Reflection on My Writing in EAP

I will write about how did I learned in the EAP Academic Writing class with EAP 3E classmates and Geoff during the spring semester in 2007. I am sure that I improved my writing skill. Through my writing class in this semester, I could learn mainly three important things.

First, I could learn many writing styles such as “narration”, “describing”, “cause and effect”, “compare and contrast”, and “argument”. Especially, the style of “cause and effect” essay and “argument essay” was effective to improve my writing. In the “cause and effect” section, I learned that how to organize the essay clearly. I could get ideas that I should do my best to communicate my thesis statement to the readers when I write an essay. I also learned that I need fully developed paragraphs to support my thesis statement.

Second, I learned the importance of the peer review. I like to see my classmates’ writings because they have many interesting opinion which is different from mine. Also, I could learn some new words or expressions from their writing.

Third, I noticed that the prewriting is important. I learned “clustering”, “free writing”, “listing” and “cubing”. It helped me a lot to clear up my ideas about a topic.

I can see the big difference when I look back my writings which I wrote in this semester. I think I improved a lot. I always reviewed and revised my writings after the teacher give them back to me. I corrected them and uploaded them on my English blog. I think it is also important to review my own writing.