Difficulties in Writng

In university studies, I am required to write many lab reports, term papers, assignments, and the most important one, the final year thesis. These kind of academic writings are much different from my high school essay writing which usually requires no or less references to support or elaborate my ideal in the essay.When I first encountered the problem of writing a formal academic report, I was at a loss to squeeze all the information that i found in my report, and finally I could only put all the information randomly into it without considering the overall structure of my report.

This made my report extremely disgusting and not reader-friendly, reader could not even clearly identify the main ideal in my report and also they were confused because there was too many random information.Thus, I could not get a good grade in my first report although i had put in a lot of effort in writing the report and searching for the information. What i have learned from this experience is that, a good academic essay is not only about the fantastic ideal and information, but also the structure of the entire essay so that reader are able to read and understand your ideal easily.
An academic essay can not serve its purpose if reader could not get any information from it. Therefore, the first difficulty that I have writing in my university class is to write a proper structured and readable essay with sufficient supporting information. Other than this, avoid having grammar mistakes in my essay is the second difficulty that I need to overcome.

In order to write a good essay, I realized that writing outline and drafting are two essential skills to master. I used to start writing my essay without going through these two key processes, as a result, I have poor paragraph connection and a lot of grammar errors in my essay.I would say that, read more and write more are two ways that I will try to improve my writing skill.

Grammer Mistakes

Three grammar mistakes that i commonly made in my writing are Word Form, Article and Punctuation.
There are some examples taken from my Writing Assignment 1 as shown below:

1. Word Form
The aberrant changes of the earth climate in recent years have been resulted in an increasing number of severe nature (natural) disaster....
comment: since the word "disaster" is a noun, i should use "natural" (adj)rather than "nature" (noun).

The daily activities of humans involve the use of vast amount(amounts) of energy...
comment: in this sentence, the word "amount" is countable and because of the word "vast" in front, it should be plural but not singular, i.e amounts.

.....it might be more than enough to meets (meet) human demands.
comment: the verb "to" should be followed by a base form hence i shouldn't have used the word "meets".

2. Articles

Renewable energy has the potential to meet all human needs and it is abundantly available in the( delete "the") nature.
comment: Do not use article when an uncountable noun is nonspecific, i.e. "nature" is an uncountable and nonspecific noun in my essay.

Although current technology cannot fully achieve such figure from a single renewable energy source, (a) synergy of different renewable energy sources might be more than enough to meet human demands.
comment: the word "synergy" is a singular and countable noun, so it needs an article in front of it.

...it is conceivable that renewable technology will be more efficient and (the)time to recover the cost can be further reduced to 2-3 years.
comment: there is a specific reference after the the word "time" so it needs an article in front of it, and because "time" is uncountable noun in this case so the article should be "the".

3. Punctuation

Renewable energy (,) on the other hand (,) is more flexible.

With the advancement of technology(,) it is conceivable that...


After reviewing my common made mistakes, I found that those grammar mistakes are made due to my carelessness especially for the punctuation and the word form.
I can identify most of them by myself if i have carefully reviewed my essay.I will not allow these mistakes appear again in my next writing as making carelessness mistakes are actually unforgivable, and i should pay more attention in order not to repeat such mistakes.