"What difficulties do you have writing in your universities classes? How do you resolve these difficulties? How will you continue to improve?"
For writing in my universities classes, my difficulties are probably the vocabulary and expressing my ideas. These two factors are important for writing in universities classes.
The language level in university is very high, for my universities classes, I will encounter with unfamiliar terms such as transformers, retifier, and phasor. Sometimes, there are words that have different meaning from the general meaning, for example platform. Generally, platform means "a flat elevated portion used as a stage", however in computer science, it means "the basic technologies of a computer system's hardware and software". Without the understanding of the meaning behind the new words or words with various meaning, I can misuse them in my writing. For example, if I want to write about "black body", "black body can only be found in space" well it's wrong because black body can also be found in earth inside the laboratory. Therefore, to improve this problem, I will read various articles to familiarise myself with many new terms. Also, dictionary will come in handy when looking for words I do not understand.
Another difficulties I have for writing in my university classes is expressing my idea on paper. It is quite difficult to express an idea when I do not understand the concept behind this idea. This could happen because I did not pay attention in class or the lecture is just to fast and before the idea sink into my head, more concepts are given. When an idea is not understand properly, it is hard to explain it to other people through writing. Therefore, for this difficulty I realised I have to catch up with all my classes and understand all the concepts for each topic I have learnt. Also, find more sources for the topics. Then, when writing an idea regarding these concepts I will have no trouble expressing my ideas.
I realised there are many room for improvement in writing an essay. One of my teacher used to say choose a topic that you familiar with and write what you know. Thus, the reader can understand your point of view. Therefore, from now on I will keep learning, reading, and looking for various articles to improve my writing ability in my university classes.
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I have same feeling as you. The contents in the textbooks are more language-demanding than poly's. The best thing is all the subjects are being taught very fast. So it is really a challenge for everyone of us to keep up with the pace and in the mean time, understand the topics that have been taught.
ReplyDeleteI also find it difficult to express an idea on paper when I don't understand it. I think more self reading is needed to be done by us by going through the lecture notes before class so we will know more on what the lecture is teaching about.
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