To Whom It May Concern:
First I would like to thank you for spending time on reading my writing portfolio. The five chosen articles here represent for the process of the Academic English writing Class in this semester and the progress I made through the course. We have read five stories picked from “The International Story: An Anthology with Guidelines for Reading and Writing about Fiction” by Ruth Spack. Through reading and analyzing my reading and writing skills are improved. Each of the five articles I submit in my portfolio concerns a story in “The International Story”: “Dead Men’s Path”, which is one of my favorite. At this point, the five articles show a clear trace of my improving writing and analyzing skill.
Though I have no need to worry about my oral English, I must confess that I am not very good at writing in English. I have affection on those classics such as “Lord of The Rings” and the poems composed by Yeats. When I read the original English version, I can taste the beautiful and elegant phrases. But I feel exhausted when calling back the memory of words I recited. Usually this would be a time-consuming job. I can feel the flow of thoughts in my mind and the idea I want to convey at the tip of my tongue. But I don’t know how to put them into words. So when writing in English, usually the words I pick are merely some plain ones. Still it drains a large part of my time. And when organizing the writing structure, sometimes my writing will slip from my topic. What is more, I always forget to use formal writing form. The main reason for my defects is that there is very little opportunity to write in English. So when provided a good chance, I do gain some improvements. And Mr Ron Corio has given me some advisable comments, which helped me a lot.
The first article is one of my reading logs of “Dead Men’s Path”. It is quite short though given unlimited time to complete it. I chose it because it clearly reveals my problems in time. The words here are plain and simple. And it is hard to grasp a main topic. More formal writing style is also required. I corrected some of the errors such as missing the quotational marks in my revision.
The third article is the first draft of my essay analyzing “Dead Men’s Path”. Words used here are not so simple as the first article. The writing form is more formal than before. Small errors are fewer now. But the body of the essay has nothing to do with the thesis statement. This article plainly shows my improvements and problem about organizing, too.
The fourth article is the second draft of my essay. Through peer review, I noticed my problems. I added some discussions between the paragraphs. But this works little. Most of the body of the draft is still independent of the thesis statement. Moreover, in order to highlight my thesis statement, I repeated the statement for too many times. This makes the draft boring. My writing form was also yet to be improved. But I have fewer small errors in this draft.
The fifth article draft is the final draft of my essay. It is much briefer than the previous two. To solve the problem of organizing, I consulted Mr Ron Coriio for advices. I cut the discussions that had little relation to the topic and add a paragraph to affirm my conclusion. This makes the structure more compact. Further more, I amended some errors of writing form such as missing the page number. Though the structure of the essay is not perfect, my organizing skill has improved. And I pay more attention to writing form now.
The second article is my final timed writing. My first timed writing is also short and plain just like my reading log. My second timed writing is much better than the first one. But Mr Ron Corio advised me to pay attention to the highlight part because I put too much effort on the first two paragraphs. The reason is that composing the first two paragraphs consumed too much time so I had very little time to work on my last paragraph. Compared with my first two timed writings, my final timed writing is better organized and expanded. The structure is clear and the highlight is emphasized on. This makes a contrast with the writings I completed at the first stage of the writing class and shows my writing skill has advanced.
Through the class I gained great experiences. The better way to improve the using skill of a language is to use it more and more frequently. Every language is of magnificent beauty. The course of studying it and using it is always full of joy.
Here I would like to give my thankfulness to my teacher, Mr Ron Corio and my peer partner. Thank you for giving me such helpful advices.
Thank you for taking time to read my portfolio. Best regards to you and hope you can understand my point of view and give me some comments. I would be grateful if you can communicate your idea with me.
Sincerely,
Geist Hu
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