammar and basic sentence structure are not covered in this class because Writing 39A is much more advancing, …show more content…
I was proud of myself that I could be able to write ten pages or even more without thinking or brainstorming. The length requirement for the third essay was only 6-10 pages. I was laughing when seeing that requirement. But then, during week 7th, it was the time that I started writing an essay about the topic “What Is Home.” I was happily saying to myself, “Okay, let’s get it done by tonight and let’s enjoy my life for the rest of the quarter without worrying about writing.” When I put my fingers on the keyboard, I figured out that the question is too simple for me to write. In other words, all I could think of a home is a house. Rather than that, I could not think about any ideas by myself, except asking my friends about “What is a Home.” Most of my friends just told me the truth that home is a house, but I wanted to know more than that. I stuck on this question and could not write anything for weeks. Hence that, on the first and second draft, I could only write 3 pages and a half even though I have already revised. For the third draft, I did not sleep at all because I had to write an essay with a minimum of 6 pages. I wrote the essay with a bunch of ideas that suddenly popped up in my head. I wrote many different topics without any evidence to support those topics, and even if I did, I was not able to give …show more content…
But then, after reading the next couple paragraphs, they tend to mean something else that was not matched with what I was thinking. I had to read them all over again. Having trouble with understanding causes me to have trouble with writing. As I wrote up my essay, I was afraid of imitating the ways the authors of those two stories writing. If I tried to write like them, I would be off of the topic that I want to
And now is my story when I were first time stepping into the class. I thought this course would be similar to what I have learned how to write in Academic English. The theme of the course is totally different with Academic English. Writing 39A is about imitating someone and using observation to write up an essay. Grammar and basic sentence structure are not covered in this class because Writing 39A is much more advancing, …show more content…
I was proud of myself that I could be able to write ten pages or even more without thinking or brainstorming. The length requirement for the third essay was only 6-10 pages. I was laughing when seeing that requirement. But then, during week 7th, it was the time that I started writing an essay about the topic “What Is Home.” I was happily saying to myself, “Okay, let’s get it done by tonight and let’s enjoy my life for the rest of the quarter without worrying about writing.” When I put my fingers on the keyboard, I figured out that the question is too simple for me to write. In other words, all I could think of a home is a house. Rather than that, I could not think about any ideas by myself, except asking my friends about “What is a Home.” Most of my friends just told me the truth that home is a house, but I wanted to know more than that. I stuck on this question and could not write anything for weeks. Hence that, on the first and second draft, I could only write 3 pages and a half even though I have already revised. For the third draft, I did not sleep at all because I had to write an essay with a minimum of 6 pages. I wrote the essay with a bunch of ideas that suddenly popped up in my head. I wrote many different topics without any evidence to support those topics, and even if I did, I was not able to give …show more content…
But then, after reading the next couple paragraphs, they tend to mean something else that was not matched with what I was thinking. I had to read them all over again. Having trouble with understanding causes me to have trouble with writing. As I wrote up my essay, I was afraid of imitating the ways the authors of those two stories writing. If I tried to write like them, I would be off of the topic that I want to