It’s Crash

The grade of the 1st essay came over yesterday, and it was a little shock but not too much. Indeed, my mind went blanked as soon as I saw the grade. It fell short of my expectations, but it doesn`t work out if I just keep complaining about it. I thought the essay might not be as many errors as it is. It deserved it after I read through my essay once again, particularly, the corrections on the copy and the comment from my instructor. I still have a lot of work to improve.

The grade is valuable, which is clearly showing my writing level in class. But it means nothing at the same time because it can`t reflect anything about my writing, or it can`t provide any information about where do I need to improve or pay more attention on it. I like reading comment since it points out the good writing that I have in my essay, and what is deficient or lack persuasiveness in it. I feel frustrated that the errors, which were pointed out in the critique were so basic that I didn`t even realize them before I turn it in.

I admit grammar errors and tens usage problems are come from second language issue. This part is big enough to affect my grade in each essay throughout the semester. Right now, I experienced the differences from my first year writing courses. Probably, I had the same problems when I was in my freshman composition course. But it seems much easier to get a higher grade in that class. My only strategy was tried to avoid grammar errors as many as I could. The requirement was less, and I didn`t have to pay much attention to paragraph thing or composition structure. Actually, they asked to, but not as much as in sophomore writing course. In advanced composition class is a different story, instructor strictly grading essays in a higher level, in other words, the grading standard is focusing on different things.

There are two major challenges from this English class, one is I have to pay more attention or do more work on my grammar thing, secondly, how to write essays. The point is how to form a better structure of my essay, which is design. I loss most of my points on it I believe. Some confusion is also caused by my structure design. Some points of view that I wanted to say, but they were not showed in my article. The problem comes from my revision. I can barely found my errors or confusion if I revise my essay just by myself. I think it works if I write drafts as many as possible and show them to different people to help me editing my draft. There is a bunch of writing waiting ahead of me. My goal of writing a blog about my 1st essay is sharing the feeling of it. The most important thing is figuring out ways of improving my writing little by little in my upcoming assignments.