How do I write an essay.

Today, I am very happy after I handed in essay because it was the last one. Usually, I always worry about my essay since I want to get B+ in writing class. Now I have some time and I want to summarize my procedures of writing an essay. Before I begin my essay, I will think about structure and supporting ideas for three days and ensure I have enough material to support my main idea. Then, I will do a lot of research to support my ideas. After that, I will begin writing my first draft and reorganize my structure according to the importance of supporting ideas. When I was young, my Chinese teacher told me I could get a good mark on my writing if I paid attention on correcting it. Now I think this principle can apply in English writing as well. So, I will read my essay for twenty times after I finish first draft, and I think it is a good way to get a high academic performance. I will find several mistakes including errors of agreement, tense, number, word order, articles, pronouns and prepositions after I read my essay once. After that, I will correct all of them and read it again and again in order to avoid mistakes. Usually, I cannot realize mistakes immediately, so I will check it after several days because my mind might be changed at that time. Often, I will read my essay many times every two or three days, and I can found somewhere is strange when I am reading it after several days. At the same time, I often found a better way to organize my essay structure during I am reading. Then, I will reorganize my essay structure again and again until I am satisfied on my essay. The most common way correcting my essay is that I always repeat reading and organization. Finally, my final draft is extremely different from the first one.

Also, I often read some articles that I am interested in, and it often provides me some expectable ideas. And those ideas help me a lot on my essay save me a lot of time because they give a direction or field that I need to research in.

I hope you can get some useful information from my experience.

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Last Saturday, I met with my friend Kevin after pronunciation class at his home to discuss how to pronounce the sounds of English better. During the time together, I found that vowel sound is the most important reason why others could not understand my English. For example, the vowel sound, called schwa, serves as a weak substitute for every vowel. The function of the schwa is to mark the presence of a vowel and its syllable without taking the time or energy of a full vowel sound, thereby allowing the rhythm of an English sentence to continue its normal flow. So the schwa is very important and I need to practice it. After our discussion, he helped me practice the vowel sounds and gave me some suggestions about speaking English. In my opinion, taking pronunciation class is very useful and I like this class very much. Moreover, I recommend my friends to take this course in the future and it will benefit them a lot. A long time ago, others could not understand much of my pronunciation. But now, they can understand much of them and I am very happy. At the same time, I want to talk a little about teacher teaching pronunciation class as following. The teacher is very nice and speaks slowly and clearly. She looked very amiable, and she always carefully answers our questions. She usually provides some material and let students practice it in a group of three. Then she will listen to our pronunciation and corrects mistakes. I think her class is very interesting and I like it very much.

Friendship is important!

I have been feeling very sad and lonely for a long time because I missed my family and old friends. I myself go to school after get up and go home after class everyday. After that, I cook for myself and do my homework. I think the food is not delicious because I eat it by myself. When I was in China, I always had meals with my friends or family. I thought the food was good because I could chat with my friends or family. Nowadays, I live by myself and I felt lonely. I want to go home recently; however, I cannot go home as I told before. Last week, when I felt lonely and terrible, I gave my friend a phone call and told him I wanted to visit him. His girlfriend cooked four kinds of delicious food for me and we had a meal together. Then, we discussed a lot of things including movies, cell phones, sport, and computers. I felt very happy about that since I was not lonely any more. At 11:30 pm, his girlfriend wanted me teach her to steam Chinese bread. I showed her how to cook it. We spent two hours on cooking Chinese bread because of yeast’s problem. Finally, we achieved success and she was very happy. Event thought it was very late, we were still watching TV. At 4:30 am, we were too tired to watch TV, and I asked my friends gave me a ride. When I was arrived my home, I was not sad any more although I was tired at that time. From this experience, I think friends are very important to me and I will cherish our friendship forever.

