A Reflection on My Writing
of all English skill,
writing was the one I hate most. I used to be terrified of it. Whenever I was
given a writing assignment I was lost at where to begin. Thousand ideas are
doodling in my branch, but I don’t know what to write. More over when the
lecture gives comment, my confident sank like the titanic. However, day
by day, I enjoy it because I use to do it. I began to get a sense in writing.
And nowadays, doing writing is not as difficult as I though. It only needs to
reduce the negative thought toward it, and do writing base on the lecture has
taught me.
As the first time my lecture asked
me to write, I felt very confidence and excited. At that time writing was a
piece of cake. However, when the lecture commented on it, my confidence started
to melt like an ice cream in a summer day. The mistakes were like an iceberg.
From that I realize writing is not easy as I think. When my lecture give some
knowledge about writing from the topic sentence until quoted someone else idea.
I start to do hard in writing time. I used to lose at where I began to write, and
I used to write in doodling. Then I know in the first step I should to do
brainstorming and mind mapping the idea first. Furthermore, there are many type
of essay, and all of them have its own way to write.
Sometimes writing is like a cringe
word. It is because some unpredictable things come up there, such as doing
quoted. I used to write someone ideas without caring the quoted rules, and
actually it’s called plagiarism. Then the lecture gets us to accustom to do and
recognize it. In writing academically, our idea has to be supported by experts’
idea, and it has own way how to write it. I have gotten a good theory from my
lecture toward that case, its called sandwich theory. There, we have to put
other idea between ours. Furthermore, paraphrasing is also the difficulties
thing in doing quotation, I don’t have any proper word or phrase in do it, and
I should to pay attention on it.
From these writing classes, I
realized that how we love or hate writing does not determine our skills. There
is always a room for improvement if we are bad at something. We would receive
negative feedback to empower and encourage us to be better. What is important
is we keep on learning and improving.
by: julia farlia ayfat
