E portfolio 7

E portfolio 7


At the end of the semester, reviewing what I have learnt, there are some difficulties in my writing. I have taken one of FASS module, GEK1003, an introduction to political science. There is a term paper required in this module. In the process of writing the paper, I find the improvement which is required in my later English language learning.
The first one is organization. As an argumentative essay, it is required to give a clear thesis statement and some opposite ideas which are stong and persuasive not weak like a straw man. I have met the problem about how to organize the opposite ideas and rebuttal them clearly. And I have failed to link the example with my supporting idea, because I have first given my idea, then following the example without showing the link. Also I didn’t give a clear roadmap about how my idea is going. This problem was very serious, and I have modified it after my friend’s peer reviewing.

Apart from this problem, another problem is that I am not very good at expressing my idea clearly. For example, when I want to show that nationalism is not good for a multiethnic-society. I have to show that ethnic group may have different interest needs. But I am not good at expressing it specifically. Sometimes the word is exaggerated and not convinced. In order to change such errors, I think I have to read more articles and memorize some sentence structure. Also I think I have to think more about how to make a clear structure.