Without doubt, I am not a person who has
not friendly relation with writing since I was young. Whenever I have a writing
assignment, my head was filled up about how to start my story and complete it
and I used to receive low grade for writing class as well. It made me get a
kind of Trauma in Writing. So, fear of writing a paper was always followed me
around, even though I write in Korean which is my mother tongue. Therefore, I
can say that I was not a good writer and I was not even interested in writing.
However, since I studied abroad, I was needed to write all the papers including
in English. I was in big panic for the first time. As an example, the word
order of Korean is different from that of English. Normally, in case of Korean,
we use subject, object and verb orderly so that the difference between Korean
and English let me throw me into confusion. Moreover, the thing English has
lots of synonyms than Korean gave me a hard task to go through it as a Korean.
Speaking of digital story, I wrote the digital story script easier than I thought, because it was
not required a deep topic. I just could focus on sharing interesting experience
I have with classmates. After I have classmate’s comment recommending me revise
mistakes in sentences, I tried to write well-organized structure by amending
those.
About plagiarism, although I knew I should not use someone else’s source
without citation, I did not have an idea how to cite in my paper. Hence, it was
really good to know about plagiarism and doing citation through this English
Class and it made me aware of avoiding plagiarism such as revealing the sources
by putting author’s name or paraphrasing in right way.
Good discussion of writing issues.
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