To be honest, I am not a good writer in Chinese Writing because I don't like it. When i first met composition in my primary school, it was my nightmare. I am good at logical subjects such as math, but i found that it does not work in Chinese composition, which needs a lot of imagination. I hated writing compositions and every time when I was writing my essay, I had no idea until the time was up, and then I had to rush to finish it. As an result, I didn't get good grades in my writings perhaps because I was careless and wasn't focused in my writings. When I started to write English paper such as TOEFL academic writings and ACT writings, I found that English is not as hard as i thought it would be. English writing is more logical than Chinese writing, so I don't hate English writing. However, as my second language, my English writing is also poor in some aspects. On one hand , I am proud of myself that I can come up with a clear structure to express my opinion. On other hand, lacking of suitable or exact word to describe ideas and grammar mistakes in sentences make it really hard for me to express my ideas perfectly. I even avoid using compound sentences and aways use simple sentences instead. Overall, my English writing still needs more practices and improvements.
When i was write my digital story, it was very hard for me to write a big story with so many words, Eric gave a good way to make the same work much easier - The digital story script. It helped me a lot by leading me from one step to another. I first think in my mind in Chinese, and then translate it into English and try to express the main points. I got feedbacks, and finally with the outline I finish the digital story.
The concept of plagiarism is deep in my mind. At the beginning of every class, I will be warned to avoid plagiarism, especially in this class. The main idea of the class is about plagiarism, I am surprised with that and I think this class is very useful for me to avoid plagiarism in my college life.
Glad you like English writing.
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