I am a writer I am writing this brief essay to introduce myself as a writer to my classmates and the teacher.I am taking a course called English Composition.The main purpose of this essay is to reflect on my writing, make some deliberate changes to my writing style and cultivate to conversations about writing with others. Thanks to my beloved parents, I started writing my diary even before I went to kindergarten.Back then, I could speak but I could barley write any Chinese words, so I had to use Pinyin.I remember one day I wrote over 100 words, which means a lot to a 3-year-old child.It was a brief description about a story my mother had told me before I went to bed, though basically I was just retelling the story. Anyways, I kept writing in my diary for 15 years.I am 18 now and as an engineering student in my second year of college, I still keep this habit. When I was in high school, I did not write my journals every day but I did write at least every week to reflect on my study life.Sometimes I wrote in English and I began to feel the importance of logic in writing.One can never write a good English essay if he/she cannot write a good Chinese essay ( as a native Chinese speaker).An English essay can be convincing with only simple but accurate words as long as its framework and logic is perfect.Don’t get me wrong, lexical abundance is still very important.Another thing I want to say is that critical thinking is important but many students don’t have the ability to think out of the box, which is sad.I wish I knew that earlier. Two years ago, I took the gaokao, which is known as National College Entrance Exam in China.Every student is required to write an essay more than 800 words in Chinese. For a large number of students it’s a pain in the ass.I am one of them.Despite that, I gave it my best shot.Thanks to that exam, I had to do the basic writing training, write essays one after another for practice and to get a higher grade so I could get admitted to my dream school.Though I did get a relatively high grade I still think my writing sucks.That’s kind of why I took the course.

Writing English as a second language——Thesis (week12) Human make a comparison to other species,robots,god.if you are not use comparison use people. Perspectives:看问题的角度，学术上可以是由于经历文化背景的不同； Perspective art,画画时远处的物体会远。 Broad ones horizon:陈词滥调。Cliched Besides:something you think about you already you make the decision. 遇到 Come across:something you found by accident when you doing something else Run into your ex. Hit when driving.hit a traffic.hit the road.hit a shower.but hit is generally informal. 1.Meet outside in 15mins. 2.Meet only for the first time.Good to see you if someone you already know. Concern:she concerned herself.she makes it her business. Worry:I am concerned about you.passive followed by about. 使充分发挥作用：unlock unleash the full potential of 改革开放：reform and liberalization 友mate in Br E and Australian.in Am E,in forum:posters 楼主：OP original poster.IRC internet related chat.pal is old fashioned.friend is formal and substantial\care about it.informal:bro. Like and such as:educated and non educated native speakers Like is resembling. Such as is giving a example. Stuff:highly informal. Ar school.in political area.at a building in front of.in a building.in a car on a train. Read broadly.learn it passively.Google it.poor English.really limited access to resource overseas. Society and in prison.进入社会，在中文中是不一样的。英文中是出狱后。internship working in a lab. 社会实践： social implying 社交的social practice 社交练习 Attract：不同于吸引。 A moth is attracted by flame Culturally in English,You don't tell people how you should feel but how to act.you should show a little appreciation you don't have to feel appreciated At last,last :something happens much latter than you expected. 才 in Chinese. First second finally. Last but not least:introducing people.boring. Smoke on the water fire in the sky

Writing English as a second language——Thesis (week6) 1.Coherent:logically connected; 2.Give the reader some reason to be interested in; 3.Common knowledge:reasonable people don’t dispute it. 4.Think smaller 5.Concession:for example,if you are arguing “Dogs are better than cats”,dogs can company you when you are lonely,cats can also do that,always remember to argue:even though it’s true,it doesn’t disprove my thesis.really thought it though; 6.Conclusion:always asking “so what?”it's better to start a with a positive reason and ending up with a positive reason. 7.Comparison:both sides of…… Usage: 1.nowadays:cut down the usage of it 2.It seems:not in a formal writing.used in spoken english,when dealing with people; 3.Have to:there is no choice;should:the best choice,but what you should do can be different from what you will do; 4.In a word:when using it,in short. 5.Hopeless:there is no hope;helpless:you can’t do anything by yourself

