Second Journal

This is my second journal for my writing class. It has been a month since I wrote my first post in this blog. I have written about myself, my family and friend, my uniqueexperience, and also important events in my life. I have been given corrections from my lecturer for all of my post and I look at the mistake that I had made. I have learned about how to write a good story so that the readers can understand the meaning of the story. I have learned that in order to make a good story I have to write it in a chronological order so that the readers are not confused. It is important to understand every little detail, for example like the verb, to be, plural or singular object, the space and many more. To make a story, I have to understand what grammar I should use. The lecturer told me that I have to make different paragraph for different things that I am going to explain. For example, the first paragraph is about the opening, the second is about my family, the next is about my friends, and so on.

I kept all the correction that my lecturer has given to me. Most of the mistakes that I made were about verb for singular and plural object, and punctuation marks. Those kind of things that I should work on more. Of course, I will not forget about the main thing, it is indeed, the grammar. Sometimes I do not know what grammar I should use. However, I am beginning to understand it and what its use. I think I need to pay more attention to the little things, such as punctuation marks and regular verb and irregular verb. Still, comparing to the first review that I got, my third and fourth reviews got fewer correction. So I guess I can say that it is an improvement.

I think it is very important to learn how to write English correctly. Let’s say, if I am applying for a scholarship abroad, I will definitely have to write an essay in English. Well, probably I still need to learn more if I want to do that but who knows? Maybe it will happen someday. I could use what I have learned in writing class to write the reading assignment or any other assignment, not speaking of course because I have to speak instead of writing.

Anyway, I am feeling a lot of pressure this week. Why you ask? It is because of the mid-term test that I am going to do next week. However, I cannot complain about that because that is what a college student does. Therefore, I rewrite the important things that I need to remember and write my own notes for each subject so that I can understand them better. I also do not forget to pray to God so that God can guide me along the way.