Reflection of the Class

On Monday we learned about how to write the essays' theme and the topic sentences. We wrote about several topics for practice and I noticed that we thought the outline is easy to write, but actually it is not that easy. We need think about the topic very deeply to make up at least three points we should talk about for the topic. Also we need think about the examples or supports that support our points. It is not as easy as it looks like.

On Wednesday we learned about three important tools we need to use when we write the academic essays. They are "summary," "paraphrase" and "quotation". I heard all of them before, but I did not know them very well. I noticed that we need to use quotation a lot when we write essay in future, that what I heard about before, but I did not know that how serious that will be if we do not use them when we copying other's words or opinions. We also did some practices for the paraphrasing. It is also not as easy as I thought. We need to change most words in the original paragraph. It is actually hard to do so.

In conclusion, after these two lessons I found out that writing is a pretty hard, or complex, skill to learn. I need be ready for the even harder things coming for me.

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This is the end of the third weeks’ study of this semester. We just met our kindness instructor Chris Stokdyk, wired last name though. I have not seen last name like this before, since I got here just 1 year. However, I guess he is a kind guy. He looks kindness and hope he can give us a good grade at the end of this semester. Lol.

Last week we had our first class with our “final” instructor of ESL221. He makes this boring class kind of interesting. He gave us several strange topics in the class than let us wrote and talked about them. He asked us “what is a brick wall?” It was really a wired question, honestly I never thought about it before. I just knew that what all bricks make up is a brick wall. This simple question really baffled me. After the discussion of this topic I got many ideas from my classmates and really learned something from my classmates’ opinions.

In other classes I got 3 quizzes last week and I even have 2 big exams next week. It is horrible. Too many study need to be finished by the middle of next week. I have to finish at least 100pages reading before the exams. Soooooooo bad.

Hope I can go through this week not to difficult. Bless me…..