This quarter, I took the writing class
1133, the instructor is Eric Leak. During the whole quarter, we had a main topic,
the food culture. Fortunately, it was not very hard for me, because I come from
China, a country full of different kinds of food. The whole quarter was divided
into two parts; each one included some blog post, short essays and a long
paper. We learned different kinds of methods to get resources, like observing personally,
using the sources in Penrose library, recoding and analyze our own lives. There
were many methods I don’t use before. The fantastic part is that after we have
did many researches for my short essays, it made me feel much easier to write
the long paper. This taught me that if we divided a big project into different parts,
and finish it step by step, it will be easy to finish them. Besides, just for
writing, if we did a good pre-work, like thing out the outline, doing enough
researches, we can feel much better when we start to write. The most challenge
thing for me is the resource part. Because the different writing customs in
China and America, it seems like very hard for me to use outside resources. My
professor often told me try to use more resource to support my idea in the
comments. I felt very hard at the first, but finally, I found that actually I
have already used some resource. The problem was that I always like to say in
my own words. It was because many kinds of sources like personal blogs,
newspapers, could not be included in the “works cited” part. This thing told me
how rigorous in American writing. People must be responsible to every world
they wrote and at the same time, could find enough effective evidence to
support their idea.
Though there were a lot of writing
works in this class. It was not very difficult. I found I learned unconsciously
in the end. 