It is so sad to find out that this is the last class and I am so glad to meet you guys here! (And a little happy for no homework anymore~)
This class helped me a lot in my writing. In my second piece of blog, I mentioned that it was much more difficult to write in English than to write in Chinese for I need to translate my thought from Chinese into English. After so much practice in this semester, I fell easier with this process and learn a lot about how to express my ideas precisely and logically. Before that, I was not familiar with the structure of academic writing, and did not know how to write a good thesis statement. Thanks to this class, I got these skills including how to use our library database to search for peer reviewed resources (after the librarian meeting) and how to cite my resources in APA style in my essay, which will be beneficial to my major courses. Next semester, one of required major course requires a lot of writing work and I will take several philosophy class, in which I also need to write papers in a critical and coherent way. Therefore, our ESL class is a good base for me to meet these classes.
My favorite part of the class is the class when we made up some dummy books, articles and websites to practice forming APA citations, which was funny and helped us gain the skill quickly. I also enjoyed the time when we communicated with our pals directly in class after we finished peer review activities, which helped us understand the meaning of our pals’ notes in their peer review documents. According to the communication, we could find out the different thought among us and realize what we were not clear enough when we wrote the drafts. However, I don’t like the sections of the peer review during class time because it is kind of wasting time and we still need to work on that after class. I hope there will be more participants in the class, which could make the class more interesting and we can learn more from each other. Fortunately, the class with a small population helped us make friends with each other easily and I felt free to express myself in front of you guys (Yes, I am kind of shy actually).
All in all our class is so amazing and I hope to see you guys again on campus in the future!
Krisa Mie 