This #6 might be the last blog might be that last one that I will be writing, so let's make it count~~~~

  For me, this class is all about hardworking, criticizing, motivating and never stop trying. I know the some of the words are not adjective, but for me, these words are the best way to describe how this ESL class really makes me feel. For me, English hasn't been a stranger to me because I've been dealing with it since I was a kid. I know that I'm not the master of this language, but having a long term experience with English definitely puts me up into a higher level of it. To me, this class has shown me that to be a college student in America, there are many things that I have to improve to be qualified in the field of English. Things that I've never paid attentions on has become one of the most important parts that I have to improve. If I've never taken this class, probably that all my academic papers will be a joke to my professor.
  The most challenge thing for me is to try to correct the things that I've done wrong through out my years of writing in English. I've never wrote an analysis in my academic life, so it's really easy for me to make mistakes without noticing. Correcting those mistakes can be really tricky and kind of hard for me. But with the effort that I put in, I manage to handle it well. The most different thing for me right now is that I've understand a lot in how to write and critique an essay properly. Writing has always been an obstacle for in through my academic life, this class has really changed me a lot, it helped me to understand the basic rules, the basic materials that I need to know and understand in order to write a good essay.

Reflection #5

  To me, the most meaningful learning experience that I gained from rhetoric analysis is the deeper understanding of rhetoric. I have been written a lot of paper this semester, through all that, I first got a new understanding of how to use my word to persuade my audience to understand and accept my opinion on a matter or a fact. But this is quite new to me, so it's kind difficult for me to understand all the strategy in a short period of time. Through the rhetoric analysis, I'm able to find the key to rhetoric. So it really helped me a lot. The most challenging part for me is that I can't really identify one strategy from another, because in my own objective way, the appeals are quite the same and some are really hard to identify from another. So this part had taken some time for me to figure out. The hardest one for me is the ethical appeal. It's really confusing is that during my usual work, there isn't really much chance for me to really use the ethical appeal so this is quite hard for me to identify and understand. While analyzing, ethical appeal is all about how to guide the audience to the writer's point, sometimes the author made it really hard because their writing is so good that you might just follow the flow and can't identify it. Even though it's hard, I still found a way to understand it by reading the article for a couple more times. So in this way, I can have a better understanding to the article and this is a really good approach. The one that is still frustrating is that I still can't find a better approach on using the three appeal on persuading audience. Maybe a better understanding might help.

Reflection #4: Paragraph Portfolio Writing Experience

  To me, the most challenging part of writing a paragraph is to find a good aim to write, a good layout so that the paragraph won't be so boring or extremely bad. This is very hard for me because I'm not a very good writer so that a lot fundamental things are really hard for me. I know that keep on writing is going to help me get through this, but I don't think the quantity haven't work it's magic, so now every time when I write, it's really a painful path for me. I try to keep telling myself to push it, not to become a good writer, but to get the grade that I wanted. I know this is not what the instructor's intention, but as long as I keep pushing myself and it won't benefit the instructor and I both.My reaction on learning and writing a certain paragraph is quiet hard to tell. On the one hand, I know that if I do this, it's going to benefit me a lot and that will come a long way. On the other hand, I have this inner person that said: oh no, not again! For example, when I'm writing this blog, I know this is going to benefit me a lot and I have never wrote blog before so this can be an interesting experience for me. But on the other hand, I just do like to do this kind of work and I really don't have a clue on how to improve or where is this going. So for me, and some students may also have this kind of problem, I what our aim is to try our best and be better. I believe that after this long journey of writing all kinds of paragraphs and posts, things will do pay off.

Peer Review

  First of all, I just want to say thank you to Wenting Zhu AKA: Michele, and Yi Sha for their effort in writing a review for my diagnostic paper. I know I'm not a good writer,and personaly, I can't even stand my own paper. So I know it must be pretty hard to read my paper.
  To me, I know we have to write peer review not just in order to improve others paper, but also we can improve our own writing skills by looking at others paper and avoid their mistake. Maybe is my niceness in me, I often find it hard on writing reviews for others. I always thought that putting a judgement on others paper is not a good thing. Every one put time and effort in their work. Some people might not do it as hard as other's does, but still, they give something in it and I believe it deserves applause.
  I tried my best to be nice in my review to other's. I'm a good writer so sometimes I can't find what's the mistake or what's missing in the eaasy. Thus, when I see something wrong or doesn't feels right to me, I try to point it out in a extremly careful way. I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea about me being a self-righteous man or a man who is just too stupid to point out a mistake. In my point of view, I don't think I have the power or the ability to judge other's work.
  I believe in peer review, but I won't do it unless it's necessary.
 

This is what teacher want us to do, so~~~~

Reflection paper

  The most positive writhing experience for me should be the one when I wrote about my memory about my life in junior high back in China. Till this day, that paper has influenced me in my writing.

  I wrote the article when I was in the first year of high school. It’s more like a journal and mostly is about how I look back in my life when I was in junior high. Frankly, I not the guy who can really write and express my emotion in a composition before this. But all that kind of idea changed since the experience. A video that was made by a dear friend of mine who unfortunately I lost contact couple years ago made me who I am today. It’s not some kind of fancy video that has a lot CGI in it. It’s just a 15 minutes long video with some photos and a background music. I thought this is going to be boring at the very beginning, but I finished the whole video with tears dropping from my eyes. This kind of feeling never occur to me ever before. Then there was a voice deep down in my heart told me that I have to write this down. Back then, it was the only way I know that I can let out my feeling and I still believe it till this day. It’s not like I wrote about how I missed everyone in my class, it’s more like how this very memory made me and my life different.

  From that moment on, I found out that to write a good article, you have to let yourself really into that story because only your true emotion, your true feeling can be the soul of your article. I’m not a good writer, to be frankly, I never would have write an article if it wasn’t an assignment. But what I do know is that if I’m writing, I would give my 100 percent emotion in it, and that is what that paper has guided me till this day.

Something about me~

I'm a student from China and just moved to UIUC a month ago.

Here are fun facts about me. I'm a man with great sense of humor, I've always been a man interested in sport, music and hip-hop dancing. Actually I'm a great singer and dancer. The video above is my idol, his name is Jason Derulo!!!!!!
 Here is another hero that I really love! He is an NBA player, his name is Chris Paul!!!!