Sep 24

In the class in September 24th, Rab taught us what we should aware of when we are writing academic essay by showing examples from our summer reading book review. I knew some rules Rab talked about, but some I didn't know or care about. Steve (our spring term ARW teacher) told us about personal pronouns, contraction, and indent many times. However, I'd never heard that we shouldn't use phrasal verbs and we should avoid using words which is not accurate such as "thing." I may used the word  "thing" in my essay or book review a lot. I'll never do this again (try!). Also I will use more quotations in my essay. Using Zotero makes it easier, so I feel now I can do it. It is very hard to write good length sentence, not too short or too long. We learned so many rules of writing academic essay from Rab's lectures, and I found many problems I had. However, that means I can be a better writer, so I try to be very careful of them when I write new essay as much as possible I can. Those lessons are very useful for me. The only thing I need to do is write an essay, check those rules, and get good grade!!