As at beginning of the class (Writing 101), my style of writing did not work well. Since I am an ESL (English as Second Language) student, an immigrate and not an English native speaker, the language is my weakness, but as the class go on I learned what should I have to write an good essay by reading my classmates’ essays. The two essays that I have prepared for this portfolio will show my changes of writing style in a good way from my writing experiences in this class.
I did not do well on my first essay since I had never write a college essay before and always practiced in ESL level in the ESL class. To tell my strength on my first essay which is the “Bacon’s Rebellion”, the only two things I was good at were to describe what was happening during that time and compared it with the modern world. As a new student to the college with a little weak English skills, I did not get what am I suppose to do with the essay, so I did it the way that I used to write for my ESL essays, and it did not work. The weaknesses of my first essay were not having enough historical evidences, quotes, clear arguments, good hook and some grammar mistakes. The most important part I made mistake was not giving a good theme, which did not show a clear argument.
TO BE CONTIUNE…
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4 comments:
You need an intro that sets up things before jumping into the topic of the letter.
Watch verb tense...
Be sure to quote your essays to support your arguments here.
Hey Vicky
it was interesting reading part of your reflection letter. I can understand how things might not come so easy to you as it would to others because you are an ESL student. Just watch out for certain grammatical errors and such. Also, as Craig had said, be sure to include an intro at the beginning. (:
I thought you did good when explaining your first essay. You stated many things that needed to be fixed which was good.
A little short but with an intro, conclustion and possibly another body paragraph it should look alrite.
Good start. You do need an intro to this just starting to read it from the first paragraph is a little confusing. You might want to proof read it for some grammatical errors but keep working at it.
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