Read After You Write
To tell you the truth, it was my first time to visit the writing center. Although, I know it is a really helpful place for me to improve my essay, and will give me lots of useful advises, I always find out excuse for myself to avoid the trip of writing center; I didn’t sleep well last night, so I need to take a nap during extra help; It was raining outside; It was such a long way from VDP to writing center. I would not have enough time to go there...... Therefore, going to writing center seemed to be an exotica to me.
After I took out my essay. The first Ms Swift asked me to do is to talk about which part do I want to improve in my essay. I was shocked at first, not knowing what to answer, because usually is the teacher telling me where should I improve. With doubt in my head, I answered that: “ Can you help me to look over my essay?” Ms Swift smiles at me and asked me to read out loud my essay with her. Look at her genial smile I though, she might not seen any people like me before that coming to the writing center without any questions. I felt embarrassed. Luckily, I soon concentrated on reading my essay with Ms Swift. However, a new kind of embarrassment took over my face. I was impressed by how many grammar and spelling mistakes I made in the essay. The mistakes become so obvious while I was reading which made me think that I was such a fruitcake. I realized that reading is really helpful than just looking at the essays, because you can figure out how fluently your sentence is and fix your grammar and spelling mistakes by pronouncing them. Through the progress of reading, I fixed many mistakes by myself, and learned the proper way of using the grammar which helped me to improve the fluency and correctness of my essay.
Ms Swift also taught me the relationship between thesis and topic sentences. For example, In my thesis, I talk about how props, costuming, music, and body language help me to emphasize the importance of the foreshadowing, but I also talk about the analysis about how the lines I picked helped me to highlight the foreshadowing. She told me that it is really important to conclude what I talk about in the body paragraph in the thesis which will be clear to readers. There should be a connection between thesis and body sentences.
To sum up, from the trip to writing center, I find out that the best way to check my essay is to read it after I write it. In addition, I figure out the importance of connecting topic sentence with thesis and figure out how to do it. I also get advice on how to make the paragraph more formal and less blogging. Therefore, In the future, writing center may be the second common place I go besides VDP, because I feel that it is really helpful for me to improve my writing skills.
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