Writing English as a second language——Thesis (week5) Week5 Develop&发展 In English develop means :unrolling,图穷而匕首见. Tearing down a building and Build a new one :redevelop. Economical development:a finance process .industrialize. Economical growth:you hope. Plot development:unrolling a scroll,new things revealed. Social development:社交的；grow to be mature.a process to be an adult man. 社会发展:in English be specific:economic growth,moral process,liberalization,literacy,reduced construction,advances in science and technology,life expectancy,infant morality. In English:“发展” progress. Liberalism\laissez-faire无为 Concept of social justice:favor the group,justice for the group. Liberal interfering,progressive heavy interfering. 19th century,liberal into progressive. A person is liberal:being really okay with the stuff that people feel uncomfortable. open:share a lot of personal information. Maybe:perhaps. May be:may\might\ Efficiency:minimize the waste Bold face:only for titles. Emphasize:斜体italic Font:the default fonts are fine.Arial\Times new Roman Comicsanscriminal.com Don’t begin a paragraph with and. additionally,furthermore,in addition. One instead of you.

Life-long Regret In the 80s of 20th century,a girl made a call that all those men under 1.70m are “disabled”.Then all unmarried young women all over the country rose in rebellion. I had carefully measured my height for one thousand times but only found myself is definitely a VIP member of “life-long disabled”club.However,I was too young and vigorous and full of ambition then,so I swore to fight against the prejudice tooth and nail.So I coxed a girl with a height of 1.74m married me,which was a great feat that make we “the disabled” club members feel proud and elated. It is not until I came home with my wife that I realized how pathetic I was.This so-called great feat didn’t make me get rid of my ”life-long disabled”but brought me a “life-long regret”instead.I would never enjoyed the pleasure that putting my strong arm around my wife’s smooth neck when strolling in the street.Such pleasure not only means I have to have my feet off the ground where I was born and raised but also my sacred navel will be public to the world. Now every time we go out together,my arm would hang tightly around my wife’s shoulder which makes me look exactly like a monkey clinging to a telegraph pole and let my wife drag me here and there along the street. The miserable me (?)is always wondering painfully that if I get another chance to live,I’ll never fight against secularism because it forces you pay such a heavy price. Chinese 中文 终生遗憾 木木 八十年代，有一姑娘号召：1.70 米以下男人均为“残废”。于是全国未婚女青年纷纷揭竿而起。 我细细量过九十九次自己标高，实属“终生残废”系列。但那时年少，血旺气盛，誓与凡俗抗争到底，于是连哄带骗将一净高1.74 米女孩拐回家做起了太太，这一壮举颇为“残疾人”们扬了一段眉吐了半口气。 将太太置回家中后我才意识到我的悲哀，这一愤世之举不仅未了我“终生残废”而又平添了“终生遗憾”，我从未享受过将男人坚定有力的胳膊窝勾着太太姣美柔滑的后脖子上街遛弯的幸福。这一幸福对我来说不仅意味着双脚要离开这生我养我的土地，而且神圣的肚脐亦将昭之于众。 现在，每每出门，高扬的手臂牢牢地挂在太太肩头，其状如猴子紧紧扒着电杆，任凭太太在马路上将我拖来拖去⋯⋯ 痛苦的我常常痛苦的想，如果能重活一回，我再也不与世俗去抗争，因为与世俗抗争是要付出代价的。

