Monday, October 22, 2007

my strengths and weaknesses in writing

the biggest problem in my essay is that I'm too much thinking.
For that reason, I exhausted easily even though I just think.
Someone said creation was the hardest behavior in the world.
I think why I think too long is I have not written essays many times.
Maybe even though I write essay in Korean, I feel hard.
However, I have written a lot of essays in ELI and
Every time I feel my skill develop even small and slow.
The most important thing which I think is I should write essay regulary.

Organization

I always think carefully about organization.
My essay should be arranged.
When I came here, my first reading class level was 3.
And, I could get high score than others because my essay
had good organization including intro,body and conclusion.
At that level 3, nobody learned about organization.
Now everyone know how to make good organization, so if I want
to get good score, I should make my essay better in other ways, not just organization.
However, it's hard for me yet.

Grammar

At first, I tried to write essay very correctly in grammar.
However, one teacher said grammar is not important than express my idea fluently.
He said do not care about grammar too much and care about how to express your
idea clearly.
At that time, I feel very comfortable because I always too much concerned about
grammar.
Anyway, he gave me bad score due to the grammar.
Maybe I didn't too much think about grammar.

3 comments:

K A said...

You have good insights here!

I think I understand what your teacher meant about grammar. In writing, the grammar isn't the most important thing--being able to give ideas and support them well is more important that using great grammar. However, even though grammar isn't the most important thing, it is somewhat important.

I like to put the focus on the first draft into developing ideas and support. The "polish" for grammar can come on later drafts.

nan said...

Good idea. I wrote many essays before, but I don't care about grammar and organization. I really improved a lot after this two session. We will learn more skills to writing this session.

Anonymous said...

I also have problem in thinking too much before I start writing my essay like you said. After thinking too much, I always get exhausted every time. Writing an essay is really hard job,especially for writing in English, so we need to practice the writing skills.