Today, I find that I have already written eight blogs, it
happened without my being aware of it. This is the part which surprises me
most. I can’t believe I have written
more than two thousand words, because I don’t feel very hard to finish them. Actually,
I feel much more relaxed when I start to write than before. Once, I wrote
English just because it is an exam or an assignment, I must pay much attention
to whether I use a right word and whether my grammar is right or not. Sometimes,
in order to avoid making mistakes, I don’t write what I really think; I just
write some sentences that I am sure they are right. But this time, for the blogs, though it is
also an assignment, the form let me think I just write something to show my own
opinion. My attitude toward reading and
writing on the web changed a lot in this process. I have never paid any
attention to this question before; I just look the Internet as a tool, but now
I start to find what the difference between reading and writing on the web and
on the real paper. I find merits and drawbacks about it. For example, if I read
on the Internet, I can translate the whole article into Chinese with Google
easily, though it makes a lot mistakes, I can find the main idea about the article
quickly and decide whether to read the original article line by line. But the
information on the internet is always not exactly right and in detail. So it is
hard to get enough information from it to finish my academic reports. The most
change of my Internet habits is I look and use more English web than before. By
the way, I think the most challenging part is to read others blogs, because there
are fifteen students in the class, it seems like we need to read thirty blogs
to finish all the readings, which lead me sometimes just can scan them.
What you said about translating articles in Chinese is really interesting. I guess the internet has really globalized writing.
ReplyDeleteI get what you mean about writing in a different language. When I took French I found myself just constructing sentences and not really caring so much about what my point was.
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