I think my writing skills improved a lot
after studied the writing class. Before took this class, I thought I could not
complete such long essay. But after the teacher’s direction and read essays in
the book, I knew how to choose my topic, how to expand my essay and how to
organize my essay to make it more meaningful and logical. For instance, when we
began to study the first chapter— Autobiographical, I was worried that what
topic I should choose and how to write it. However, after read some essays in
the book, I knew the logic and methods these authors used and I tried to
imitate them and began to build my organization in my brain. I wrote a small
story of my childhood as an essay in the book. And I told people what my
childhood was and some of my personality. That is what teacher and book taught
me— wrote what you wanted to show your readers.
Writing the observation essay and concept
essay are big challenges to me. When I prepared the observation essay, I had to
plan my schedule which include chose topic, interviewed related people,
prepared interview questions what you wanted to know, and arranged time with
the people I wanted to interview. These works were all new to me so I felt
stressed about this essay. But the first essay told me just fellow the teacher’s
direction. So I did as teacher told us and completed works step by step. Though
I did not get a high grade in the essay, but I did try a lot of new things and
learn a lot. As for the concept essay, I wrote an anthropology essay which was
similar with this essay. So I knew the process of such essay preparation. But
what made me felt challenged was time. Writing academic essay requires a lot of
materials which I had to take long time to find. But final was close, I really
had no enough time to get so many materials. Thus, I tried to find a topic with
which I was familiar. That would decrease the demand of materials. Then I
searched materials on the internet and library and concentrated some useful
articles for my essay. Finally, I completed my essay on time which advanced my
confidence again.
The
main things I learned in this class are the skills to develop essays and good
attitudes when I faced difficulties. I will apply these skills to my finance
articles, and I think these skills can help me write more high-quality
articles. And I appreciate the attitude I learned in this class, which are
careful, serious and clam. These attitudes will make me not feel loss when I face
heavy works of my major.
I think I did not do my best in this class. Sometime I did
not read all of the essays teacher required and did not analyze why the authors
wrote like this. I think if I completed these, I would write better essay than
before.