Journal Four

     It has been 20 days since I posted my third journal. I still can not believe that I am approaching the end of the semester already. It is my last week of school which means that it is my last meeting in the writing class in this second semester as well. I will be sitting for my final writing exam in less than two weeks. That would be my very last writing assignment in this semester. However, my journey will not end there. I have harder and higher levels of writing class awaiting in the next semester.

     Things had not actually changed so much since my third journal was written. In learning something, I ought to keep recalling things that have been taught to me over and over again. This method applies for everything. There are a lot of rules which are required in order to make such a good passage. Every little and simple things have to be paid attention of really carefully. Therefore, the usage of the punctuation marks, dividing paragraphs, making text in such chronological order are so important. I keep those things in mind whenever I am going to write something.

     My previous assignment right after the autobiography was to make a narrative text. I learnt that a narrative text is a kind of story passage. It is usually an imagination and aimed to entertain the readers. It tells story in again a chronological order. The first paragraph is the orientation which tells the readers about what the story is about. The climax, problem, or any conflicts of the story will be in the second part which called the complication. The third part is the resolution part which is going to explain all the solution of the problems in the story. This explains whether the story will be a sad ending or a happy ending story. There is one more part which is optional. It is called re-orientation. Re-orientation tells us about the closing of the story and the message that wanted to be told to the readers. Those all are the structure of the narrative text.

      I ended up making a romance fantasy themed narrative text. It was a fiction about a love story of a prince and a princess. I knew I had to make the story in a good chronological order with a right structure just like the one that had been taught to me. I tried my best to did so. I posted the first part which was the orientation which meant to tell the readers what my story was about. I continued with writing the complication, resolution, and finally the re-orientation. I learnt a lot from this. In this assignment, I was expected to use all of my imagination and all. However, I made a small mistake when I posted my first post. I did not add any dialogues at all. It was all plain texts in a third person point of view. My lecturer commented on my post and suggested me to add some dialogues. I had not known that we could add dialogues in a narrative text. It did not even cross my mind. Hence, I edited it and add some dialogues there. I learnt something new.

      My next and last assignment is making a biography of some people that give inspiration for me. We are to interview the person and ask them about their life and some changes that brought them into their lives now. It is another new thing because the only biography I had made was autobiography which was biography of my self. I will try to write and make a good one this time according to all the things and rules that had been taught to me.

     In the end I had learnt so many things and am still learning things. I need to remember all the new things and rules such as adding dialogues in narrative and make it always in a good structure. I found that everything that I learnt are important and useful for me. I still have a long journey and higher levels awaiting. Therefore, I got to improve and keep everything I had learnt in mind so that I will not repeat such a same mistakes. I hope I will be better in the next upcoming semester and not to forget, I will do my best completing and doing my final exam of this second semester. Wish me luck!