As we all know, the final Unit assignment is a personal reflection about what I’ve learned and who I am as a writer. In my opinion, only talking about everything I learned can be really a boring thing, I prefer to talk more about myself, my changes throughout the semester. After all, most of people like biographies much more than academic reports.
You should know, readers, as a writer, I have an obvious difference from others.
I’m an international student, come from China.
You should also know that this is my first few months in America; I started to study English for only less than a year. Actually students in China do study English since the first grade, but the level is very low, it means that students should know 3500 words when they graduate …show more content…
I thought I’d rather die to avoid such a long essay. I prepared much for it. I analyzed the nostalgia, listed all of the potential aspects I could write about, got an outline. Then I found, maybe I was too nervous when doing this, I had so many things to write about, so I only need to write a few sentences to achieve the goal of 1000 words. I used a whole evening, about 4 hours, to finish my first draft. When I found I wrote 1200 words, I was so happy and satisfied. And finally I got an B+, the same as most of the people in the class, I thought it was amazing, I proved to myself that I can also write an essay that long, and it is as good as many American …show more content…
The MLA style was also important. Among all the other units, I did hardest work on this. I have read so many materials and researches, had so many topics. I had to try to summarize the research points and pick out common ones, combine them with my own understanding, improve my topic to a new view. Proper citation was also a hard work, how long to cite, where to cite, the significance of the citations, all of them were important. I also need to make sure that my own understandings take the leadership rather than the essay was just a conclusion of all the researches. I did so much work to finish it. Writing is a class that teaches people how to think and express. I had many thoughts about my topics but I can’t express them clearly. The topic, mythology, is a field that I am very interested in, I want to express my emotions in the essay and move my readers. But it seemed too hard for me that I didn’t know how to do it, I tried several times, but every time it made the essay a mess, I had to delete all the emotional parts and change the essay into a totally academic one, which in my mind is the most boring type among all of the articles. It was regretful. But I finally got an A-, it was a
You should know, readers, as a writer, I have an obvious difference from others.
I’m an international student, come from China.
You should also know that this is my first few months in America; I started to study English for only less than a year. Actually students in China do study English since the first grade, but the level is very low, it means that students should know 3500 words when they graduate …show more content…
I thought I’d rather die to avoid such a long essay. I prepared much for it. I analyzed the nostalgia, listed all of the potential aspects I could write about, got an outline. Then I found, maybe I was too nervous when doing this, I had so many things to write about, so I only need to write a few sentences to achieve the goal of 1000 words. I used a whole evening, about 4 hours, to finish my first draft. When I found I wrote 1200 words, I was so happy and satisfied. And finally I got an B+, the same as most of the people in the class, I thought it was amazing, I proved to myself that I can also write an essay that long, and it is as good as many American …show more content…
The MLA style was also important. Among all the other units, I did hardest work on this. I have read so many materials and researches, had so many topics. I had to try to summarize the research points and pick out common ones, combine them with my own understanding, improve my topic to a new view. Proper citation was also a hard work, how long to cite, where to cite, the significance of the citations, all of them were important. I also need to make sure that my own understandings take the leadership rather than the essay was just a conclusion of all the researches. I did so much work to finish it. Writing is a class that teaches people how to think and express. I had many thoughts about my topics but I can’t express them clearly. The topic, mythology, is a field that I am very interested in, I want to express my emotions in the essay and move my readers. But it seemed too hard for me that I didn’t know how to do it, I tried several times, but every time it made the essay a mess, I had to delete all the emotional parts and change the essay into a totally academic one, which in my mind is the most boring type among all of the articles. It was regretful. But I finally got an A-, it was a