1st Assignment : As a writer myself

         I'm embarrased to say this, but I still have hard time writing essays because I'm very weak at writing in all aspects. This is due to the fact that I started writing in earnest since I was fifteen and stopped writing exactly after two years. One thing that my previous writing teacher(not from KMLA) praised me about is that I have a pretty good sense in using a new word or phrase in right situations. So in order to raise my writing skill, the teacher trained me by giving tons of great and widely used phrases. After that he made me use the phrase in real by giving a topic and made me write about the topic using the phrases he gave. Thanks to his wise decision I was able to write pretty logical writings but his method of teaching never gave me a chance to freely express my opinion because I wrote essays to use those phrases properly but never used the phrases to write myself. So one of the major difficulties that I need to overcome is to come with my own and fresh ideas in order to write an essay of my own.


         My style in writing can be described in one word, excessive. I tend to write a long and descriptive sentence because I kind of feel somewhat responsible to include every thing that I saw and every thing that I try to explain as specifically as possible. No words could describe my feeling exactly so sometimes I have to spend hours just to find a word. Writing becomes a very bothersome work if you try to do the same with me. Even now I spend more than two hours just to come here. Furthermore such long sentences make my readers become bored and uninterested, so I admit that this method is very inefficient one. By writing like this however, some tells me that my works are very easy to understand and, with a bit of an exaggeration, they say that they get the feeling that they are actually watching a picture or a movie not reading a writing.


         Tools become rusty if you don't use them for a long time or they become sharper as you use them more and more. I think my writing is my tool and now the tool has become dull and rusty. Therefore my immediate goal is to raise my writing skill, to minimize my weak points, and nurture my strong points. To do so, practicing writing over and over again is the most important thing to do. I expect that he 2nd semester's English class will help me get used to writing and make my tool as sharp as before and even sharper than ever.