Blog 5, Shixiao Xu

I was born in a capital of china, so that Chinese is my first language. As my writing skills in my first language. There are no special ways in writing. When I was younger, my dad told me:” everyday, you must read whatever you like” because of reading can improve you language ability. And also, we can learn some great sentences in the book, in order to, abundant our spoken. So, I read lots of Chinese books that it’s very useful when I was writing my paper. Also, I use website to find some great idea about my paper, then Combine with my idea in my writing. English is my second language, I think if I want to write a good paper, that I must to be known the English words, which the meaning of a word in china these are extremely important in writing. I should know the characteristic or property of a certain word, by which one can determine what part of speech the word belongs to and usage. About my summarizing skills, if I will write a summary, first I have to understand the article. Known the main idea in article. Find a reporting verbs, then changing it. Citing some importance sentences. I think syntax is not difficult for me, but some times I don’t know the words characteristic. So I cant use right way to expression in my paper. I think the most important problem is my words. I need to remember more words in English.

I am satisfied with my story. In my digital story, I use my experience to write a story, which is about my physical career. Usually I just state my physical life. But I use a example that my mom with me talking about my physical and studying, both this two projects are relation with my dream that I want to go Peking university of high school. I am interested in this story, because of I think many people like listening story, and moreover, it is a real existing story about my physical life. Also I use my score to prove myself. I think that if my story needs more work, it has arrived at the level of engaging story. I can take my story to my friend, and they can help me to change some sentences or grammar.