Dear guests, Thank you very much for your coming to Daisy’s Writing Portfolio, and I hope that your first impression on my blog is nice, which could make you read my following articles. As is written in the description box, this blog is a writing portfolio of me, Daisy, a grade two student of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. In this semester, I took an academic writing course to improve my writing skills in English. To be frank, although I had been confident of my command of English, I still got a bit nervous when I first attend the class; for I was not sure whether I could catch the whole meaning of the foreign teacher and make myself understood when communications were all to be in English and when Chinese could make no help. Anyway, when I gradually got accustomed, I came to like the course very much. During the semester, we were asked to read four interesting stories written by authors from different countries. And after reading each story, we are told to write a reading log, expressing our own responses to the story. Putting the reading logs on the Internet, we could read each other’s responses and make discussions on the stories or the characters, which made our understanding of the stories better and better. Besides, when we finished reading the stories, we were asked to select a topic about one of the stories that we are most interested in, make a thesis statement and write an essay to discuss the topic. Fortunately, we were taught how to write a good essay step by step. And this was also the first time I came to know that a good essay comes after several times of peer reviews. That is to say, to write a good essay, one has to go over it and make improvement for several times. And this has become a good habit when I get down to writing other essays, in Chinese or in English. In the following are my works during this semester, including my three essay drafts, from which you can see clearly my progress, one of my reading logs, and my final in-class timed-writing. Timed writing used to seem a bit hard for me because of the limitation of time, but now, I believe I can do better. Finally, welcome to read my following works and make comments on it. Thank you again for your visit. Sincerely, Daisy Xu
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24.5.07 06:32
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