Learner Joural

Learn Journal 1

This week, we have learnt arguments and discussion. Before the university studies, I have done essay regarding argument e.g. 2-sided argumentative essay. But all the argumentative words I use is very narrow range and sometimes makes the essay becomes repetitive and no academic. After attending the lesson about arguments and discussion, my essay is now more planned and organized with a wider range of words. This also helped me a lot while I am writing my essay, especially for those long and comprehensive essays. Although it’s a bit hard to remind myself to use different words in the beginning, it’s starting to get better now and improving.

Learner Journal 2

This week, we have learned about cohesion and coherence. This actually helped me to link my paragraphs and sentences together so that my writing and essays can make more sense. I used to write my essays with a way that once I thought of an area then I will put into the paragraphs and sentences which turns out that the whole essay is not linking together and the ideas are not corresponding to one another but after I attend the, I found its useful and crucial for us to make our essays cohesive so that our essays link more together and become more academic and It also enhances my skill to write amore academic essay.

Learn journal 3

This week, we have learnt to reporting verbs and the way to use them. In general, there are a lot of reporting verbs but the usage of them is different the tense to express them is also different. After learning how to use appropriate reporting verbs with the correct tense thesis statement, it makes my essays more academic. Other than reporting verb, we also have discussed academic phrases. Sometimes I have expressions that just come up from my mind which is not academic, and I don’t know how to paraphrase them. After learning some