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.

Food essay

According to my food essay, it has a good hook and clear thesis.
But the supporting details in each paragraph are not enough.
I have some grammar mistakes and the words choosing is just normal.
As a result, I think I would get a 4 or 3.5

Improving my final draft

According to my first draft of the significant food, there are many small problems because of it’s written in a hasty way. It’s still hard for me to write a 700 words essay in one night with also much other homework. As a result I have no enough time to make it perfect.

The first problem that I need to change is the abuse of “to be verbs”. It seems easy for people to use “to be verbs” in their first draft and daily expression. However, for a formal essay, they don’t fit enough. I should find some more descriptive and more detailed verbs to use instead of the “to be verbs”. I think I should check my “to be verbs” and change them to better described language and making my body paragraphs more attractive and more interesting.

On the other hand, I should improve my conclusion part by shorten the not using sentences. I used my language to describe too many similar things so I didn’t use strong words and strong ideas to support and improve my thesis in the conclusion. For what I should do, I should move the emotional language part to the body paragraph and shorten first. Then, I need to add details and points to make my thesis much more powerful.

To conclude, there are some grammar mistakes that need me to check my essay carefully. Also, I think I would find more weakness of my essay during the other drafts to make me a perfect final draft.

The significant food in my mind - second draft

What’s your favorite food or what’s the most significant food in your mind? There were many delicious foods in my mind but some of them are the usual food with unusual meaning for me. Over the winter break, I went back home, and many of my close relatives in my family came to the city that I lived to meet me. My grandma, who looked after me everyday until my cousin born when I was ten years old, came also. I loved the food that she cooked so much during the time period that she looked after me, especially the noodle she cooked. Even though noodles are too normal to attract my attention, the beautiful noodles she made with the normal, but delicious taste and the special love she poured into were totally different than any other noodles I tried ever.

The handmade noodle is not too difficult to cook that I can even cook it by myself. However, the taste did change a lot even though the processes are totally the same. It might be the taste of love. I asked my grandma to make the noodle again this time she came to me. Then, she quickly started the process. Starting from chose the type of flour, she was careful. I knew that she wanted to try her best to make me happy. Then, she mixed a little water and the flour together. The mixture soon became big dough, which was smooth, white and soft. Later, she rolled the dough to really thin, even thinner than two millimeter, and folded it. After that, she cut the dough in to pieces and boiled the noodle. With the clear smell of the noodle and sauce that made by beans, peppers and eggs, the meal was coming.

Beside the beautiful smell of the noodle, the first thing that caught my mention was its color. Even though the noodle is in a simple white color, I can find a strong comparison between the color of the noodle and the sauce. The noodle was white and smooth, and the sauce is in a warm golden yellow, which provoke the appetite and make people desire to eat it. The green pepper made it seemed lovely. Then, for the beans that were already filled in the soy sauce, I found a strong contrast. My grandma was magical that she made a common kind of food to a kind of art.

“It won’t be this tasty if you don’t eat it now.” My grandmother smiled kindly. So I came to the dining room and quickly got a bowl of noodle to eat. The noodle’s really good and chewy. Also, the sauce was tasty with the egg and contained lots of oil in it. However, it wasn’t greasy because of the refreshing and juicy pepper diluted the oily taste. It’s not spicy even though there’s pepper in the meal because my grandma knew I hate spicy food and it would make me feel bad. She put more eggs than usual because she knew that I like the eggs better than the salty bean and soy sauce. It was a pleasure to eat it.

The meal was really delicious and every part of the noodle followed the flavor that I liked because my grandmother knew every interest of me in my life. She knew me well because of the ten years memory. She’s the closest person in my life that I can tell her everything I wanted to say. Also, she looked after me well that each of my small habit can be easily remembered by her. I can never forget the food she cooked as well as I can never forget the time that we stayed together. The food wasn’t only something to eat, when people pour their emotion in to the food, everything seemed different.