I actually have a blog which I stopped using a long time ago. It was easy to create one, but taking care of it by continuously posting writings was harder than I thought. However, I really enjoy visiting other people’s blogs. Every blog I have visited was different in many ways, and I could virtually experience meeting various types of people so easily including those I would not have chances to meet in real life. Also, reading different ideas and thoughts that are even opposite to mine was beneficial to me as it made me practice thinking in many points of view. In this class, I think the pressure of publicity is what will make me feel afraid the most and also what will help improve my writing skills the most. I am expecting that I will be able to fix my habit that I tend to just assume things when I write essays. I will have to read more and collect more information to improve the overall quality of my essays, as I will be showing them to many numbers of people. However, I am very excited that I will be able to read other people’s essays and learn various writing styles.
I am really not confident about my writing and have lots to learn. I have taken two English courses so far in UCD, and both courses were ESL courses which were offered to people that English is not their first language. I learned English grammar, sentence structures and writing paragraphs for essays in those courses, but at this point I feel like I forgot most of them because it has been more than a year since I took them. Honestly, I am somewhat embarrassed to show my grammar level to all my classmates, but as I mentioned above now I just hope I can get a noticeable improvement in writing throughout this course.
The Newness of New Media
17 years ago
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Jeesoo, I certainly think there is no need for you to feel embarrassed--and this goes for anyone in the classroom--because first, your post is great. It is very clear and well organized and in a few words, you make several interesting points. For example, I definitely want to hear your thoughts in class tomorrow about "virtual" and "real." We did not get to that keyword yet today, but it is a complicated one and you mention it your post, along with its assumed opposite, "real." Also, I am enlightened by your point that because you will have more than one reader, you will be careful not to assume certain points in your writing. Being clear and not making the assumption that the reader will understand what you mean are two fundamental steps toward writing well. Finally, I do not want anyone to feel embarrassed in this class because we are all in the process of learning and it is just that, a process.
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