The Four Months Experience with Professor D

The Four months experience with Professor D

Do you know how to write an excellent essay? “In you introduction you should have excellent hook, and enough background then strong and clearly thesis statement. You guys must have enough supporting detail and quotation for each paragraph, and every paragraph must be ten to eleven sentences. There are no reputations in your conclusion.” said by N D. At the first time, after I hear those words, I am shocked, because I never believe that I can write more than 7 sentences for each paragraph in my essay. At the beginning, I really want to ask professor D: “Are you kidding me?” Nevertheless, these are absolutely the golden rules for writhing, also that golden rules guide me go through the memorable four months.

I love writing, because I like to express something according to write something. However, that doesn’t mean I am good writer. I have some major problems; the first one is my grammar. Since I begin to study English at primary school, grammar always confused me. It is really hard for me to divide use different tense for different type essay. Besides, I like to use subordinate clause in my essay, because I think that will make my essay better; but my grammar is so poor, therefore I always make my professor feels confuse. Sometimes they even do not what I talking about. After the four months study, I know I need to make my essay more clearly, so I need to use some simple and clearly sentence to replace the subordinate clause. The professor D told me that when I try to use subordinate clause I must make sure there are not grammar mistake ;otherwise, the clause would decrease your essay’s quality, because it does not make sense. Now, when I finished my paper, I usually choose to revise it after a break and imagine I am the reader who knows nothing about my topic; also I will let my classmate or roommate help me to revise it. Trough this method, I find that it is easily to avoid the grammar mistake, like tense, complex sentence, and preposition

Furthermore, after the four months study, I learn another important skill is how to make my every paragraph attractive and strong. In the past, I did not add quotation into my paragraph; to be honest, I did not know how to use it. For example, in my introduction paragraph, I used to use the statement in the whole introduction. No question, no quotation, no statistic, it is totally tasteless. Now I know I need have a great hook to attract reader, and make my essay stronger. Besides, I think the skill of writing conclusion paragraph is my best improvement in this semester. Before I join this class, I always believe I just need to restate my point in my conclusion. I am entirely wrong. I cannot repeat what I said before the conclusion, the need to restate the same point in a completely way,