The fourth journal: My experience with “The Effective Academic writing book”.

After writing my third journal I noticed that I had some weakness in writing supporting ideas and topic sentences. So I interested in developing and improving my writing particularly, in writing supporting ideas and topic sentences. In addition, The Effective Academic writing book was the suitable book to improve my writing and this book was one of my resources in my LLP that I chose them to improve my writing skills. Beside that this book was one of the curriculum’s books that I studied them in last year. However, I felt that I did not benefit from The Effective Academic writing book in last year as I benefited from it in this year and the cause of which I narrowed specific goals to achieve them out of this book whereas in last year I did not determine any aim to achieve from it. I discover the value of “The Effective Academic writing book” after reading and solving some exercises from it because it helped me to negotiate some of my weakness in writing especially in the aforementioned points. For instance, I noticed from part 2 in unit one on the book that if I want my writing to be effective I should make all my sentences for every point supports my single idea. Also, I liked exercise 5 - on page 12 from the same book - because it was focusing in the supporting ideas and I felt it was very powerful for me.

The secret of my slow speed in writing essays

Last Tuesday I proceeded in the strategy that will help me to improve my speed in writing timed essays. But because of the pressures from the assignment that I have in this moth, I decided to do this strategy with my sister and my cousin instead of my classmates and my friends in the college. We chose the time from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm to write an essay about (the development of the education in the UAE from the past to the present). After 8:00 pm we stopped writing and we started to compare between the three essays from the count of the words, the ideas, the grammar and spelling errors to know which one is the best and to learn from our and others mistakes, additionally to benefit from others experience.

Then we used the website (http://ed.essayrater.com/editor/view?analyzeJustCompleted=true) to correct our essays accurately, it was very helpful for us because there were some grammar and spelling errors which we did not notice them. From this activity I found out the cause of my slow speed in writing essays which was due to the disorganization of my ideas and because I did not write outlines for my essays. Furthermore, I learned the importance from writing brainstorms and outlines which I was not interested in them because I thought that brainstorming and outlining are not important and they will lose my time but now I am trying to write a brainstorms and outlines for my next essays.