Reflection Writing English

The first time that I had to write an English essay was six years ago, and I was totally blank. Six years ago, I was at the age that I had never thought I must learn another language or take it seriously because I was obviously more comfortable with speaking my mother language. However, everything has changed since the first English paper that I wrote, and a series of following events turned my life into another page which led to the development of my English in general and my literacy skills specifically. In 2010, English was slightly beyond me, and I honestly did not pay attention in English class. Then, when my parents sent me to a TOEFL Preparation class, I was asked to write an English paragraph with the given topic, and I was immediately

I always got a low grade, which was lower than D, when I had a writing test because I could not make my essay longer and clearer. It is extremely difficult for me to hold a pen or pencil to write something as ideas were in my mind, but I could not get those out of my head and down on paper. Being aware of my issues, Mrs. Ho said that reading was the best solution to develop my writing and my literacy, so she guided me how to read effectively and how to use reading to become a better writer. I knew how to get the general idea of a paragraph or an essay, and I could eventually concentrate on details. I figured out that it was similar to writing; at first, I needed to generate the topic sentence of a paragraph, then I could go into a particular situation in my writing. Furthermore, one more lesson that I learnt from reading was the representation of ideas because my writing was a compilation of what I had read and blended in a project in my own unique way. New vocabularies and collocations from reading any kinds of text were put in my writing effectually and contextually owing to reading skills and Mrs. Ho’s help. Even now when I am about to start any project, I spend most of my time on reading articles and textbooks to come up with general ideas, and I will write the topic sentence of each body paragraph before completing the