Mistaken identity

“Hey! Jane” I wave my hands and shout to a dark shadow far away from me. The shadow there seems to be my friend. However the person is ambiguous. It’s already past the appointed time, and I finally see her. “Jane, is that you?” even though I has started asking, I already verify that the person must be her. No one else would walk to a lonely street in the early morning, which the sun has just risen. She seems silent and calm, and her face is not turning towards me. 

I dash to her, loudly calling for my dear friend, and waving exaggerated. Why she hasn’t noticed me yet? I feel confused and feel a little bit aggrieved. Her late arrival and her indifferent attitude make me consider if she cares about me. She looks like a quiet machine, which would never respond my passion. Have I done anything wrong? Why she does ignore me? I definitely feel extremely disappointed and heartbroken. 

I hear the noise of people's step and stop walking. Then, a gust of wind comes to my back. “What?” I’m been frightened. “What are you looking for dude? I’m here, and sorry for being late.” So what is that shadow? I ask myself. However, it doesn’t matter, and I would never tell her about my mistaken identity.

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“Hey! Jane” I wave my hands and shouted to a dark shadow far away from me. The shadow there seems to be my friend. The person there is ambiguous. It’s already past the appointed time and I finally see her. “Jane, is that you?” even though I has started asking, I already verify that the person must be her. No one else would walk to a lonely street in the early morning, which the sun has just risen. She seems silence and calm, and her vision is not turning to me.

I dash to her with my loudly calling for my dear friend and the exaggerated waving. Why she hasn’t noticed me yet? I feel confused and feel a little bit aggrieved. Her late arrival and her indifferent attitude make me to consider if she cares about me. She looks like a quiet machine, which would never respond my passion. Have I done anything wrong? Why she ignores me? I definitely feel extremely disappointed and heart broken.

I stop walking, and a gust of wind comes to my back. “What?” I’m been frightened. “What are you looking for dude? I’m here, and sorry for being late.” So what is that shadow? I ask myself. However, it doesn’t matter, and I would never tell her about my mistaken identity.

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“Hey! Jane” I wave my hands and shouted to a dark shadow far away from me. The shadow there seems to be my friend. It’s past the appointed time and I finally see her. “Jane, is that you?” even though I has started asking, I already verify that the person must be her. No one else would walk to a lonely street in the early morning, which the sun has just risen. She seems silence and calm, and her vision is not turning to me. 

The book report

For each character, (Lucy, Schroeder, Linus, Charlie Brown) describe the writing style and discuss the pros and cons of that approach to writing.

Then answer the following question in a detailed paragraph: Which character/writer are you most like and why? 

Lucy is a girl that she seemed to be so impatient and she counts when she writes. The only thing she wants to do is to finish her writing. The advantage is she can make the writing complete in a quick way. The disadvantage is she cannot make the writing a good one that she thinks too fast and her thinking is always being interrupted.

Schroeder is a boy who writes really fast. He seems to rush on the thinking came up to his mind. Every time he thinks about any ideas, he would quickly write them down. The advantage is he can record every idea he thinks of easily. However, the he cannot make the paragraph good organized because he’s always changing and he writes too fast.

Linus seems to be a boy who good at studying. He’s way to think is like an old doctor. He thought too much and trying to find tones of profound ways to describe things. It’s good that his writing would be knowledgeable and good organized, but it would be boring for people to read something that’s really difficult.

Charlie Brown never starts his writing. He just wants to have a rest or having too many other things to do. Even though he would lastly start his writing, he still gives him a long delay. It’s good that he has time to think about what to write for a long time. However, it’s even a problem to think that would he start to write anything. Also, it would be extremely slow for him to finish a piece of writing.

In my perspective, the character I like the most is Lucy. Even though it’s not a good way to write, she reminds me what I always do when I was young. I should write some long essays when I was in China; it’s hard for a young girl to complete them. Then I just always counting when I wrote to see if I reach the demand that my teacher asked me to do. As a result, I like Lucy, who reminds me my childhood and seems so adorable. 

Chinese people always celebrate Laba Festival on the 8th day of December of lunar calendar. According to the solar calendar, this festival came on January 8th last year, and will arrive on January 27th this year.

The best beef noodle soup should be as lucid as crystal, and the oil should not float together on the top like many tiny lakes.

The writing suggestions

According to both of the writing, there are many suggestions to tell people how to write. For example, people need to write a lot to improve their writing; people should tell a complete thing during writing; people should always edit their writing well and make more sense during editing; and it also tell people that writing is a powerful habits which can help them a lot. I do agree with them and I also learned a lot from it.

It says the easiest way to write is to write a lot. I totally agree with it. To my perspective, I improved my writing skills a lot this year and it’s because of the tons of practice I did. However, for this month, I didn’t do that much and it made my writing skill regressed. Not just obeying what I saw from these blog posts, also my personal experience, I would do more practice to improve my writing.

Meanwhile, it says good writing need to be logical. Writing an essay is just like solving a math problem. It does have a structure that to make the essay clear. If I don’t write a clear structure in an essay, it would be repeating and vague. It would be difficult for people to understand my meaning. As a result, it’s also right for a good writer to write with a clear structure and making people feel logic.

Otherwise, it’s good to check the structure and words using during the editing. For instance, I could check the abuse of “to be” verbs during editing. Then, I can change them to more descriptive verbs and language. I have a problem that wrote too many to be verbs in one essay. So, I should absolutely check carefully and change them.

Lastly, I would use these too essays as the model to write. I would try to be more connected to these ways to write.

The goals of marking period two

According to marking period two, I got some improvement and something is still not good enough. There was too many things happened in this quarter so I was confused a lot and I feel I even don’t know what should I do. For this class, I improved my skill to write my thesis, my details and the introduction paragraph. Also, I still need to work on my conclusion and grammar.

During last quarter, I spent lots of time on thinking about details and the connection between the thesis and body paragraphs. I did improve myself even though that’s not perfect. I will continue working on things I have not made it perfect yet. I will also find some better ways to work on these things. I did work hard on things I would like to do before.

Secondly, I would work on my grammar. I found that the most difficult thing for me is not writing details or making my essays in a good structure any more. It’s my grammar. There were too many grammar mistakes. What made this happened could be not paying attention while I wrote essays, being rushed on the essays I was doing or maybe the limited time I spent on improving my writing skills. For the next quarter, I will spend more time on my writing and composition class and I would be sure to make everything better. I would do more exercise on grammar and I would try my best to fix every problem that I had.

Next, there were so many to be verbs in my essay. Even in this blog post. However, I tried to make it better and I’m sure it does get better. I would continue training on it and I would check my drafts more careful to avoid this. Also, I need to improve my vocabulary. They are not enough so I would use a word for so many times that it’s repeating and boring. I would spend more time on remembering new vocabularies and learn to use them in a better way.

Lastly, I would try to write a stronger conclusion to make my essay much more beautiful. I would make it more logically. I would absolutely improve myself. I think I should find more people to help me to check my conclusions next time. Even though I might don’t know how to change my conclusion, and I might feel confused with writing a strong and powerful conclusion. I would still try my best on writing them and would not afraid to change it many times.

To conclude, this period it’s like a winter with all troubles came to me together. I felt bad that I didn’t put a lot of time on writing and it didn’t improved a lot. I was not so busy, I just went to troubles and troubles that made me disappointed and felt so bad. For next semester, everything would be new and it would be a new start, everything would get better.