Blog 6

Reflection

Nina Yang

W&CIII

Ms. Guarino

10/30/2014

    At the beginning of the school year, I set three goals for this year. The first goal was that I want to improve my vocabulary. As an international student, how to use vocabulary well and how to use good vocabularies are really important to us in writing. The second goal was that I want get more recourse such as quotes from famous books or people and meaningful stories, etc. After I put these recourses in my essay and enrich my content, they can make my essay looks knowledgeable and interesting. The third goal was that I want use grammar well. Grammar is the basic of an essay and it’s really important to know how to use it well.

    Since we had a lot of lessons on different types of grammar and did many practices and quizzes about grammar, I made an obvious progress in grammar. For example, I can now use the tense correctly when writing a story without using different tenses in one story. I also made progress on using articles and punctuations like comma and semicolon. The lectures that everyone gives in the class really help in grammar. Some good suggestions can be that to practice grammar by doing more practices. Besides that, I also had progress on vocabulary because I made a list of vocabularies that I have to memorize everyday. This made me memorize tons of vocabularies and increase my vocab immediately.

    However, I didn’t really gain much quotes and stories, which I can use in my writing as I supposed to gain. As the result, I have to work harder on this part in the future. I think I can read more books or stories so that I can write down some famous lines. In addition, I can also write down some useful vocabularies.

    Later on, I can keep on doing what I’m doing now, such as memorize the vocabulary. I will also read more books and stories as I mentioned above. Since “practice makes perfect.” I will write more in order to practice my writing skills and grammar. I hope that I can really working on what I’ve decided to do in order to make more progress than this.