420W Journal3 ( What I learned in this class )

It has passed one month and a half, which is half of this session. Since the session started, I have learned lots of very useful and logical way to write academic paragraph. Actually I knew something about the skills, because my major is English education and I had chances to study about that. However, what I did in my class in Japan was just reading books which was not specific and boring. While in this class, I could learn many important things, for example, the importance of blainstorming and outline is one of the most impressive thing for me. At first, I doubted if it is useful to write paragraphs even though Eilidh told us it was very important. I thought it was more efficient to use the limited time to write paragraph insted of wasting the time for brainstorming and outline. Few weeks later, I realized my thought was compleately wrong. How easy to write if I brainstorm and write oultine well bofore starting writing! I was impressed!! Eilidh was correct!! The skills not only made the time I write paragraph shorter, but also made me write more logicaly, specific and methodical. I also learned the importance of transition. Using proper transition makes writing more crealy, specific and easy to understand. Especially academic writing, choosing appropriate transition is necessary. These two idea impress me. Today, Eilidh adviced me to use more complicated sentences. I tried to use, but it was difficult for me because of my lacking vocabrary. I realized what I need to do first is to know and try to use transition.