A thing happened in our apartment

A long time ago, one of my roommates said there was a mouse in our apartment; I could not believe it because the mouse could not enter our apartment. Until last night, I recognized that my roommate was right because I heard a mouse’s sound while I was sleeping. When I was young, I was scared of seeing mice since they were a terrible animal. Tonight, my roommate told me he saw the mouse was climbing our table, and it was made me crazy. I thought our plates could not be used any more and I needed wash them again. After I washed plates, I put them on my steam pan and disinfected the bacteria and virus by steaming the plates for 40 minutes. After that, I wished our cat could catch the mouse since he was old enough to catch a mouse. We were staying in the living room with our cat for three hours. We hoped the sound of cat could make mouse get out of our apartment. On the other hand, he did not make any sound all night while he was sitting on sofa. What a stupid cat and I hated him very much. Now, I think he has no difference with a pig because all he can do are eat and sleep. He is such a useless cat that he can not make sound and only can eat and sleep. If I have a cat which can not able to catch mice in China, I will throw it out of my house. I think the natural ability of a cat is to catch mice rather than eat and sleep.

What can we do next? I am really scared of seeing the mouse again in my apartment.

A Busy Weekend

Friday

I spent such a terrible weekend last week that I am very tired today. I though I could finish my fist draft for my fourth essay; however, I found I could not finish it because I had so many things needing to do. On Friday, I went to downtown to buy Calling Card after class and came back only in one hour. Then I went to Olympic Volunteer Center at 4 pm and worked there for 8 hours. When I got home, it was already 1 am. I was so tired that I could not do anything else. I gave my mother a phone call because I had to do that; otherwise, she would blame me why I did not connect with her for one week and so on. It was already 2:30 am when I went to bed.

Saturday

I got up at 8 am and did not eat anything; I came to university to attend a three-hour pronunciation class at 9 am. The class was very interesting, but I was tired and I did not learn much in class. After class, I had my lunch only in 15 minutes and went to work at 12:30. When I was arrived the work place, I found we need to move a lot of heavy stuff such as states and tables. At the same time, we were three to do that. But one guy went to have lunch at 1 am and our supervisor went to another place. Oh my god, only myself moved all of stuff for 140 people…….. I worked 11 hours on Saturday. My friend gave me ride and we went to his home because my roommate was there. When my roommate and I got home, it was 1:30 am. I also had many things needing to do after I came back. I went to bed at 3:00 am.

Sunday, it was 2 pm when I got up. I and my roommate went to downtown and had a breakfast there (It was a breakfast for us.). After that, we spent one and half hours on doing our hair even we made an appointment. I organize my computer because software had some problem. I hated Vista program because it had much different from XP program. After that, my roommate and I did not leave the library until 3 am. He reviewed his midterm and I wrote my essay because I did not like leave my essay until last moment. …….

I am so tired today because of terrible weekend.

Our New Cat

Last night, I heard the sound of a cat and I went out and checked what was happened. Finally, I knew the sound that was coming from my roommate’s bedroom. It was a really nice white-black cat and I liked it very much. However, he was sacred of my coming and he suddenly hidden under the bed. My roommate told me I could catch it under the bed. Then, I crawled under the bed and tried to find him. When the cat found me approaching him, he drew back to the farthest corner of the bed. It was hard to catch him because the bed was not high and there was much stuff under the bed. I hit my head against the bed many times as I was crawling. Finally, I caught him and hold him in my arms. My roommate told me he did not eat and drink anything and it might because he was new my family. I tried to feed him and he also did not eat anything and always tried to escape from my arms. I put some food in his mouth and forced him to eat. After that, I dipped my fingers into water and put my fingers near his mouth. As a result, he ate a lot of things and he tried to eat food and drink water by himself. Maybe he found I did not put poison in his food and water, and tried to eat food by himself.

Halloween party

Last Saturday night, my roommate, some friends and I went to pub for a Halloween party. It was very interesting and funny. Almost each person dressed up for our party and they were looks so funny that I laughed for a long time.

My roommate was made up by two girls and I watched the process. He was forced to wear a skirt and wig. At the same times, his eyes, eyelashes were made up by several makeups. Furthermore, he was forced to use much lip-synch. After he was made up, he showed many body languages belonging to girls or women. His performance was so fascinating that you could believe he was a gay.

