The Importance Of My Experience In Learning English

I walk over to the nine-year-old boy sitting across the room as I reach for my pen and sheet of paper. As I approached him, I halted. Quietly, I asked him what he needed help with. Looking confused, he asked me what the word bough meant. I froze. I didn’t know what the word meant. Embarrassed of not knowing a fifth grade word, I asked the teacher for some assistance and after she told me what the word meant I understood and was then able to explain to him that a bough is just a synonym for a branch. Noticing that David was still confused as to what he was reading, I sat beside him and allowed him to read the passage out loud to me. While I defined the words that he didn’t know and listened to him read the passage, I was able to classify him as an English learner who just wanted to be just as good as the other kids.

In his article "Coming to Terms", Joseph Harris takes the opportunity to share his knowledge with his readers and discuss things to keep in mind when drafting, revising, and editing assignments. In this specific chapter, Harris explains the revision process and suggest possible preliminary steps to take when formulating an essay. He emphasizes revision as a knowledge practice, in which there is a consistent set of questions you can ask yourself at any point while working on a draft (page 99). In addition, Harris refers the term "writer's project" throughout the section.

The term “Revision” has been perverted one too many times throughout my school career thus far. I never fully understood what the point of revision in writing actually was. Whenever we spent an entire class period, “revising papers”, we would read over each other’s papers, cross out a few words or sentences and that was it. In “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers,” by Nancy Sommers, a professor who has taught composition and directed composition programs for thirty years, now teaches writing and mentors new writing teachers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. She talks about how there has been extensive research on various aspects of writing and very little has been done on revision.

Once a writer has completed the writing portion of an essay, it is often considered to be done. However, no one, even a professional writer, writes a perfect draft on the first attempt; in fact, it is often this revision stage of writing where a good writer separates himself from other, less experienced writers. A good writer understands the importance of revision and spends as much time as possible during this stage to craft the essay into the ideal state. Moreover, what exactly revision is? Revision refers to the changes that occur in an essay once

The revision strategy for myself that will be most effective for writing this essay would be to

Typically, when most people think about the writing process they think of terms such as a ‘thesis statement,’ developing an outline, body paragraphs, conclusion; it’s imperative to view writing this way. We have only been taught THIS way of writing almost directly after we learned how to spell words—you decide what to write about, usually specified in the thesis statement, then you write a series of paragraphs entailing how you came to this conclusion. Finally, you conclude your paper by restating exactly what it was you spent an entire essay writing about. And most people will go their entire lives believing that is the formula for an effective, well thought-out work of literature. But how often do we go back and read through our writing and completely resent how amateur and forced it sounds? This is usually a direct result of a lack of revision within a work. Defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a change or a set of changes that corrects or improves something” and “a new version of something that has been corrected or changed,” Revision is not a common word we think of when writing—this raises a serious question: how should you revise? In response to this to this, research was conducted to find a general view as to the significance of revision within various individual’s writing processes. These results, along with research from several academic articles provide a clear description as to where revision could be

     As writers, many students write to the expectations of their professors and not to their fullest potential. Throughout English 101 I had been writing only to please my professor or to fill the basic requirement to pass English. I always felt that my writing ability was never enough for my professors throughout the previous years. They always wanted clear and concise essays, which for some reason was unreachable by me. However, starting college and taking English 101 helped me with my weaknesses and changed my technique of writing essays. My experience in English 101 taught me to write to my fullest potential and to write what I felt; rather then writing what was required.

One of the most important course objectives that I’ve grown accustomed to is the writing process itself. In the writing process, we are able to revise our writing where it is weak and earn a better grade than before. Since I took advantage of the revision process, not only was I able to improve my grade, but I was able to prevent the same mistakes from happening again in other writing assignments. From revisions alone, I’ve learned how to improve my writing skills and catch mistakes that I wouldn’t have seen

“ are we going to incorporate all this insights to our paper. Is like bringing shabby chic style to modern or contemporary. Revision need to introduce people, time and places that you might overlook in the entire structure of your paper. You need to add sense to sentences, review paragraph, vocabulary that will be more effective as a writer but also as a reader. Revising is a way to recognized flaws in your writing that will make your writing weak and compromise the ideas you will like further to reflect.

This process reflects how the political system works in America as well because each running official or policy-maker is trying to convince the populous that their ideas will generate the greatest amount of benefits, while also fixing preexisting problems. English 1102 gave me a different outlook on how to view not only my writing, but also my decision making as I am just beginning my journey as an adult and how each decision I make will directly impact my future and those around me. In addition, through the actually writing portion of completing essay, it has taught me to be sure that each decision made leads to forward progression and not trying to address an issue using an old technique, which didn’t work by redressing the technique to make it seem like new. For example while writing my second essay, I had to use a scholarly source in order to strengthen my argument without repeating the information already given in the article, but instead, use the article to present my own claim and provide textual evidence with the analysis to explain my argument. After the formation of the essay, the final part comes the revision process, which is the most important part of not only the writing process but also being to succeed in life as

Writing an essay in college is a big challenge for most students, including myself. It involves strong critical thinking and a meticulous process. After narrowing down and selecting a topic, we then need to establish the main point and how we want to deliver our opinions, ideas, or visions to our audience. We want to create a piece of writing that delivers a clear message, with strong and relevant details, to support the main point. We need to think and plan thoroughly, write, review, and rewrite before we get the end result. This is why drafting, reviewing, revising, and editing are vital parts of writing.

“Yes, higher education is at a higher level of difficulty, but the lessons we were taught previously still apply. The lessons my english teacher in highschool taught me about writing are skills can still be applied for what I use in college now. For example, in Paper One I talked about how although my writings were informal, I wrote formally based on what I was taught was “respecting the reader”. The ability to tell genres was another important one.“

Revision is to re-read, re-think, and re-seeing. As Nancy Sommers stated,“revision is simply the further growth of what is already there.”() As simply as what she state, it would be an agreement from me. Revision is an effective way for students; to have the opportunity to look back at their own work and make correction and improvement. Throughout the revision of both essays, my writing mainly focusing having improvement on avoiding repetition, correcting small errors, and adding analysis.

Before I took my math class, I had heard that my professor is a Chinese who had an very heavy accent. Most of my American friends try to switch to another session to avoid this professor. After almost the whole semester study in his class I had figure out that he is an really good math professor who is really good at teaching students and is an expert in the math area. However, his “limit English skill” had became the largest barrier for students to understand his class. For me, an international student whose first language is not English, I had some how the same feeling. I would often feel frustrated when I figure out I actually know the point which professor had mentioned in the class when I translated it in Chinese but not in English. I really feel like I would get a better grade if I learn it in Chinese. I feel like my power had been limit by the language barrier.

English language is one of the most famous languages in the world. Hence, learning the four skills of English has become very impressing, especially with me who study using English. I need to speak, listen, read and write in English. However, writing in English seems the most prominent skill of English. Writing is my method of interacting academically. Therefore, I started to learn academic writing and writing in general before I start my current Masters study.