Sunday, April 12, 2009

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.

2 comments:

  1. Ya i have difficulties while doing my reports as well. Although grammar is not the main point of the report, we still have to improve on it as a student.

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