Two more interesting guys, who made up as super people, were very funny at the party. For one boy, he wore red underwear outside of his jeans and a shawl on his should. Also, he dyed his shoes red and wore a blue shirt. For a girl, she wore black shirt and showed her beautiful legs. She wore mask and black boots. The most important thing was her nice body rather than her clothing. The girl was so beautiful that everyone looked her many times. …….

The most interesting thing in the party was my roommate’s performance. He said she could not drink cold wine because her period was coming. Then, he took off his coat, which is a girl’s red coat, and took his tampon with fresh “blood”. Oh my god, he was so funny and he could really make up as a girl……

On that night, I drank a lot of wine and was very happy because I learned how to play dice game. During the game, who lost the game would drink a glass of wine. We had many different games and I never knew about some of them before this party.

Happy Halloween!!!!1

The Reflection of Exams.

What a bad day! I failed in my both listening and speaking class and it made me mad. I do not know how to do next. I hope I can pass this term because I am looking forward my university course.

Last Thursday, I did a presentation and I felt very good. However, the teacher told me I should put a lot of attention on my rhythm and intonation. Oh my god, how can I improve my pronunciations? Fortunately, this presentation was much better than last time and I am glad to see this.

In reading midterm exam, I only got C+ and I am happy since I pass it; however, I am also sad because I usually got B or higher in last semester. I will work harder and make a great improvement on next exam. My god, bless me.

In writing midterm exam, I got A, and I am really happy about it. I found a rule, the more time I spend on my writing, the higher mark I get. For example, I got A on my first assignment because I spent several days on polishing my essay. I got B on my second one since I only spend one day on polishing my essay. I will spend more time on my essay and avoid mistakes as less as possible.

I will watch TV and practice my English everyday. I wish I will be better in the future.

what should I do next?

I was looking forward to seeing my second essay, and I was very happy because Scott gave our No.2 essay back today. However, the result made me very sad and I could not believe that I made so many mistakes on my essay. Before I submit it to Scott, I checked several times and I did not find any problem. Besides, I though I could master how to use article; nevertheless, the most mistakes in my essay were article errors. The reason why I could not believe is that I did not discover any problem before handed in. I think I will be crazy if it happens again. I think I should concern about article and try to avoid so many mistakes in next essay.

I am always worried about my midterm exam and it come tomorrow. Even though there are some many things in my brain, I am scared of writing because I can not write it in proper English. The performance of my midterm will be 20% in my final academic performance. I do not know how to do next.

One more thing is about my registration. Most of my classmate had already enrolled their courses. On the other hand, I do not know what I want to study or I will study. Although I am good at mathematics, I do not like study it for my major. I wish I could be businessman in the future however I could not study business because of many reasons. Oh my god, could you tell me what I should do next? a

A Bad Movie

Last night, my friends and I saw a great movie called Fight Club. I want to talk some thing about this movie now. Fight Club is a story about how a man changes since he got schizophrenia. In the beginning, the movie introduced that the hero realized his abnormality, and he went to doctor and checked his symptom. The main role said his feeling, which is the beginning symptom of his schizophrenia. In the first half story, he tried to find a treatment to treat his schizophrenia and attended some organization and shared story with others; however, he could not find an effective way to cure it. Then, he set up fight club and organized people to do abnormal things. In the second half story, he realized the serious consequences of his schizophrenia and wanted to change it. Nevertheless, he couldn’t change it in the end of the story and he was died in his plan. After the movie, I felt very unhappy because this movie affected my emotion and let me upset. I promised that I could not watch this movie again in the future in order to keep a good mental condition. Also, I want to remind my friends do not watch this movie if they want happy.

A Traditional Chinese Wedding

One of my friends told me he will marry soon when we were talking today, and it made me so surprised that I could not believe it. After that, I remembered an article which I wrote when I was new here. I read it again and I found many mistakes. I corrected them and put it on my blogs because I want to share this culture with my friends. I hope you guys can enjoy it.

