Journal One

   The second semester, the semester which  every lessons are being separated such as, writing class, speaking class, reading class, and listening class. It is just to make it easier, so that we students can focus on one subject or topic in one class. In this writing class, I got to learn about new thing I have not learnt before. I got to create a blog and use it as the media for the lessons, so whenever I got an assignment I will have to post it on my blog. This is kind of new to me since I have never got any social media involved as one of the parts of my subject before. In this class, I have told to tell some recounts. It was one to to tell some unusual experience that I got.  I had not known before that there were so many rules to be paid attention of in writing something. I published my first assignment to recount  my unusual experience and my teacher commented about it. The contraction, the singular and plural rules, the puncuation marks, and also some of the tenses.  In writing something, we should not use any contraction in the sentence, so we have to write the full term such as “ I have “ instead of “I’ve”. The using of singular and plural thing and the tenses are also need to be carefully watched as this blog can be seen by the whole world. “Seven words in one sentence for a university student should not be so tough” my teacher said. I learnt that in university, everything is way different than school life because here everything is getting bigger and massive! I used to be asked to only write 3 or 4 words in one sentence, but now 7 words is the minimum limit.

   

   I really had not known that in writing we had to use no contraction at all. I got used to use a lot of contraction whenever I text my friends because I am sometimes to lazy to write it fully, and some find that it is “cool” to use them instead. As people know that slangs attack teenage life badly. That makes me sometimes forgot the real English rules. I do not have to pay attention while texting my friends, though, and it is also way simpler to be that way, to use the contraction and stuffs. Now I have realized that it is no longer can be practiced, not in my writing assingment atleast. I also get distracted too much by the using of singular and plural thing, and a few tenses. Sometimes when I type too quick, it is just slipped here and there. I have to pay more attention to it. The same thing also happen to the using of my punctuation mark. I sometimes use the coma more often instead of period. I have realized that it has to be stopped because it will make some confusions in my sentence’s meaning.

   So after all those assignment, corrections and new knowledges I got. I hope I will do better next time. I will improve my writing skills, and try not to repeat the same mistakes again. Corrections are always good and helpful so that I know where and what to revise. I will really pay more attention on the simple things like the contraction, singular and plural, and the punctuation mark.