my progress as a writer

 Trough the two months learning, I have new understanding on English writing. In China, I need use beautiful words or big words to beautify my works, I should use many complex sentences to improve work's level. Hence, when I wrote works, I just focus on words and structure of works. In contrast, in English writing, I would better provide examples to support my idea. I should show my idea in the real situations. Also, the structure is also important in English writing. What is more, I can use resources from other people without permission in China, even I knew we need respect other people's right. Now, I am not allowed to use people's work without citation. But I do not realize American University take plagiarism seriously, even I can not hand in same paper to different courses. Furthermore, my article should have logical or clearly consecution. In China, teachers care more about how big words you used and how high level sentences you used. consecution is less important for article. During these two months, I know how to cite sources when I use other people ideas, and I learn what is right formal to quote people's words. If I express my idea, I should find facts to support my idea. In addition, I learn how to summary article and how to use reporting words to illustrate author’s idea. It is useful for us to write academic works.

  For my part, the grammer is most diffcult for me, I am bad at using suited preposition in a sentence, and I not good at writing composite or compound sentence. When I write composite sentences, I also confused should I use pronoun. I should read books about grammar. And coca search is good for me to learn verb structure. Except reading grammar books, I should practice more and read more works from other people. Practicing would help me to strength our skill in wrting, as well as I can learn correct structure and find our shortage in the writing through reading other people’s works.

At began writing my digital story, I just want to show people live in small town have different life compared to people who live in city. I think people live far away from city need help. Then, I found much damage on the environment from mordernization. I become confuesd which we should choose economy and environment. Finally, my digital story not only focuses on the people’s life condition, but also conflict between environment and modernization. I am ok with my story, I express what I thought, but my digital story lacks beautiful words and some high level sentences which would beautify my story. Moreover, I made much mistakes in the grammer which I need to improve. On the other hand, I use some examples about their life conditions, culture examples about what strong power of religion affect them and I also point out conflict between environment and economy. I give an example of swamp becoming smaller because of pollution. As I said at the middle of this paragraph, I still have some shortages on my digital story, I need practice more in the future.