Final

With time goes by, this semester is gong to end. Before I took ENGL 151, I always thought I knew how to write the essay of English Argument. But when I was in the class and started to work on my first argument essay, I realized that I was not good enough for the aspect.

Recall my first essay, I only employed two credible resources, and most of the contents was from my words and personal experience. Although the topic of the first essay is familiar to me, I still require searching some academic resource to prove or support my points since it is academic writing. Then in next three essays, I employed a lot of resources. Thus, searching credible resource and properly adding in essays are the specific skill I learned. Another specific skills is writing with logic, ethos, and pathos. Before that, I learned I must ensure the theme and core points of the essay. When I am going to explain a problem, a trend, or a phenomena, I should begin my essays with credible contents like examples and statistics so that readers would know why it is necessary to talk about. After that, I can use emotion in debate or argument so that people would resonate with my essay. Also, I should create an essay with logic. For example, if I am going to explain how to solve a problem, I can first introduce why the problem appear, and then give the solving methods based on the reasons. Plus, the last thing I learned for academic argument writing is that I need to respect the opposite arguments in my essays. 

For improving my academic writing, I reread and rewrite my essays several times, and check if I employ logic, ethos, and paths. I also check if the resources is proper for what I state. Finally, I check my grammar. For research skills, I force myself to read as much as I can. Certainly, I use the skill "reading long articles" I picked up from library lecture that go through the abstract first. Honestly, I think Improved my academic writing and research skills when I am creating a new essay because I can practice these processes again. And I tried to avoid the mistakes I made in the previous essays when I was writing the new essays.  The skill that I am most proud of is reading skills because I read a lot of writing from textbooks and internet resources. And I try to copy the way that authors create their essay. But finding resources is still a challenges for me because sometimes I can not find the contents I exactly require. Meanwhile, I have to spend a lot of time rewriting the resources into my own words.