How do I write an essay.

Today, I am very happy after I handed in essay because it was the last one. Usually, I always worry about my essay since I want to get B+ in writing class. Now I have some time and I want to summarize my procedures of writing an essay. Before I begin my essay, I will think about structure and supporting ideas for three days and ensure I have enough material to support my main idea. Then, I will do a lot of research to support my ideas. After that, I will begin writing my first draft and reorganize my structure according to the importance of supporting ideas. When I was young, my Chinese teacher told me I could get a good mark on my writing if I paid attention on correcting it. Now I think this principle can apply in English writing as well. So, I will read my essay for twenty times after I finish first draft, and I think it is a good way to get a high academic performance. I will find several mistakes including errors of agreement, tense, number, word order, articles, pronouns and prepositions after I read my essay once. After that, I will correct all of them and read it again and again in order to avoid mistakes. Usually, I cannot realize mistakes immediately, so I will check it after several days because my mind might be changed at that time. Often, I will read my essay many times every two or three days, and I can found somewhere is strange when I am reading it after several days. At the same time, I often found a better way to organize my essay structure during I am reading. Then, I will reorganize my essay structure again and again until I am satisfied on my essay. The most common way correcting my essay is that I always repeat reading and organization. Finally, my final draft is extremely different from the first one.

Also, I often read some articles that I am interested in, and it often provides me some expectable ideas. And those ideas help me a lot on my essay save me a lot of time because they give a direction or field that I need to research in.

I hope you can get some useful information from my experience.

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Last Saturday, I met with my friend Kevin after pronunciation class at his home to discuss how to pronounce the sounds of English better. During the time together, I found that vowel sound is the most important reason why others could not understand my English. For example, the vowel sound, called schwa, serves as a weak substitute for every vowel. The function of the schwa is to mark the presence of a vowel and its syllable without taking the time or energy of a full vowel sound, thereby allowing the rhythm of an English sentence to continue its normal flow. So the schwa is very important and I need to practice it. After our discussion, he helped me practice the vowel sounds and gave me some suggestions about speaking English. In my opinion, taking pronunciation class is very useful and I like this class very much. Moreover, I recommend my friends to take this course in the future and it will benefit them a lot. A long time ago, others could not understand much of my pronunciation. But now, they can understand much of them and I am very happy. At the same time, I want to talk a little about teacher teaching pronunciation class as following. The teacher is very nice and speaks slowly and clearly. She looked very amiable, and she always carefully answers our questions. She usually provides some material and let students practice it in a group of three. Then she will listen to our pronunciation and corrects mistakes. I think her class is very interesting and I like it very much.

Friendship is important!

I have been feeling very sad and lonely for a long time because I missed my family and old friends. I myself go to school after get up and go home after class everyday. After that, I cook for myself and do my homework. I think the food is not delicious because I eat it by myself. When I was in China, I always had meals with my friends or family. I thought the food was good because I could chat with my friends or family. Nowadays, I live by myself and I felt lonely. I want to go home recently; however, I cannot go home as I told before. Last week, when I felt lonely and terrible, I gave my friend a phone call and told him I wanted to visit him. His girlfriend cooked four kinds of delicious food for me and we had a meal together. Then, we discussed a lot of things including movies, cell phones, sport, and computers. I felt very happy about that since I was not lonely any more. At 11:30 pm, his girlfriend wanted me teach her to steam Chinese bread. I showed her how to cook it. We spent two hours on cooking Chinese bread because of yeast’s problem. Finally, we achieved success and she was very happy. Event thought it was very late, we were still watching TV. At 4:30 am, we were too tired to watch TV, and I asked my friends gave me a ride. When I was arrived my home, I was not sad any more although I was tired at that time. From this experience, I think friends are very important to me and I will cherish our friendship forever.

A thing happened in our apartment

A long time ago, one of my roommates said there was a mouse in our apartment; I could not believe it because the mouse could not enter our apartment. Until last night, I recognized that my roommate was right because I heard a mouse’s sound while I was sleeping. When I was young, I was scared of seeing mice since they were a terrible animal. Tonight, my roommate told me he saw the mouse was climbing our table, and it was made me crazy. I thought our plates could not be used any more and I needed wash them again. After I washed plates, I put them on my steam pan and disinfected the bacteria and virus by steaming the plates for 40 minutes. After that, I wished our cat could catch the mouse since he was old enough to catch a mouse. We were staying in the living room with our cat for three hours. We hoped the sound of cat could make mouse get out of our apartment. On the other hand, he did not make any sound all night while he was sitting on sofa. What a stupid cat and I hated him very much. Now, I think he has no difference with a pig because all he can do are eat and sleep. He is such a useless cat that he can not make sound and only can eat and sleep. If I have a cat which can not able to catch mice in China, I will throw it out of my house. I think the natural ability of a cat is to catch mice rather than eat and sleep.

What can we do next? I am really scared of seeing the mouse again in my apartment.

A Busy Weekend

Friday

I spent such a terrible weekend last week that I am very tired today. I though I could finish my fist draft for my fourth essay; however, I found I could not finish it because I had so many things needing to do. On Friday, I went to downtown to buy Calling Card after class and came back only in one hour. Then I went to Olympic Volunteer Center at 4 pm and worked there for 8 hours. When I got home, it was already 1 am. I was so tired that I could not do anything else. I gave my mother a phone call because I had to do that; otherwise, she would blame me why I did not connect with her for one week and so on. It was already 2:30 am when I went to bed.

Saturday

I got up at 8 am and did not eat anything; I came to university to attend a three-hour pronunciation class at 9 am. The class was very interesting, but I was tired and I did not learn much in class. After class, I had my lunch only in 15 minutes and went to work at 12:30. When I was arrived the work place, I found we need to move a lot of heavy stuff such as states and tables. At the same time, we were three to do that. But one guy went to have lunch at 1 am and our supervisor went to another place. Oh my god, only myself moved all of stuff for 140 people…….. I worked 11 hours on Saturday. My friend gave me ride and we went to his home because my roommate was there. When my roommate and I got home, it was 1:30 am. I also had many things needing to do after I came back. I went to bed at 3:00 am.

Sunday, it was 2 pm when I got up. I and my roommate went to downtown and had a breakfast there (It was a breakfast for us.). After that, we spent one and half hours on doing our hair even we made an appointment. I organize my computer because software had some problem. I hated Vista program because it had much different from XP program. After that, my roommate and I did not leave the library until 3 am. He reviewed his midterm and I wrote my essay because I did not like leave my essay until last moment. …….

I am so tired today because of terrible weekend.

Our New Cat

Last night, I heard the sound of a cat and I went out and checked what was happened. Finally, I knew the sound that was coming from my roommate’s bedroom. It was a really nice white-black cat and I liked it very much. However, he was sacred of my coming and he suddenly hidden under the bed. My roommate told me I could catch it under the bed. Then, I crawled under the bed and tried to find him. When the cat found me approaching him, he drew back to the farthest corner of the bed. It was hard to catch him because the bed was not high and there was much stuff under the bed. I hit my head against the bed many times as I was crawling. Finally, I caught him and hold him in my arms. My roommate told me he did not eat and drink anything and it might because he was new my family. I tried to feed him and he also did not eat anything and always tried to escape from my arms. I put some food in his mouth and forced him to eat. After that, I dipped my fingers into water and put my fingers near his mouth. As a result, he ate a lot of things and he tried to eat food and drink water by himself. Maybe he found I did not put poison in his food and water, and tried to eat food by himself.