causal writing,about my country------China This is a big challenge for me,one reason is that without a large vocabulary i am wondering if precise words have been used to make my idea clear and properly expressed.Another reason is that when I trying to think and write in English I tend to focus a lot on the grammar and structure of sentences,which directly make me lost control of the whole article’s framework and logic. China is a developing country with a large population which makes it very hard to offer a good and fair welfare for every Chinese.The gaps between the wealth and the poor,the urban and rural areas ,the big cities and small cities are extremely large,and they are influencing every aspect of Chinese’s daily life:health care,children’s education,pension fund,unemployment insurance,house price,etc.Unfairness exists everywhere but the government is trying very hard to eliminate it.And recently years a lot progress has been made. However,with the great leap in economics, are we Chinese more happier than 30 years ago?Someone said yes yet someone said no,according to a research by CCTV .Chinese citizens seem never satisfied. Now most of us can eat well,dress well,we want something more.We want more freedom in press ,we want more transparency of the officials,we want democracy.But what is democracy?Such an ambiguous conception without no agreed definition,only exists in slogans. In China only a small part of people represents most of us to exercise the right to vote,resulted from a large population.Once I have talked with an Australian friend and he asked me “do you care about politics?”For some reason I don’t feel like talking Chinese politics with a foreigner. So I said no.Then he said “I guess that’s because you can’t change the government but in my country we care politics and we can change the government.”He has been on several protests but meanwhile ,I,who is already 18,cannot vote.I am really “jealous”of him yet I totally understand our government.we just have a long way to go.Government officials’ properties are not transparent to the public and that partly resulted in corruption ,I consider it’s a big issue which needs to be dealt with urgently. When the government releases a new policy I comment on weibo(an app like twitter in china)trying to make my voice heard.Sounds really sad because that’s the only thing I can do.Maybe when I getting older,after I graduate from university,I can do more.I wish I can do more. ------The end------

Writing English as a second language——Thesis (week4) 1.community:a group of people,usually live in the same place.(a):share of values;(b):everyone cares what everyone else thinks. It has tremendous influence on one person,when he is deciding what to do or what not to do.and not violent. Population；10,000 beyond that you will have true strangers. 2.Society: In Chinese，社会（society）means a lot,it can be cultural\political\economic\artistic\… It’s a broad conception. In English, it’s more about cultural influence.and it is totally different from the government,sometimes even opposite(which is a main difference from Chinese language) 3.social:(a)social science:社会科学，it’s about the society; (b)社交的；interact with other people. 4.societal:a societal issue is a really big issue.e.g.crime. A social problem could be any size. 5.feminism;homosexual;issues like these are cultural issues,something to do with the society.The government may make homosexual marriage legal but changing people’s mind is really hard.The bias with females can’t be simply eliminated by the government when employers hire employees.The celling effect is invisible and the government can't do anything impactful. 6.It will sound more fluent if the word Chinese is used as a adjectival rather than a noun. E.g. I am Chinese.(yes); I am a Chinese.(no) 7.assertion: (a)predictions are hard to prove.try to avoid writing about future.experts are often wrong. (b)“something causes something”is really hard to prove. E.g. The plant died because no one watered it. You need to prove:the plant died;on one has watered it;the plant was healthy so there is on other reason may cause its death. (c)controversial assertions are hard to prove. E.g. Nuclear power is cleaner than coal-power.

Using semicolons by Robert Harris 1.use a semicolon as a soft period. e.g. In books I find the dead as if they were alive;from books come forth the laws of peace.------Richard de Bury 2.Use a semicolon to connect main clause containing internal punctuation. When he faints though desire,she comes to his aid;but when he revives,she scorns him.------A.C.Hamilton 3.Use a semicolon to separate sentence elements of equal rank when they contain internal commas. 4.Use a semicolon between independent clauses connected by conjunctive adverbs e.g. The project appears to be overwhelming;nevertheless,it can be done. 5.Use a semicolon between an independent clause and an elliptical clause. e.g. We gave him the medicine;no effect.

Writing English as a second language——thesis（week2）

1.try to avoid usage of i\me\my\we\our，especially in writing,the word <em>we</em> is ambiguous.
2.Abbreviation:stop using <em>sth(something),sb(somebody)</em>,which is very common in Chinese student’s writing.
3.Informal:nobody\somebody\anybody\everybody
   Formal:no one\someone\anyone\everyone
   From Latin roots are always formal:i.e.\N.B.\e.g.\
   In China:BBS but remember in English:Forum
4.plagiarism:never take credit for someone else’s work
   Citation or quote“……”
   Citing :only works for the people who share the same opinion with you.
5.evidence,therefore assertion.