Academic Writing English

This is the first time that I create my blog,  at first I am going to share my feelings. I am really excited that I can start my blog now. Actually, I planed to writing something like blog long ago, but I always miss it due to various reasons. And to my surprise, I haven't expected that I would writing my first blog in English! 

I chose English 151 because of the requirement of my college, Art and Science. I have to take two courses about academic writing. Since academic writing is a challenge to me, and English 151 helps international students form the base of academic writing, I decided to take English 151 which may help my improve this part. 

I have a lot of experience of academic English writing. Before I come to America, to be honest, I knew English from early age. At that time, academic writing asked me to write a paragraph for a topic or describe a picture in English. I remembered the academic writing was always the last part of English exam.  In recently two years, I had this experience in English class, history class and drama class. I wrote evaluations for drama plays; I wrote essays for different topics in English class; I wrote several history papers(It was the most troublesome works because I had to read a whole book for each paper).
                           

In English 151, I hope I can feel free to writing English. I hope I can do better at organizing my essays with logic in order to persuade readers. Meanwhile, I hope I can feel free to use many references in my paper. However, the biggest challenge in academic writing is that I can not freely express or explain my ideas and thoughts in English. In this case, writing papers always takes me a lot of time. Also, I am easily tired when I read an essay where there are many new words or complicated sentences.