In every culture, weddings are always very important events, so both of the bride and groom spent a lot to prepare their wedding.
Before the wedding, bride’s parents always prepare bride’s wedding clothes（Red cheongsam）. At the same time, they will buy many goods for the bride’s life, such as cabinets, pans, and desks and so on. They always make cotton blankets with jujube and chestnut since it has a special story. In Chinese, jujube pronounces “ zao”, and chestnut pronounces “li zi”；In English, zao means early, and li zi means to born a son. They want the new couple to have a son soon after they marry since it is a masculine society in traditionally Chinese social system. Meanwhile, the groom’s family will prepare a house for the new couple.
On the morning before the wedding, the bride often cries because she will leave her parents and they will live by themselves. Meanwhile, the groom’s family will very happy, because their family will get a new person.
During the wedding, the bride wears red cheongsam and red veil; the groom wears black upper cloth and red down cloth. There are a lot of fireworks when the bride gets out of the sedan chair which is similar to car. They always worship earth, heaven and their parents on bended knees. Their parents usually give them some money or some gifts. After that, sometimes, the groom will hold his bride in the arm and take her to their bedroom. And then, the groom will lift the veil away. Sometimes, the new couple will join hands to go to their bedroom. People generally will kid the new couple, and they think the more they kid around with the new couple, the better friends. Then, they will go to lunch together. Generally, there is a lot of food in the wedding lunch, such as fish, pork, chicken and seafood and so on.
After the lunch, the bride’s family will go home, the rest of people and their neighbors will go to their house to congratulate their wedding and held party in there. Sometimes, the party will not finish until midnight. Usually, they will kid new couple again and talk some thing and enjoy their happy life. Sometimes, the new couple’s home have a little people to congratulate their wedding, and party is finish in early times because they haven’t many friend or they had a bad relationship with their neighbors. People always wish that many people go to their home to congratulate their wedding and enjoy their happy life.

The experience of last week

Last Friday, I met with my friend Sunny in the cafeteria of the Education Block and discussed how to pronounce the sounds of English more clearly. He told me that the most useful way to practice those sounds is by practicing the rhythm and melody of spoken English. During the time together, I found that speaking English with the wrong rhythm made me hard to say the sound clearly, no matter how much I practice. Besides, the more I practiced with wrong rhythm, the more my mistakes become fixed. After discussion, I asked him teach me how to read words with silent letters because I always made mistakes in reading. Then, I know the consonant letter “b” is silent if it is in final position after “m” or before “t” in final position, such as, bomb, climb, dumb, comb, debt, doubt. Moreover, I know the consonant letter “u” is silent in some words as well, such as, buy, guilty, circuit, biscuit and guarantee. Even though that experience just was a 90 minutes talking and did not help me much in speaking English, it is very important for me in that it let me know how to improve my oral English and how to make the most efficient use of my time when I learn to pronounce English better. I am looking forward to do this activity again because I want to know more speaking skills. Several weeks ago, I was scared of speaking English with others and spoke English without confidence. But now, I do not scared of speaking English any more and I always try to speak more with confidence to practice my intonation. Long time ago, when I am talking with others, I could not understand many words because those words with silent letters. However, I can understand them and it make me very happy. Although studying English is a slow progressive work; I will do more exercise correctly as possible as I can to practice my English.

What a bad luck!

Oh my God, please bless me.

Several days ago, my roommate got a bad cold and he seemed very weak; however, he still often gives me a ride and I felt very good. Unfortunately, I got a cold too because we often stay together. I feel very bad and I found there was no proper medicine left; therefore, I must go to drug store and buy some. One worse thing was that I promised my friend I will help her work on Monday. Because I got a cold, I could not help her work any more and I ate my words. I felt very bad about that because I could not keep my promise. On the next day, I broke my thermos bottle and I could not drink hot water at midnight. It made me upset and I must heat water whenever I want to drink hot water. The worst thing was happen at this morning. Since my computer’s clock was one hour late and I did know it, I missed my bus and I went to school on foot. It was really cold outside; I almost got a cold again. Oh my God, what was wrong recently? Please tell me…