Welcome to Interactive Exercise #III (Draft #1)

Welcome to Interactive Exercise #III

Please read over this essay and, in a group, report on your reaction. Please begin by trying to answer the following questions?

1) How does it compare to the essay above it?
2) Try to locate the differences and similarities.
3) Which essay do you prefer and why?
4) Regarding the structure, would you make any suggestions for the new re-write?
5) What is the advantage of NOT looking at grammar during the early stages of the writing process?

Good luck.


The journey of my attending to college is not as smooth as I imagine. Fortunately, I still have the chance to study in a national university, which is another milestone to my life. Now I am a junior of English department, and I regard English writing as the most challenging subject. Hence, I am going to tell a little bit more about myself, my writing experience first, and then I want to talk about what I want to learn in this class.

Here comes my short introduction: My English name is Melissa and Fenggang is my hometown. As a matter of fact, playing the piano is my favorite thing to do in my leisure time. Also, I am fond of listening to the music, especially classical music. Frankly speaking, I am not so interested in academic writing. However, every time I spend time on it and try my best to perfect my writing, I can feel the sense of achievement strongly. When it comes to English writing, more often than not, I can't write a composition as fluent as I hope I could be. Instead of finding materials quickly, I may come up with nothing to write or organize my ideas for quite a long time It really takes my time to writing. Thus, as long as I get a source of inspiration, I can write with much joy and fun. But for answering one of my friend’s confusion about how to write well, I was not taking it seriously. I suggest her broaden the horizon by reading as many English articles as she can and be aware of how writers use their way to make a composition beautiful.

As for what I want to learn in this writing class, I think there is no denying that
English writing is one of the most important ability that students in Taiwan should acquire. Therefore, I really hope I can improve my writing skill so that I won't feel anxious and freezing when I take a test. Specifically, I think the train of writing under pressure is pretty significant practice for me. In other words, in spite of assigning writing works for students to do after class, writing right in class is crucial, too. Though it may be considered somewhat cruel or stressful for students, I still believe it’s a way to force students to get ready at anytime and through this method, students will gain their ability by memorizing transition signals or useful sentences.

All in all, English writing skills should function as a weapon helping us to win every fight we counter. I expect that in this wiring class, we can start learning academic writing in a mature way. For the preparation of TOFEL exam, we students should seize the chance to strengthen our writing skill. Hopefully, we can all enhance our ability on writing as well as our confidence.