Reflection Essay: How To Improve Learning Skills And Writing Skills

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During this semester in LLD class, I have learned some writing skills and reading skills from the textbook “College Writing Skills,” and written three essays which helped me improve my reading and writing skills. Grammar is the rule of word and sentence, which means that put the right word into the appropriate position to make it become a complete sentence. In addition, this book tells us that the most important problem is to avoid having grammatical errors in the essay, that will make reader misunderstand the sentence 's meaning. The prompt titles of my three essays are “Today, Courtesy Isn’t Common, But Hatred Is” by T. T. Nhu, “In Defense of Materialism During This Busy Holiday Season” by Jay Ambrose, and “When All You’re Ever Wanted Wasn’t Enough” by Harold Kushner. Manner essay essay needed improvement of thesis statements, supporting paragraphs and conclusion. I absorb many techniques from this essay since the beginning draft to the final revision. Before my first revision, the original draft had only three short paragraphs …show more content…

Furthermore, I tried to make the thesis statements clearly, and not out of topic, so that I do not need to rewrite the essay and make a lot of changes. However, although I went to see my EOP tutor many times for the essay, but it still had lots of grammatical errors on the essay. The ideas I wrote is right and nothing wrong with that, but the way I explained and gave examples to support my ideas had problems on those. The reason is that my English writing skills are not as well as the native Americans . So, sometimes they might not understood my points a lot. Therefore, I kept finding my EOP tutor and asked her to help me check the grammar and improve it. After that, I tried my best to fix the grammatical errors and make sure that my ideas are clearly, so that I could make it

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