2008年11月2日星期日

Difficulties of writing in my engineering classes

As English is not my mother tongue, writing essays in English is really a difficult thing for me. After writing so many essays, such as the academic writing in eg1471 classes, the lab reports of engineering classes and so on, I have mainly came across these problems. The first and most important one is the new words. As a Chinese student, I have met lots of news words in my engineering classes, it is impossible for me to remember all of them. But when I am writing, I must use them correctly and frequently. Thus, in order to solve this problem, I must find a new way to remember the new words and try to remember as more as possible. Second difficult is the grammar. As we really do not have too much chance to speak English, the grammar is a big problem for us. I always think things in a way called traditional Chinese way. However, as English grammar points have much different with Chinese grammar, it is really hard for Chinese students to beautify their sentence structures and other grammar points. If we want to enhance our writing ability, we should read more English essays and write more. It will take a long time to make us familiar with the English writing skills. However, I believe that after a long time of training, remembering new words and learning, I will be familiar and more skillful in English writing.

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Zwe M. Moe 说...

Yes, as for foreigners like us, when we write, we cannot directly translate the meaning from our own language. Only practice can make it better.