selecting a topic and narrowing it down

Specific Topic: Is air pollution the major cause of climate change?

Thesis Statement: Air pollution is a global problem that affects regional and global climate and it has been the subject of global cooperation and conflict.

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My English 2 Experience

The first meeting with our teacher was fun. I was really amazed by her POWERFUL voice. She talks about the grading system especially our term paper at the end of the semester and talk about this blog thing. I don’t know why she’s into this (BlogSpot), but one thing is sure. I’m also hooked with this thing.

I feel this semester would be a hectic one. The objective of the course was to make us better writers, and I certainly want to improve. I will have to learn what makes a paper good or bad, what makes it easier to write a good paper, and how the manner that the class is held makes a difference. We will do many writings, which is a good thing to do because English has never been my favourite subject. In fact, it has always been my least favorite subject. Going through school, I often wondered why I needed to do so many English related tasks. My days in secondary school were not "englishly" happy. However, I feel I should have taken my high school English class more seriously. It was a very difficult adjustment for me. I went through high school writing about what I now know to be not-so-good papers, but received good grades for them. Then, I thought they were good because of the grades I got. Now, I find myself working over twice as hard for half the grade.

This isn't a completely bad thing, though. It teaches me that my writing really wasn't very good. Now I have to take my writing more seriously, and try much harder at producing good output. Also, my goal isn't to write a paper that will get a good grade. Now, my goal is to write better papers to become a better writer.

What I Think And Feel Towards Writing In English

How long do we need in order to become a good writer?

I started writing since elementary. I had written on my diary almost every day and I felt it was fun because I was using my first language at that time. But after I got into my high school, there was no diary to write in a vernacular language only a writing assignment was given almost every grading and we call it "Theme Writing". How do I really feel about writing in English? Honestly speaking, when we had to learn everything about grammar in English, I started to hate writing. Writing in my first language does bring joy and writing in English made me feels incompetent. On the other hand, the reason why I don't like writing much is when some teachers give bad topics to students to write about. On my point of view, it's better if they give an interesting topic that can motivate students to write. To be honest, I still feel uncomfortable writing in English because I have much more to learn. Now that I'm in my second semester in IIT, I began to have less trouble expressing what I think and feel, thus the hatred toward writing diminished little by little. However, the English class (A3-2) was not as bad as I thought because the writing topic is not boring and I have also given the privilege to blog this. I hope, at the end of semester I will improve not only my writing skill but my confidence of writing as well. And to answer the question: How long do we need in order to become a good writer? For me, the only way to get better is to practice writing all the time using of course English. We need to put the time and effort in to be able to get anything out of it. Above all, don't give up on writing because this will lead you to the road of success.

chayn's first ever blog :))

chayn's first ever blog :))

At first, i don't really want to blog because I'm afraid of getting bad comments from my peers. But now that I am blogging. It feels great actually.. blogging you're most interesting moments or experiences and also you're worst. hehe.. I can't wait to post more. BLOG for me is the new definition of INTERACTIVE DIARY. God Bless us all. And have a nice day!